Violence Quotes
Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings.George Will
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
Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non - Westerners never do.Samuel P. Huntington
Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society violence punctuated by committee meetings.George Will
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
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, 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.
Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.Ellen Glasgow
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
The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.Bill Cosby
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
Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest of violence.Francis Jeffrey
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
It is essential to know that to be a happy person, a happy family, a happy society, it is very crucial to have a good heart, that is very crucial. World peach must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just the absence of violence but the manifestation of human compassion.Dalai Lama, (in exile) Associated Press, 5/14/01
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
Non - Violence is the policy of the vegetable kingdom.H. G. Wells
Violence is the way stupid people try to level the playing field.John Gregory Dunne, Nothing Lost
Non - Violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind.Mahtma 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
People sleep peacably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.George Orwell
Violence or the threat of violence must never be permitted to influence the actions or judgments of the university community. Once it does, the community, almost by definition, ceases to be a university. It is for this reason that from time immemorial expulsion has been the primary instrument of university discipline.Richard Milhous Nixon
Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.R. D. Laing
Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.Mahatma Gandhi
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
Violence is the diplomacy of the incompetent.Isaac Asimov, Prelude to Foundation, said by Hari Seldon
Love as Thought is Truth. Love as Action is Right Conduct. Love as Understanding is Peace. Love as Feeling is Non - Violence.Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba
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
A person who can acquire no property, can have no other interest but to eat as much, and to labour as little as possible. Whatever work he does beyond what is sufficient to purchase his own maintenance can be squeezed out of him by violence only, and not by any interest of his own.Adam Smith
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
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.
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.George Orwell, (attributed)
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".
It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Violence is unnecessary and costly. Peace is the only way.Julius K. Nyerere
