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 For years we have seen nationalists achieve what they want by violence and the threat of violence. In these circumstances, when frustrated and with no other option, we should not be surprised that some individuals resort to violence.

 a walking one-man weapon of mass destruction that has done nothing in the last 10 years but flirt with violence, incite violence, carry out violence, justify violence and glorify violence, then you have to do what you have to do.
  Yasser Arafat

 No matter how lofty or sincerely held the goal, those who resort to violence to achieve it are criminals, ... neither the cause ... nor the target of their violence will in any way be considered to mitigate the seriousness of their offense against our laws.

 Violence is not merely killing another. It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person, when we obey because there is fear. So violence isn't merely organized butchery in the name of God, in the name of society or country. Violence is much more subtle, much deeper, and we are inquiring into the very depths of violence.
  Jiddu Krishnamurti

 Time and time again, violence and the threat of violence has reaped dividends for the men of violence. The fear of IRA terror has resulted in the government granting item after item from the republican wish list,

 Would I be dumb enough to do something like that? ... I always think violence is the last means and the last resort. I never advocate violence.

 Certainly security is very important, so that people have the opportunity to express their will in a manner unfettered from violence or threat of violence.

 He has consistently opposed war and violence. He has worked for peace and to educate in particular young people about non-violence and the power of non-violence.

 I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man's problem just to avoid violence
  Malcolm X

 Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence. Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.

 Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence. Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
  Alexander Solzhenitsyn

 Toys that glorify violence encourage children to act out that violence -- violence which appears fun, cool and amusing,

 We were trying to achieve a compromise with the government; we were even willing to destroy the houses with our own hands, instead of coming to this violence. But the politicians really wanted to see the pictures of blood and violence.

 The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral; returning violence with violence only multiplies voilence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars.

 Violence or the threat of violence will not solve the
problems of Northern Ireland. The only way forward to peace,
political stability and reconciliation is through democratic
means,


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