Concerned Quote by Uri Avnery

Violence [in Palestina] is part of the resistance to occupation. The basic fact is not the violence; the basic fact is the occupation.

— Uri Avnery

Violence [in Palestina] is a symptom; the occupation is the disease - a mortal disease for everybody concerned, the occupied and the occupiers. Therefore,…

— Uri Avnery

Violence is a disease, a disease that corrupts all who use it regardless of the cause.

— Chris Hedges

Violence is the weapon of weak, non-violence that of the strong.

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

To be violent is the ultimate laziness. War always seems a great effort, but it is the easy way. And false non-violence is also…

— Peter Brook

A nonviolent occupation is that occupation which is fundamentally free from violence and which involves no exploitation or envy of others.

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Violence breeds violence. Acts of violence committed in "justice" or in affirmation of "rights" or in defense of "peace" do not end violence. They…

— Wendell Berry

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

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

Two things distinguish nonviolent actions from violent actions. First, you don't see an enemy and second, your intention is not to make the other…

— Marshall B. Rosenberg