Violence Quotes

The question is no longer between violence and non-violence; it is between non-violence and non-existence.

Martin Luther King Jr

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

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

The drop of rain maketh a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.

Hugh Latimer

The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral; returning violence with violence only multiplies voilence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars.

Martin Luther King Jr

The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. Only reverance can restrain violence - reverance for human life and the environment.

William Sloan Coffin

The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime.

Max Stirner

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

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.

Mahatma Gandhi

One must do violence to the object of one's desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.

Marquis de Sade

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

The violence done us by others is often less painful than that which we do to ourselves

FranÁois de la Rochefoucauld

Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago.

Barack Obama

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.

Thomas Edison

History has shown us, that you can't allow the mass extermination of people, and just sit by and watch it happen.

William Jefferson (Bill) Clinton

The lesson I learned in Cairo still applies. The only way to deal with bureaucrats is with stealth and sudden violence.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali