Violence Quotes
Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.Mahatma Gandhi
The right things to do are those that keep our violence in abeyance the wrong things are those that bring it to the fore.Robert J. Sawye
Non - Violence is the policy of the vegetable kingdom.H. G. Wells
Perseverance is more prevailing than violence and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.Plutarch
Violence is unnecessary and costly. Peace is the only way.Julius K. Nyerere
Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.Martin Luther King, Jr.
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - - How passionately I hate them!Albert Einstein
Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishfull thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms.Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers chapter 4
The question is no longer between violence and non - Violence it is between non - Violence and non - Existence.Martin Luther King, Jr.
I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary the evil it does is permanent.Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Non - Violence does not signify that man must not fight against the enemy, and by enemy is meant the evil which men do, not the human beings themselves.Mohandas Ghandi
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.Isaac Asimov, Salvor Hardin in "Foundation".
There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors.Frank Herbert
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.George Orwell, (attributed)
This calls for a very special plan of psychology and extreme violence.The Young Ones
Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence.Hebrew Prove
Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.Bill Cosby
All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptable. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted.Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse Dune, Missionaria Protectiva
It often happens that the real tragedies in life occur in such an inarticulate manner that they hurt one by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.Oscar wilde, Quoted in Ellmann
We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.George Orwell
If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying. Handwritten statement found in her residence.Indira Nehru Gandhi
Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.Plutarch, Lives
Violence is the way stupid people try to level the playing field.John Gregory Dunne, Nothing Lost
Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society violence punctuated by committee meetings.George Will
I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life.Mohandas Ghandi
Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes.Murray Edelman, _Politics as Symbolic Action_, p. 1
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - How passionately I hate them.Albert Einstein
The right things to do are those that keep our violence in abeyance; the wrong things are those that bring it to the fore.Robert J. Sawyer, "Calculating God", 2000
Violence is the diplomacy of the incompetent.Isaac Asimov, Prelude to Foundation, said by Hari Seldon
Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.Martin Luther King Jr., December 11, 1964
Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.Ellen Glasgow
It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.Mahatma Gandhi
Wherever a set of alternative possible routes toward achieving a given end presents itself, a student movement will tend to choose the one which involves a higher measure of violence or humiliation directed against the older generation.Lewis S Feue
The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law - Abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise they will win and the decent people will lose.James Earl Jones
Affection cannot be manufactored or regulated by law. If one has no affection for a person or a system, one should be free to give the fullest expression to his disaffection, so long as he does not contemplate, promote, or incite to violence.Mahatma Gandhi, 1922 Circuit House speech (court) charged with "attempting to disaffect towrds his majestys government".
Education in the key to preventing the cycle of violence and hatred that marred the 20th century from repeating itself in the 21st century.Elie Wiesel, Chicago Sun - Times, November 5, 2001
