No Violence Quotes

The whole army is burning with an insatiable desire to wreak violence upon South Carolina. I almost tremble for her fate.

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.

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

Any relationship between a building and its users is one of violence, for any use means the intrusion of a human body into a given space, the intrusion of one order into another.

I wish everyone was a sci-fi geek because then there would be no violence in the world. There'd be no wars. There'd only be people e-mailing each other.

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

If everyone who had a gun just shot themselves, there wouldn't be a problem.

Personally, I believe very much in values of savagery; I mean: instinct, passion, mood, violence, madness.

Tangier is one of the few places left in the world where, so long as you don't proceed to robbery, violence, or some form of crude, antisocial behavior, you can do exactly what you want.

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

We must meet violence with violence.

Without action, words are just words. Without violence, laws are just words. Violence isn’t the only answer, but it is the final answer.

The struggle with evil by means of violence is the same as an attempt to stop a cloud, in order that there may be no rain.

The only defense against evil, violent people is good people who are more skilled at violence.

If I do not respond to some situation, my conscience kills me. I believe in permissible violence, not necessarily non-violence.

Violence is not completely fatal until it ceases to disturb us.

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

Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies from indifference toward the unique values which created it.

Birth is of course violent. Menstruation is violent. Trust me, if men's penises opened up once a month and shot blood, we'd be hearing about the violence of it.

When violence against women is no longer societally accepted, no longer kept secret; when everyone understands that even one case is too many. That's when it will change.

Every socialist is a disguised dictator.

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

Often things are as bad as they seem.

The number of laws is constantly growing in all countries and, owing to this, what is called crime is very often not a crime at all, for it contains no element of violence or harm.

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.

The violence in the Old Testament and New Testament is descriptive. The violence in the Koran is for all time and it is prescriptive. And Mohammed said "I have been made victorious through terror.".

Women are prevented by the threat and reality of male violence from entering public space on equal terms with male citizens.

If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?

Mix me with violence, blend me with peace, Combine me with hate, and I can't face defeat.

I love Dr. King, but violence might be necessary; Cause when you live on MLK and it gets very scary, You might have to pull your AK, send one to the cemetery.

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

Real confidence comes from knowing and accepting yourself- your strengths and your limitations -in contrast to depending on affirmation from others.

There is a great streak of violence in every human being. If it is not channeled and understood, it will break out in war or in madness.

Justice is always Violence to the Party offending, for every Man is Innocent in his own Eyes.

A film is like a battleground. It's love, hate, action, violence, death—In one word, emotions.

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

Violence is a personal necessity for the oppressed...It is not a strategy consciously devised. It is the deep, instinctive expression of a human being denied individuality.

Violence against women is still treated as a lesser crime. Armed groups turn it into a weapon of choice because of near total impunity.

Violence begins where knowledge ends.

All concerns of men go wrong when they wish to cure evil with evil.

Sovereignty and the right to rule cannot be conferred on anyone no matter who ... as a result of an academic discussion. Sovereignty is acquired by force and power and violence.

The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information.

Sexual assault and domestic violence are difficult things to talk about. Talk about them anyway.

Nothing is so dangerous as that of violence employed by well-meaning people for beneficial objects.

Calling gender violence a women's issue is part of the problem. It gives a lot of men an excuse not to pay attention.

Among the numerous advantages promised by a well-constructed Union, none deserves to be more accurately developed than its tendency to break and control the violence of faction.

Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism.

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.

Despite what your momma told you, Violence does solve problems.

Through violence, you may murder the hater, but you do not murder the hate.