Art Quote by Tacitus

“the peace’ is normally created through the willingness of a few to do great violence in its name.”

— Ken Lange

In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence.

— Adrienne Rich

“Violence is a tool. It is meant to shock. To change. Instead, they normalize and celebrate it. And create a culture of exploitation.”

— Pierce Brown

“The peace the world pretends to desire is really no peace at all. To some men, peace merely means the liberty to exploit other…

— Thomas Merton

They say they seek security and quiet, the condition they call peace. Even as they speak they create the seeds of turmoil and violence.

— Frank Herbert

Respect for the rights of others means peace.

— Benito Juarez

There is a pervasive form of contemporary violence to which the idealist fighting for peace by nonviolent methods most easily succumbs; activism and overwork.

— Thomas Merton

“Peace is not the absence of violence, peace is an act of controlled violence.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“Peaceful people infinitely deserve our love and our respect; violent people urgently deserve our strong determination to show and teach them the beauties of…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“The guns seemed to address this country, which invented the streets that secured them with despotic police, in its primary language—violence.”

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

Violence is the language of the unheard.

— Martin Luther King III

Violence is the tool of the barbarian; aggression is the method of the primitive; bloodshed is the way of the savage; cruelty is the…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan