Quotes about Violence
Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
— Ayn Rand
I mean in the South African case, many of those who were part of death squads would have been respectable members of their white community, people who went to church on Sunday, every Sunday.
— Desmond Tutu
The crime and violence in the black community is a prime example of the damaging effect of broken families and single female-headed households.
— Jesse Lee Peterson
Violence is a crime against humanity, for it destroys the very fabric of society.
— Pope John Paul II
The Bible tells us, for instance, that there is going to be a cashless society. The Bible tells us that there is going to be global instability and excessive violence in the End Times.
— Greg Laurie
So long as there are men, there will be wars.
— Albert Einstein
I believe the gun has no power because a gun can only kill, but a pen can give life.
— Malala Yousafzai
War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.
— Jimmy Carter
We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.
— Jimmy Carter
Again, where the people are absolute rulers of the land, they rejoice in having the openness and exuberance of youth, while a tyrant counts this a danger, and seeks to slay or silence those possessed of spirit, while the discreet fear his power and violence.
— Euripides
Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.
— Pope John Paul II
The dropping of bombs on people - isn't that terrorism?
— Alice Walker