Violence Quotes

It's not the violence of the few that scares me, it's the silence of the many

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.

Force when aggressively applied is "violence" and is, therefore, morally unjustifiable, but when it is used in the furtherance of a legitimate cause, it has its moral justification. The elimination of force at all costs in Utopian.

It was clear to me that if we allowed the Freedom Ride to stop at that point, just after so much violence had been inflicted, the message would have been sent that all you have to do to stop a nonviolent campaign is inflict massive violence.

In times of great necessity, violence is indispensable.

Our position was: If you don't attack us, there won't be any violence; if you bring violence to us, we will defend ourselves.

Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.

The Koran is a fascist book which incites violence. That is why this book, just like [Adolf Hitler's] Mein Kampf, must be banned.

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

There is nothing wrong with violence in itself. In any particular case, whether violence is good or bad depends on how it is used and the purpose for which it is used.

It's the suppression of the word that gives it the power, the violence, the viciousness.

Marijuana is the most violence causing drug in the history of mankindMost marijuana smokers are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos and entertainers.

From every wound there is a scar, and every scar tells a story. A story that says, "I survived."

Nations are not ruined by one act of violence, but gradually and in an almost imperceptible manner by the depreciation of their circulating currency, through its excessive quantity.

The decisive means for politics is violence.

No religion is responsible for terrorism. People are responsible for violence and terrorism.

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.

Life is beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression, and violence, and enjoy it to the full.

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.

There is no greater violence than to deny the dreams of our children.

No woman has to be a victim of physical abuse. Women have to feel like they are not alone.

Whatever has been achieved through pressure and violence is unstable, unreliable and incorrect.

There is a violence that liberates, and a violence that enslaves; there is a violence that is moral and a violence that is immoral.

The copycat effects of media violence, similar to those previously attributed to westerns, radio serials and comic books, are easy to exaggerate.

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