No Violence Quotes

And we, from the whole of our life experience there, have concluded that there is only one way to withstand violence: with firmness.

Where ever there's guilt there's violence, and if guilt is a smell then violence is a taste: strawberries and formaldehyde and ironish blood.

Togetherness is beating up an empty elevator.

Hand holding sword is always an ugly hand!

It didn't take much prompting for Cariocas who were sick of living with violence to advocate violence as a solution.

A society that decides its controversial issues by ballots does better than one that uses bullets – which, after all, is no more likely to lead to the right conclusion than voting.

But people had forgotten there was a day in the not too distant past when they’d not seen or heard of bombings, and suicide vests, and snipers. Alicia, though, had not forgotten.

Treachery and violence are a just return for treachery and violence.

As always, violence created more violence [Jehane Noujaim, "Tahrir Square, Cairo: Lost and Found in the Square"].

Domestic violence rarely affects only those directly involved in the abusive relationship.

How much violence, Marshal, do you think a man can carry before it breaks him?

Violence is rather a strange phenomenon that can be compared to fire, once out of control it’s loyal to no one, not even to the person who started it.

One who has a deaden conscience can never live within the confinements of the law.

No, my career as a warrior princess, short as it had been, was over, I thought morosely. Violence only works if you're good at it. Otherwise, it hurts too much.

Anybody can act violently--there is nothing to it, but not every person is able to destroy his enemy with words.

No party has renounced the right to armed resistance, in certain circumstances without lying

The English word 'creativity' is derived from the Roman-Latin creo - to create. It is inextricably linked to the Western notion of a creator - a divine intervention and violent disrupter.

In the future, violence would clearly become a valuable form of social cement.

Thunder without sound jolted the air around her. The violence of it was magnificent, immaculate, glorious.

If a cavalcade of organized killing has nothing to teach us, I don’t know what does.

I sense that you are nearby, son and daughter of the Almari bloodline. I will soon come for you both.

If you carry a sword, you obey the sword, not the other way round. Nobody can hold a weapon and keep their hands clear of blood at the same time.

All children are born to grow, to develop, to live, to love, and to articulate their needs and feelings for their self-protection.

Being loud after drinking wine doesn't help. Being silent after drinking wine doesn't help. Nothing really ever gets solved either way.

If the world is unjust, get drunk, wave a sword, then cut off heads.

If I interrupted violence, by all means I'll step back. Always nice to see bloodshed first thing in the a.m.

Violence was second nature to the psychopathic and ultra-violent Stephen Moyle, who was already a seasoned street fighter, after having half his face torn off in a street fight with three other men.

It was as if my sould had left my body, floated up to the ceiling, and was watching me destroy my own career with one deliberately assaultive punch. (Dark City Lights)

A head can be beaten small enough until it fits the hat.

The old days are dead and gone days. For what I did in the past I have been punished. I have been cured.

That's the law, son. But you were never much of a one for following the law.

Of course it was horrible, ' smiled Dr. Branom. 'Violence is a very horrible thing. That's what you're learning now. Your body is learning it.

Obviously it’s hard for anyone to imagine, but these dance halls were powder kegs just waiting to erupt. Names were made and reputations were enhanced or blown in a flash!

The anti-hero has played an important role in the history of mankind, so much so that the whole ethos of what is good and bad has become blurred.

At that time, there was only one thing better that a good fight, and that was having a good fight and getting paid for it.

Although I had committed just about every sort of assault imaginable on people and even the odd one or two against the police, I still had and still do have respect for the old school policeman.

Everyone in the valleys knew me and because of that, so many people used my name in the valleys that there must have been at least a hundred times a night that the name ‘Malcolm Price’ was used.

More violence does not necessarily equate with greater religious conviction.

Never plan an act of violence. Just let it happen natural.

The further from law you move, the closer to claw you come.

Mistaken ideas always end in bloodshed, but in every case it is someone else's blood. This is why our thinkers feel free to say just about anything.

So long as atrocities remain remote, abstract, they will be tolerated, even by decent people.

Emotional blackmails and psychological threats are the feces of a rotten soul.

Fire is often the weapon of choice for the insane.

As if violence could make light. Maybe violence could make light.

Violence isn't the answer.

She decided that day to study Russian, the language of violence, terror, and absurdity. She knew she would never be bored.

It takes abstract thinking to see how greed can lead to prosperity, but it takes wishful thinking to claim that violence can lead to charity.

Science & Love have progressed "either" ways with growth of violence!

Bonobo discipline involves being schooled in a gentler, more playful fashion.