(1611 quotes found)
“When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her.”
Oscar Wilde
“Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, are both uncivilized and undemocratic”
Mahatma Gandhi
“I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.”
“Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.”
“Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -how passionately I hate them!”
Albert Einstein
“If you hate what you're seeing, you call it sex and violence. If you like it, you call it "romance and adventure."”
Joe Bob Briggs
“An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.”
“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”
“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.
“Poverty is the worst form of violence.”