Violence Quotes

Violence Quote of the day

Ignorance leads to fear, fear leads to hate, and hate leads to violence. This is the equation.

It's not the violence of the few that scares me, it's the silence of the many

Do you know why people like violence? It is because it feels good. Humans find violence deeply satisfying. But remove the satisfaction, and the act becomes hollow.

Violence is a cleansing force. It frees the native from his inferiority complex and from his despair and inaction; it makes him fearless and restores his self-respect

Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak... Non-violence is hard work.

Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education.

Fight back! Whenever you are offered violence, fight back! The aggressor does not fear the law, so he must be taught to fear you. Whatever the risk, and at whatever the cost, fight back!

Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.

In times of great necessity, violence is indispensable.

There is a direct connection between violence against the Earth and violence against women.

Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

We live in a world where we have to hide to make love, while violence is practiced in broad daylight.

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.

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

Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.

If every 8 year old in the world is taught meditation, we will eliminate violence from the world within one generation

Let us develop respect for all living things. Let us try to replace violence and intolerance with understanding and compassion. And love.

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

Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars.

The Koran is a fascist book which incites violence. That is why this book, just like [Adolf Hitler's] Mein Kampf, must be banned.

The power which establishes a state is violence; the power which maintains it is violence; the power which eventually overthrows it is violence.

Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.

Instead of a man of peace and love, I have become a man of violence and revenge.

It's the suppression of the word that gives it the power, the violence, the viciousness.

There is nothing wrong with violence in itself. In any particular case, whether violence is good or bad depends on how it is used and the purpose for which it is used.

The white man’s victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.

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 lose.

Nations are not ruined by one act of violence, but gradually and in an almost imperceptible manner by the depreciation of their circulating currency, through its excessive quantity.

The decisive means for politics is violence.

From every wound there is a scar, and every scar tells a story. A story that says, "I survived."

People have a right to violence, to rebel, to fight back. And given what the United States Government and Western powers have done to the third world, I feel that these countries should fight back.

No religion is responsible for terrorism. People are responsible for violence and terrorism.

A government is an institution that holds a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence.

The function of law and theology are the same: to keep the poor from taking back by violence what the rich have stolen by cunning.

Soup puts the heart at ease, calms down the violence of hunger, eliminates the tension of the day, and awakens and refines the appetite.

Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.

Ahimsa is the highest duty. Even if we cannot practice it in full, we must try to understand its spirit and refrain as far as is humanly possible from violence.

There is no greater violence than to deny the dreams of our children.

Life is beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression, and violence, and enjoy it to the full.

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.

No woman has to be a victim of physical abuse. Women have to feel like they are not alone.

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

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

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

Peace is not just the absence of violence,peace is when the flowers bloom.

The copycat effects of media violence, similar to those previously attributed to westerns, radio serials and comic books, are easy to exaggerate.

Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love but to use violence to get what they want.

One must do no violence to nature, nor model it in conformity to any blindly formed chimera.