Administration Quote by Rowan Williams

My speculation is that the U.S. does not want to establish the principle that it has to defer to some higher authority before carrying…

— Noam Chomsky

Violence is a personal necessity for the oppressed...It is not a strategy consciously devised. It is the deep, instinctive expression of a human being…

— Richard Wright

Violence becomes imperative when an attempt is made to assert rights without any reference to duties.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“In order for punishment not to be, in every instance, an act of violence of one or many against a private citizen, it must…

— Steven Briggs

Violence is intimidated by the carrier of violence

— Anonymous

You treat violence as an aberration ... when in truth it is the norm. It is the very essence of the human condition.

— Dan Simmons

Interesting. You Earth people glorify organized violence for 40 centuries, but you imprison those who employ it privately.

— Leonard Nimoy

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

— Leo Tolstoy

Much extremist activity falls short of directly inciting people to violence or other crimes and so is not caught by laws on incitement. Neither…

— David Blunkett

The state is the institutional manifestation of violence.

— Javier Milei

The principal instances of mass violence in the world today are those committed by governments within their own legally recognized borders.

— Susan Sontag

So natural to man is the practice of violence that our indulgence allows the slightest provocation, the most disputable right, as a sufficient ground…

— Edward Gibbon