Violence Quotes

Giuliani has certainly set a climate for permissiveness of violence and mean police behavior.

Of course, there is nothing intrinsic linking any religion with any act of violence. The crusades don’t prove that Christianity was violent. The Inquisition doesn’t prove that Christianity tortures people. But that Christianity did torture people.

Non violence as a way of life, a way of living, not simply as a technique or a tactic.

The greatest violence is seeing a child go to bed hungry.

A democracy is a state which recognizes the subjection of the minority to the majority, that is, an organization for the systematic use of violence by one class against the other, by one part of the population against another.

Violence is not only impractical but immoral.

We should live out our particular brand of faith, sure – but we should never force our brand of faith upon anyone else. All violence starts with the desire to change others and then never, ever ends.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o’ the morn.

The violence and injustice of the rulers of mankind is an ancient evil, for which, I am afraid, the nature of human affairs can scarce admit a remedy.