"Violence never brings permanent peace. It solves no social problem: it merely creates new and more complicated ones."
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"The pornography of violence of course far exceeds, in volume and general acceptance, sexual pornography, in this Puritan land of ours."
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"The God of peace is never glorified by human violence."
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"I would risk violence a thousand times rather than risk the emasculation of the whole race."
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"Violence is a tool of the ignorant."
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"There are two ways to resolve conflicts, through violence or through negotiation. Violence is for wild beasts, negotiation is for human beings."
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"Our silence is deafening and deadly."
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"See, people with power understand exactly one thing: violence."
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"Pornography and violence are by-products of societies in which private identity has been ... destroyed by sudden environmental change."
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"Friends that I value most are people who would essentially use physical violence against me at a time when I seem to be teetering on the edge."
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"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."
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"Violence does even justice unjustly."
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"Everybody against me. Why? Why me? I have not brought violence to you. I have not brought Thug Life to America. I didn't create Thug Life. I diagnosed it."
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"Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor."
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"Nonviolence is fine as long as it works."
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"Like a dead man, only friction could make him warm or violence make him mobile."
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"Under all conditions, well-organized violence seems to him the shortest distance between two points."
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"I distrust the incommunicable; it is the source of all violence"
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"Until we eliminate the mentality of violence, we will not find the harmony within ourselves we're looking for."
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"I'm just hoping that people understand that Islam is peace and not violence."
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