Conflict Quote by William Sloane Coffin

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

— Henri Nouwen

The violence of our time is caused by obedience.

— Howard Zinn

Nonviolence is the only credible response to the violence we're seeing around the world.

— Coretta Scott King

What you get with violence can be maintained only with violence

— Martin Luther King, Jr

We cannot but recognize that, in practical terms, defending human life has become more difficult today, because a mentality has been created that progressively…

— Pope Benedict XVI

The votaries of nonviolence cannot harbour violence even in thought, let alone the question of doing it.

— Mahatma Gandhi

We must control the tendencies within our being that are destructive, when we want to slam somebody else, hurt them, injure them, or push…

— Frederick Lenz

Yet the basic fact remains: we live in a world marked by violence, and if we want to protect others, we sometimes have to…

— Eric Greitens

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

— Leo Tolstoy

A delicate balance is required to combat violence perpetrated in the name of a religion, an ideology or an economic system, while also safeguarding…

— Pope Francis

“Violence cannot remove violence... Violence breeds more violence and hate.”

— Jeffrey A. White

Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence.

— Albert Camus