violence quotes

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

Mahatma Gandhi

War is a contagion.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

So many killings of black men in my lifetime. The physical shock is astounding.

Alice Walker

If we could just find out who’s in charge, we could kill him.

George Carlin

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Mahatma Gandhi

The dropping of bombs on people – isn’t that terrorism?

Alice Walker

I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.

Jean-Paul Sartre

There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.

Amelia Earhart

Almost half of the population of the world lives in rural regions and mostly in a state of poverty. Such inequalities in human development have been one of the primary reasons for unrest and, in some parts of the world, even violence.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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