Violence Quote by Thomas Merton Download Open image “Violence is not completely fatal until it ceases to disturb us.” — Thomas Merton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Violence Wisdom
Violence can only be effectively met by nonviolence. This is an old established truth. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Violence is not inevitable. I mean, the only inevitable form of violence is the kind that we understand, the only legitimate (if there can… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Violence is a crime against humanity, for it destroys the very fabric of society. — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Violence is anything that denies human integrity, and leads to hopelessness and helplessness. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The world is ruled by violence, or at least the imminent threat of violence. It always has been. — John Malkovich Copy Share Image
Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies from indifference toward the unique values which created it. — Nicolas Gomez Davila Copy Share Image
“Let no one hope to find in contemplation an escape from conflict, from anguish or from doubt. On the contrary, the deep, inexpressible certitude… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
If nothing that can be seen can either be God or represent Him to us as He is, then to find God we must… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
It is almost impossible to overestimate the value of true humility and its power in the spiritual life. For the beginning of humility is… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
We are not perfectly free until we live in pure hope. For when our hope is pure, it no longer trusts exclusively in human… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The desire to kill is like the desire to attack another with an ingot of red -hot iron: I have to pick up the… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
To enter into the realm of contemplation one must in a certain sense die: but this death is in fact the entrance to a… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The mission of Christian humility in social life is not merely to edify, but to keep minds open to many alternatives. The rigidity of… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Peace cannot be built on exclusivism, absolutism, and intolerance. But neither can it be built on vague liberal slogans and pious programs gestated in… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Things that are good are good, and if one is responding to that goodness one is in contact with a truth from which one… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy: the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and applause of… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“The wisdom of the flesh is a judgement that the ordinary ends of our natural appetites are the goods to which the whole of… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Every one knows that the exercise of military power is forever dangerous to civil rights; and we have had recent instances of violences that… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies from indifference toward the unique values which created it. — Nicolas Gomez Davila Copy Share Image
Dictatorship is rule based directly upon force and unrestricted by any laws. The revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat is rule won and maintained by… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
Guns have little or nothing to do with juvenile violence. The causes of youth violence are working parents who put their kids into daycare,… — Tom DeLay Copy Share Image
Success will come when the societal attitude changes and not a single woman in America asks herself the question 'What did I do?'. — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
Although under particular circumstances, the violence method - any method - can be justified, nevertheless once you commit violence, then counterviolence will be returned. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I think that as a writer your responsibility is to search for and stir up the things that are in this world. There is… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
... the unnatural ways we substitute for the natural prove not enough and soon there must be more and more unnaturalness, more and more violence. — Lucy Freeman Copy Share Image
'Pompeii' will be PG-13. I think it has to have a level of violence and death in it because you've got a volcano exploding.… — Paul W. S. Anderson Copy Share Image
We're all painfully aware of how suddenly violence can occur, how crippling it is, and how survivors have to find a way back from… — Paul Dini Copy Share Image
