Moderate strength is shown in violence, supreme strength is shown in levity.
G.K. Chesterton
What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
Alan Paton
In violence we forget who we are.
Mary McCarthy
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| Violence Quotes |
An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.
Gandhi
If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.
Malcolm X
Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence.
Joan Baez
He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The moment a man claims a right to control the will of a fellow being by physical force, he is at heart a slaveholder.
Henry C. Wright
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
E.F. Schumacher
Nonviolence doesn't always work - but violence never does.
Madge Micheels-Cyrus
Play allows us to develop alternatives to violence and despair....
Stuart Brown
In some cases nonviolence requires more militancy than violence.
Cesar Chavez
Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.
Malcolm X
Repeat one word of what I just said and I'll cheerfully beat you to death, Mike.
Stephenie Meyer
It is not what you can do for your country, but what you can do for all of mankind.
Mike Norton
If everyone who had a gun just shot themselves, there wouldn't be a problem.
George Harrison
It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
Gandhi
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
Isaac Asimov
Poverty is the worst form of violence.
Gandhi
Violence is a disease, a disease that corrupts all who use it regardless of the cause.
Chris Hedges
If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?
Joan Baez
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
Susan Sontag
