Violence Quotes

It's not the violence of the few that scares me, it's the silence of the many

Force when aggressively applied is "violence" and is, therefore, morally unjustifiable, but when it is used in the furtherance of a legitimate cause, it has its moral justification. The elimination of force at all costs in Utopian.

It was clear to me that if we allowed the Freedom Ride to stop at that point, just after so much violence had been inflicted, the message would have been sent that all you have to do to stop a nonviolent campaign is inflict massive violence.

In times of great necessity, violence is indispensable.

Our position was: If you don't attack us, there won't be any violence; if you bring violence to us, we will defend ourselves.

Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.

The Koran is a fascist book which incites violence. That is why this book, just like [Adolf Hitler's] Mein Kampf, must be banned.

The power which establishes a state is violence; the power which maintains it is violence; the power which eventually overthrows it is violence.

There is nothing wrong with violence in itself. In any particular case, whether violence is good or bad depends on how it is used and the purpose for which it is used.

It's the suppression of the word that gives it the power, the violence, the viciousness.

Marijuana is the most violence causing drug in the history of mankindMost marijuana smokers are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos and entertainers.

The decisive means for politics is violence.

Nations are not ruined by one act of violence, but gradually and in an almost imperceptible manner by the depreciation of their circulating currency, through its excessive quantity.

No religion is responsible for terrorism. People are responsible for violence and terrorism.

The function of law and theology are the same: to keep the poor from taking back by violence what the rich have stolen by cunning.

Life is beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression, and violence, and enjoy it to the full.

Ahimsa is the highest duty. Even if we cannot practice it in full, we must try to understand its spirit and refrain as far as is humanly possible from violence.

There is no greater violence than to deny the dreams of our children.

Whatever has been achieved through pressure and violence is unstable, unreliable and incorrect.

There is a violence that liberates, and a violence that enslaves; there is a violence that is moral and a violence that is immoral.

Peace is not just the absence of violence,peace is when the flowers bloom.

The copycat effects of media violence, similar to those previously attributed to westerns, radio serials and comic books, are easy to exaggerate.

One must do no violence to nature, nor model it in conformity to any blindly formed chimera.

When a trans woman gets called a man, that is an act of violence.

The aggressive, unprovoked acts of violence against Israel by Hezbollah and Hamas are revealing. It is clear they don't want peace, but rather seek the ultimate destruction of Israel.

I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie.

By what standard of morality can the violence used by a slave to break his chains be considered the same as the violence of a slave master?

If men will not do us justice, they shall do us violence.

Cruelty to animals can become violence to humans.

Turning a human being into a thing is almost always the first step towards justifying violence against that person.

I think that all the silence is worse than all the violence, Fear is such a weak emotion that's why I despise it, We scared of almost everything, afraid to even tell the truth, So scared of what you think of me, I'm scared of even telling you...

The 20th century gave rise to one of the greatest and most distressing paradoxes of human history: that the greatest intolerance and violence of that century were practiced by those who believed that religion caused intolerance and violence.

God called Abraham and commanded him to go out from the country where he was living. With this call God has roused us all, and now we have left the state. We have renounced all the things the world offers.... The gods of the nations are demons.

What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?

I think that all the silence is worse than all the violence

One must do violence to the object of one's desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.

Nothing good ever comes of violence.

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

Comparison is an act of violence against the self.

The schizoid man is the natural product of the technological man. It is one way to live and is increasingly utilized and it may explode into violence.

It takes four generations to recover from every act of violence.

If violence wasn't your last resort, you failed to resort to enough of it.

Liberty is to be free from restraint and violence from others

The true cause of hatred and violence is faith versus faith, an outward expression of the ancient instinct of tribalism.

Violence is a disease, a disease that corrupts all who use it regardless of the cause.

Violence in any form is evil and to kill innocent animals in tantamount to blatant savagery.

We cannot eradicate violence if we do not build strong, inclusive communities.

Art, in fact, can be nothing but violence, cruelty and injustice.

While many hackers have the knowledge, skills, and tools to attack computer systems, they generally lack the motivation to cause violence or severe economic or social harm.

I found a religion that blended scientific reason with spiritual reality in a unifying faith far removed from the headlines of violence, destruction and terrorism.