1,621 Quotes About Violence

Creating peace is our responsibility. To pray for peace while still engaging in the causes that give rise to violence is contradictory.

Words are the new violence. Mouth is the new gun.

Hold his tongue and he will shoot. Hold his gun and he will shout.

Nations that take pride in or glorify war, violence and death are sick societies. When unbridled patriotism trumps humanity, peace, justice & rationality, it becomes a poisonous cancer that is both abhorrent as well as mortiferous.

Marko: No matter what mistakes you've see your daddy make, violence---magical or otherwise---is never acceptable.Petrichor: Nonsense, Marko. Violence is often essential: in self-defense, the arts foreplay...Hazel: I want to four-play!

He remembered the flames and the silence and in a moment of wisdom understood what the power he contemplated was in truth: a great mouth, hungry and merciless, that would devour the world if it could. Because no cause stood in absolute justice, and every victory came with a price paid in blood.

Why guards quoted this nonsense to justify themselves was beyond her. The whole point of occupying a position of power was that you got to do what you wanted with impunity. It seemed a waste of time to bother with rationalizations.

Hate's not functional; why are we taught it?

In the South, we knew our adversary would stop at nothing to silence our activism. We knew we could never match his readiness to annihilate our resistance. So we ceded him that ground and challenged him instead to defend himself against the work of loving peace.