#violence

In my books, I never portray violence as a reasonable solution to a problem. If the lead characters in the story are driven to it, it's at the extreme end of their experience. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#characters #driven #end #experience #extreme

Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence. ↗

— Dorothy Thompson

#aggressive #alternatives #conflict #creative #passive

When I recall my own path of life I cannot but speak of the violence, hatred and lies. A lesson drawn from such experiences, however, was that we can effectively oppose violence only if we ourselves do not resort to it. ↗

— Lech Walesa

#drawn #effectively #experiences #hatred #however

In defense of our persons and properties under actual violation, we took up arms. When that violence shall be removed, when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, hostilities shall cease on our part also. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#also #arms #cease #defense #hostilities

Now they have come to the place where their faith can no longer feed on the bread of repression and violence. They ask for the bread of liberty, of public equality, and public responsibility. It must not be denied them. ↗

— Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

#bread #come #denied #equality #faith

I mean I grew up in Ireland, so one would have to be consciously blinkered not to have reflected on the issue of political violence because that was the story since I was 19 years old or 20. ↗

— Neil Jordan

#consciously #grew #i #ireland #issue

You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman. ↗

— James Joyce

#heaven #kingdom #like #suffers #violence

The violence and burnings in Lebanon were the work of Syrian soldiers and workers dressed in civilian clothes. ↗

— Walid Jumblatt

#clothes #dressed #lebanon #soldiers #syrian

Football is violence and cold weather and sex and college rye. ↗

— Roger Kahn

#cold #cold weather #college #football #rye

Almost half of the population of the world lives in rural regions and mostly in a state of poverty. Such inequalities in human development have been one of the primary reasons for unrest and, in some parts of the world, even violence. ↗

— Abdul Kalam

#been #development #even #half #human