Challenges Quote by Linda Vester

Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The violence in the Bible is appalling.

— Christopher Hitchens

Because we hold it for 'a fundamental and undeniable truth', that religion or 'the duty which we owe to our Creator' and the manner…

— James Madison

...Jesus did not advocate non-violence merely as a technique for outwitting the enemy, but as a just means of opposing the enemy in such…

— Walter Wink

We Christians forget (if we ever learned) that attempts to redress real or imagined injustice by violent means are merely another exercise in denial…

— Philip Berrigan

If you, however, separate reason and faith so that it's purely a rationalistic scheme, it will end in violence. If a pure faith scheme…

— Francis George

Violence is not merely killing another. It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

People kill and are killed because they cling too tightly to their own beliefs and ideologies. When we believe that ours is the only…

— Nhat Hanh

All violence flows from the same source ... the need for power. Power is the only true morality ... the only deathless god, and…

— Dan Simmons

There is nothing intrinsic linking any religion with any act of violence. The crusades don't prove that Christianity was violent. The Inquisition doesn't prove…

— Salman Rushdie

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…

— Pope Benedict XVI

“The reality is this: Violence changes a person in permanent, profound, existential ways. Once you experience the horrible things one human being can do…

— Ph.D Michelle Stevens