Quotes about Violence
The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
War is not the only arena where peace is done to death.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
Violence breeds violence. Acts of violence committed in "justice" or in affirmation of "rights" or in defense of "peace" do not end violence. They prepare and justify its continuation.
— Wendell Berry
Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars... Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Violence is spiritual junk food, and boredom is spiritual anorexia.
— Peter Kreeft
Black people are victims of an enormous amount of violence. None of those things can take place without the complicity of the people who run the schools and the city.
— Toni Morrison
I want to cut his nuts off.
— Jesse Jackson
Hate begets hate; violence begets violence; toughness begets a greater toughness. We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
In each of us, there lies a divine connection to a power more powerful than hate or violence. Today is the day to attune to that power and use it on behalf of peace on earth.
— Marianne Williamson
you can't say civilization dont advance, in every war they kill you in a new way
— Will Rogers
Even a highwayman, in the way of trade, may blow out your brains, but if he uses foul language at the same time, I should say he was no gentleman.
— William Hazlitt
Self-deception is an indispensable element of war, and that despite the fact that wars are calculated and planned, there is a sense in which human beings do not know what they are doing when they cut one another down on the battlefield.
— David Livingstone Smith