"Violence is fomented by the imposition of singular and belligerent identities on gullible people, championed by proficient artisans of terror."
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"Every relationship of domination, of exploitation, of oppression is by definition violent, whether or not the violence is expressed by drastic means. In such a relationship, dominator and dominated alike are reduced to things- the former dehumanized by an excess of power, the latter by a lack of it. And things cannot love."
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"Political violence is organized violence on the top which creates individual violence at the bottom."
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"Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies."
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"Those who do nothing are inviting shame as well as violence. Those who act boldly are recognizing right as well as reality."
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"Some people's affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls."
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"Moderate strength is shown in violence, supreme strength is shown in levity."
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"There is nothing to be gained by being unnecessarily nasty. Violence begets violence."
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"Far more violence has been done in obeying the law than in breaking the law."
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"As the State is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence."
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"Non violence is not a thing that comes easily. You have to learn how to be non-violent"
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"Violence is a concession to human weakness, satyagraha is an obligation."
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"I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence."
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"Revenge tries to solve the problem of vulnerability. If I strike back, I transfer vulnerability from myself to the other. And yet by striking back I produce a world in which my vulnerability to injury is increased by the likelihood of another strike. So it seems as if I'm getting rid of my vulnerability and instead locating it with the other, but actually I'm heightening the vulnerability of everyone and I'm heightening the possibility of violence that happens between us."
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"Satyagraha has been designed as an effective substitute for violence."
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"To live... in any sense of the word... is to reject others; to accept them, one must renounce, do oneself violence."
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"If our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right."
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"Violence ends up defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers."
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"To anyone out there who has ever been assaulted: You will never be alone. You are never alone. We have your back. I've got your back."
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"Violence is both unavoidable and unjustifiable."
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