Quotes about Violence
We will not permit the triumph of violence in the affairs of men; free people will set the course of history.
- George W. Bush
Himsa does not need to be taught, Man as animal is violent, but as spirit is nonviolent.
- Mahatma Gandhi
War, to sane men at the present day, begins to look like an epidemic insanity, breaking out here and there like the cholera or influenza, infecting men's brains instead of their bowels.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.
- Mahatma Gandhi
We live in a world where we have to hide to make love, while violence is practiced in broad daylight.
- John Lennon
War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.
- William McKinley
Peace is a very complicated concept. When the lion gobbles up the lamb and wipes his lips, then there's peace. Well, I ain't for that peace at all.
- Abbie Hoffman
War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.
- Jimmy Carter
Darkness cannot be overcome with more darkness, only with light. Violence cannot be overcome with more violence, only with peace.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Violence never brings permanent peace. It solves no social problem: it merely creates new and more complicated ones.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.