Even today we raise our hand against our brother...

We have perfected our

weapons, our conscience has fallen asleep, and we have sharpened our
ideas to justify ourselves as if it were normal we continue to sow
destruction, pain, death. Violence and war lead only to death.
Pope Francis

If we desire a society of peace, then we cannot achieve such a society

through violence. If we desire a society without discrimination, then we
must not discriminate against anyone in the process of building this
society. If we desire a society that is democratic, then democracy must
become a means as well as an end.
Bayard Rustin

Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and

immoral. I am not unmindful of the fact that violence often brings about
momentary results. Nations have frequently won their independence in
battle. But in spite of temporary victories, violence never brings
permanent peace.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

I don't make any notes, but I do know where to find things. Suppose I need
to know where Wexford first talked about his love of the countryside or
where he quotes Larkin or what was the beginning of his hatred of racism
or where he first encountered domestic violence; I would be able to find it
straight away.
Ruth Rendell

Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself. - Lao Tzu
Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.
Lao Tzu
Always, Well, Oneself

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but

they've always worked for me.
Hunter S. Thompson

What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? No

martyr's cause has ever been stilled by an assassin's bullet. No wrongs
have ever been righted by riots and civil disorders. A sniper is only a
coward, not a hero; and an uncontrolled or uncontrollable mob is only the
voice of madness, not the voice of the people.
Robert Kennedy

Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a

true democratic spirit.
Mahatma Gandhi
Growth, Spirit, Intolerance