Quotes about Violence
Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed" (Genesis 9:6; emphasis added).
— Dennis Prager
People have too often valued "proper" religious beliefs more than proper moral behavior, and even slaughtered others for not having the right religious beliefs. This is a common occurrence even in our time.
— Dennis Prager
Therefore, there is no issue here of a holy text depicting people being ordered by their God to kill infidels or innocents.
— Dennis Prager
Studies consistently show that when a school requires its students to wear school uniforms, or even just has a dress code, grades rise and violence declines.
— Dennis Prager
We need rituals for all traumas and loss, whether it is betrayal or infidelity or violence or murder. Ritual helps us heal, and ritual helped me heal and become ready to consider the person who murdered Angela, his story, his pain.
— Desmond Tutu
Until women are deeply involved in opposing the violence in the world, we are not going to bring it to an end. All women must be equally at the forefront of the movements for social justice.
— Desmond Tutu
War is just an effect, not a cause.
— Marianne Williamson
Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.
— Pope John Paul II
When language fails, violence becomes a language; I never had that feeling.
— Elie Wiesel
Our first responsibility in the midst of violence is to prevent it from destroying us.
— Henri Nouwen
The myth of redemptive violence - Caesar, peace, and victory - is in people's bones so deeply, we aren't even aware of it. You crush the opposition; that's how we bring peace.
— Rob Bell
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