No Violence Quotes
I’ve had guns pointed at me, and I can tell you that it’s not the right place to be standing if some is really mad at you!
It was much easier to explain the veil than to answer questions about the wounds.
I show how much of the wars of religion involved Catholics killing Catholics, Lutherans killing Lutherans, and Catholic-Protestant collaboration. (Page 10 The Myth of Religious Violence)
In protesting for your rights in any form you may, but it's only good, If they can understand your problems and feelings and not only to judge you.
Not one person on earth is immune to crime and trauma.
There is no such thing as a "just" war. It's just war. And it's antithetical to the Gospel.
If anyone hits me, they can expect to be hit back, and harder. I never turn the other cheek because in my experience that doesn’t work.
It is a rare person who can cut himself off from mediate and immediate relations with others for long spaces of time without undergoing a deterioration in personality.
If somebody says 'I love you' to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol holder requires? 'I love you, too'.
Any intelligent 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.
Thou shalt not be a victim, thou shalt not be a perpetrator, but, above all, thou shalt not be a bystander.
I get it, ' said the prisoner. 'Good Cop, Bad Cop, eh?'If you like.' said Vimes. 'But we're a bit short staffed here, so if I give you a cigarette would you mind kicking yourself in the teeth?
He, who thought it necessary to maintain himself in her good graces, strove to console her under her disappointment by committing a little violence upon truth.
I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out of me with steel pipes.
I forgive you, " I said. I said what I had to. I would die by pieces to save myself from real death.
It is brutal. Only I never could see the sense in having folks look at your tombstone and say, 'He was a man who didn't believe in violence, He's a good man... and dead.
It shocked his sense of dramatic economy that they should have to resort to violence when the same result could have been obtained by a minimum expenditure of energy.
A society becomes a breeding ground of violence and terrorism when it closes its door to new ideas and forces the citizens to live in the prison of conforming thoughts.
May we always be burdened with thinking of the suffering of others, for that is what it means to be human.
To reduce violence, stop teaching how to find differences and teach unconditional kindness.
the flames are silent, Peace is violent, Tears are frozen’cause massacre was chosen.~~ 26/11– Mumbai terror attack memories
...always-the sharp, plaintive edgeon the rimof the spoonof my giving.(lines 8-13 of the poem 'Confessions')
Politics: the art of using euphemisms, lies, emotionalism and fear-mongering to dupe average people into accepting--or even demanding--their own enslavement.
America isn’t perfect but there’s not a better place in the world for people of any faith.
An act of violence, no matter how small, can never be justified if it can be avoided.
Your blessings are very important to melt down the stony hearts.
Christ the man died long ago, but Christ the idea of love, still exists, not in any church, rather in the mind of humans.
Whether a religion is of peace or violence should be defined by the actions of its people, not by some books.
Killing or eating animals is an act of beasts. Stirs within the devil. Sorry. It spurs evil. Thus is truth - at least the metaphysical.
As per the law of karma, that which is your meat today, this dear beloved animal will make mincemeat of you tomorrow. In another birth.
The scriptures are just books. It all depends on you, whether you are going to learn goodness and compassion from them, or use them to destroy your environment.
Dare to contradict the scientist, not because of your scripture, but because of your own rational thinking.
It has always been science versus fundamentalism, not science versus religion.
Life is full of challenges. In the end, it's getting up that pulls us through the dark days. So we can admire the sunset.
We shouldn't live in a world where we live in constant terror. We need less dying and more living. We need less destroying and more building. We need less hate and more love.
Don’t say to yourself, ‘Everyone argues!’ to justify and normalise your fighting, when the most natural thing is to love.
It had not hurt his hands at all and the sudden release of energy, twinned with Dom's fall, gave him a sudden lunatic rush of euphoria.
When a man carries an instrument of violence, he'll always find the justification to use it. If we really want to escape this war, we have to stop bringing it with us.
Nothing is easier than to get peaceful people to renounce violence, even when they provide no concrete ways to prevent violence from others.
