Behavior Quote by Stephen A. Diamond

Violence is essentially wordless. and it can begin only where thought and rational communication have broken down.

— Thomas Merton

Violence is anything that denies human integrity, and leads to hopelessness and helplessness.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Before I met No I thought that violence meant shouting and hitting and war and blood. Now I know that there can also be…

— Delphine de Vigan

It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person. So violence isn't merely organized…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

While we may not consider the way we talk to be 'violent,' our words often lead to hurt and pain, whether for others or…

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

The violence is the violence. I understand that we're sometimes squeamish about it, but I think that strength needs to be called on once…

— Greg Bryk

Violence is used to portray what happens in a film. It only helps portray the actors and what they do. I think it is…

— Jake Lloyd

Violence produces only something resembling justice, but it distances people from the possibility of living justly, without violence.

— Leo Tolstoy

We're fascinated by things that scare us, and one of the things that scares us is violence. Violence exists. It's a real part of…

— Ethan Hawke

My own view is that violence is a part of classical Haida literature - and of every mythology everywhere, so far as I can…

— Robert Bringhurst

Violence, whether spiritual or physical, is a quest for identity and the meaningful. The less identity, the more violence.

— Marshall McLuhan

Violence comes from the belief that other people cause our pain and therefore deserve punishment.

— Marshall B. Rosenberg