Browsing Topic Best Violence Quotes

It isn’t where you came from, it’s where you’re going that counts.

Violence begets violence, you know. And you can’t kill off all the violent people or all the murderers. We’d have to kill off the government.

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

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

I found a religion that blended scientific reason with spiritual reality in a unifying faith far removed from the headlines of violence, destruction and terrorism.

We Americans claim to be a peace-loving people. We hate bloodshed; we are opposed to violence. Yet we go into spasms of joy over the possibility of projecting dynamite bombs from flying machines upon helpless citizens.

Imperial powers do not forgive those who expose their weaknesses or make public the sordid and immoral inner workings of empire. Empires are fragile constructions. Their power is as much one of perception as of military strength. The virtues they claim to uphold and defend, usually in the name of their superior civilization, are a mask for pillage, the exploitation of cheap labor, indiscriminate violence and state terror.

The violence that still simmers in Ukraine started in the pro-Western west, not in the Donbas where it was a reaction to what was viewed as the threat of violence against Ukrainians who are ethnic Russian.

Comparing yourself to others is an act of violence against your authentic self.

We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.

With our hearts aching for what is happening in Ukraine, let us not forget wars in other parts of the world, such as Yemen, Syria, Ethiopia … I repeat: May weapons be silenced! God is with peacemakers, not those who use violence.

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism – how passionately I hate them!

People turn to violence, because they have no other avenue left.

Gun violence is real. People don’t come back.

As far as fascism is concerned, there are some analysts, very astute and knowledgeable ones, who say we’re actually moving towards actual fascism. My own feeling is, I would prefer to call it a kind of proto-fascism, where many of the symptoms of fascism are quite apparent — resort to violence, the belief that violence is necessary.

With a single petulant blow, he [Will Smith] advocated violence, diminished women, insulted the entertainment industry, and perpetuated stereotypes about the Black community.

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

All politics is a struggle for power; the ultimate kind of power is violence.

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

Propaganda is to a democracy what violence is to a dictatorship.

A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to violence and crime, and any sense of loyalty and good faith will be abandoned.

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

Any situation in which some men prevent others from engaging in the process of inquiry is one of violence;… to alienate humans from their own decision making is to change them into objects.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex… It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

War is not the only form of violence imposed on people through inadequate social arrangements. There is also hunger, poverty and scarcity. The use of money and the creation of debt fosters economic insecurity, which perpetuates crime, lawlessness and resentment. Paper proclamations and treaties do not alter the facts of scarcity and insecurity, and nationalism tends only to propagate the separation of nations and the world’s people.

Christians appeal to those who wrong them and make them friendly to themselves; they are eager to do good to their enemies; they are mild and conciliatory.

We must unite. Violence against women cannot be tolerated, in any form, in any context, in any circumstance, by any political leader or by any government.

A child who has been severely punished for sex play is not necessarily less inclined to continue; and a man who has been imprisoned for violent assault is not necessarily less inclined toward violence.

Violence against women is still treated as a lesser crime. Armed groups turn it into a weapon of choice because of near total impunity.

There is an unbroken line of police violence in the United States that takes us all the way back to the days of slavery, the aftermath of slavery, the development of the Ku Klux Klan. 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.

Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture.

In some cases non-violence requires more militancy than violence.

The violent subjugation of the Palestinians, Iraqis, and Afghans will only ensure that those who oppose us will increasingly speak to us in the language we speak to them—violence.

We can all take responsibility for helping to bring about change, and keeping our friends and colleagues safe from domestic violence