Violence Quotes

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.

There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors.

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

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

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

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

Non-violence is the article of faith.

The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.

The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.

The State calls its own violence, law; but that of the individual, crime

We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.

Our position was: If you don't attack us, there won't be any violence; if you bring violence to us, we will defend ourselves.

Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.

This will be our reply to violence:to make music more intensely,more beautifully,more devotedly than ever before.

The very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence.

Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that's better left unsaid.

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

I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.

Whatever has been achieved through pressure and violence is unstable, unreliable and incorrect.

Maxim 6: If violence wasn't your last resort, you failed to resort to enough of it. -The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries

If history shows anything, it is that there's no better way to justify relations founded on violence, to make such relations seem moral, than by reframing them in the language of debt—above all, because it immediately makes it seem that it's the victim who's doing something wrong.

Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture.

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.

People are mostly layers of violence and tenderness wrapped like bulbs, and it is difficult to say what makes them onions or hyacinths.

Violence is man re-creating himself.

Violence and smut are of course everywhere on the airwaves. You cannot turn on your television without seeing them, although sometimes you have to hunt around.

What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?

In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival.

The violence betwen women is unbelievable. Women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding.

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

All my humor is based upon destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I’d be standing on the breadline right in back of J. Edgar Hoover.

Islam teaches tolerance, not hatred; universal brotherhood, not enmity; peace, and not violence.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

Liberty is to be free from restraint and violence from others

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

Monarchy degenerates into tyranny, aristocracy into oligarchy, and democracy into savage violence and chaos.

If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.

You have to show violence the way it is. If you don't show it realistically, then that's immoral and harmful. If you don't upset people, then that's obscenity.

Senseless violence is a prerogative of youth, which has much energy but little talent for the constructive.

I maintain that nothing useful and lasting can emerge from violence.

A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the football field, or in the conduct of its business, cannot help making celebrities of the people who would destroy it.

You may gain temporary appeasement by a policy of concession to violence, but you do not gain lasting peace that way.

Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what is most truly is is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps.

Education is the vaccine for violence.

Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.

Violence is fomented by the imposition of singular and belligerent identities on gullible people, championed by proficient artisans of terror.

In violence, we forget who we are.

The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise they will win and the decent people will loose.

There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.

Domestic violence causes far more pain than the visible marks of bruises and scars. It is devastating to be abused by someone that you love and think loves you in return. It is estimated that approximately 3 million incidents of domestic violence are reported each year in the United States.

Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.

Non violence is not a thing that comes easily. You have to learn how to be non-violent

If you and I are having a single thought of violence or hatred against anyone in the world at this moment, we are contributing to the wounding of the world.

When food becomes scarce, refugees often turn to desperate measures to feed themselves and their families. We are particularly worried about the health of the refugee population, domestic violence and refugees resorting to illegal employment or even to prostitution, just to put enough food on the table.

First in violence, deepest in dirt, lawless, unlovely, ill-smelling, irreverent, new; an overgrown gawk of a - village, the "tough" among cities, a spectacle for the nation.

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

Never raise your hand to your children - it leaves your midsection unprotected.

Sometimes violence cannot be stopped no matter what we do. But the more peaceful we are, the better chance we have of bringing out the peace in those around us.

The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose.

Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius-and a lot of courage-to move in the opposite direction.

My door will always be open to those who genuinely renounce violence and seek peaceful accommodation into our nascent democracy.

The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.

We are meeting here to put an end to this cycle [of violence], to put things back in order and to put the wheel of peace on the right track. The task is very great, but our hopes are greater.

If you hate what you're seeing, you call it sex and violence. If you like it, you call it "romance and adventure."

Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they've got nothing to lose.

No, General. I'm not your subordinate. And what I'm coming dangerously close to is violence. -General Wedge Antilles

Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them.

The germ of creation lies in violence.

The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence.

Implicit in the stare of those eyes, the power of those knobbly hands, was labor's historic threat of violence against capital.

It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature.

Violence is my last option.

Violence is not funny.

I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.

The most terrible thing about materialism, even more terrible than its proneness to violence, is its boredom, from which sex alcohol, drugs, all devices for putting out the accusing light of reason and suppressing the unrealizable aspirations of love, offer a prospect of deliverance.

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.

To not have your suffering recognized is an almost unbearable form of violence.

As a human rights issue, the effort to end violence against women becomes a government's obligation, not just a good idea.

Children will watch anything, and when a broadcaster uses crime and violence and other shoddy devices to monopolize a child's attention, it's worse than taking candy from a baby. It is taking precious time from the process of growing up.

Violence is a tool of the ignorant.

Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know how to use their energy creatively so they do the opposite and destroy.

Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.

Nothing good ever comes of violence.

One of the main purveyors of violence in this world has been this country.

There is a violence that liberates, and a violence that enslaves; there is a violence that is moral and a violence that is immoral.

Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence.

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.

I can't remember any text of mine where I said that one should fight Hitler without violence; I'm not an idiot.

When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her.

The most powerful State in the world, which up to now was relatively protected from terrorist violence, is no longer an inviolable sanctuary.

A revolution is an act of violence whereby one class shatters the authority of another.

Frustration is the wet nurse of violence

Violence is the repartee of the illiterate.

So much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty and greed with all their tragic effects, that too little attention is paid to the passive sins, such as apathy and laziness, which in the long run can have a more devastating effect

I have known many meat eaters to be far more nonviolent than vegetarians.

I am deeply worried because we are seeing an unleashing of violence by 2,000 to 3,000 thugs who come to smash and loot. My objective is to avoid mistakes by the police, so that people can protest in safety.