Violence Quotes

• Dr. King was also radical in his beliefs about violence. He learned how to successfully fight hatred and violence with the unstoppable power of nonviolence.He once stopped an armed mob, saying: 'We are not advocating violence. We want to love our enemies. I want you to love our enemies. Be good to them. This is what we live by. We must meet hate with love.'

  

  Cesar Chavez
  • Good
  • Live
  • Power

• For many child soldiers, war and violence are all they have ever known. If we don't take it upon ourselves to show them an alternative, then they're going to be soldiers forever, and they'll continue to be recruited and to participate in violence if another conflict starts five or 10 years down the road.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • War
  • Forever
  • Road

• 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.

  

  Vandana Shiva
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Diversity

• Violence is anything that denies human integrity, and leads to hopelessness and helplessness.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Violence
  • Helplessness
  • Human Integrity

• What I'm trying to argue, as passionately as I can, is that the Jesus story isn't worth dying for, it's worth living for. Jesus presents a third way, a way of being in the worth that embraces the Sermon on the Mount, with its challenge to violence and greed.

  

  Jay Parini
  • Trying
  • Jesus
  • Challenge

• When someone asks me about violence, I just find it incredible, because what it means is that the person who’s asking that question has absolutely no idea what black people have gone through, what black people have experienced in this country, since the time the first black person was kidnapped from the shores of Africa.

  

  Angela Davis
  • People
  • Time
  • Country

• Non-violence is backed by the theory of soul-force in which suffering is courted in the hope of ultimately winning over the opponent. But what happens when such an attempt fail to achieve the object? It is here that soul-force has to be combined with physical force so as not to remain at the mercy of tyrannical and ruthless enemy.

  

  Bhagat Singh
  • Hope
  • Soul
  • Suffering

• Goodness has no opposite. Most of us consider goodness as the opposite of the bad or evil and so throughout history in any culture goodness has been considered the other face of that which is brutal. So man has always struggled against evil in order to be good; but goodness can never come into being if there is any form of violence or struggle.

  

  Jiddu Krishnamurti
  • Good
  • Bad
  • History

• Violence must be inflicted once for all; people will then forget what it tastes like and so be less resentful. Benefits must be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • People
  • Forget
  • Tastes

• I've learned that intelligence alone doesn't mean a damn thing. It only leads to violence and pain.

  

  Daniel Keyes
  • Alone
  • Pain
  • Violence

• The world soffers a lot. Not because the violence of bad people. But because of the silence of the good people.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Violence
  • Silence
  • Soffers

• With the adoption of the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, the international community sent out a clear message that gender based violence will not be tolerated.

  

  Jenny Shipley
  • Women
  • Community
  • Adoption

• What's one more meaningless act of violence on that zoo of a planet? It would be appropriate. When in Rome; burn it.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Violence

• Just as one must learn the art of killing in the training for violence, so one must learn the art of dying in the training for nonviolence.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Art
  • Learn
  • Killing

• The only thing lawful is non-violence. Violence can never be lawful in the sense meant here, i.e., not according to man-made laws, but according to the laws made by Nature for man.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Nature
  • Violence

• Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.

  

  bell hooks
  • Society
  • Violence

• The violence in New York feels really mundane and banal to me. Whereas in the privacy of one's own home, say, like the farm I grew up on in Vermont, the kinds of things that can happen seem much more extreme. Maybe because it's more personal. Or maybe because you block out the things that happen in the city. But it's like seeing things born, live, die, fall apart, and start over again, without any intermediary clean-up steps from some corporate organization.

  

  Elizabeth Neel
  • Home
  • Organization
  • New York

• The world is in such a place of social unrest and there's so much violence.

  

  Walt Dohrn
  • World
  • Place
  • Social

• 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 loose.

  

  James Earl Jones
  • People
  • World
  • Law

• Violence - look, we live in a violent world, man. This country was founded on violence. Who's kidding who?

  

  Bruce Willis
  • World
  • Live
  • Country

• The rumors of Frank Sinatra's violence and his ties to organized crime were such that journalists joked in print about me ending up in concrete boots and sleeping with the fishes if I proceeded to write his biography.

  

  Kitty Kelley
  • Up
  • Violence
  • Rumors

• Violence is not only impractical but immoral.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Violence
  • Immoral
  • Impractical

• Violence is the repartee of the illiterate.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Violence
  • Illiterate
  • Repartee

• One of the things I love about wen wu is its encouragement of developing the spiritual and intellectual aspects of the self that are actually more important than the development of the body and the capacity to commit violence - which is how much of Western pop culture defines a man.

  

  Alex Tizon
  • Important
  • Culture
  • Spiritual

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