Memorable Quotes About Violence

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"I don't believe in violence. I believe in people, and I believe in responsibility."
Sinead O'Connor
"Violence is a part of America. It is part of who we are."
Robert Redford
"We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty."
Edward R. Murrow
"The ultimate goal of all revolutionary social change is not to put a few rascals in jail, but to create a very different kind of society."
Angela Davis
"Fear of death makes us human. But fear of truly living can lead us to violence."
Bertolt Brecht
"A man is a man no matter where he is from, and violence knows no borders."
Henry Rollins
"There is no way to peace, peace is the way."
A.J. Muste
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"The first duty of a revolutionary is to be educated."
Angela Davis
"There can be no peace without justice, and no justice without peace."
Willy Brandt
"All violence is not the same; it stems from different motivations. It is important to understand those motivations."
Noam Chomsky
"To be a great champion, you must believe you are the best. If you’re not, pretend you are."
Muhammad Ali
"An advanced civilization is not one where the poor have cars. It’s where the rich use public transportation."
G. K. Chesterton
"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."
Maya Angelou
"Revolution is not an event, it is a process."
Audre Lorde
"You can kill a man, but you can never kill an idea."
Benazir Bhutto
"Violence is the fear of the idea of losing."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows."
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
"To live in a peaceful world, we need to first create it within ourselves."
Gautama Buddha
"There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people."
Howard Zinn
"The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to eliminate."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"We will not reach equality, but it will be through violence that we achieve it."
Kwame Nkrumah
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"Violence can be a liberating force."
George Jackson
"Violence is the weapon of the weak; nonviolence is the weapon of the strong."
Mahatma Gandhi
"To be violent is to be a coward."
Kenneth M. E. Williams
"The greatest purveyor of violence in the world today is my own government."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"Violence is a way of life. If you live with violence, you will die by violence."
Michael Steele
"Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind."
William H. McRaven
"The use of violence is both ugly and unnecessary."
Richard Branson
"Hatred is a recurring theme in the history of the world, and violence is its tool."
Amitav Ghosh
"No one is born hating another person. People learn to hate."
Nelson Mandela
"Violence is the instrument of the impotent."
Mahatma Gandhi
"The man who uses force is afraid of reasoning."
Ken Follett
"Violence is never a solution."
Lao Tzu
"Justice delayed is justice denied, and this, too, can lead to violence."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion."
Dale Carnegie
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"If we do not end war, war will end us."
H.G. Wells
"Violence is the cry of the unheard."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?"
Joan D. Chittister
"There is no greater violence than a truckload of manual labor."
John Steinbeck
"Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding."
Albert Einstein
"Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it."
Mahatma Gandhi
"At the root of all violence is the belief that you are not responsible for your actions."
Lao Tzu
"The only way to deal with violence is to prevent it."
Diana Ross
"Violence is a cycle, and it is unending."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"To cultivate compassion and kindness, we must entirely abandon violence."
Dalai Lama
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"To use violence is to bring yourself down to the level of those you oppose."
Henry David Thoreau
"The moment we choose to love, we create a new heaven in the earth."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"In the end, the best way to deal with violence is to truly understand it."
M. Scott Peck
"The greatest weapon against an enemy is another enemy."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"Violence is not a solution; it is an escalation."
Hannah Arendt
"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."
Mahatma Gandhi
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"Real peace is not merely the absence of war. It is the presence of justice."
Jane Addams
"It is not enough to be busy; so are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?"
Henry David Thoreau
"Every act of violent extremism is an act of collective failure."
Ban Ki-moon
"The opposite of love is not hate; it's indifference."
Elie Wiesel
"An unjust law is no law at all."
St. Augustine
"In violence, we forget who we are."
Mary McCarthy
"Violence breeds violence."
Joaquin Phoenix
"We can no longer think of violence as an acceptable tool of change."
Sister Helen Prejean
"Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"The greatest way to hurt a man is to kill his dreams, but true violence is when we forget the humanity of each other."
Khaled Hosseini
"When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty."
Thomas Jefferson
"Violence is a disease. It infects everyone who comes into contact with it."
David J. Lieberman
"It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of today."
Henry David Thoreau
"I do not like violence, and I am very much afraid of it."
Jules Dassin
"Violence is the short-term solution to a longer-term problem."
Michael Moore
"Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek but a means by which we arrive at that goal."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"The wounds of war can only be healed by the healing of the wounds of the heart."
Desmond Tutu
"Violence can be as destructive as a physical wound."
Antonia Fraser
"The use of violence is a product of desperation."
Mahatma Gandhi
"There is no act of love that is not an act of peace."
Thich Nhat Hanh
"To be human is to be at least partly nonviolent."
Howard Zinn
"It is the law of the majority to govern the actions of the people; it should apply to the rights of decisionmakers in opposing violence."
Gordon J. F. Mackay
"Violence is the expression of a sense of helplessness. And usually despair as well."
César Chávez
"In a greedy man, violence is the product of fragility."
Joan Didion
"We must not let our fears prevent us from learning, understanding, and attempting to create a peaceful world."
Malala Yousafzai
"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."
Isaac Asimov
"An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind."
Mahatma Gandhi
"There is no such thing as a non-violent crime."
Kurt Vonnegut
"Violence is never the answer, but sometimes it seems to be the only answer."
Angela Carter
"It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace."
Aristotle
"Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace."
Jimi Hendrix
"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"Violence breeds violence, and there is no end to it."
Dalai Lama
"In violence, we are all complete strangers."
Henri Michaux
"The only thing we learn from history is that we do not learn from history."
Georg Hegel
"The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another."
William James
"Non-violence is a weapon of the strong."
Mahatma Gandhi
"The first duty of society is justice."
Alexander Hamilton
"Violence of the tongue is more dangerous than violence of the fist."
Japanese Proverb
"To do nothing is to be complicit."
Anonymous
"Violence should never be used as a means of addressing social issues."
Desmond Tutu
"They can cut all the flowers, but they cannot keep spring from coming."
Pablo Neruda
"A riot is the language of the unheard."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity."
George Carlin
"What we need now is a little more love and a little less violence."
John Lennon
"The more we sweat in peace, the less we bleed in war."
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
"The great problem of modernity is how to be good without God."
Albert Camus
"There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up."
John Holmes
"Violence is a disease; it infects everyone."
Anonymous
"If we can deal with our anger and our violence, we can deal with everything else."
Wendy Davis
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