Quotes about Violence

The greatest power of freedom is to overcome hatred and violence, and turn the creative gifts of men and women to the pursuits of peace.

Where men come to and women come together most intimately in sexuality in the home has become suffused with violence.

They would say well there's always been wars, men have always beaten women. But it isn't true in all cultures. It doesn't have to be true. And the first step is imaging.

I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.

Men could be content to have the kingdom of heaven; but they are loathe to fight for it. They choose rather to go in a feather bed to hell than to be carried to heaven in a 'fiery chariot' of zeal and violence.

Each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins.

Rich dreams now which he was loathe to wake from. Things no longer known in the world. The cold drove him forth to mend the fire. Memory of her crossing the lawn toward the house in the early morning in a thin rose gown that clung to her breasts. He thought each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins. As in a party game. Say the words and pass it on. So be sparing. What you alter in the remembering has yet a reality, known or not.

This country was filled with violent children orphaned by war.

He thought each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins.

The men poured gasoline on them and burned them alive, having no remedy for evil but only for the image of it as they conceived it to be.

But nothing is crueler than a coward, and the slaughter to come is probably beyond our imagining.

Don't flang him off the bluff, boys. Tain't christian. Let's go then. Hump up there, stranger, and let's go get hung.