(1647 quotes found)
“We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.”
Jim Morrison
“Non-violence is the article of faith.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.”
George Orwell
“The madness of depression is the antithesis of violence. It is a storm indeed, but a storm of murk. Soon evident are the slowed-down responses, near paralysis, psychic energy throttled back close to zero. Ultimately, the body is affected and feels sapped, drained.”
William Styron
“It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.”
“The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.”
Bill Cosby
“The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked (Proverbs 10:11).”
Bible
“The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by often falling”
Lucretius
“Education is a vaccine for violence.”
Edward James Olmos
“Nobody can hurt me without my permission.”
