(1647 quotes found)
“Nothing good ever comes of violence.”
Martin Luther
“Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that's better left unsaid.”
Bob Dylan
“Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies.”
Joseph Addison
“I believe that the very effort to convert anybody is violence, it is interfering in his individuality, in his uniqueness, into his freedom. ”
Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
“If you succumb to the temptation of using violence in the struggle, unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and desolate night of bitterness, and your chief legacy to the future will be an endless reign of meaningless chaos.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“In violence, we forget who we are”
Mary McCarthy
“Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes”
Murray Edelman
“The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.”
Ulysses S. Grant
“Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.”
Mohandas Gandhi
“The most terrible thing about materialism, even more terrible than its proneness to violence, is its boredom, from which sex, alcohol, drugs, all devices for putting out the accusing light of reason and suppressing the unrealizable aspirations of love, offer a prospect of deliverance.”
Malcolm Muggeridge