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By using violence to subjugate one another we are using violence against our own souls. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The Jihad is not just a way of testing yourself but also means using violence to spread Islam. -- Bassam Tibi
I know the usual answer of Christ using violence to get the sellers out of the temple, but to me this was impatience rather than violence. -- Pierre Trudeau
Slavery is what slavery's always been: About one person controlling another person using violence and then exploiting them economically, paying them nothing. That's what slavery's about -- Kevin Bales
Laws against things like drugs are inhumane, and create an inhumane society and inhumane law enforcement. I know what's causing violence in America - the damn drug laws. -- Michael Moriarty
Do not conquer the world with force, for force only causes resistance. Thorns spring up when an army passes. Years of misery follow a great victory. Do only what needs to be done without using violence. -- Laozi
If one's cause is supported by sound reasoning, there is no point in using violence. It is those who have no motive other than selfish desire and who cannot achieve their goal through logical reasoning who rely on force. -- Dalai Lama
If you succumb to the temptation of using violence in the struggle, unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and desolate night of bitterness, and your chief legacy to the future will be an endless reign of meaningless chaos. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
You might hear people decry the loss of privacy in today's world, but radical transparency is dramatically reducing violence everywhere. Most violent things happen in the dark when no one's watching, whether it's an oppressive dictator or someone causing violence in the inner city. -- Peter Diamandis
These [Arab] youth who have been inspired by universal values are idealistic enough to imagine a magnificent future and, at the same time, realistic enough to balance this kind of imagination and the process leading to it - not using violence, not trying to create chaos. -- Wadah Khanfar
Dr. King used Gandhi's commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance. -- Al Sharpton
Legitimate use of violence can only be that which is required in self-defense. -- Ron Paul
My view is when you use violence on your people, that never ends well. -- Abdallah II of Jordan
The threat and use of violence is stimulating nuclear proliferation along with jihadi terrorism. -- Noam Chomsky
You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it. -- Noam Chomsky
Without democracy there is no freedom. Violence, no matter who is using it, is always reactionary. -- Friedrich Ebert
Resorting to violence and the use of force at holy sites is unacceptable, whatever the reason might be. -- Ahmet Necdet Sezner
The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. -- Henry A. Wallace
Our suspicions are being confirmed that Nashi will serve as a cover for storm brigades that will use violence against democratic organisations. -- Ilya Yashin
If an adult uses violence on a child, the child will naturally assume that he too, has the right to use it on one smaller or weaker. -- Dora Russell
If we go back in the history of different nations, violence and the use of force are part of their heritage. These are the traditions of mankind. -- Harri Holkeri
Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know how to use their energy creatively so they do the opposite and destroy. -- Anthony Burgess
Violence is used to portray what happens in a film. It only helps portray the actors and what they do. I think it is more about the story, when you have something to play off of. -- Jake Lloyd
People use location as a language in films, and Quentin uses action as a language in his films. There's really not a lot of violence. It's more of an emotional beat than it is a physical beat. -- Lucy Liu
Probably Hobbes got it right when he said that a leviathan, a third party with a monopoly on the use of legitimate use of force in a territory, might be among the biggest violence reduction techniques ever invented. -- Steven Pinker
Body language is essential for an actress, even if you don't use your body in an athletic way. Just to be free, to use it like your voice. A body can be small and have incredible violence. A body talks. -- Anne Parillaud
I think the self-burning itself on practice of non-violence. These people, you see, they easily use bomb explosive, more casualty people. But they didn't do that. Only sacrifice their own life. So this also is part of practice of non-violence. -- Dalai Lama
People have long assumed that violence is necessary for political change. Rulers never cede power voluntarily, the argument goes, so progressives have no choice but to contemplate the use of force to bring about a better world, mindful of the trade-off between a small amount of violence now and acceptance of an unjust status quo indefinitely. -- Steven Pinker
Fargo' is a tragedy with a happy ending. So you need to have that tragic underpinning, that all of this could be avoidable, and that's what makes it tragic. It's about the use of violence, and the fact that the tension in anticipation of violence and the tension in anticipation of a laugh are sort of the same. -- Noah Hawley
For me, it's a real shock to see American mainstream films. I can't see these films because it's always the same thing to me. This is very American. Violence is very American, and I can't understand these films. Why do they use violence? To show what? Masculinity? To show fear? Defense? What are you showing with all this violence? -- Javier Camara
There's less violence in the world when people are using Hula-Hoops. -- Mikey Way
Government is violence masquerading as answers to strangers' problems using other peoples' money. -- Dan McCall
I hate violence. That has never prevented me from using it in my films. -- Samuel Fuller
When you vote, you are exercising political authority, you're using force. And force, my friends, is violence. The supreme authority from which all other authorities are derived. -- Robert A. Heinlein

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