Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.
Pope John Paul IIPeace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.
Dorothy ThompsonA revolution is an act of violence whereby one class shatters the authority of another.
James MacGregor BurnsThere's more violence in one football game than there is in an entire hockey season, and nobody ever talks about that.
Keith AllenNonviolence 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.
Mahatma GhandiKeep violence in the mind
Where it belongs (Barefoot in the Head)
Brian AldissViolence does even justice unjustly.
Thomas CarlyleNon-violence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.
Please note, this is actually a mis-spelling. For loads of Mahatma Gandhi quotes,
click hereMahatma GhandiOnly a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence.
Albert CamusIf I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.
Indira GandhiI say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie.
Hubert Geroid BrownPerseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.
PlutarchWe are grateful to him for the tireless and difficult work he carried out unstintingly against all forms of totalitarianism, violence, oppression and moral degradation, all in the name of the values of the Catholic Church, which are the supreme values of human dignity and solidarity. [on Pope John Paul II]
Silvio BerlusconiTelevision nearly always showed the bandits in masks and using violence, but I wanted to go about it in a kind and gentle way.
Peggy BarlowFrancesco Damiani punches with all the violence and bad intentions of Mahatma Gandhi.
Jerry IzenbergI ain't never liked violence.
Sugar Ray RobinsonWars such as those which have occurred in Iraq only allow hatred, violence and terror to proliferate
Jose Luis Rodriguez ZapateroThe main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.
Bill CosbyRevenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.
Albert Schweitzer Answer violence with violence. If one of us falls today, five of them must fall tomorrow.
Evita PeronViolence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence.
Jim MorrisonI'm a little foolhardy. Dangers of violence - rape, murder - are less frightening than making a living at fashion photography.
Diane ArbusI like to behave in an extremely normal, wholesome manner for the most part in my daily life. Even if mentally I'm consumed with sick visions of violence, terror, sex and death.
Courtney LoveNonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.
Martin Luther King JrPeace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
Ralph Waldo EmersonViolence is my last option.
Chuck NorrisViolence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
Isaac AsimovPeople are disturbed enough by serial killers, but the whole notion of female violence, particularly maternal violence - the idea of mothers who kill - really unnerves people.
Caleb Carr...an innings of neurotic violence, of eccentric watchfulness, of brainless impetuosity and incontinent savagery - it was an extraordinary innings, a masterpiece and it secured the Ashes for England [on Pietersen's Ashes winning innings, 2005]
Simon BarnesI did not enjoy the violence of boxing so much as the science of it.
Nelson MandelaThe drop of rain maketh a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.
Hugh LatimerIt is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
Mahatma GandhiViolence and smut are of course everywhere on the airwaves. You cannot turn on your television without seeing them, although sometimes you have to hunt around.
Dave BarryViolence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
Sir Arthur Conan DoyleIn Genesis, seeing the world filled with violence, God decided to drown all mankind except Noah's family. But because that family carried the same genes as those who had drowned, violence continued unabated.
Robert DavisIt [violence] is as American as cherry pie.
H Rap BrownIt seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does not change the world and if it does, then only temporarily.
Martin ScorseseThe most insidious influence on the young is not violence, drugs, tobacco, drink or sexual perversion, but our pursuit of the trivial and our tolerance
Eric Anderson'Just so you know, we're on the good side with y'all. We do not want this war, this violence...and we're ashamed that the President of the United States is from Texas.'
Natalie MainesPeople sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
George OrwellIn violence, we forget who we are
Mary McCarthyWriting saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.
Alice WalkerThe FA have given me a pat on the back. I've taken violence off the terracing and onto the pitch.
Vinny JonesFrustration is the wet nurse of violence.
David AbrahansenThe reality is that if you look at Barcelona tonight they had no yellow cards, Bayern Munich had no yellow card, Liverpool had no yellow card, Valencia had no yellow cards, Roma had no yellow cards but Chelsea have four. Do you think it is violence?
Jose MourinhoBusiness is the art of extracting money from another man's pocket without resorting to violence.
Max AmsterdamOne of the main purveyors of violence in this world has been this country [America].
Danny GloverIt is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
Rainer Maria RilkeFootball is violence and cold weather and sex and college rye.
Roger KahnYou have to show violence the way it is. If you don't show it realistically, then that's immoral and harmful. If you don't upset people, then that's obscenity.
Roman Polanski
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