Quotes about Violence
Violence is spiritual junk food, and boredom is spiritual anorexia.
— Peter Kreeft
Black people are victims of an enormous amount of violence. None of those things can take place without the complicity of the people who run the schools and the city.
— Toni Morrison
Hate begets hate; violence begets violence; toughness begets a greater toughness. We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
In each of us, there lies a divine connection to a power more powerful than hate or violence. Today is the day to attune to that power and use it on behalf of peace on earth.
— Marianne Williamson
you can't say civilization dont advance, in every war they kill you in a new way
— Will Rogers
Even a highwayman, in the way of trade, may blow out your brains, but if he uses foul language at the same time, I should say he was no gentleman.
— William Hazlitt
Self-deception is an indispensable element of war, and that despite the fact that wars are calculated and planned, there is a sense in which human beings do not know what they are doing when they cut one another down on the battlefield.
— David Livingstone Smith
Like it or not, war is distinctively human. Apart from the raiding behavior of chimpanzees and the so-called wars prosecuted by certain species of ant, there is nothing in nature that comes anywhere near approximating it.
— David Livingstone Smith
Kill them all in the Name of the Lord.
— Jerry Falwell
There isn't a violent soul on the planet that God might not save and transform for himself.
— Matt Chandler
Our Lord God doesn't do great things except by violence, as they say
— Martin Luther
In a world where the name of God is sometimes associated with vengeance and even a duty of hatred and violence, this message is both timely and significant.
— Pope John Paul II