Violence Quotes - Page 27

The man who coerces another not to eat fish commits more violence than he who eats it.

The reaction that a ruthless dictator sets up in us either that of awe or pity according respectively as we react to him violently on nonviolently.

In the application of the method of non-violence, one must believe in the possibility of every person, however depraved, being reformed under humane and skilled treatment.

Violence becomes imperative when an attempt is made to assert rights without any reference to duties.

Armed conspiracies against something satanic is like matching Satans against Satan.

A successful bloody revolution can only mean further misery for the masses.

Peace through superior violence inevitably leads to the atom bomb and all that it stands for.

Nonviolence is an unchangeable creed. It has to be pursued even in face of violence raging around you.

Nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger... . Between violence and cowardly flight I can only prefer violence to cowardice.

The ideally non-violent state will be an ordered anarchy.

I do not regard killing or assassination or terrorism as good in any circumstances whatsoever.

I'm not someone who ever enjoys violence against women or children.

The worst violence we can do to each other often is psychological, especially in families. I dwell a lot on domestic danger. Thats the backdrop of most of my novels - what kind of damage is done without ever lifting a finger.

Family violence is a criminal act; perpetrators, while often former victims themselves, need to accept culpability.

Where there is no emotion, there is no motive for violence.

The lesson has already been learned with alcohol prohibition. We tried to engineer an alcohol-free society and ended up with huge criminal enterprises, government corruption, children lured into organized crime and random violence that took the lives of countless innocent people.

The violence of language consists in its effort to capture the ineffable and, hence, to destroy it, to seize hold of that which must remain elusive for language to operate as a living thing.

Not all bodies are born in male or female. There is a continuum of bodies and it seems to me that trying to persuade medical and psychiatrist establishments to deal with the intersex involves critique of the binary gender system. Similarly there continues to be extreme, sometimes very extreme violence against transgender people.

I don't get a fair whack, I don't pursue vendettas or punch people on the nose.

I am a violent man who has learned not to be violent and regrets his violence.

Nothing endures. Not a tree. Not love. Not even death by violence.

A man hath riches. Whence came they, and whither go they? for this is the way to form a judgment of the esteem which they and their possessor deserve. If they have been acquired by fraud or violence, if they make him proud and vain, if they minister to luxury and intemperance, if they are avariciously hoarded up and applied to no proper use, the possessor becomes odious and contemptible.

Gender based violence anywhere is a threat to peace and security everywhere.

Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

Show me pornography which promotes violence against women, and I'll buy it.