Violence Quotes

• Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Kings, Stars, Hate

  "Where do we go from here: Chaos or community?". Book by Martin Luther King, 1967.

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• There was a series called 'Game of Thrones' which was very popular here in the United States, a post-Tolkien kind of thing. It was garbage, yet very addictive garbage - because there's lots of violence, all the women take their clothes off all the time, and it's kind of fun.

  Salman Rushdie

  Fun, Games, Clothes

  "Interview / Salman Rushdie Is Not Afraid". Interview with Gidi Weitz, www.haaretz.com. October 14, 2011.

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• You can't answer violence with counter violence ... The answer is love. The best sabotage is love.

  Athol Fugard

  Answers, Sabotage

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• I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask: "Mother, what was war?"

  Eve Merriam

  Mother, Dream, Veterans Day

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• We have federal regulations and state laws that prohibit hunting ducks with more than three rounds. And yet it's legal to hunt humans with 15-round, 30-round, even 150-round magazines.

  Dianne Feinstein

  Funny, Humorous, Gun

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• Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

  Isaac Asimov

  Wise, Peace, Military

  Isaac Asimov (1951). “The foundation trilogy: three classics of science fiction”

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• Violence ends up defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Brutality, Survivor, Bitterness

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2010). “Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story”, p.225, Beacon Press

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Peace

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• Passion is all but soft, it's not tender, it's violence to which you get hooked by pleasure.

  Isabelle Adjani

  Passion, Pleasure, Hooked

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• In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted to carry weapons, to swat an insect or speak an angry word, a discipline that introduced them to a new way of living.

  Karen Armstrong

  Home, Cities, Discipline

  "Prejudices about Islam will be shaken by this show" by Karen Armstrong, www.theguardian.com. January 22, 2012.

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• Nothing good ever comes of violence.

  Martin Luther

  War, Anti War, Total War

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• The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.

  Bill Cosby

  Future, Afterlife, Goal

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• Violence is the weapon of weak, non-violence that of the strong.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Strong, Weapons, Weak

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• Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Peace, Freedom

  Address on first anniversary of Alliance for Progress, 13 Mar. 1962

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• The true terrorists of our world do not meet at the docks at midnight, or scream "Allahu Akbar" before some violent action. The true terrorists of our world wear 5000 dollar suits and work in the highest positions of finance, government and business.

  Peter Joseph

  Our World, Government, Suits

  "Zeitgeist: Addendum". Documentary, History, War, www.imdb.com. 2008.

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• The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate... Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Peace, Kings, Fear

  "Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?". Book by Martin Luther King Jr., 1967.

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• In violence, we forget who we are

  Mary McCarthy

  War, Domestic Violence, Who We Are

  On the Contrary (1961) "Characters in Fiction "

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  People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

  Richard Grenier

  Strength, Wisdom, Veterans Day

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• We saw the lightning and that was the guns and then we heard the thunder and that was the big guns; and then we heard the rain falling and that was the blood falling; and when we came to get in the crops, it was dead men that we reaped.

  Harriet Tubman

  Rain, Fall, Gun

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Power, Absence, Dreary

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

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• The State calls its own violence, law; but that of the individual, crime.

  Max Stirner

  Government, Law, Libertarian Party

  "The Great Quotations". Book by George Seldes, p. 664, 1960.

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• All violence is the result of people tricking themselves into believing that their pain derives from other people and that consequently those people deserve to be punished.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Encouragement, Pain, Believe

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  If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.4, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Hate, Destruction, Spirals

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.67, Beacon Press

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• There is a violence that liberates, and a violence that enslaves; there is a violence that is moral and a violence that is immoral.

  Benito Mussolini

  Moral, Immoral

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