Violent Quotes

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The ideally non-violent state will be an ordered anarchy. — Mahatma Gandhi
Non-violent resistance implies the very opposite of weakness. Defiance combined with non-retaliatory acceptance of repression from one's opponents is active, not passive. It requires strength,… — Mahatma Gandhi
Evil does exist in the world. A non-violent movement could not have halted Hitler's armies. Negotiations cannot convince al Qaeda's leaders to lay down their… — Barack Obama
Nothing violent, oft have I heard tell, can be permanent. — Christopher Marlowe
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 in the history… — Spike Lee
Violent fires soon burn out themselves, small showers last long, but sudden storms are short; he tires betimes that spurs too fast. — William Shakespeare
The greatest threat to U.S. and global security is no longer a nuclear exchange between nations, but nuclear terrorism by violent extremists and nuclear proliferation… — Barack Obama
There is an illusion of central position, justifying one's own purposes as right and everybody else¹s as wrong, and providing a proper degree of paranoia.… — Henri Frederic Amiel
A non-violent revolution is not a program of seizure of power. It is a program of transformation of relationships, ending in a peaceful transfer of… — Mahatma Gandhi
The greatest miracle Christianity has achieved in America is that the Black man in white Christian hands has not grown violent. It is a miracle… — Malcolm X
We have a double standard, which is to say, a man can show how much he cares by being violent-see, he's jealous, he cares-a woman… — Andrea Dworkin
Golf is a non-violent game played violently from within. — Bob Toski
The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is a more violent world. — Hannah Arendt
Anecdote: It is by no means self-evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited; violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Pot is a better drug than alcohol. I'll prove it to you. You're at a ball game or a concert, and someone's really violent and… — Bill Hicks
When our hatred is violent, it sinks us even beneath those we hate. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The hatred of those who are near to us is most violent. — Tacitus
The non-violent technique does not depend for its success on the goodwill of the oppressor, but rather on the unfailing assistance of God. — Cesar Chavez
There's no reason to be non-violent. There's no challenge unless you are living for people. — 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
When we are really honest with ourselves we must admit that our lives are all that really belong to us, so it is how we… — Cesar Chavez
Who can deny that all men are violent lovers of the truth, when we see them so positive in their errors, which they will maintain… — Jonathan Swift
Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes. — Daniel Defoe
And in the racial climate of this country today, it is anybody's guess which of the 'extremes' in approach to the black man's problems might… — Malcolm X
All destruction, by violent revolution or however it be, is but new creation on a wider scale. — Thomas Carlyle

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