"Violence represents the worst kind of conformism."
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"For every act of violence and messiness there are a million acts of kindness and goodness. It just depends where you look. And when I look around at virtually anyone or anything on the planet, I can see another face of intention - beauty."
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"The nation cannot be kept on the nonviolent path by violence."
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"However much I may sympathise with and admire worthy motives, I am an uncompromising opponent of violent methods even to serve the noblest of causes."
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"The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal in domestic affairs, specifically in the matter of revolution."
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"Great anger and violence can never build a nation."
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"The convoluted wording of legalisms grew up around the necessity to hide from ourselves the violence we intend toward each other. Between depriving a man of one hour from his life and depriving him of his life there exists only a difference of degree. You have done violence to him, consumed his energy."
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"Violence is good for those who have nothing to lose."
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"What you get with violence can be maintained only with violence"
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"It is organized violence on top which creates individual violence at the bottom. It is the accumulated indignation against organized wrong, organized crime, organized injustice, which drives the political offender to act."
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"Root out the violence in your life, and learn to live compassionately and mindfully. Seek peace. When you have peace within, real peace with others is possible."
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"Abortion is violence; a deep, desperate violence inflicted by a woman upon, first of all, herself."
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"Generally speaking, violence always arises out of impotence. It is the hope of those who have no power."
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"Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us."
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"They believed that Britain was in Ireland defending their own interests, therefore the Irish had the right to use violence to put them out. My argument was that that type of thinking was out of date."
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"Politicians need to stop the violence because it has become a way of life in Jamaica. It's the thing to do - be violent in Jamaica."
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"The greatest violence is seeing a child go to bed hungry."
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"Violence recoils on the violent."
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"My non-violence bids me dedicate myself to the service of the minorities."
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"Our first responsibility in the midst of violence is to prevent it from destroying us."
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