Violence Quotes

Far more violence has been done in obeying the law than in breaking the law.

All the sacred rights of humanity are violated by insisting on blind obedience.

This much is clear: violence breeds violence, repression brings retaliation, and only a cleansing of our whole society can remove this sickness from our soul.

Violence won’t solve a thing. It makes it more challenging to solve, though.

What started as a friendly fire quickly turned into assassination. What did i do to jump to number one in your hit list?

And the distinction between violent and non-violent action is that the former is exclusively bent upon the destruction of the old, and the latter is chiefly concerned with the establishment of something new.

Battered women is a phrase that uncovered major, long-hidden violence. It helps us to face the fact that, statistically speaking, the most dangerous place for a woman is in her own home, not in the streets.

I think if we wish to live in any kind of a moral universe, we must hold the perpetrators of violence responsible for the violence they perpetrate. It’s very simple. The criminal is responsible for the crime.

God, in His wisdom, has so linked the whole human family together that any violence done at one end of the chain is felt throughout its length.

The thing about nonviolence is that it spreads. When you get people to participate in nonviolent action – whether it’s a fast, a march, a boycott, or a picket line – people hear you, people see you, people are learning from that action.