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QUOTES including the word: "violence"

Jacqueline Romilly:
  • Learning to think, to be precise, to weigh your words, to hear each other, is to be able to communicate and is the only means to stop the scary violence that is growing around us.

    • Malatesta:
  • Governments oppress mankind in two ways, either directly, by brute force, that is physical violence, or indirectly, by depriving them of the means of subsistence and thus reducing them to helplessness at discretion.

    • Malatesta:
  • There can be no doubt that the Anarchist Idea, denying government, is by its very nature opposed to violence, which is the essence of every authoritarian system - the mode of action of every government

    • Isaac Asimov:
  • Violence is the last refuge of the incompeten.

    • Rosa Luxemburg:
  • What presents itself to us as bourgeois legality is nothing but the violence of the ruling class, a violence raised to an obligatory norm from the outset.

    • Gandhi:
  • I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

    • Leo Tolstoy:
  • Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.

    • George Orwell:
  • Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

    • Gandhi:
  • Poverty is the worst form of violence.