In Labor movements generally, success through violence can hardly be expected except in circumstances where success without violence is attainable.

— Bertrand Russell

We must realize that violence is not confined to physical violence. Fear is violence, caste discrimination is violence, exploitation of others, however subtle, is violence, segregation is violence, thinking ill of others and condemning others are violence. In order to reduce individual acts of physical violence, we must work to eliminate violence at all levels, mental, verbal, personal, and social, including violence to animals, plants, and all other forms of life.

— Satish Kumar

Why fight to the death when we can love eachother to death?

— Sigurd Bache Hungnes

I can assure you that no kingdom has ever had as many civil wars as the kingdom of Christ.

— Montesquieu

I have heard the predictable slew of insults, threats, epithets, and curses. Underneath all these, I hear their fear. They don’t want to hurt me, though I may serve as a stand-in for a man who they do want to hurt. They want to scare me because fear is the only way they have learned to feel powerful.

— Thomm Quackenbush

An extended hand is the best weapon against a clenched fist.

— Gary Rudz

The part that always shocked me was the inter-community violence among the chimps: the patrols and the vicious attacks on strangers that lead to death. It's an unfortunate parallel to human behavior - they have a dark side just as we do. We have less excuse, because we can deliberate, so I believe only we are capable of true calculated evil.

— Jane Goodall

You stubborn bastard. Take it from someone who knows firsthand, there’s a lot to be said for forgiveness. Grudges seldom hurt anyone except the one bearing them.'And there’s a lot to be said for knocking enemies upside their heads and cracking skulls open.'Ash & Urian.

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

When men in power decide that things need to be rebalanced at any cost, the violence is never brief and never really directed solely at the imbalance that supposedly inspired it. The rule of law becomes the rule of violence. Revenge becomes a synonym for justice. No city is safe from such horror, no nation, no time in all of history. Be ready to recognize the moment. Be always ready.

— Dean Koontz

The germ of creation lies in violence.

— Rudolfo Anaya