Democracy is an imperfect way of steering between the violence of anarchy and the violence of tyranny, with the least violence you can get away with. – Steven Pinker
The stability and security of authoritarian regimes cannot create but terrorism and violence and destruction. Let us accept the choice of the people. Let us not pick and choose who we would like to rule their future. – Wadah Khanfar
I never, never supporting any violence and everybody that know me, and all the countries here they know well that is no one, nowhere that the former prime minister will become terrorist to hurt their own country. No way. – Thaksin Shinawatra
The violence seems to be diminishing. They’ve stared into the abyss a bit. I think they’ve all concluded that further violence… is not in their interests. – Stephen Hadley
In defense of our persons and properties under actual violation, we took up arms. When that violence shall be removed, when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, hostilities shall cease on our part also. – Thomas Jefferson
War is an attempt of one group to impose its will upon another group by armed violence. – Scott Nearing
Humour is like violence. They both come to you unexpectedly, and the more unpredictable they both are, the better it gets. – Takeshi Kitano
We need to get serious about combating gang violence on Long Island, and the entire nation. – Tim Bishop
Governments that use violence to stop democratic development will not earn themselves respite forever. They will pay an increasingly high price for actions which they can no longer hide from the world with ease, and will find themselves on the wrong side of history. – William Hague
England is the breeding ground of fundamentalist Muslims. Its social logic is to allow all religions to preach openly. But this is illogic, because none of the other religions preach apocalyptic violence. And yet England allows it. – Wole Soyinka
The relationship between violence and nonviolence in this country is interesting. The fact of the matter is, you know, people do respond to riots. The 1968 Housing Act was in large response to riots that broke out after Dr. Martin Luther King was killed. They cited these as an actual inspiration. – Ta-Nehisi Coates
With violence, as with so many other concerns, human nature is the problem, but human nature is also the solution. – Steven Pinker
For me comedy and violence has a lot in common. Just as you expect, comedy always lurks behind the most unexpected of circumstances. – Takeshi Kitano
Horror and panic themselves are forms of violence, and diminishing them, restricting their dimensions, is itself a civilizing act. – Walter Kirn
We really are creatures of a violent world, biologically speaking – watching violence and learning about it is one of our cognitive drives. – Steven Pinker
I shy away from showing cruelty on the page. A lot of the violence in my books actually happens off stage. The police come on to the scene after the event has occurred. – Tess Gerritsen
Other places are also generators of far-flung violence beyond their own borders – Pakistan and Saudi Arabia are obvious examples – but none has as long a history of war, resistance, and terror as Chechnya. – Stephen Kinzer
Probably Hobbes got it right when he said that a leviathan, a third party with a monopoly on the use of legitimate use of force in a territory, might be among the biggest violence reduction techniques ever invented. – Steven Pinker
No matter how liberal I am, I’m still outraged by crimes of violence. Regardless of whether I can sympathize with the causes that lead these individuals to do these crimes, the effects are outrageous. – Sonia Sotomayor
No one will expect the British Government or the Government of India to give way to threats of violence, disorder and chaos; and, indeed, representatives of large sections of Indian opinion have expressly warned us that we must not do so. – Stafford Cripps
Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet’s heart when caught and tangled in a woman’s body? – Virginia Woolf
The grand irony, however, is that Southern segregation was not brought to an end, nor redneck violence dramatically reduced, by violence. – Stanley Crouch
You can be a rapper born and raised in go-go music, violence, drugs, crack, Reagonomics, and still, if you hear ‘Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go,’ you’re going to find a way to hum along. Guilty pleasures? It don’t matter. Sue me – I like the song. To dance to it is another matter. – Wale