My whole access into culture was violent. Violence is something I understand. Don't like it, don't condone it, but I sure understand where it comes from.
It’s impossible to say who has guns in Gaza anymore. The ballots are the only thing that can stop the violence at this point.
Non-violence should be a tactic - not an ideology preached from the sidelines to victims of massive violence.
Violence can destroy power; it is utterly incapable of creating it.
On this International Day of Peace, let us dare to imagine a world free of conflict and violence
It is difficult to judge, when both sides are employing weapons of violence, which side 'deserves' to succeed.
I've never really been a fan of violence.
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.
Unfortunately, man, a lot of places in America have to deal with unnecessary violence. Somebody like me who knows it firsthand and could relate. . . I had a best friend killed, plenty other friends killed. I been through it. I seen it.
Violence is sometimes a duty.
I condemn, for all climes and for all times, secret murders and unfair methods even for a fair cause.
Just bring love. Everybody keeps bringing violence, let's bring love.
When a man carries an instrument of violence, he'll always find the justification to use it.
There are different forms of anarchy and different currents in it. I must, first say very simply what anarchy I have in view. By anarchy I mean first an absolute rejection of violence.
Bullys are the small group who should perish not by voilence, but by non violence, words not fists, thats the awnser to our problem.
Inner disarmament, external disarmament; these must go together, you see. Peace is not just mere absence of violence - genuine peace must start in each individual heart.
I'm questioning it. We're trying to get a lot of money for health and education and I'm wondering. . . You look at these gangs, and I look back at Prohibition. When we didn't allow alcohol, what did we have? We had gangs. We had big gangs. It's something that needs to be discussed a little more. It's an economic issue and a violence issue.
Violence toward women isn't cultural; it's criminal.
I can't remember any text of mine where I said that one should fight Hitler without violence; I'm not an idiot.
Unfortunately, we live at a moment in which ignorance appears to be one of the defining features of American political and cultural life. Ignorance has become a form of weaponized refusal to acknowledge the violence of the past, and revels in a culture of media spectacles in which public concerns are translated into private obsessions, consumerism and fatuous entertainment.