Best 2024 quotes in «violence quotes» category

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

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 dictionary has no such expression as a violent fight.

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

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

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

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

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

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

No evolution is accomplished in nature without revolution. Periods of very slow changes are succeeded by periods of violent changes. Revolutions are as necessary for evolution as the slow changes which prepare them and succeed them.

Nations are not ruined by one act of violence, but gradually and in an almost imperceptible manner by the depreciation of their circulating currency, through its excessive quantity.

No Bolshevik, no Communist, no intelligent socialist has ever entertained the idea of violence against the middle peasants. All socialists have always spoken of agreement with them and of their gradual and voluntary transition to socialism.

No, General. I'm not your subordinate. And what I'm coming dangerously close to is violence. -General Wedge Antilles

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 philosophy is that one shall not resort to violence unless one is resolved to become the subject of violence at any time.

My whole access into culture was violent. Violence is something I understand. Don't like it, don't condone it, but I sure understand where it comes from.

My whole life I had seen my father solve every problem he had through the use of violence.

No matter how liberal I am, I'm still outraged by crimes of violence. Regardless of whether I can sympathize with the causes that lead these individuals to do these crimes, the effects are outrageous.

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Non-co-operators will make a serious mistake if they seek to convert people to their creed by violence.

Nonviolence is an unchangeable creed. It has to be pursued even in face of violence raging around you.

Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.

Non violence is not a thing that comes easily. You have to learn how to be non-violent

Non-violence is not a passive idea. It is ethical activism at its political best

Non-violence is the article of faith.

Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute.

Nonviolence of the strong is infinitely braver than their violence.

Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence.

Non-violence is a piece of theatre. You need an audience. What can you do when you have no audience?

Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.

Non-violence should be a tactic - not an ideology preached from the sidelines to victims of massive violence.

Nonviolence in the sense of mere non-killing does not appear to me, therefore, to be of any improvement on the technique of violence.

No one may threaten or commit violence ('aggress') against another man's person or property. Violence may be employed only against the man who commits such violence; that is, only defensively against the aggressive violence of another. In short, no violence may be employed against a non-aggressor. Here is the fundamental rule from which can be deduced the entire corpus of libertarian theory.

Nonviolence becomes meaningless if violence is permitted for self-defence.

Nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger... . Between violence and cowardly flight I can only prefer violence to cowardice.

No religion is responsible for terrorism. People are responsible for violence and terrorism.

No other form of violence is legitimate. It is never acceptable to use violence to solve a problem. Whether personal or political.

No problems are ever resolved by violence. It only aggravates the pain and the hurt on every side.

No problem is so deep that it cannot be overcome, given the will of all parties, through discussion and negotiation rather than force and violence.

North America is not altogether to blame with regard to her Indians. If the Indian had been more susceptible to higher culture, violence and arms would not have been used against him, as is now the case.

Nothing endures. Not a tree. Not love. Not even death by violence.

Not all bodies are born in male or female. There is a continuum of bodies and it seems to me that trying to persuade medical and psychiatrist establishments to deal with the intersex involves critique of the binary gender system. Similarly there continues to be extreme, sometimes very extreme violence against transgender people.

Nothing good ever comes of violence.

No violent extreme endures.

Nothing in our society-with the exception of violence and fear-has been more effective in keeping women in their place than the degradation of the menstrual cycle.

Not violence, nor untruth but non-violence and Truth are the laws of our being.

Novelists who treat violence and cruelty as something to be exploited for their effect, or to enjoy the pleasure of an evacuation, are carriers of a singularly unpleasant disease.