Violence Quotes
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The body is not the only target of rape. Violence does not always take a visible form, and not all wounds gush blood (Violence Quotes)
Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge (Violence Quotes)
Violence is not the answer, it doesn’t work any more. We are at the end of the worst century in which the greatest atrocities in the history of the world have occurred... The nature of human beings must change. We must cultivate love and compassion (Violence Quotes)
Senseless violence is a prerogative of youth, which has much energy but little talent for the constructive (Violence Quotes)
Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love but to use violence to get what they want (Violence Quotes)
We owe our children – the most vulnerable citizens in any society – a life free from violence and fear (Violence Quotes)
Violence brings only temporary victories; violence, by creating many more social problems than it solves, never brings permanent peace (Violence Quotes)
I dare because I want no misunderstanding between us. I am everything you think I am, but I love your daughter, and what I love, I protect with all of the violence in me, which, as you’ve guessed, is considerable (Violence Quotes)
If you succumb to the temptation of using violence in the struggle, unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and desolate night of bitterness, and your chief legacy to the future will be an endless reign of meaningless chaos (Violence Quotes)
The march of intellect is proceeding at quick time; and if its progress be not accompanied by a corresponding improvement in morals and religion, the faster it proceeds, with the more violence will you be hurried down the road to ruin (Violence Quotes)
Violence just hurts those who are already hurt... Instead of exposing the brutality of the oppressor, it justifies it (Violence Quotes)
Institutionalised in sports, the military, acculturated sexuality, the history and mythology of heroism, violence is taught to boys until they becomes its advocates (Violence Quotes)
Men are so accustomed to maintaining external order by violence that they cannot conceive of life being possible without violence (Violence Quotes)
Violence produces only something resembling justice, but it distances people from the possibility of living justly, without violence (Violence Quotes)
Peace is the alternative to war, and nonviolence should be seen as the antidote to violence, not simply as its opposite. Nonviolence is more concerned with saving life than with saving face (Violence Quotes)
It is my conviction that nothing enduring can be built on violence. The only safe way to overcome an enemy is to make of that enemy a friend (Violence Quotes)
The human moral sense can excuse any atrocity in the minds of those who commit it, and it furnishes them with motives for acts of violence that bring them no tangible benefit (Violence Quotes)
Let us develop respect for all living things. Let us try to replace violence and intolerance with understanding and compassion. And love (Violence Quotes)
Safety and security don’t just happen, they are the result of collective consensus and public investment. We owe our children, the most vulnerable citizens in our society, a life free of violence and fear (Violence Quotes)
The desire for an increase of wealth can be satisfied through exchange, which is the only method possible in a capitalist economy, or by violence and petition as in a militarist society, where the strong acquire by force, the weak by petitioning (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 (Violence Quotes)
The violence of war admits no distinction; the lance, that is lifted at guilt and power, will sometimes fall on innocence and gentleness (Violence Quotes)
The violence done us by others is often less painful than that which we do to ourselves (Violence Quotes)
The pursuit of otherness, the sense that we are somehow different than our brothers and sisters, no matter where we find them, allows for all the other great evils: racism, sexism, homophobia, violence against gay people and against women (Violence Quotes)
If every 8 year old in the world is taught meditation, we will eliminate violence from the world within one generation (Violence Quotes)
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 (Violence Quotes)
We are not retreating, we are advancing in another direction. We sleep safely in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would harm us (Violence Quotes)
All forms of violence, especially war, are totally unacceptable as means to settle disputes between and among nations, groups and persons (Violence Quotes)
This much is clear: violence breeds violence, repression brings retaliation, and only a cleansing of our whole society can remove this sickness from our soul (Violence Quotes)
If poverty is a disease that infects the entire community in the form of unemployment and violence, failing schools and broken homes, then we can’t just treat those symptoms in isolation. We have to heal that entire community (Violence Quotes)