Violence Quotes

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

People sleep peacably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

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

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

There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors.

Frank Herbert

The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.

Bill Cosby