Violence Quotes
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.
We live in a world where we have to hide to make love, while violence is practiced in broad daylight.
I will need to be a lot older before I can face in public the way I treated women as a youngster.
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.
One murder makes a villain, millions a hero. Numbers sanctify.
Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.
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.
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.
All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.
When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
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.
Democracy and violence can ill go together. Evolution of democracy is not possible if we are not prepared to hear the other side.
Conquer the heart of the enemy with truth and love, not by violence.
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.
Terrorism and deception are weapons not of the strong, but of the weak.
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