Quotes about Violence
Nature kills constantly, and we call her beautiful.
- John Updike
Possession of arms implies an element of fear, if not of cowardice.
- Mahatma Gandhi
The refugees flee to protect their families from violence; the Europeans, on the other hand, fear for their jobs that they need to feed their families.
- Jane Goodall
Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.
- Margaret Atwood
One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and not be held responsible. [Cultural Factors in the Cause of Pathological Homicide. Bulletin of Menninger Clinic ]
- Margaret Mead
We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
- Toni Morrison
The terrorists can kill the innocent, but they cannot stop the advance of freedom.
- George W. Bush
Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity.
- Frank Herbert
One must do violence to the object of one's desire when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.
- Marquis de Sade
The problem with hatred and violence is that they intensity the fears of the white majority, and leave them less ashamed of their prejudices toward Negroes.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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.
If we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people to not kill each other? Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love, but to use any violence to get what they want.
- Mother Teresa