Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.
Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that's better left unsaid.
Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor.
It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
Israel will never get true security and safety through oppressing another people. A true peace can ultimately be built only on justice. We condemn the violence of suicide bombers, and we condemn the corruption of young minds taught hatred; but we also condemn the violence of military incursions in the occupied lands, and the inhumanity that won't let ambulances reach the injured.
Violence stinks no matter which side of it you're on. But now and then there's nothing left to do but hit the other person over the head with a frying pan.
Conflicts and factions, violence and upheavals are caused by the neglect of human values in daily life.
Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.
Frustration is the wet nurse of violence.
It is not violence that best overcomes hate -- nor vengeance that most certainly heals injury.
Those who 'abjure' violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf.
Under all conditions, well-organized violence seems to him the shortest distance between two points.
We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.
I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man's problem just to avoid violence.
Violence is not merely killing another. It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person, when we obey because there is fear. So violence isn't merely organized butchery in the name of God, in the name of society or country. Violence is much more subtle, much deeper, and we are inquiring into the very depths of violence.
There is a subconscious way of taking violence as a way of expression, as a normality, and it has a lot of effects in the youth in the way they absorb education and what they hope to get out of life.
We need tremendous energy to bring about a psychological change in ourselves as human beings, because we have lived far too long in a world of make-belief, in a world of brutality, violence, despair, anxiety. To live humanly, sanely, one has to change.
Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
You know what I think about violence. For me it is profoundly moral -more moral than compromises and transactions.
Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy.
We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.
Though defensive violence will always be 'a sad necessity' in the eyes of men of principle, it would be still more unfortunate if wrongdoers should dominate just men.
I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life.
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