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“Violent resistance against the power of the state is the last resort of the minority in its effort to break loose from the oppression of the majority. ... The citizen must not be so narrowly circumscribed in his activities that, if he thinks differently from those in power, his only choice is either to perish or to destroy the machinery of state.”

Source: The free and prosperous commonwealth: an exposition of the ideas of classical liberalism

“just as violence is the last refuge of the inarticulate, so it is also the first resort of the incompetent, the easy out for the man who is capable of expressing himself only in the most primitive and vulgar of dramatic terms. He leaves us with only the obscenity of violence per se - and the pornographer thereof will always be with us, in film as in any other medium. And so will his audience.”

Source: The private eye, the cowboy, and the very naked girl: movies from Cleo to Clyde

“On my knees, I beg of you to turn away from the paths of violence and to return to the path of peace. Those who resort to violence always claim that only violence brings about change. You must know there is a political, peaceful way to justice.”

Knows Way Political Turns Justice Path Violence Return Claims Peaceful Knees Resorts

Author:Pope John Paul II

“If you're ever in a dark place, don't resort to violence. Talk to someone; whether it be a therapist, teacher, parent, or just someone you can trust. We all have our dark places and it's important that you get help.”

Ifs Important Helping Parent Dark Teacher Violence Resorts Therapists Dark Places

Author:Gerard Way

“As a tactic, violence is absurd. No one can compete with the Government in violence, and the resort to violence, which will surely fail, will simply frighten and alienate some who can be reached, and will further encourage the ideologists and administrators of forceful repression.”

Government Violence Failing Absurd Tactics Resorts Repression Administrators

Book:The Essential Chomsky

Source: The Essential Chomsky

“If you have to resort to violence, you've already lost.”

Ifs Lost Violence Resorts

Author:Sean Connery

“I only escaped from Tibet because I feared my people would resort to desperate violence if the Chinese took me as their prisoner.”

People Ifs Violence Chinese Desperate Prisoner Resorts Tibet

Author:Dalai Lama

“I do not oppose violence simply because it is counterproductive. I oppose it because it betrays animal rights philosophy. Those who resort to such tactics really have not understood that animal rights is about the extension of moral concern to all sentient beings--humans obviously included.”

Humans Philosophy Animal Moral Rights Violence Understood Concern Animal Rights Betray Extensions Tactics Resorts Sentient Beings Counterproductive

Author:Andrew Linzey

“Violence is the first means and the last resort to pacify a people, and thus is something we need to continue to consider after the gunfire has ended.”

People Needs Firsts Mean Lasts Violence Resorts

Author:Nigel Gibson

“My philosophy is that one shall not resort to violence unless one is resolved to become the subject of violence at any time.”

Philosophy Violence Subjects Resorts

Author:Takeshi Kitano