Approved Quote by Henri Frederic Amiel

Righteous ends, thus approved, absolve of guilt the most violent means.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

There is no such thing as "righteous" anger or justifiable killing.

— Swami Vivekananda

A sense of righteousness is even more dangerous than a violent temper.

— Mason Cooley

Violence among all people is based on dissatisfaction, frustration and crushed ambition and people who don't know who to strike at and who to…

— John Henrik Clarke

All violence is the result of people tricking themselves into believing that their pain derives from other people and that consequently those people deserve…

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends.…

— Albert Bandura

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

— Leo Tolstoy

This much is clear: violence breeds violence, repression brings retaliation, and only a cleansing of our whole society can remove this sickness from our…

— Robert Kennedy

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

— Henri Nouwen

Righteousness has to do with the vertical standard that God gives us to please Him. Justice has to do with the horizontal expression of…

— Tony Evans

“Being righteous is not all that complicated; it means doing what is right. We have to have a passion to do what is right.”

— R.C. Sproul

Blessings are upon the head of the just: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.

— Bible