Violence Quotes - Page 16

I'm just hoping that people understand that Islam is peace and not violence.

Until we eliminate the mentality of violence, we will not find the harmony within ourselves we're looking for.

Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.

We must talk about how sexism and patriarchy operate in conjunction with state violence. Until we're honest about that, and do something to resist, we're complicit in the persistence of oppression.

Nonviolence is fine as long as it works.

There are many causes I would die for. There is not a single cause I would kill for.

Folks who talk about no violence are always the ones who are first to call a policeman and usually they are sure there is one handy.

Under all conditions, well-organized violence seems to him the shortest distance between two points.

The shackles and the chains, the violence and aggression, the pettiness and scorn, the jealousy and hatred, the tempest and discord.

I distrust the incommunicable; it is the source of all violence

Violence isn't the only answer, but it is the final answer.

The bicycle had, and still has, a humane, almost classical moderation in the kind of pleasure it offers. It is the kind of machine that a Hellenistic Greek might have invented and ridden. It does no violence to our normal reactions: It does not pretend to free us from our normal environment.

Revolt, it will be said, implies violence; but this is an outmoded, an incompetent conception of revolt. The most effective form of revolt in this violent world we live in is non-violence.

During the first suffragist wave in this nation, women were possessions, like a table or a chair. So violence toward them was quite condoned. The attitude has diminished, but it's still there.

We should manage our fortune as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies except in an extreme necessity

Friends that I value most are people who would essentially use physical violence against me at a time when I seem to be teetering on the edge.

Violence is my last option.

In attempting to explain geological phenomena, the bias has always been on the wrong side; there has always been a disposition to reason á priori on the extraordinary violence and suddenness of changes, both in the inorganic crust of the earth, and in organic types, instead of attempting strenuously to frame theories in accordance with the ordinary operations of nature.

The very definition of news is something that hardly ever happens. If an incident is in the news, we shouldn't worry about it. It's when something is so common that its no longer news - car crashes, domestic violence - that we should worry.

The only hope of transforming the world from the 'tsunami of violence' is for each of us to become the change we wish to see in the world.

Senseless violence is a prerogative of youth, which has much energy but little talent for the constructive.

I knew the tree when it grew, and the tree is now gone. The farmers cut it up, and it's become firewood. And there's this tremendous sense of absence and shock and violence attendant to that collapsing tree.

Violence is never the right answer, unless used against heathens and monsters.

In times of violence, personal predilections for niceties of colour and form seem irrelevant. All primitive expression (like the myths) reveals the constant awareness of powerful forces, the immediate presence of terror and fear.

To achieve the extirpation of Nazi tyranny there are no lengths of violence to which we will not go.