I object to violence because when it appears to do good the good is only temporary the evil it does is permanent.

God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property not seize it.

My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.

The civil unrest of recent days must come to an end and the healing process must begin for the future of the community. We will provide assistance both in ending the violence and enabling the healing process in Benton Harbor.

Armageddon is not around the corner. This is only what the people of violence want us to believe. The complexity and diversity of the world is the hope for the future.

The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.

When I first envisioned 'Funny Games' in the mid-1990s it was my intention to have an American audience watch the movie. It is a reaction to a certain American cinema its violence its naivety the way American cinema toys with human beings. In many American films violence is made consumable.

Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and justice should understand that it is not terrifically important to us that they learn to cry it is important to us that they stop the crimes of violence against us.

Since Castro took power the Cuban people have been denied basic human freedoms. No freedom of religion no freedom of the press no political freedom. And the regime uses brutality and violence to suppress these freedoms and impose its will.

The Middle East is ailing. The malady stems from pervasive violence shortages of food water and educational opportunities discrimination against women and - the most virulent cause of all - the absence of freedom.

There is no city or country in the world where women and girls live free of the fear of violence. No leader can claim: 'this is not happening in my backyard.'

We must have our say not through violence aggression or fear. We must speak out calmly and forcefully. We shall only be able to enter the new world era if we agree to engage in dialogue with the other side.

The thing about youthful offenders is that no one seems to care about them. Most people don't like adolescents - even the good ones can be snarky and unpleasant. Combine the antipathy we feel toward the average teenager with the fear inspired by youth violence and you have a population that no one wants to deal with.

We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal private solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.

The unutterable violence of the Holocaust shook our confidence in the possibility of telling any story of faith at all.

I found a religion that blended scientific reason with spiritual reality in a unifying faith far removed from the headlines of violence destruction and terrorism.

A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them they will lead him to violence and crime and any sense of loyalty and good faith will be abandoned.

Non-violence requires a double faith faith in God and also faith in man.

Non-violence is the article of faith.

Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.

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.

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.

From a viable economy to the full funding of Headstart from a clean environment to true equality for women from a strong military to a commitment to racial brotherhood from schools that are honored to streets free of excessive violence.

American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc.

Poverty does not cause violence and terrorism. Lack of education does not cause terrorism.

Education is a vacine for violence.

Education is the vaccine for violence.

Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education.

Jews know this in their bones. Our community could not exist for a day without its volunteers. They are the lifeblood of our organizations whether they involve welfare youth education care of the sick and elderly or even protection against violence and abuse.

There is a subconscious way of taking violence as a way of expression as a normality and it has a lot of effects in the youth in the way they absorb education and what they hope to get out of life.