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What we vision we guide as violence

— Anonymous

If there isn't at least the threat of violence in art, it tends to be kind of tiresome.

— Teller

As a peace activist, I am dismayed by the encouragement of aggressiveness and violence by television, movies, and war toys.

— Benjamin Spock

While I understand the passions and the anger that arise over the death of Michael Brown, giving into that anger by looting or carrying…

— Barack Obama

Seeing images of violence - it's always about how somebody's going to kill you.

— Ann Patchett

Violence as a way of gaining power... is being camouflaged under the guise of tradition, national honor [and] national security...

— Alfred Adler

I was stricken by news and television pictures coming from the United States this morning. It is impossible to fully comprehend the evil that…

— Jean Chretien

One thing, however, I know with certainty: violence, or the direct threat of violence, of the kind we have seen in the past few…

— Timothy Garton Ash

Violence is fomented by the imposition of singular and belligerent identities on gullible people, championed by proficient artisans of terror.

— Amartya Sen

I have always felt that violence was the last refuge of the incompetent, and empty threats the last sanctuary of the terminally inept.

— Neil Gaiman

We are seeing expressions of violent extremism born of false ideologies, false narratives, ideologies of hate, and we are seeing the potential connectivity to…

— Alejandro Mayorkas

The only position when violence is threatened in response to a novel or a cartoon or a crappy YouTube video is a no-surrender position.…

— Salman Rushdie