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“It's often been said, "Violence never solved anything." The simple truth is that when you are slammed up against the wall and the knife is at your throat, when a circle of teenagers is kicking you as you curl into a ball on the sidewalk, or when the man walks into your office building or school with a pair of guns and starts shooting, only violence, or the reasonable threat of violence, is going to save your life. In the extreme moment, only force can stop force.”

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

Mean God Truth Religion Violence Truth Is Protest Realising Nonviolence Metaphysics Non Violence

Book:The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words

Source: The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words

“Men: Stand in solidarity with women. Women, if you were born female, you were born on a battlefield. You will be punished for even saying that out loud, but the grim truth is you're going to be punished no matter what for the 'sin' of being female. Battering is the most commonly committed violent crime in the United States. That's a man beating a woman. Globally, half of all women will experience life-threatening violence from a man. Half. That's more hatred than I can comprehend. Right now, that battlefield is such a slaughter that we can't even collect our wounded.”

“Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realizing Him.”

Mean Truth Realizing Violence Truth Is Realising Nonviolence Non Violence

Book:The Indian States' Problem

Source: The Indian States' Problem

“We have become too civilized to grasp the obvious. For the truth is very simple. To survive you often have to fight, and to fight you have to dirty yourself. War is evil, and it is often the lesser evil. Those who take the sword perish by the sword, and those who don't take the sword perish by smelly diseases.”

War Fighting Evil Simple Violence Truth Is Obvious Dirty Civilized Behalf Lesser Evil

Author:George Orwell

“Power is violence, its promise, its deed. Power cares nothing for reason, nothing for justice, nothing for compassion. It is, in fact, the singular abnegation of these things - once the cloak of deceits is stripped away, this one truth is revealed.”

Reason Facts Care Justice Compassion Violence Promise Truth Is Deeds Deceit Cloaks Abnegation

Author:Steven Erikson

“I've played drug dealers, all my life. I've made a career of killing people and playing all kinds of killers. The violence and drugs is portrayed in exaggeration. This is fiction. That is how I looked at it. And, sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. Just open a newspaper.”

People Kind Made Sometimes Fiction Careers Violence Truth Is Drug Killing Stranger Newspapers All Kinds Killers Exaggeration Dealer Drug Dealers Stranger Than Fiction

Author:Benicio Del Toro

“Vehement writing, even if it is charged with truth, is no answer to violent action.”

Ifs Writing Action Answers Violence Truth Is Violent Vehement

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“The truth is that cowardice itself is violence of a subtle type and therefore dangerous and far more difficult to eradicate than the habit of physical violence.”

Difficult Violence Dangerous Type Habit Truth Is Subtle Coward Cowardice Physical Violence

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“We will make converts day by day; we will grow strong by the violence and injustice of our adversaries. And, unless truth be a mockery and justice a hollow lie, we will be in the majority after a while.”

Lying Strong Grows Justice Violence Truth Is Majority Injustice Hollow Adversaries Mockery

Book:Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)

Source: Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)

“The truth is that no one who hasn't actually experienced the senseless chaos and violence of combat can possibly understand it, but those who have and who try to explain it to the rest of us are offering us a precious gift: a part of their soul that's been scorched in the flames of Hell. It's a little like trying to describe music to the deaf or color to the blind ... to make the irrational somewhat sensible, which is always confusing and frustrating, and ultimately futile.”

Trying Littles Soul Hell Violence Color Truth Is Blind Chaos Flames Combat Sensible Offering Irrational Confusing Frustrating Deaf Precious Gifts

Author:Khaled Hosseini