No Violence Quotes

Where there is hunger there is no hope. There is only desolation and pain. Hunger nurtures violence and fanaticism. A world where people starve will never be safe

However, don't let these statistics mislead you, gang violence is not limited to California and or big urban areas - that might have been true a while ago but it is no longer the case today.

Slavery is what slavery's always been: About one person controlling another person using violence and then exploiting them economically, paying them nothing. That's what slavery's about

I don't want to express violence or anger or hate in my art. I want to express forgiveness.

Through violence, you may 'solve' one problem, but you sow the seeds for another.

I do not condemn any personal choices for intimate relationships. Love is love. I detest only the violence and trauma that any self-centered conduct can cause to others.

Nobody would have ever guessed-I wouldn't have guessed-the extraordinary degree to which you can reduce social violence through meditation.

All tremble at violence; all fear death. Putting oneself in the place of another, one should not kill nor cause another to kill.

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.

Here's a rule of life: You don't get to pick what bad things happen to you

To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.

Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.

Believe in yourself and be proud of who you are. Don't let anyone tell you differently. There is beauty in everyone and no one should stop you from growing into a confident and strong young person.

The FA have given me a pat on the back. I've taken violence off the terracing and onto the pitch.

I feel Mahatma Gandhi's non-violence was for the intelligent, educated British.It was not for those who don't understand this language.

Violence brings only temporary victories; violence, by creating many more social problems than it solves, never brings permanent peace.

The solution to violence in America is the acceptance of reality

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.

The cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf.

I believe there are more films that involve love and forgiveness than violence, but they often seem fake and are almost embarrassing to watch.

I have always been vitally interested in physical conditioning. I have long believed that athletic competition among people and nations should replace violence and wars.

Or will it take some cataclysmic act of violence on U.S. soil to finally awaken our gamesmen to the costs of global hegemony?

If an adult uses violence on a child, the child will naturally assume that he too, has the right to use it on one smaller or weaker.

There is so much history of this racist violence that simply to bring one person to justice is not going to disturb the whole racist edifice.

Violence is never ever a choice that a man should make.

Nonviolence becomes meaningless if violence is permitted for self-defence.

There's no more personal issue than gun violence; every one of these stories is a life lost, i'm hoping that over the long term, as I tell these stories, that it will help to open people's eyes.

When we dehumanise and demonise our opponents, we abandon the possibility of peacefully resolving our differences, and seek to justify violence against them.

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 time to learn from the mistakes of monocultures of the mind and the essentialising violence of reductionist thought. It is time to turn to diversity for healing.

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

No problem is so deep that it cannot be overcome, given the will of all parties, through discussion and negotiation rather than force and violence.

To cure the violence, we must identify and heal the causes of hatred and violence. If we dont deal with the causes we will never be safe.

You cannot be on one hand dedicated to peace and on the other dedicated to violence. Those two things are irreconcilable.

The absence and suppression of justice can only open the way for extremists to exploit such a condition to perpetrate acts of violence against innocents.

I'm not advocating violence but I think somebody should shoot Simon Cowell.

May the God of peace arouse in all an authentic desire for dialogue and reconciliation. Violence cannot be overcome with violence. Violence is overcome with peace.

When activists need a pretext to justify their violence, they always find it.

Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence.

Education in the key to preventing the cycle of violence and hatred that marred the 20th century from repeating itself in the 21st century.

When I was 14, I saw someone getting their face and wrists slashed with a knife in a pub in Catford. Nobody lifted a finger. That's when I realised that violence wasn't funny. At all.

I personally call the type of government which can be removed without violence 'democracy,' and the other, 'tyranny.'.

I witnessed a lot of violence, and I found myself asking the question: Do you ever use violence to try to bring about political change?

Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, are both uncivilized and undemocratic

And I thought the whole point of my education was that violence IS the answer.

We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.

Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.

Hatred is increased by being reciprocated, and can on the other hand be destroyed by love.

You were born a child of light’s wonderful secret— you return to the beauty you have always been.

Monsters exist because we create them, through war and violence, and distortion, and the way we handle people and so on.