Violence Quotes - Page 29

Peace isn't the mere absence of violence; peace must come from inner peace. And inner peace comes from taking others’ interests into account.

We see violence to forcibly seize land, at any price, murders and corruption.

What a vast difference there is between the barbarism that precedes culture and the barbarism that follows it.

If you love with violence and you hate with violence there is nothing that can be questioned.

In all places, and in all times, those religionists who have believed too much have been more inclined to violence and persecution than those who have believed too little.

Personally, I don't like watching violence. I'd much rather see more skin.

All politics is a struggle for power; the ultimate kind of power is violence.

If you check back through human history, you will find that three things, more than any others, have produced social transformation: violence, knowledge and wealth - and the greatest of these is wealth!

Clarity moves much more efficiently than violence or stress.

Until you can love what is - everything, including the apparent violence and craziness - you're separate from the world, and you'll see it as dangerous and frightening.

Any act of violence creates resentment and resistance, because humans were meant to be free.

Europeans are familiar with terrorism and violence. We have not experienced a true conflict on our soil in a hundred years, and especially not one that involved 3,000 dead.

Sarah Palin's whole family got into a drunken public fistfight. Something police are calling a 'tragic case of trash-on-trash violence.'

Whenever you have war, you often have more deaths because the medical system and the food system breaks down, than you have directly through violence.

Americans love to read about violence.

This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence.

Non-violence should be a tactic - not an ideology preached from the sidelines to victims of massive violence.

Violence is sometimes a duty.

I have mastered the principles of several religions. They have all shocked me by the violence which I should have to do to my reason to accept the dogmas of any one of them.

Delimitation is always difficult. The world is one, life is one. The sweetest and most heavenly of activities partake in some measure of violence - the act of love, for instance; music, for instance.

One can understand why Surrealism was not afraid to make for itself a tenet of total revolt, complete insubordination, of sabotage according to rule, and why it still expects nothing save from violence.

Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence - as it saves most writers who live in 'interesting' oppressive times and are not afflicted by personal immunity.

Degeneracy follows every autocratic system of violence, for violence inevitably attracts moral inferiors. Time has proven that illustrious tyrants are succeeded by scoundrels.

It is my belief that the problem of bringing peace to the world on a supranational basis will be solved only by employing Gandhi's method on a larger scale.

All the violence in videos and movies, you can't tell me that that wouldn't influence a disturbed person.