"Violence is a symptom of impotence."
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"This much is clear: violence breeds violence, repression brings retaliation, and only a cleansing of our whole society can remove this sickness from our soul."
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"Violence diminishes our humanity."
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"Violence is the weapon of weak, non-violence that of the strong."
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"I don't advocate violence; but if a man steps on my toes, I'll step on his."
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"Violence multiplies violence."
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"The early feminist argument that violence against women is not inherently a private matter, but has been privatized by the sexist structures of the state, the economy, and the family has had a powerful impact on public consciousness."
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"All tremble at violence; all fear death. Putting oneself in the place of another, one should not kill nor cause another to kill."
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"No problem is so deep that it cannot be overcome, given the will of all parties, through discussion and negotiation rather than force and violence."
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"Violence brings only temporary victories; violence, by creating many more social problems than it solves, never brings permanent peace."
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"We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom."
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"Nonviolence becomes meaningless if violence is permitted for self-defence."
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"When we dehumanise and demonise our opponents, we abandon the possibility of peacefully resolving our differences, and seek to justify violence against them."
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"Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence."
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"The absence and suppression of justice can only open the way for extremists to exploit such a condition to perpetrate acts of violence against innocents."
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"I'm not advocating violence but I think somebody should shoot Simon Cowell."
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"A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual."
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"If there is violence, it will certainly be crushed because violence can only end in a disgraceful rout."
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"Those who 'abjure' violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf."
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"My own concern is primarily the terror and violence carried out by my own state... It is very easy to denounce the atrocities of someone else. That has about as much ethical value as denouncing atrocities that took place in the 18th century."
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