Violence Quotes
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.
Poverty is the worst form of 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.
Far more violence has been done in obeying the law than in breaking the law.
The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.
The very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence.
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!
Almost half of the population of the world lives in rural regions and mostly in a state of poverty. Such inequalities in human development have been one of the primary reasons for unrest and, in some parts of the world, even violence.
I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
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