Violence Quotes

I distrust the incommunicable; it is the source of all violence.

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Only a coward thinks he's a man abusing a woman.

A person that seeks to do you harm is only successful in so far as you allow it. Suppose a man came with a paint brush and different colors of paint, trying to paint pictures in the air. Would he be successful in painting his pictures?

Temper tantrums, however fun they may be to throw, rarely solve whatever problem is causing them.

Destruction is easy, but what have you created?

I'm not a fighter, I'm a bleeder.

Tybalt: What, art thou drawn among these hartless hinds?
Turn thee, Benvolio; look upon thy death.

We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace. We need love and compassion.

Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.

Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard for all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting.

If breaking something is considered violence, then what would breaking the heart be?
Terrorism?

Reason is always a kind of brute force; those who appeal to the head rather than the heart, however pallid and polite, are necessarily men of violence. We speak of 'touching' a man's heart, but we can do nothing to his head but hit it.

Franz's weakness is called goodness. Franz would never give Sabina orders. He would never command her, as Tomas had, to lay the mirror on the floor and walk back and forth on it naked. Not that he lacks sensuality; he simply lacks the strength to give orders. There are things that can be accomplished only by violence. Physical love is unthinkable without violence.

Moderate strength is shown in violence, supreme strength is shown in levity.

You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.

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 violence and oppression.

The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate.