(1647 quotes found)
“The Roots of Violence: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice, Politics without principles”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Nonviolence 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 Jr.
“When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her.”
Oscar Wilde
“We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.”
George Orwell
“The violence and obscenity are left unadulterated, as manifestation of the mystery and pain which ever accompanies the act of creation.”
Anais Nin
“Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.”
“An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.”
“Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Poverty is the worst form of violence.”
“Violence is like a weed - it does not die even in the greatest drought.”
Simon Wiesenthal
