Best Violence Proverbs
2854 Violence quotes by 1660 unique authors
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As you become more conscious of your cruelty, of your violence, gross and subtle, you start becoming more and more compassionate. Not that you cultivate…
— Rajneesh
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Unless we cut the world population there is no way to avoid violence. People are hungry, people are starving, dying. When somebody is hungry he…
— Rajneesh
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Just for a few tiny buds on your tongue you are killing live animals, with no sensitivity, with no awareness, with no love. It seems…
— Rajneesh
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I want to make meditation an absolute for all students, whatever the subject they may be studying, so their awareness becomes more and more clean…
— Rajneesh
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Buddhas have a strength which is not of this world. Their strength is totally of love... Like a rose flower or a dewdrop. Their strength…
— Rajneesh
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Everything that is of authentic value in life has arisen out of meditation. There is no other way. Meditation is the mother of art, music,…
— Rajneesh
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Out of your awareness you cannot become soldiers in a war because you will be able to see, with clear eyes, that you are going…
— Rajneesh
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Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.
— Lucretius
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Try to remain truthful. The power of truth never declines. Force and violence may be effective in the short term, but in the long run…
— Dalai Lama
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Refraining from harm, not out of fear, but out of concern for others, their well-being and out of respect is non-violence.
— Dalai Lama
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From the moment of birth, when the Stone-Age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby is subjected to these forces of violence called love, as…
— R. D. Laing
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Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence.
— John Foster Dulles
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Even bigger machines, entailing even bigger concentrations of economic power and exerting ever greater violence against the environment, do not represent progress: they are a…
— E F Schumacher
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Beware of those who would use violence, too often it is violence they want and neither truth nor freedom.
— Louis L'Amour
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We are not going to deal with the violence in our communities, our homes, and our nation, until we learn to deal with the basic…
— Marian Wright Edelman
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Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute. The spirit lies dormant in the brute, and he knows…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her.
— Oscar Wilde
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The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. Only reverance can restrain violence - reverance for human life and the environment.
— William Sloane Coffin
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We should manage our fortune as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent…
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state, with its haughtiness, its violence, its punishment, its wars
— Leo Tolstoy
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Violence is not merely killing another. It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person,…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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If violence is wrong in America, violence is wrong abroad. If it is wrong to be violent defending black women and black children and black…
— Malcolm X
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A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort ... is not strictly speaking a society, but a mob held together by…
— Ayn Rand
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The government's only proper job is to protect individual rights against violence by force or fraud ... to protect men from foreign invaders ... to…
— Ayn Rand
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A teacher of fear can't bring peace on earth. We have been trying to do it that way for thousands of years. The person who…
— Byron Katie
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