Violence Quotes - Page 11

If there is violence, it will certainly be crushed because violence can only end in a disgraceful rout.

Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.

Sometimes violence cannot be stopped no matter what we do. But the more peaceful we are, the better chance we have of bringing out the peace in those around us.

There's a hollowness to civilized life. It doesn't appeal to people, and some people react with extreme violence.

What is magnificent about humans is when they decide to turn and stand. If they respond with non-violence on principle and hold their ground, they are really magnificent.

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

Generally speaking, violence always arises out of impotence. It is the hope of those who have no power.

Taking away the peace of a people, committing every act of violence, or consenting to such acts, especially when directed against the weakest and defenseless, is a profoundly grave sin against God.

War is...a trinity of violence, chance, and reason.

I think violence can never be justified. At the same time, nobody’s culture or beliefs should be insulted, that’s not something I can accept either. But I cannot justify or accept any violence at all.

For every act of violence and messiness there are a million acts of kindness and goodness. It just depends where you look. And when I look around at virtually anyone or anything on the planet, I can see another face of intention - beauty.

If the numbers we see in domestic violence were applied to terrorism or gang violence, the entire country would be up in arms, and it would be the lead story on the news every night.

Alcohol removes inhibitions. It doesn't trigger criminal violence where there was none before.

India was not a pacifist country at all. India placed great emphasis on the higher value on... on violence. But it was never a substitute for not doing anything, or for cowardice.

Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.

In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.

Violence is like money in the bank; it's only helpful if you don't have to use it.

The creation of today's market society was not the result of a sequence of spontaneous events but rather of state interference and violence.

No one may threaten or commit violence ('aggress') against another man's person or property. Violence may be employed only against the man who commits such violence; that is, only defensively against the aggressive violence of another. In short, no violence may be employed against a non-aggressor. Here is the fundamental rule from which can be deduced the entire corpus of libertarian theory.

We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence.

What you get with violence can be maintained only with violence

However much I may sympathise with and admire worthy motives, I am an uncompromising opponent of violent methods even to serve the noblest of causes.

The nation cannot be kept on the nonviolent path by violence.

The time when domestic violence is the most lethal is when the person is trying to leave the situation.

I don't mean to romanticise the struggle, that leads to all kinds of terrible violence and absurdities that are even worse than the perverse immediate gratification.