Violence Quotes
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He who has renounced all violence towards all living beings, weak or strong, who neither kills nor causes others to kill - him I do call a holy man.
Gautama Buddha
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We know that there are several predisposing factors to gun violence: poverty, lack of education, lack of good parenting, lack of jobs, living in an environment where violence is seen every day, all the time. And children being born to children are likely to have all of these predisposing factors.
Joycelyn Elders
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All who affirm the use of violence admit it is only a means to achieve justice and peace. But peace and justice are nonviolence...the final end of history. Those who abandon nonviolence have no sense of history. Rathy they are bypassing history, freezing history, betraying history.
Andre Trocme
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Quiet authority accomplishes what violence cannot, and that mandate compels more which comes from a commanding calm.
Claudius Claudianus
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I was never violent. I denounced even back then violence and left it because I didn't want to be associated with that kind of taint.
David Duke
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Violence in our society has reached epidemic proportions. ... Violence in the media for entertainment purposes has been established as a major contributing factor.
Deborah Prothrow-Stith
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If it is by force that we wish to achieve Swaraj, let us drop nonviolence and offer such violence as we may.
Mahatma Gandhi
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We recognize that violence is a learned behavior. One of the best classrooms for learning violence is in the home.
Janet Reno
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Violence has always been implied by previous US presidents: That is to say, if North Korea launched an attack, or crossed certain red lines, they would be met by devastating force. And this has been said even by people in the Obama administration very recently. But the kind of rhetoric that Trump is using is different, and I think probably not helpful, because it just provokes the North Koreans to ratchet up their rhetoric as well. At this point, it seems that we urgently need calmer heads on both sides, and we're not getting that.
Charles K. Armstrong
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The solution to violence in America is the acceptance of reality.
Gavin de Becker
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Working conditions for me have always been those of the monastic life: solitude and frugality. Except for frugality, they are contrary to my nature, so much so that work is a violence I do to myself.
Albert Camus
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Just being gender non-conforming opens you to trouble from strangers. And violence.
Ezra Furman