Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Violence

• Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Peace

• Exaggeration is in the course of things. Nature sends no creature, no man into the world, without adding a small excess of his proper quality. Given the planet, it is still necessary to add the impulse; so, to every creature nature added a little violence of direction in its proper path, a shove to put it on its way; in every instance, a slight generosity, a drop too much.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Exaggeration Is, Generosity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.42, Courier Corporation

• All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Power, Violence, Absence

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.499, Harvard University Press

• Thus grows up fashion, an equivocal semblance, the most puissant, the most fantastic and frivolous, the most feared and followed, and which morals and violence assault in vain.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fashion, Growing Up, Violence

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1467, Delphi Classics

• The learned and the studious of thought have no monopoly of wisdom. Their violence of direction in some degree disqualifies them to think truly.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, Degrees, Violence

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.167, Penguin

• Culture is the suggestion, from certain best thoughts, that a man has a range of affinities through which he can modulate the violence of any master-tones that have a droning preponderance in his scale, and succor him against himself. Culture redresses this imbalance, puts him among equals and superiors, revives the delicious sense of sympathy, and warns him of the dangers of solitude and repulsion.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Solitude, Suggestions

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.388

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