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Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know how to use their energy creatively so they do the opposite and destroy.

We decry violence all the time in this country, but look at our history. We were born in a violent revolution, and we've been in wars ever since. We're not a pacific people.

A revolution is an act of violence whereby one class shatters the authority of another.

We will stand up for our friends in the world. And one of the most important friends is the State of Israel. My administration will be steadfast in support Israel against terrorism and violence, and in seeking the peace for which all Israelis pray.

My people have been sucked into the violence because some feel they have to retaliate, and some feel they have to protect themselves.

What opera isn't violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can't.

Actual violence has no attraction for me at all.

I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older it narrowed down to a more specific focus on individual violence. I'm just trying to understand where it came from.

Abortion is the ultimate violence.

I do not believe in terrorism, violence, destruction, murder, pre-emption, or War.

What will it profit this country if we... put our man on the Moon by 1970 and at the same time you can't walk down Woodward Avenue in this city without fear of some violence?

Tragedy occurs when a human soul awakes and seeks, in suffering and pain, to free itself from crime, violence, infamy, even at the cost of life. The struggle is the tragedy - not defeat or death.

I hate violence, yes I do. It's kind of a dilemma, huh?.

In some cases non-violence requires more militancy than violence.

Their prejudice allowed white Southerners to look the other way when blacks were denied their most basic human rights, and it encouraged the worst of them to engage in unspeakable acts of cruelty and violence.

You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.

If you and I are having a single thought of violence or hatred against anyone in the world at this moment, we are contributing to the wounding of the world.

I wish everyone was a sci-fi geek because then there would be no violence in the world. There'd be no wars. There'd only be people e-mailing each other.

Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.

Revenge only engenders violence, not clarity and true peace. I think liberation must come from within.