Books Quote by Salman Rushdie

The use of violence by individuals... is not a position that I support or would ever want to be in again.

— Susan Rosenberg

If you live in a society where those who govern society and determine its path do not respect freedom of speech and freedom of…

— Pierre Trudeau

We want you to express your point of view but without violence.

— Saleh al-Mutlaq

“Violence is one way to silence people, to deny their voice and their credibility, to assert your right to control over their right to…

— Rebecca Solnit

Violence has no constitutional sanction; and every government from the beginning has moved against it. But where grievances pile high and most of the…

— Anonymous

As a tactic, violence is absurd. No one can compete with the Government in violence, and the resort to violence, which will surely fail,…

— Noam Chomsky

We must not descend to the level of those who perpetrated Tuesday's violence by targeting individuals based on their race, their religion, or their…

— John Ashcroft

To yield to the threat or actual use of violence is a surrender of one's self respect and religious conviction.

— Mahatma Gandhi

While we have entertained the contention that a deed may make more propaganda than hundreds of speeches, thousands of articles, and tens of thousands…

— Johann Most

I think violence can never be justified. At the same time, nobody’s culture or beliefs should be insulted, that’s not something I can accept…

— Abbas Kiarostami

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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