Violence Quotes

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The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence. — Ayn Rand
One who uses coercion is guilty of deliberate violence. Coercion is inhuman. — Mahatma Gandhi
The number of laws is constantly growing in all countries and, owing to this, what is called crime is very often not a crime at… — P D Ouspensky
These days, our senses are bombarded with aggression. We are constantly confronted with global images of unending, escalating war and violence. — Margaret J. Wheatley
A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the football field, or in the conduct of its… — Lewis H. Lapham
In a world wounded by conflicts, where violence is justified in God's name, it's important to repeat that religion can never become a vehicle of… — Pope Benedict XVI
We have gone a long way toward civilization and religious tolerance, and we have a good example in this country. Here the many Protestant denominations,… — Harry S. Truman
Courtesy towards opponents and eagerness to understand their view-point is the ABC of non-violence. — Mahatma Gandhi
More and more individuals worldwide are realizing that war does not solve conflict, nor resolve long-standing cycles of violence. As more of those who have… — Scilla Elworthy
What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred; what we need in the… — Robert Kennedy
War is not inherent in human beings. We learn war and we learn peace. The culture of peace is something which is learned, just as… — Elise M. Boulding
Weapons are the tools of violence;all decent men detest them.Weapons are the tools of fear;a decent man will avoid themexcept in the direst necessityand, if… — Laozi
The greatest destroyer of love and peace is abortion, which is war against the child. The mother doesn't learn to love, but kills to solve… — Mother Teresa
Many people are concerned with children of India, with the children of Africa where quite a few die of hunger, and so on. Many people… — Mother Teresa
In some ways, the challenges are even more daunting than they were at the peak of the cold war. Not only do we continue to… — Kofi Annan
The state machine, including the army, the police and the courts, is the instrument with which one class oppresses another. It is an instrument of… — Mao Zedong
No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause . . . . With equal, nay with greater reason, bodies of men,… — James Madison
A single good government becomes... a blessing to the whole earth, its welcome to the oppressed restraining within certain limits the measure of their oppressions.… — Thomas Jefferson
Every year, an average of 9,200 Americans are murdered by handguns, according to Department of Justice statistics. This does not include suicides or the tens… — Ronald Reagan
In our struggle against racial segregation in Montgomery, Alabama, I came to see at a very early stage that a synthesis of Gandhi's method of… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The survival of democracy depends on the renunciation of violence and the development of nonviolent means to combat evil and advance the good. — A J Muste
People who object to weapons aren't abolishing violence, they're begging for rule by brute force, when the biggest, strongest animals among men were always automatically… — L. Neil Smith
It's the kind of turn that happened to the great country of Germany, when Nazis came over and created tragic things, and they had to… — Tony Bennett
I don't think I would use a gun, but who knows what a person would do in certain circumstances? My instincts are that I don't… — David Icke
There are certain things in gun control that have a certain public appeal, but when you're legislating you need to look at the research on… — Kim Campbell

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