Quotes about Violence
We live in a world where we have to hide to make love, while violence is practiced in broad daylight.
— John Lennon
War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.
— William McKinley
Peace is a very complicated concept. When the lion gobbles up the lamb and wipes his lips, then there's peace. Well, I ain't for that peace at all.
— Abbie Hoffman
War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.
— Jimmy Carter
May the God of peace arouse in all an authentic desire for dialogue and reconciliation. Violence cannot be overcome with violence. Violence is overcome with peace.
— Pope Francis
Darkness cannot be overcome with more darkness, only with light. Violence cannot be overcome with more violence, only with peace.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Violence never brings permanent peace. It solves no social problem: it merely creates new and more complicated ones.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Wars are always madness: all is lost in war, all is to be gained in peace.
— Pope Francis
The God of peace is never glorified by human violence.
— Thomas Merton
Books are a better investment in our future than bullets. Books, not bullets, will pave the path towards peace and prosperity.
— Malala Yousafzai
God of peace, bring your peace to our violent world: peace in the hearts of all men and women and peace among the nations of the Earth.
— Pope Benedict XVI
The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.