Best 2024 quotes in «violence quotes» category

Just as one must learn the art of killing in the training for violence, so one must learn the art of dying in the training for nonviolence.

just as violence is the last refuge of the inarticulate, so it is also the first resort of the incompetent, the easy out for the man who is capable of expressing himself only in the most primitive and vulgar of dramatic terms. He leaves us with only the obscenity of violence per se - and the pornographer thereof will always be with us, in film as in any other medium. And so will his audience.

Khadi has been conceived as the foundation and the image of ahimsa. A real khadi-wearer will not utter an untruth. A real khadi-wearer will harbour no violence, no deceit, no impurity.

Kids shouldn't see all the violence they do these days. But the industry just doesn't care.

Law And Freedom without Violence (Anarchy) Law And Violence without Freedom (Despotism) Violence without Freedom And Law (Barbarism) Violence with Freedom And Law (Republic)

Lawyers will always buckle under to something, whether its bribes, violence, court orders, or the weight of their own bullshit.

Learn about the incorruptible King, and know his heroes who never inflict slaughter on the peoples.

Legitimacy, when challenged, bases itself on an appeal to the past, while justification relates to an end that lies in the future. Violence can be justifiable, but it never will be legitimate.

Let no one consider themselves to be the 'armour' of God while planning and carrying out acts of violence and oppression!

Let's start a movement - a movement of men who aren't afraid to stop violence against women.

LGBT youth face a much higher risk of violence and homelessness after being rejected by their family of origin.

Life etches itself onto our faces as we grow older, showing our violence, excesses or kindnesses.

Like a dead man, only friction could make him warm or violence make him mobile.

Life is beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression, and violence, and enjoy it to the full.

Many who are convinced that God is non-violent simply dismiss the Old Testament accounts of God commanding or engaging in violence. I don't consider this to be a viable option, for Jesus treats the whole Old Testament as the inspired Word of God. My cross-centered interpretation of these violent portraits allows believers to affirm that God is non-violent while also affirming that all Scripture is "God-breathed.".

Like most Americans, I hope and wish is that there is a peaceful resolution to the Middle East conflict. Unfortunately, there are extremists on both sides who oppose a peaceful resolution and instead choose violence.

Looked at objectively, it is clear that the overwhelming majority of civilian deaths resulting from political violence are produced by what should be understood as "state terror." Terrorism also serves as an excuse to avoid diplomacy and the peaceful resolution of conflict.

Love isn't blind. Love is reasonable. God is pure love, but He is also pure reason. If you separate reason from faith you'll end in violence. Either way, if you have a purely rationalistic scheme that is atheistic, for instance Communism was for social justice. Fascism was for the nation-state, which isn't automatically a bad thing.

Mankind has to get out of violence only through non-violence.

Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western World. Simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.

Like most human behavior, violence has meaning: it only seems 'senseless' or 'meaningless' to the extent we are unable-or unwilling-to decode it.

Look at the violence in Pakistan and the presence of U.S. troops in Afghanistan: the more troops we put in the more violent Pakistan becomes.

Looking at the huge number of transgender women of color who have been murdered since the beginning of the year - that we know of - the number has reached seven or eight at this point, maybe even nine, since the start of 2015. The number of those women involved in sex work is not a piece that gets lifted up in news reports. Sometimes people want to bury that, because they don't want to say anything that might make it seem as though those women were asking for it. We're still living with the idea that sex work somehow marks people as acceptable targets for violence.

Looting is a natural response to the unnatural and inhuman society of commodity abundance. It instantly undermines the commodity as such, and it also exposes what the commodity ultimately implies: the army, the police and the other specialized detachments of the state's monopoly of armed violence.

Love soothes wounds, while hatred and violence deepen them.

Malcolm X made it very clear that if somebody goes after you - whether it's cops or not - you have to defend yourself. But he was not an advocate for violence the way the Black Panthers were.

Marijuana is the most violence causing drug in the history of mankindMost marijuana smokers are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos and entertainers.

Middle class jobs prevent crime and violence.

Men are distinguished from women by their commitment to do violence rather than to be victimized by it.

Mental violence is as bad as physical violence. You don't see that very often in movies, so it was a good subject to tackle.

Mental violence has no potency and injures only the person whose thoughts are violent. It is otherwise with mental non-violence. It has potency which the world does not yet know.

Most do violence to their natural aptitude, and thus attain superiority in nothing.

Most dramatically, and perhaps least noticed, is the violence inside Saudi Arabia itself.

Most Americans would say that they disapproved of violence. But what they really mean is that they believe it should be the monopoly of the state.

Most screen violence is tedious.

Murder, considered a crime when people commit it singly, is transformed into a virtue when they do it en masse.

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Multiply your death, divide by sex, add up your violence, what do you get?

My dictionary has no such expression as a violent fight.

Muslims have different meanings for the same words that we use. They are so convinced of the "truth" of Islam that they do not perceive Jihad/terrorism, or dhimmitude as violence.

My experience teaches me that truth can never be propagated by doing violence.

My focus is first of all, to remove every thought of violence from my own consciousness.

My family were staunch believers in physical violence, not automatic violence, and we had a Safeway around the corner, so we never really needed to kill anything.

My moral compass swings far to the left, but when it comes to gratuitous violence, I have trouble.

My love ,she speaks like silence, without ideals or violence. She doesn't have to say she's faithful, yet she's true.

My non-violence bids me dedicate myself to the service of the minorities.

My mother spoke of Christ to my father, by her feminine and childlike virtues, and, after having borne his violence without a murmur or complaint, gained him at the close of his life to Christ.

My nonviolence does recognize different species of violence, defensive and offensive.

My own concern is primarily the terror and violence carried out by my own state... It is very easy to denounce the atrocities of someone else. That has about as much ethical value as denouncing atrocities that took place in the 18th century.

My opposition to the socialist and the other consists in attacking violence as a means of effecting any lasting reform.