Violence Quotes
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All breathing, existing, living, sentient creatures should not be slain nor treated with violence, nor abused, nor tormented, nor driven away. This is the pure unchangeable law (Violence Quotes)
Violence breeds violence. Acts of violence committed in justice or in affirmation of rights or in defense of peace do not end violence. They prepare and justify its continuation (Violence Quotes)
Human rights are universal and indivisible. Human freedom is also indivisible: if it is denied to anyone in the world, it is therefore denied, indirectly, to all people. This is why we cannot remain silent in the face of evil or violence; silence merely encourages them (Violence Quotes)
Dehumanization, although a concrete historical fact, is not a given destiny but the result of an unjust order that engenders violence in the oppressors, which in turn dehumanizes the oppressed (Violence Quotes)
Intemperance is naturally punished with diseases; rashness, with mischance; injustice; with violence of enemies; pride, with ruin; cowardice, with oppression; and rebellion, with slaughter (Violence Quotes)
Obviously, untangling sex from aggression and violence or the threat of it is going to take a very long time. And the process is going to be greatly resisted as a challenge to the very heart of male dominance and male centrality (Violence Quotes)
Battered women is a phrase that uncovered major, long-hidden violence. It helps us to face the fact that, statistically speaking, the most dangerous place for a woman is in her own home, not in the streets (Violence Quotes)
From pacifist to terrorist, each person condemns violence - and then adds one cherished case in which it may be justified (Violence Quotes)
It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning (Violence Quotes)
The problem after a war is the victor. He thinks he has just proved that war and violence pay. Who will now teach him a lesson? (Violence Quotes)
We have many kinds of energies in us, including the energies of anger, violence, and craving. But compassion is also a very strong energy (Violence Quotes)
We have a choice. We have two options as human beings. We have a choice between conversation and war. That's it. Conversation and violence. And faith is a conversation stopper (Violence Quotes)
His renown has been purchased, not by deeds of violence and blood, but by the diligent dispensation of pleasure (Violence Quotes)
God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it (Violence Quotes)
This is what it means to be a slave: to be abused and bear it, compelled by violence to suffer wrong (Violence Quotes)
So the more things remained the same, the more they changed after all. Nothing endures. Not love, not a tree, not even a death by violence (Violence Quotes)
The tumultuous populace of large cities are ever to be dreaded. Their indiscriminate violence prostrates for the time all public authority, and its consequences are sometimes extensive and terrible (Violence Quotes)
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 (Violence Quotes)
The violence of war is random. It does not make sense. And many of those who struggle with loss also struggle with the knowledge that the loss was futile and unnecessary (Violence Quotes)
Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance (Violence Quotes)
The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is to a more violent world (Violence Quotes)
Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him (Violence Quotes)
Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars... Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that (Violence Quotes)
The problem with hatred and violence is that they intensity the fears of the white majority, and leave them less ashamed of their prejudices toward negroes (Violence Quotes)
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 (Violence Quotes)
Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little (Violence Quotes)
Revenge... Is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion (Violence Quotes)
A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual (Violence Quotes)
If a movie isn't a hit right out of the gate, they drop it. Which means that the whole mainstream Hollywood product has been skewed toward violence and vulgar teen comedy (Violence Quotes)
But when a person commits suicide, he does not do violence only to himself; he inflicts death upon those whom he least considered would be so afflicted (Violence Quotes)