Violence Quotes

I’ll be proud to say my country is committed to preventing violence against women.

Nothing violent, oft have I heard tell, can be permanent.

The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.

In times of great necessity, violence is indispensable.

Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.

The origins of violence against women by men are not biological. If that were the case, it would exist in every culture. And it doesn’t exist in every culture.

Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power’s disappearance.

States have invested themselves with the right to legitimise violence – so who gets criminalised and delegitimised? Only – or well that’s excessive – usually, the resistance.

The path of violence has not yielded anything. Shed guns and adopt the path of peace, unity, goodwill and brotherhood.

Needless violence won’t heal us. We need to end the violence and peacefully come together to demand justice.