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Violent Quotes by Thomas Merton
- We who claim to love peace and justice must always be careful that we do not use our righteousness to provoke the violent, and in…
- The art of our time, sacred art included, will necessarily be characterized by a certain poverty, grimness and roughness which correspond to the violent realities…
- When society is made up of men who know no interior solitude it can no longer be held together by love: and consequently it is…
- I am against war, against violence, against violent revolution, for peaceful settlement of differences, for nonviolent but nevertheless radical changes. Change is needed, and violence…
More Violent Quotes
- Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have… — Karen Armstrong
- I'm really schizophrenic about that, because on the one hand I would say, yes there is, there's something inherently, even violent about… — Lester Bangs
- Drug prohibition has caused gang warfare and other violent crimes by raising the prices of drugs so much that vicious criminals enter… — Michael Badnarik
- True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white… — Honore de Balzac
- Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of… — Albert Bandura
- I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction. — Georges Bataille
- The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their… — Joseph Addison
- God of peace, bring your peace to our violent world: peace in the hearts of all men and women and peace among… — Pope Benedict XVI
- To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest. The greater the… — Alfred Adler
- No durable things are built on violent passion. Nature grows her plants in silence and in darkness, and only when they have… — Annie Besant
- The purpose of terrorism lies not just in the violent act itself. It is in producing terror. It sets out to inflame,… — Tony Blair
- Multinational corporations do control. They control the politicians. They control the media. They control the pattern of consumption, entertainment, thinking. They're destroying… — Jerry Brown