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  • You can't change the system through violence. -- Alex Cox
  • We have to change the culture of mass violence we have. -- Joe Manchin
  • The democracy process provides for political and social change without violence. -- Aung San Suu Kyi
  • I'm a very great non-violent character. I would never resort to violence to change anything. -- Bob Brown
  • I loved my parents... but that can never change the fact that my father's violence ruined my childhood. -- Pat Conroy
  • Technology, ideology, and social and cultural changes periodically throw out new forms of violence for humanity to contend with. -- Steven Pinker
  • Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture. -- Charlotte Bunch
  • In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival. -- Andrew Young
  • As far as I can tell, 1968 is a year about change, about revolution, about violence, about people turning inwards as community breaks down. -- Matthew Weiner
  • 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
  • Violence and religion have often gone together, but it's not a perfect correlation, and it doesn't have to be a permanent connection, because religions themselves change. -- Steven Pinker
  • The world will always need revolution. That doesn't mean shooting and violence. A revolution is when you change your thinking. Confucianism and Christianity were both revolutionary. -- Jose Mujica
  • All of my life I have stayed away from violence and the instruments of violence, and have seen a legal, democratic struggle as the only means to achieve change. -- Osman Baydemir
  • The decline of violence isn't a steady inclined plane from an original state of maximal and universal bloodshed. Technology, ideology, and social and cultural changes periodically throw out new forms of violence for humanity to contend with. -- Steven Pinker
  • In war, it feels like everything you're doing is more important because you're in the proximity of violence and death, and that proximity changes your relationship to America because it changes the way you see the world. -- Phil Klay
  • There is no one in al-Nahda that is 'violence is a means of change or to keep power.' Everyone in al-Nahda believes that democracy is the only way to reach power and to stay in power. -- Rashid al-Ghannushi
  • Social media and the Internet haven't changed our capacity for social interaction any more than the Internet has changed our ability to be in love or our basic propensity to violence, because those are such fundamental human attributes. -- Nicholas A. Christakis
  • With my history, unfortunately, with my family suffering through gun violence, it's something that I feel passionately about, that even though the odds are certainly always uphill, that doesn't mean that I will stop fighting to try to change that. -- Carolyn McCarthy
  • Passive violence can be as simple as someone honking their horn at you for not turning fast enough when the light changes. And it can be highly complex, like when your co-worker undermines all of your work relationships by spreading rumors and lies about you. That's how passive violence rolls. -- Inga Muscio
  • 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
  • Practically every violent conflict or social change has proved that violence unleashes violence in return. -- Petra Kelly
  • Without love, violence will change the world; it will change it into a more violent one. -- William Sloane Coffin
  • Pornography and violence are by-products of societies in which private identity has been ... destroyed by sudden environmental change. -- Marshall McLuhan
  • All good niggers, all the niggers who change the world, die in violence. They don't die in regular ways. -- Tupac Shakur
  • The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is a more violent world. -- Hannah Arendt
  • We can all take responsibility for helping to bring about change, and keeping our friends and colleagues safe from domestic violence -- Charles Clarke
  • What bothers me most about today is that we're getting used 2 it. ENOUGH. 2nd amendment must go. Violence has 2 stop. Culture MUST change. -- Jay Mohr
  • I think all of us, politicians and churchmen, should do our utmost to change the society so that there would be no need for violence. -- Pierre Trudeau
  • I witnessed a lot of violence, and I found myself asking the question: Do you ever use violence to try to bring about political change? -- Mairead Corrigan
  • The purpose and function of government is not to preside over change but to prevent change. By political methods when unavoidable, by violence when convenient. -- Edward Abbey
  • The only hope of transforming the world from the 'tsunami of violence' is for each of us to become the change we wish to see in the world. -- Arun Manilal Gandhi
  • When violence against women is no longer societally accepted, no longer kept secret; when everyone understands that even one case is too many. That's when it will change. -- Joe Biden
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