Acts of violence Quote by 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 anything that denies human integrity, and leads to hopelessness and helplessness.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

All violence is injustice. Responding to violence with violence is injustice, not only to the other person but also to oneself. Responding to violence…

— Nhat Hanh

Violence multiplies violence.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

Using violence does not achieve much,but peace achieves many......

— Melchor Lim

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

— Chris Hedges

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

— Leo Tolstoy

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

What leads to peace is not violence but peaceableness, which is not passivity, but an alert, informed, practiced, and active state of being.

— Wendell Berry

Violence never brings permanent peace. It solves no social problem: it merely creates new and more complicated ones.

— Anonymous

Violence generates more violence; hatred produces more hatred. Peace cannot be conquered. Peace cannot be the result of violence. Peace comes to us only…

— Samael Aun Weor