Believe Quote by Xenophon

By placing confidence in violent means, one has chosen the very type of struggle with which the oppressors nearly always have superiority.

— Gene Sharp

The learned and the studious of thought have no monopoly of wisdom. Their violence of direction in some degree disqualifies them to think truly.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only defense against evil, violent people is good people who are more skilled at violence.

— Rory Miller

When we judge others we contribute to violence.

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

If intellect plays a large part in the field of violence, I hold that it plays a larger part in the field of nonviolence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Most do violence to their natural aptitude, and thus attain superiority in nothing.

— Baltasar Gracian

“Violence is compelling and ineffective, it can be ascertained, as one becomes an expert at it.”

— Patricia Dsouza

The bravery of the nonviolent is vastly superior to that of the violent.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Classifying and judging people promotes violence.

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

Violence can behave like a disease. That insight gives a different frame of reference that is designed to take the judgment out of it,…

— Steven James

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

People understand the simplicity of violence, and martial arts has always been about the more efficient way to deliver said violence upon an adversary.…

— Samoa Joe