Violence Quotes

I don't advocate senseless violence of any human being. I'm the one who's been beat down. But I will not be a victim again.

Nonviolence against humans cannot take firm hold in society as long as brutality and violence are practiced toward other animals.

There is nothing in anything that I have ever written that could be reasonably construed as an incitement to violence against anyone.

You have enemies. For who can live on this earth without them? Take heed to yourselves: love them. In no way can your enemy so hurt you by his violence, as you hurt yourself if you love him not.

Violence is a choice a man makes and he alone is responsible for it.

The answer to violence is even more democracy, even more humanity...

Around the world, human traffickers trick many people into slavery by false promises of good jobs or good education, only to find themselves forced to work without pay, under the threat of violence.

The human population is 90% gullible, violence-prone dipshits.

Today, the worst conflicts, the most deep-rooted violence, and those likely to emerge in the coming years are due to disparities in development.

Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them.

Domestic abuse happens only in intimate, interdependent, long-term relationships - in other words, in families - the last place we would want or expect to find violence.

The best way to deal with bureaucrats is with stealth and sudden violence.

It is no longer a choice between violence and nonviolence in this world; it's nonviolence or nonexistence. That is where we are today.

The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it.

We are a country of excess. So it's not the violence, per se, but the exacerbation and constant repetition.

Government is violence, Christianity is meekness, non-resistance, love. And, therefore, government cannot be Christian, and a man who wishes to be a Christian must not serve government.

Victims of the violence are black and white, rich and poor, young and old, famous and unknown. They are most important of all, human beings whom other human beings loved and needed.

In a world where the name of God is sometimes associated with vengeance and even a duty of hatred and violence, this message is both timely and significant.

Even extreme grief may ultimately vent itself in violence--but more generally takes the form of apathy

The atrocities in Cambodia are a direct and understandable response to the violence of the imperial system.

Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.

Intemperance is naturally punished with diseases; rashness, with mischance; injustice; with violence of enemies; pride, with ruin; cowardice, with oppression; and rebellion, with slaughter.

I told the students that we can exert pressure without resorting to violence, and that we can move towards democracy without violence; that way, God will allow it.

Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state, with its haughtiness, its violence, its punishment, its wars

Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know how to use their energy creatively so they do the opposite and destroy.

Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realizing Him.

Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings.

The ego is exploitation; love is service. And the service that flows from love, freely and spontaneously, is non-violence.

Violence produces only something resembling justice, but it distances people from the possibility of living justly, without violence.

Permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth and violence

Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.

Classifying and judging people promotes violence.

Muslims have different meanings for the same words that we use. They are so convinced of the "truth" of Islam that they do not perceive Jihad/terrorism, or dhimmitude as violence.

America has become numb to violence because it just drowns in it, day in and day out.

I have a violence in me that is hot as death-blood.

Humour is like violence. They both come to you unexpectedly, and the more unpredictable they both are, the better it gets.

Violence can destroy power; it is utterly incapable of creating it.

There is no such thing as defeat in non-violence.

I love cops. I think you have to walk in their shoes to understand, you know when they use violence, Michael Brown in Ferguson, a classic case.

Our Lord God doesn't do great things except by violence, as they say

If you and I are having a single thought of violence or hatred against anyone in the world at this moment, we are contributing to the wounding of the world.

There are criminal aliens in this country who have come into this country who are perpetrating violence and taking American lives.

The great Chinese classics have always said that it's better not to fight; that the clever man achieves his ends without violence; that a battle delayed is better than a battle fought.

Non-violence is not a passive idea. It is ethical activism at its political best

In the world today, only a philosophy of eternity could justify non-violence.

Violence is not the answer but neither is peace.

This is about saving children's lives. It is not about agencies and services protecting themselves.

The love of violence is an aspect of our humanity. Even the weak wish to be strong primarily so they can wield the whip.

Puppet Papademos is in place, and as Athens caught fire on Sunday night he rather took my breath away - he said violence and destruction have no place in a democratic country.

The American dream is, in part, responsible for a great deal of crime and violence because people feel that the country owes them not only a living but a good living.