Violence Quotes · Page 53

Any act of injury done from self-interest, whether amounting to killing or not, is doubtless himsa.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Philosophical thinking that doesn't do violence to one's settled mind is no philosophical thinking at all.

— Rebecca Goldstein

Indeed the very word, nonviolence, a negative word, means that it is an effort to abandon the violence that is inevitable in…

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Every gesture was one of disorder and violence, as if a lioness had come into the room.”

— Anaïs Nin

Violence [in Palestina] is part of the resistance to occupation. The basic fact is not the violence; the basic fact is the…

— Uri Avnery

So I think we're kind of an alternate choice for people who have had it with sex and violence.

— Dick Van Dyke

The more weapons of violence, the more misery to mankind. The triumph of violence ends in a festival of mourning.

— Laozi

“The ability to offer empathy to people in stressful situations can defuse potential violence.”

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

When you've been raised in a home of love, and for your loved one to be taken away from you through violence,…

— Martin Luther King III

It's very important to distinguish between innocence and naivete. The innocent do not deserve to be the victims of violence. But only…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Violence is a part of America. I don't want to single out rap music. Let's be honest. America's the most violent country…

— Spike Lee

“Violence is the only way to achieve freedom, it seems. I wouldn't have thought so before all of this. My escape plan…

— Lauren DeStefano

[A.J. Muste] never engaged in violence but he believed, as [Mahatma] Gandhi did - and he knew Gandhi slightly - he believed…

— Nat Hentoff

I do think that my work has gotten calmer, and that the violence of some of the earlier series was necessary to…

— Rineke Dijkstra

We will make converts day by day; we will grow strong by the violence and injustice of our adversaries. And, unless truth…

— Abraham Lincoln

Laws against things like drugs are inhumane, and create an inhumane society and inhumane law enforcement. I know what's causing violence in…

— Michael Moriarty

I began to think of war, even so-called "good wars" like World War II, as corrupting everybody. Violence begetting violence. The good…

— Howard Zinn

We are born into a world where alienation awaits us. We are potentially men, but are in an alienated state, and this…

— R. D. Laing

The challenges that young people are mobilizing against oppressive societies all over the globe are being met with a state-sponsored violence that…

— Henry Giroux

In the 1990s, Michael Jordan was the preeminent athlete in the country. And when the product with his name on it seemed…

— Melissa Harris-Perry

“Things began to go wrong when I was seventeen. My band’s twenty-year-old lead guitarist earned seven years in jail for a drug-fuelled…

— Mark Rice

A lot of people in the movie industry tend to run and hide from it like ostriches. Movie industry people are definitely…

— Madeleine Stowe

I don't think the government (of El Salvador) was responsible. The nuns were not just nuns; the nuns were political activists. We…

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

I cannot make myself believe that God wanted me to hate. I'm tired of violence, I've seen too much of it. I've…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Courtesy towards opponents and eagerness to understand their view-point is the ABC of non-violence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Violence - look, we live in a violent world, man. This country was founded on violence. Who's kidding who?

— Bruce Willis

If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?

— Joan Baez

The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for…

— Edward Coke

The violence and burnings in Lebanon were the work of Syrian soldiers and workers dressed in civilian clothes.

— Walid Jumblatt

Deporting asylum seekers back to violence does not reflect the values of our country.

— Diane Guerrero

In the world today, only a philosophy of eternity could justify non-violence.

— Albert Camus

Domestic violence is an epidemic, and yet we don't address it. Until it happens to celebrities.

— Nelsan Ellis

We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.

— Toni Morrison

Tyranny is abhorrent, freedom benefits all, whereas violence benefits no one for long.

— Mark Kingwell

. . . first in myth, later in reality, passion and violence watered my root soil.

— Roy Wilkins

“Nihilism is…not only the belief that everything deserves to perish; but one actually puts one shoulder to the plough; one destroys.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I express preference for a chronological sequence of events which precludes a violence.

— Terry Pratchett

The Israeli people deserve better than a life in between rounds of violence.

— Tzipi Livni

One of my favorite scenes of the movie [Valley of Violence] is when Ethan Hawke is sitting at the campfire with the…

— Ti West