Quotes about Violence
The God of peace is never glorified by human violence.
- Thomas Merton
Books are a better investment in our future than bullets. Books, not bullets, will pave the path towards peace and prosperity.
- Malala Yousafzai
God of peace, bring your peace to our violent world: peace in the hearts of all men and women and peace among the nations of the Earth.
- Pope Benedict XVI
The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
War is not the only arena where peace is done to death.
- Aung San Suu Kyi
Violence breeds violence. Acts of violence committed in "justice" or in affirmation of "rights" or in defense of "peace" do not end violence. They prepare and justify its continuation.
- Wendell Berry
Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars... Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Violence is spiritual junk food, and boredom is spiritual anorexia.
- Peter Kreeft
Black people are victims of an enormous amount of violence. None of those things can take place without the complicity of the people who run the schools and the city.
- Toni Morrison
I want to cut his nuts off.
- Jesse Jackson
Hate begets hate; violence begets violence; toughness begets a greater toughness. We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.