Quotes about Violence

This was not an act of terrorism, but it was an act of war.

Kids have anger, emotional, drug, and authority problems because they come from broken homes or homes that have been filled with violence. They have come from homes without a father and with a mother who is often angry at all men because she was abandoned by her man.

The man who coerces another not to eat fish commits more violence than he who eats it.

Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?

As long as there will be a man, there will be wars.

Do not mistake the rule of force for true power. Men are not shaped by force.

We will not permit the triumph of violence in the affairs of men; free people will set the course of history.

Himsa does not need to be taught, Man as animal is violent, but as spirit is nonviolent.

War, to sane men at the present day, begins to look like an epidemic insanity, breaking out here and there like the cholera or influenza, infecting men's brains instead of their bowels.

A man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind.

Where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence.

Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.