1,621 Quotes About Violence

We should have realized it sooner, at least my father should have, that there was no coming back. Not in September when the riots died down, not in October when the subcontinent still lay in shock, not even in November as he had hoped and promised us. Lahore was now lost forever

A sense of solidarity among fifteen-to-thirty-year-olds would be a menace to civilized society even in the best of times.

Someone said to me the other day, 'you speak of peace because you are afraid to fight'. I smiled and replied, you are absolutely right, I am terrified of fighting, you know why, because if I raise my hands at someone, there'll be no trace of them left. It's ridiculously easily to take life, especially for a biologist with martial arts training, but what makes a human is the capacity to give life.

Violence does not solve violence.

People falsely believe they can put out violence toward fellow earthlings and still expect to get treated fairly. Fair treatment will never happen until we can learn to fairly treat.. This is the foundation stone from which just anarchism must arise.

Stabbing a knife in someone's throat is clearly "wrong". Doesn't matter if that "someone" is furred, feathered, scaled or a smooth skinned biped. Violently ending the life of someone who does not wish to die, will go against the conscience of all who have not been desensitised to the act..

Where you need to be calm, you burst out in rage, and where you need to be on fire, you remain indifferent.

When you find someone committing harm, restrain them, but don't do harm in return. Animals behave the way they do, because they can't help themselves, but humans must be better than that.

Revolution is accountability in action, violence is selfishness in action.