Violence Quotes

"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

"Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary."
-Mahatma Gandhi

"The right things to do are those that keep our violence in abeyance; the wrong things are those that bring it to the fore."
-Robert J. Sawyer

"I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger."
-Jean Genet

"In Maidanek, Poland, there was only one place where the children were treated kindly; at the entrance to the gas chamber each one was handed a sweet."
-Gideon Hausner

"We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love."
-R. D. Laing

"Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat."
-H. G. Bohn

"Violence is one of the most fun things to watch."
-Quentin Tarantino

"In violence, we forget who we are."
-Mary Mccarthy

"Mercifully, he hit him with the soft end of the pistol."
-Vivian Stanshall

"Violence is a calm that disturbs you."
-Jean Genet

"It is by no means self-evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited; violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate men from each other, but rather tend to reduce them to the same state."
-Thomas Elliot

"Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little."
-Plutarch

"You have to show violence the way it is. If you don't show it realistically, then that's immoral and harmful. If you don't upset people, then that's obscenity."
-Roman Polanski

"First in violence, deepest in dirt, lawless, unlovely, ill-smelling, irreverent, new; an overgrown gawk of a - village, the "tough" among cities, a spectacle for the nation."
-Lincoln Steffens

"There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people."
-Muhammad Ali

"Violence is not funny."
-William Friedkin

"They can be cranky, bewildered, giddy, frustrated and sometimes moved to violence. In short, they are afflicted with the New York City Getaway Fever."
-Lucinda Franks

"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

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

"Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love."
-Martin Luther King Jr.

"Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars... Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that."
-Martin Luther King Jr.

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

"Non-violence does not signify that man must not fight against the enemy, and by enemy is meant the evil which men do, not the human beings themselves."
-Mahatma Gandhi

"Affection cannot be manufactored or regulated by law. If one has no affection for a person or a system, one should be free to give the fullest expression to his disaffection, so long as he does not contemplate, promote, or incite to violence."
-Mahatma Gandhi

"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."
-Mahatma Gandhi

"If you and I are having a single thought of violence or hatred against anyone in the world at this moment, we are contributing to the wounding of the world..."
-Deepak Chopra

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