Violence Quotes - Page 2

I believe that Gandhi’s views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time. We should strive to do things in his spirit: not to use violence in fighting for our cause, but by non-participation in anything you believe is evil.

He, who thought it necessary to maintain himself in her good graces, strove to console her under her disappointment by committing a little violence upon truth.

I can kill a bad guy, but I can't save anyone. I'm not a hero. All I am is a killer. A dead killer who shit his pants.

Violence is spiritual junk food, and boredom is spiritual anorexia.

Among peoples who possess a highly developed pugnacious instinct we find the greatest progress in the arts, sciences, social and political organization, commerce and industry. The instinct takes the milder form of rivalry which is the motive force of the great portion of the serious labors of mankind.

Johannes had once said that violence and cruelty were just a stupid person's way of making himself felt, because it was easer to use your hands to strike a blow than to use your brain to find a logical and just solution to the problem.

Everyone who is not happy must be shot.

If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?

I forgive you," I said. I said what I had to. I would die by pieces to save myself from real death.

If you remembered somebody was as real as yourself, how could you kill anybody?

People were excited by violence. What, after all, was the sexual act but a voluntarily endured assault, a momentary death?

It is brutal. Only I never could see the sense in having folks look at your tombstone and say, 'He was a man who didn't believe in violence, He's a good man... and dead.

A place where something so terrible had happened shouldn't continue to exist in the world

This world’s anguish is no different
from the love we insist on holding back.

The problem with our society is that our values aren’t in the right place. There’s an awful lot of bleeding and naked bodies on prime-time networks, but not nearly enough cable television on public programming.

In a world gushing blood day and night, you never stop mopping up pain.

A violent order is disorder; and a great disorder is an order.
These two things are one.

...always-
the sharp,
plaintive edge
on the rim
of the spoon
of my giving.
(lines 8-13 of the poem 'Confessions')

There is only a certain amount of wealth in the world, this thinking goes. Economics is a matter of acquiring and allocating, not creating. This was the view of the world’s smartest people, all top philosophers and not stupid people, for many thousands of years before the age of the enlightenment. It still is.

I crave for knowledge. I envy tolerant, peaceful folks. I am frightened by ignorance. I loathe violence.