Best Violence Wisdom
2854 Violence quotes by 1660 unique authors
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Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest of violence.
— Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey
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When a rap song glorifies violence, death and sadness and loss is inflicted because of the violence.
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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With Russia about to hold the Winter Games in Sochi, the country is open to pressure. American and world leaders must speak out against Mr.…
— Harvey Fierstein
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Non-violence ... is the only thing that the atom bomb cannot destroy.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it…
— Martin Luther
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The world in which we live would benefit greatly if men and women everywhere would exercise the pure love of Christ, which is kind, meek,…
— Howard W. Hunter
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This is what it means to be a slave; to be abused and bear it; compelled by violence to suffer wrong.
— Euripides
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The improvement of life was only accomplished to the extent to which it was based on a change of consciousness, that is, to the extent…
— Leo Tolstoy
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God, to prevent all escape, hath sown the seeds of death in our very constitution and nature, so that we can as soon run from…
— William Gurnall
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One [idea] was that the Universe started its life a finite time ago in a single huge explosion, and that the present expansion is a…
— Fred Hoyle
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The antitheist is quick to excoriate all religious belief by generically laying the blame at the door of all who claim to be religious, without…
— Ravi Zacharias
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Birth is violent, whether it be the birth of a child or the birth of an idea.
— Marianne Williamson
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Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.
— Norman O. Brown
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I maintain that nothing useful and lasting can emerge from violence.
— Shirin Ebadi
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Love is stronger than violence.
— Hermann Hesse
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Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence.
— Joan Baez
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Under all conditions, well-organized violence seems to him the shortest distance between two points.
— Leon Trotsky
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Violence against women is learned. Each of us must examine - and change - the way in which our own behavior might contribute to, enable,…
— Patrick Stewart
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As men, we all have something to give. We all have the power to do our own part to stop the global pandemic of violence…
— Richard Branson
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The richer you are, the more worries you have - problems of security, future. Whatsoever you have, you have to hold it. You have to…
— Rajneesh
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The terrorism is not in the bombs, in your hands; the terrorism is in your unconscious.
— Rajneesh
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Ambition is violence, the very effort to succeed in the world is violent.
— Rajneesh
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You will have to go deep into man. From where comes this violence? From where comes this exploitation? From where come all these ego-trips? From…
— Rajneesh
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My disciples are vegetarian not as a cult, not as a creed. They are vegetarians because their meditations make them more human, more of the…
— Rajneesh
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A totally different attitude is needed: the attitude of love. Christ brings love to the world. He destroys law, the very basis of it. That…
— Rajneesh
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