(1647 quotes found)
“Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence.”
Jim Morrison
“They are not following dharma who resort to violence to achieve their purpose. But those who lead others through nonviolent means, knowing right and wrong, may be called guardians of the dharma.”
Buddha
“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
“If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Mental violence has no potency and injures only the person whose thoughts are violent. It is otherwise with mental non-violence. It has potency which the world does not yet know.”
“Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -how passionately I hate them!”
Albert Einstein
“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.”
“Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, are both uncivilized and undemocratic”
“The greatest purveyor of violence in the world today -- my own government.”
Martin Luther King Jr.