Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding. Votes: 4
Ralph Waldo EmersonWhen liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her. Votes: 4
Oscar WildeViolence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence. Votes: 4
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynViolence is never the right answer, unless used against heathens and monsters. Votes: 3
Alexander AndersonViolence was just as much about WHAT was happening as it was how it happened. Votes: 3
Walter Dean MyersViolence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat. Votes: 3
Henry George BohnViolence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education. Votes: 2
Julian BondModerate strength is shown in violence, supreme strength is shown in levity. Votes: 1
G.K. ChestertonAll violence demands reform, and all violence desperately begs to be healed. Votes: 1
Bryant McGillnsEmotional blackmails and psychological threats are the feces of a rotten soul. Votes: 1
Angelica HopesMentioning violence to Bruce was like mentioning chocolate sauce to a six-year-old. Votes: 1
Robert MuchamoreThrough violence you may murder the hater, but you cannot murder hate. Votes: 1
Martin Luther King Jr.Modern consumer life is a form of extreme passive violence against all people. Votes: 1
Bryant McGillViolence?"Skulduggery said. "Violence is never the answer, until it's the only answer. Votes: 1
Derek LandyTo not have your suffering recognized is an almost unbearable form of violence. Votes: 1
Andrei LankovAbortion should be listed as a weapon of mass destruction against the voiceless. Votes: 1
E.A. BucchianeriVictory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary. Votes: 1
Mahatma GandhiExtreme violence has a way of preventing us from seeing the interests it serves. Votes: 1
Naomi KleinREJECT THE LIES AND VIOLENCE. STAND FOR LOVE, TRUTH, DECENCY AND THE COMMON GOOD. Votes: 1
Bryant McGillIf you remembered somebody was as real as yourself, how could you kill anybody? Votes: 1
Sena Jeter NaslundTo paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time. Votes: 1
Susan SontagWe have to start from the fact that there are always alternatives to violence. Votes: 1
Mairead CorriganViolence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor. Votes: 1
Robert A. HeinleinThere is no document of civilization that is not also a document of barbarism. Votes: 1
Walter BenjaminWe are all artificial and have been unnaturally changed by violence and unwholesome conditioning. Votes: 1
Bryant McGillGuns are like thermometers, only instead of measuring body temperatures they measure our fear. Votes: 1
Jean ZimmermanIf everyone who had a gun just shot themselves, there wouldn't be a problem. Votes: 1
George HarrisonSocial justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create. Votes: 1
John Paul IIWhat deep violence does the mind invent / As polar opposite to love. (In 'Hat Love'). Votes: 1
Tony WilliamsOne must acknowledge with cryptography no amount of violence will ever solve a math problem. Votes: 1
Jacob AppelbaumThere is power in controlling something that can do so much damage-in controlling something, period. Votes: 1
Veronica RothWe are currently facing many hurdles, BUT will never lose the sight of infinite hope. Votes: 1
Widad AkrawiSo long as atrocities remain remote, abstract, they will be tolerated, even by decent people. Votes: 1
Howard ZinnIt was much easier to explain the veil than to answer questions about the wounds. Votes: 1
Pawan MishraA place where something so terrible had happened shouldn't continue to exist in the world Votes: 1
Ron RashIn light of all the gun violence in the USA, I'd prefer my democracy unleaded. Votes: 1
Jayseth GubermanHoney, no offense, but sometimes I think I could shoot you and watch you kick. Votes: 1
Raymond CarverWhen you are at the edge of life it will be either silence or violence Votes: 1
Gopichand LagadapatiTo use violence against a peaceful man is the greatest immorality and the biggest rot ever! Votes: 1
Mehmet Murat ildanToday you closed your eyes on violence, tomorrow, the violence will close your eyes on you. Votes: 1
VicDoAnd now submarines are armed with mass murder, our silly, only way of deterring mass murder. Votes: 1
John SteinbeckThe ocean waves were choppy. Good thing I know karate and was able to fight back. Votes: 1
Jarod KintzThe passive and overt violence waged against the women and children of the world must end. Votes: 1
Bryant McGillThrough TV people turn their family living rooms into meditative dens of death and violence worship. Votes: 1
Bryant McGillNon-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain. Votes: 1
Mahatma GandhiRepeat one word of what I just said and I'll cheerfully beat you to death, Mike. Votes: 1
Stephenie MeyerGovernment is a gun that shoots money at your enemy and blows up in your face. Votes: 1
Stefan MolyneuxViolence is a disease, a disease that corrupts all who use it regardless of the cause. Votes: 1
Chris HedgesThat's the law, son. But you were never much of a one for following the law. Votes: 1
Anthony BurgessViolence send deep roots into the heart, it has no seasons, it is always ripe, evergreen. Votes: 1
Pat ConroyWe need to teach our nation to detest any form of plots, insinuations, evil intrigues and violence. Votes: 1
Sunday AdelajaThe most disgusting human trait is bias because it ends of leading to propaganda, hate and violence. Votes: 1
Lori GoodwinThrough our expectations, we violently expand and try to fill the world with our proofs of worth. Votes: 1
Bryant McGillWe have been trained by a culture of violence and we are all agents of passive violence. Votes: 1
Bryant McGillWhich do you prefer, she says. Sex or Violence?I try to smile. What's the difference, really. Votes: 1
Will Christopher BaerA culture of vultures steeped and born of violence shall choke on the blood of its offspring. Votes: 1
T.F. HodgeDeath was not the scariest thing out there; no, the denial of it could be far worse. Votes: 1
Nenia CampbellWe are all a part of a culture of violence that dominates every aspect of our lives. Votes: 1
Bryant McGillA violent order is disorder; and a great disorder is an order.These two things are one. Votes: 1
Wallace StevensRubbing a clit to competin and sawing off someone's foot seemed to use all the same muscles. Votes: 1
Karina HalleI finally understood what could drive kids to show up with guns and shoot up their schools. Votes: 1
Nenia CampbellI both made the knife-fighting team, and I got cut. If only love were so easy to understand. Votes: 1
Jarod KintzThere is no such thing as a "just" war. It's just war. And it's antithetical to the Gospel. Votes: 1
David D. FlowersNever on me let such wrath lay hold, as the wrath you cherish, you whose valor causes harm! Votes: 1
A.T. MurrayOh, they don't allow the Bible in Heaven, Miss Mary...It contains far too much sex and violence. Votes: 1
Bryan TalbotIf government played by the same rules as the rest of us, it would cease to be government. Votes: 1
Sheldon RichmanWar is not a means but an end. It makes violence respectable and makes sadists look like heroes. Votes: 1
Mary HorlockNo one has the right to place one human being in a position of political power over another. Votes: 1
Wendy McElroyy lo que ha dicho el fiscal es que un hombre no debe morir por tan poca cosa Votes: 1
Laurent MauvignierAll this miraculous hatred. Christ, a man can't eat his breakfast for filling his belly full of it. Votes: 1
Colum McCannIntimidated, old traumas triggered, and fearing for my safety, I did what I felt I needed to do. Votes: 1
Sierra D. WatersAny violation of a woman's body can become sex for men; this is the essential truth of pornography. Votes: 1
Andrea DworkinBe an active bystander because sooner or later you or someone you love could be a victim too. Votes: 1
Shahla KhanIf someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again. Votes: 1
Malcolm XThis is why I keep telling Ash to get you a cat or a bird. Guns aren't proper pets. Votes: 1
Andrea CremerIt is not what you can do for your country, but what you can do for all of mankind. Votes: 1
Mike NortonYou can take the barbarian out of the tavern, but he can take the blood out of your body. Votes: 1
Greg X. GravesI was not frightened as they were, for the very violence of his threats showed how weak he was. Votes: 1
Erik Christian HaugaardI can assure you that no kingdom has ever had as many civil wars as the kingdom of Christ. Votes: 1
MontesquieuThe war is against children, and all the other wars are just a shadow of the war on children. Votes: 1
Stefan MolyneuxYou can do a lot with diplomacy, but with diplomacy backed up by force you can get a lot more done. Votes: 1
Kofi AnnanI had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out of me with steel pipes. Votes: 1
Patton OswaltI forgive you," I said. I said what I had to. I would die by pieces to save myself from real death. Votes: 1
Alice SeboldIt's not the violence of the few that scares me, it's the silence of the many
Martin Luther King, Jr.The whole history of the Christian Church is a mixture of errors and violence.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThere is no lasting hope in violence, only temporary relief from hopelessness.
Kingman Brewster, Jr.Above all Christians are not allowed to correct by violence sinful wrongdoings.
Clement of AlexandriaOpinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest of violence.
Francis Jeffrey, Lord JeffreyThe violence of either grief or joy, their own enactures with themselves destroy.
William ShakespeareViolence is always the last option, but if that time comes, it is the only option.
Sir John Gilmour, 2nd BaronetMost do violence to their natural aptitude, and thus attain superiority in nothing.
Baltasar GracianViolence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison[Domestic violence is] a carefully laid physical, financial and psychological trap.
Leslie Morgan SteinerAll violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.
Ralph Waldo EmersonOnly reverence can restrain violence - reverence for human life and the environment.
William Sloane CoffinThere is nothing to be gained by being unnecessarily nasty. Violence begets violence.
Aung San Suu KyiFrancesco Damiani punches with all the violence and bad intentions of Mahatma Gandhi.
Jerry IzenbergWhere there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence.
Mahatma GandhiMy nonviolence does recognize different species of violence, defensive and offensive.
Mahatma GandhiEnough with the slaughters. Enough with the violence. Enough with the hatred in Iraq!
Pope Benedict XVINon violence is not a thing that comes easily. You have to learn how to be non-violent
Betty WilliamsPreaching nonviolence on principle reproduces the existing institutionalized violence.
Herbert MarcuseThere are things we can do [with violence], and we ought to do it in a bipartisan way.
Hillary ClintonA question settled by violence, or in disregard of law, must remain unsettled forever.
Jefferson DavisBlaming Obama for Iraq violence is like blaming Daniel Craig because Octopussy sucked.
John FugelsangThe man who coerces another not to eat fish commits more violence than he who eats it.
Mahatma GandhiViolence can only be effectively met by nonviolence. This is an old established truth.
Mahatma GandhiThe only way to end a culture of violence is to proactively create a culture of peace.
Marianne WilliamsonTyranny is abhorrent, freedom benefits all, whereas violence benefits no one for long.
Mark KingwellViolence is an admission that one's ideas and goals cannot prevail on their own merits.
Edward KennedyWhat would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?
Gloria SteinemWar is an attempt of one group to impose its will upon another group by armed violence.
Helen and Scott NearingA civilization based on nonviolence must be different from that organized for violence.
Mahatma GandhiBy using violence to subjugate one another we are using violence against our own souls.
Mahatma Gandhi