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Definition of Violence
Violence
The quality or state of being violent; highly excited action, whether physical or moral; vehemence; impetuosity; force.

Injury done to that which is entitled to respect, reverence, or observance; profanation; infringement; unjust force; outrage; assault.

Ravishment; rape; constupration.

To assault; to injure; also, to bring by violence; to compel.

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Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!
Albert Einstein

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
Abraham Lincoln

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
George Orwell

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
Mahatma Gandhi

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

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

Violence has been Nicaragua's most important export to the world.
Ronald Reagan

Poverty is the worst form of violence.
Mahatma Gandhi

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
Mahatma Gandhi



Violence Translations
violence in Dutch is geweldpleging, geweld
violence in French is violence
violence in Norwegian is overtredelse
violence in Spanish is violencia, poderio


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