Quotes of Violence - somelinesforyou

“ Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest of violence. ”

- Francis Jeffrey

“ Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. ”

- Isaac Asimov

“ The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence. ”

- Joan Baez

“ Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. ”

- John F. Kennedy

“ It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people. ”

- Muhammad Ali

“ 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. ”

- Plutarch

“ The right things to do are those that keep our violence in abeyance; the wrong things are those that bring it to the fore. ”

- Robert J. Sawyer

“ It is by no means self-evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited; violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate men from each other, but rather tend to reduce them to the same state. ”

- Thomas Elliot

“ Democracy don't rule the world, you better get that in your head. Tthis world is ruled by violence, but I guess that's better left unsaid. ”

- Bob Dylan

“ The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime. ”

- Max Stirner

“ Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence. Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle. ”

- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“ All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ In violence, we forget who we are. ”

- Mary McCarthy

“ Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began. ”

- Lucretius

“ Violence is my last option. ”

- Chuck Norris

“ All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do. ”

- Leo Tolstoy

“ Non violence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. ”

- Unknown

“ The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence. ”

- Joan Baez

“ 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. ”

- Edward Bond

“ Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance. ”

- Hannah Arendt

“ The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. … Only reverence can restrain violence - reverence for human life and the environment . ”

- Rev. William Sloan Coffin Jr.

“ Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him. ”

- Martin Luther King Jr.

“ A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others. ”

- Ayn Rand

“ I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me. ”

- Hunter S. Thompson

“ Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings. ”

- George F. Will

“ It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi
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