Violence Quotes
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A second way that oppressed people sometimes deal with oppression is to resort to physical violence and corroding hatred (Violence Quotes)
The function of law and theology are the same: to keep the poor from taking back by violence what the rich have stolen by cunning (Violence Quotes)
To all the world he was the man of violence, half animal and half demon; but to her he always remained the little wilful boy of her own girlhood, the child who had clung to her hand. Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him (Violence Quotes)
We are all victims of the violence that animals suffer... their liberation is also our liberation (Violence Quotes)
No problem is so deep that it cannot be overcome, given the will of all parties, through discussion and negotiation rather than force and violence (Violence Quotes)
It is no longer a choice between violence and nonviolence in this world; it’s nonviolence or nonexistence. That is where we are today (Violence Quotes)
Refraining from violence is not a sign of weakness in one’s faith but a sign that one’s faith is unshakeable (Violence Quotes)
My own concern is primarily the terror and violence carried out by my own state... It is very easy to denounce the atrocities of someone else. That has about as much ethical value as denouncing atrocities that took place in the 18th century (Violence Quotes)
A man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind (Violence Quotes)
You either approve of violence or you don’t, and nothing on earth is more violent or extreme than the meat industry (Violence Quotes)
Ahimsa is the highest duty. Even if we cannot practice it in full, we must try to understand its spirit and refrain as far as is humanly possible from violence (Violence Quotes)
Every reform by violence is to be deprecated, because it does little to correct the evil while men remain as they are, and because wisdom has no need of violence (Violence Quotes)
We will stand against violence and intimidation. We will stand for the rights and dignity of all human beings (Violence Quotes)
The way of acquiescence leads to moral and spiritual suicide. The way of violence leads to bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers. But, the way of nonviolence leads to redemption and the creation of the beloved community (Violence Quotes)
In a world so rife with vulgarity, with brutality and violence, love exists. I’m grateful to know that it exists (Violence Quotes)
When we dehumanise and demonise our opponents, we abandon the possibility of peacefully resolving our differences, and seek to justify violence against them (Violence Quotes)
No form of violence can ever be excused in a society that wishes to call itself decent (Violence Quotes)
Yes, always avoid violence. In this age of charity and kindliness, the time has gone by for such things. Leave dynamite to the low and unrefined (Violence Quotes)
The only way to end a culture of violence is to proactively create a culture of peace (Violence Quotes)
If we know how much passive violence we perpetrate against one another, we will understand why there is so much physical violence plaguing societies and the world (Violence Quotes)
It’s not the violence of the few that scares me, it’s the silence of the many (Violence Quotes)
Returning violence for violence multiplies violence... Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that (Violence Quotes)
Violence will prevail over violence, only when someone can prove to me that darkness can be dispelled by darkness (Violence Quotes)
Violence ends up defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers (Violence Quotes)
Peace is not just the mere absence of violence or disturbance. It’s when there is a possibility of conflict, but you deliberately avoid violence and adopt methods to solve the problem through peaceful means. That is real peace (Violence Quotes)
While all other things are uncertain, evanescent, and ephemeral, virtue alone is fixed with deep roots; it can neither be overthrown by any violence or moved from its place (Violence Quotes)
No other form of violence is legitimate. It is never acceptable to use violence to solve a problem. Whether personal or political (Violence Quotes)
He seems to me to be headed for his ideal fate, which is compulsive psychosis dashed with a jigger of psychopathic irresponsibility and violence (Violence Quotes)
Every decided colour does a certain violence to the eye, and forces the organ to opposition (Violence Quotes)
I loved my parents... but that can never change the fact that my father’s violence ruined my childhood (Violence Quotes)