Violence Quotes - Page 7

The point on nonviolence is to build a floor, a strong new floor, beneath which we can no longer sink.

Violence is the sign of temporary weakness.

I was shooting at myself - I was shooting my own violence and the violence of the times

It's incredibly dangerous to leave an abuser, because the final step in the domestic violence pattern is: kill her.

One must acknowledge with cryptography no amount of violence will ever solve a math problem.

Nowhere in the world is a woman safe from violence. The strengthening of global commitment to counteract this plague is a movement whose time has come.

Violence does not and cannot flourish by itself; it is inevitably intertwined with lying.

Violence is the weapon of the weak.

If our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.

Satyagraha has been designed as an effective substitute for violence.

Violence is the only way to answer violence.

Violence is man re-creating himself.

If history shows anything, it is that there's no better way to justify relations founded on violence, to make such relations seem moral, than by reframing them in the language of debt—above all, because it immediately makes it seem that it's the victim who's doing something wrong.

Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat, or violence, or accident, may as well be broken at once; it can never be trusted after.

Whenever we engage in consumption or production patterns which take more than we need, we are engaging in violence.

I myself am a very nonviolent person and only resort to violence when I absolutely have to.

We have not touched the stars, nor are we forgiven, which brings us back to the hero’s shoulders and the gentleness that comes, not from the absence of violence, but despite the abundance of it.

Violence is the weapon of weak, non-violence that of the strong.

Slavery is what slavery's always been: About one person controlling another person using violence and then exploiting them economically, paying them nothing. That's what slavery's about

So many women have experienced horrific forms of male violence throughout their lives, and why isn't there a song about how you get depressed because of it?

Women trapped in violent relationships need to know that there's no shame in talking out and walking out on their abusive partners.

The origins of violence against women by men are not biological. If that were the case, it would exist in every culture. And it doesn't exist in every culture.

Say what you want but you NEVER say it with violence!

To live... in any sense of the word... is to reject others; to accept them, one must renounce, do oneself violence.

Violence diminishes our humanity.