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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.

There are some people that just attract violence to them. No matter where they go, they'll find a fight.

No one has the right to ignite a war and lead an occupation and armies to conquer people, invading them and make them suffer all kinds of torture, murder, expulsion, displacement, bombing and terrorism by different lethal prohibited weapons and then come and speak as the savior of the people or a defender of their rights.

People have the right to defend their country from foreign occupiers, and people have the right to defend their country from invaders who are destroying their country.

My people have been sucked into the violence because some feel they have to retaliate, and some feel they have to protect themselves.

People have long assumed that violence is necessary for political change. Rulers never cede power voluntarily, the argument goes, so progressives have no choice but to contemplate the use of force to bring about a better world, mindful of the trade-off between a small amount of violence now and acceptance of an unjust status quo indefinitely.