Quotes
Quotes about Violence
The best soldier does not attack. The superior fighter succeeds without violence. The greatest conqueror wins without struggle. The most successful manager leads without dictating. This is intelligent nonaggressiveness. This is called the mastery of men.
Kwon Yin from China Jesus from Israel Buddha from India Rumi from Afghanistan Martin Luther King from America Leo Tolstoy from Russia and millions of anonymous women and men live nonviolence http://PostPoems.com/members/ar.
I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.
If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman, it could not fully express the pent-up violence and depravity of a single day in the life of the average family.
For violence, like Achilles' lance, can heal the wounds it has inflicted. - The Wretched of the Earth.
Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence.
Until we end our violence against the earth- a matter ignored by most pacifists, as the issue of military violence is ignored by most conservationists-how can we hope to end our violence against each other? The earth, which we all have in common, is our deepest bond, and our behavior toward it cannot help but be an earnest of our consideration for each other and for our descendants.
Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.
The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.
I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if we do not stop being violent we have no future.
Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence.
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!
This heroism at command, this senseless violence, this accursed bombast of patriotism--how intensely I despise them!
Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.
Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yield themselves up when taken little by little.
If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.
Government and state can never be perfect because they owe their raison d'etre to the imperfection of man and can attain their end, the elimination of man's innate impulse to violence, only by recourse to violence, the very thing they are called upon to prevent.
...the crimes of violence committed for selfish, personal motives are historically insignificant compared to those committed ad majorem gloriam Dei, out of a self-sacrificing devotion to the flag, a leader, a religious faith or political conviction.
I personally call the type of government which can be removed without violence 'democracy,' and the other, 'tyranny.'.
Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence.
Art should be appreciated with passion and violence, not with a tepid, deprecating elegance that fears the censoriousness of a common room.
Violence arises not out of superfluity of power but out of powerlessness.
It is a form of racism to say that those who criticize the violence and theft of the Sharon regime are antiSemitic.
