Betterment Quote by W. E. B. Du Bois

It seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does not change the world and if it does, then only temporarily.

— Martin Scorsese

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

The vast majority of people have never hurt anybody in their lives, don't want killing, don't want wars. In all the countries of the…

— Mairead Corrigan

When you do something in a nonviolent way, people will die and there will be casualties. But you're taking a different point of view…

— Tom Shadyac

It is better to be violence, if thare is violence in our hearts , than to put on the clock of nonviolence to cover…

— Drparth

The violence of our time is caused by obedience.

— Howard Zinn

Violence is not the answer, it doesn’t work any more. We are at the end of the worst century in which the greatest atrocities…

— Martin Scorsese

It really is a strange time we're living in, when saying 'Don't kill people' is considered a radical point of view.

— Michael Franti

The time has come, or is about to come, when only large-scale civil disobedience, which should be nonviolent, can save the populations from the…

— Bertrand Russell

The violence done us by others is often less painful than that which we do to ourselves.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

“Get this into your head: if violence were only a thing of the future, if exploitation and oppression never existed on earth, perhaps displays…

— Jean-Paul Sartre