Violence Quotes
Sad Quotes about Violence

I object to violence because
when it appears to do good,
the good is only temporary;
the evil it does is permanent.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
- Isaac Asimov

Interesting.
You Earth people glorify organized violence for 40 centuries,
but you imprison those who employ it privately.
- the character Spock in the television series Star Trek

Non-violence is the article of faith.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Non-violence is a powerful and just weapon which cuts without wounding
and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Non-violence 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.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Non-violence requires a double faith,
faith in God and also faith in man.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind.
It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction
devised by the ingenuity of man.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart,
cannot come by an appeal to the brain.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Non-violence is the first article of my faith.
It is also the last article of my creed.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will.
Its seat is in the heart,
and it must be an inseparable part of our being.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

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.
- Albert Schweitzer

To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try to understand. To never look away. And never, never, to forget.
- Arundhati Roy

The main goal of the future is to stop violence.
The world is addicted to it.
- Bill Cosby

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Peace cannot be achieved through violence,
it can only be attained through understanding.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Violence, even well intentioned,
always rebounds upon oneself.
- Lao Tzu

Where there is no emotion,
there is no motive for violence.
- the character Spock in the Star Trek television series

Through violence, you may 'solve' one problem,
but you sow the seeds for another.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

Poverty is the worst form of violence.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Football is violence and cold weather and sex and college rye.
- Roger Kahn

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another,
but let him work diligently and build one for himself,
thus by example assuring that his own
shall be safe from violence when built.
- Abraham Lincoln

Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation,
and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands
prevails over that of those who obey.
- Denis Diderot

My religion is based on truth and non-violence.
Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realizing Him.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Wrestling is ballet with violence.
- Jesse Ventura

People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.
- Don DeLillo

The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress,
as well for his defence against injury and violence,
as for his repose.
- Edward Coke

Education is a vacine for violence.
- Edward James Olmos

Sometimes in the dark of night I begin to think.
And I wonder if Lee started all this violence.
- Marina Oswald

No kids should see that kind of violence where Batman
is killing as many people as the bad guys.
- Burt Ward

It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond
these failings that Black citizens and civil rights
workers risked unemployment,
violence and death.
- Elijah Cummings

Violence can only be concealed by a lie,
and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The violence had broken out in both sides,
but our philosophy as a party was very,
very clear.
- John Hume

Any time you do physical stuff, violence,
it is controlled.
It's a little bit like you block the move.
- Ron Livingston

I hate violence, yes I do.
It's kind of a dilemma, huh?.
- Jackie Chan

A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed,
every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.
- Sigmund Freud

Social justice cannot be attained by violence.
Violence kills what it intends to create.
- Pope John Paul II

It's odd how violence and humor so often go together,
isn't it?
- Dan Simmons

Victory Over Violence is an organization that was created
to help fund shelters for women and children.
- Victoria Principal

One must do no violence to nature, nor model it in
conformity to any blindly formed chimera.
- Janos Bolyai

You may gain temporary appeasement by a policy of concession to violence,
but you do not gain lasting peace that way.
- Anthony Eden

If the adjustment made by a court can be accepted or not,
it will be refused whenever the men can gain more by continuing the strike,
with whatever of violence that involves.
- John Bates Clark

My earnest hope is that what we started in terms of
building partnerships with communities across America will continue,
that we will continue our efforts to reduce crime and violence.
- Janet Reno

The violence betwen women is unbelievable.
Women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding.
- Tori Amos

You really don't want a president who is a football fan.
Football combines the worst features of American life.
It is violence punctuated by committee meetings.
- George Will

If you hate what you're seeing, you call it sex and violence.
If you like it, you call it "romance and adventure."
- Joe Bob Briggs

Passion is all but soft, it's not tender,
it's violence to which you get hooked by pleasure.
- Isabelle Adjani

Justice is an unassailable fortress,
built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown
by the violence of torrents,
nor demolished by the force of armies.
- Joseph Addison

In violence, we forget who we are.
- Mary McCarthy

While the vast majority of hackers may be disinclined towards violence,
it would only take a few to turn cyber terrorism into reality.
- Dorothy Denning

To be reserved, secretive, with a passionate violence that causes suffering.
- Gwen John

An unjust law is itself a species of violence.
Arrest for its breach is more so.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Violence is the first refuge of the violent.
- Aaron Allston

Violence is black children going to school for 12 years
and receiving 6 years' worth of education.
- Julian Bond

Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's
heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?
- Virginia Woolf

When people say there is too much violence in my books,
what they are saying is there is too much reality in life.
- Joyce Carol Oates

I really believe in non-violence, but I also believe
in a short of resistance that has to be respectful.
- Alexandra Paul

Obviously this is the world descending into worse and
worse standards of targeting civilians both in state violence in Iraq,
Gaza and so on and the terrorist retaliation.
- Clare Short

I have nothing new to teach the world.
Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills.
All I have done is to try experiments
in both on as vast a scale as I could.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

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

Violence is the repartee of the illiterate.
- Alan Brien

Violence has been Nicaragua's most important export to the world.
- Ronald Reagan

A revolution is an act of violence whereby one class
shatters the authority of another.
- James MacGregor Burns

I ain't never liked violence.
- Sugar Ray Robinson

So instead of talking about theoretical ways of ending the war and violence,
I say that we have to get rid of the individual asholes
in each office and situation.
- Colin Quinn

I am in a charity out there to stop violence against women.
- Caprice Bourret

The intense campaigns against domestic violence,
rape, sexual harassment, and inequity in the schools
all too often depend on an image of women as weak and victimized.
- Katherine Dunn

I don't like to go to the movies to see violence or
some kind of spy thing with all kinds of information
you have to assimilate to understand the plot.
- Pia Zadora

My door will always be open to those who genuinely
renounce violence and seek peaceful accommodation into our nascent democracy.
- Jalal Talabani