Violence Quotes - Page 6

Moderate strength is shown in violence, supreme strength is shown in levity.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours.

Just bring love. Everybody keeps bringing violence, let's bring love.

It’s never too late to do the right thing.

As the State is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence.

Disarmed citizens encourage crime and violence. Armed citizens encourage criminals to find a safer line of work.

The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose.

Violence existed before our music was even suggested.

There is nothing to be gained by being unnecessarily nasty. Violence begets violence.

Abuse is the weapon of the vulgar.

Many survivors insist they're not courageous: 'If I were courageous I would have stopped the abuse.' 'If I were courageous, I wouldn't be scared'...Most of us have it mixed up. You don't start with courage and then face fear. You become courageous because you face your fear.

You cannot live a nonviolent life as long as you are consuming violence. Please consider going vegan.

Above all Christians are not allowed to correct by violence sinful wrongdoings.

Nonviolence is the weapon of the strong.

You can't answer violence with counter violence ... The answer is love. The best sabotage is love.

One of the most basic things we can do is let the men in our lives know it's not okay to mistreat a woman.

Violence is what happens when we don't know what else to do with our suffering.

Violence is a concession to human weakness, satyagraha is an obligation.

Non violence is not a thing that comes easily. You have to learn how to be non-violent

PANTOMIME, n. A play in which the story is told without violence to the language. The least disagreeable form of dramatic action.

When we dehumanise and demonise our opponents, we abandon the possibility of peacefully resolving our differences, and seek to justify violence against them.

He [John Hampden] knew that the essence of war is violence, and that moderation in war is imbecility.

[Domestic violence is] a carefully laid physical, financial and psychological trap.

Revenge tries to solve the problem of vulnerability. If I strike back, I transfer vulnerability from myself to the other. And yet by striking back I produce a world in which my vulnerability to injury is increased by the likelihood of another strike. So it seems as if I'm getting rid of my vulnerability and instead locating it with the other, but actually I'm heightening the vulnerability of everyone and I'm heightening the possibility of violence that happens between us.

Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence.