Violence Quotes

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

Men, Sleep, Night

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Hate, Him, Means

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!
Albert Einstein

Patriotism, Hate, Nonsense

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
Hunter S. Thompson

Hate, Alcohol, Anyone

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
Abraham Lincoln

Work, Him, Down

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
Mahatma Gandhi

Put, Hearts, Violent

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Peace, Through, Cannot

Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.
Mahatma Gandhi

True, Spirit, Growth

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
Mahatma Gandhi

Good, Evil, Object

In defense of our persons and properties under actual violation, we took up arms. When that violence shall be removed, when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, hostilities shall cease on our part also.
Thomas Jefferson

Shall, Took, Defense

Poverty is the worst form of violence.
Mahatma Gandhi

We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.
Jim Morrison

Fear, Pain, Feelings

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
Mahatma Gandhi

Law, Unjust, Species

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.
Mahatma Gandhi

Truth, Pursuit, Opponent

Violence has been Nicaragua's most important export to the world.
Ronald Reagan

Important, Export, Nicaragua

Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence.
Jim Morrison

This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.
Leonard Bernstein

Music, Before, Reply

Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.
Lao Tzu

Oneself, Rebounds

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.
Bob Dylan

Democracy, Left, Head

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.
George Orwell

Men, Sleep, Night

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.
George Orwell

War, Jealousy, Nothing

The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.
Robert Frost

Power, Control, Force

War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.
George Washington

War, Enemy, Act

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

Future, Goal, Stop

I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.
Malcolm X

Self, Call, Defense

I do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation and oppression of my people by the whites.
Nelson Mandela

Love, Political, After

Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.
Leo Tolstoy

Men, Government, Rest

A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to violence and crime, and any sense of loyalty and good faith will be abandoned.
Xun Zi

Faith, Good, Hate

May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.
Marianne Williamson

Love, Today, Revenge

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
Isaac Asimov

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