Violence Quotes

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I am a steadfast follower of the doctrine of non-violence which was first preached by Lord Buddha, whose divine wisdom is absolute... — Dalai Lama
All forms of violence, especially war, are totally unacceptable as means to settle disputes between and among nations, groups and persons. — Dalai Lama
Violence is an admission that one's ideas and goals cannot prevail on their own merits. — Edward Kennedy
The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is a more violent world. — Hannah Arendt
This much is clear: violence breeds violence, repression brings retaliation, and only a cleansing of our whole society can remove this sickness from our soul. — Robert Kennedy
The maltreatment of the natural world and its impoverishment leads to the impoverishment of the human soul. It is related to the outburst of violence… — Raisa Gorbacheva
In reality, we can prove that the incidents of drug, alcohol abuse and violence have dropped dramatically among professional athletes - but the problem is… — Leigh Steinberg
Domestic violence causes far more pain than the visible marks of bruises and scars. It is devastating to be abused by someone that you love… — Dianne Feinstein
Of course I am frustrated with regard to extreme poverty, to violence that never seems to cease. Greed is the key. It's easy to sit… — Roger Moore
If poverty is a disease that infects the entire community in the form of unemployment and violence, failing schools and broken homes, then we can't… — Barack Obama
We think of violence as being conflict and fighting and wars and so forth, but the most ongoing horrific measure of violence is in the… — Martin Sheen
Art should be appreciated with passion and violence, not with a tepid, depreciating elegance that fears the censoriousness of a common room. — W. Somerset Maugham
A democracy is a state which recognizes the subjection of the minority to the majority, that is, an organization for the systematic use of violence… — Vladimir Lenin
In non-violence the cause has to be just and clear as well as the means. — Cesar Chavez
...people think non-violence is really weak and non-militant. These are misconceptions that people have because they don't understand what non-violence means. Non-violence takes more guts,… — Cesar Chavez
Farm workers everywhere are angry and worried that we cannot win without violence. We have proved it before through persistence, hard work, faith and willingness… — Cesar Chavez
Non violence means people in action. People have to understand that with non-violence goes a hell of a lot of organization. — Cesar Chavez
Non-violence has suffered its biggest defeat in the hands of people who most want to talk about it. — Cesar Chavez
Non-violence is very weak in the theoretical sense; it cannot defend itself. But it is most powerful in the action situation where people are using… — Cesar Chavez
When workers fall back on violence, they are lost. Oh, they might win some of their demands and might end a strike a little earlier,… — Cesar Chavez
We can choose to use our lives for others to bring about a better and more just world for our children. People who make that… — Cesar Chavez
This is the beginning of a social movement in fact and not in pronouncements. We seek our basic, God - given rights as human beings...We… — Cesar Chavez
Any violence which does not spring from a spiritual base, will be wavering and uncertain. It lacks the stability which can only rest in a… — Adolf Hitler
It has always been my belief that I, too, will die by violence. I have done all that I can to be prepared. — Malcolm X
The most Heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together. — Samuel Johnson

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