Violence Quotes

Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that's better left unsaid.

We're trying to sell peace, like a product, you know, and sell it like people sell soap or soft drinks. And it's the only way to get people aware that peace is possible, and it isn't just inevitable to have violence. Not just war - all forms of violence.

I will need to be a lot older before I can face in public the way I treated women as a youngster.

If you want peace, you won't get it with violence.

We live in a world where we have to hide to make love, while violence is practiced in broad daylight.

I used to be cruel to women, and physically-any woman. I was a hitter. I couldn't express myself and I hit. I fought men and I hit women. That is why I am always on about peace.

I am a violent man who has learned not to be violent and regrets his violence.

Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.

Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that teaches not the name we give it.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

Force is the midwife of every old society pregnant with a new one.

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

The struggle with evil by means of violence is the same as an attempt to stop a cloud, in order that there may be no rain.

The Christian churches and Christianity have nothing in common save in name: they are utterly hostile opposites. The churches are arrogance, violence, usurpation, rigidity, death; Christianity is humility, penitence, submissiveness, progress, life.

One murder makes a villain, millions a hero. Numbers sanctify.

Terrorism and deception are weapons not of the strong, but of the weak.

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

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

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Conquer the heart of the enemy with truth and love, not by violence.