Violence Quotes - Page 22

• If someone is killing, on a regular basis, thousands of animals, and if that person can only be stopped in one way by the use of violence, then it is certainly a morally justifiable solution.

  Jerry Vlasak

  Animal, Use, Way

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• I think that violence and nonviolence are not moral principles, they’re tactics.

  Jerry Vlasak

  Thinking, Principles, Tactics

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• I don’t have any doubt in my mind that there will come a time when we will see violence against animal rights abusers.

  Jerry Vlasak

  Animal, Rights, Doubt

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• You can justify, from a political standpoint, any type of violence you want to use.

  Jerry Vlasak

  Political, Use, Want

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• The ego is exploitation; love is service. And the service that flows from love, freely and spontaneously, is non-violence.

  Rajneesh

  Love Is, Ego, Flow

  Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, Osho, Krishna Prem (Swami.) (1984). “The Long and the Short and the All”, Osho International Foundation

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• Everyone in the world should sleep without fear at least for one night, sleep without fear. Everyone in the world should eat to their fill, at least for one day, eat to their fill. There should be one day when there is no violence, no one is injured, no one is harmed. All people young and old should serve the poor and needy, at least for one day serve selflessly. This is my dream....this is my prayer. Love is the answer, love is the way. Love is the answer, love is the way.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Love, Dream, Prayer

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• It is not given to man to know the whole Truth. His duty lies in living up to the truth as he sees it, and in doing so, to resort to the purest means, i.e., to non-violence. God alone knows absolute truth. Therefore, I have often said, Truth is God. It follows that man, a finite being, cannot know absolute truth. Nobody in this world possesses absolute truth. This is God's attribute alone. Relative truth is all we know. Therefore, we can only follow the truth as we see it. Such pursuit of truth cannot lead anyone astray.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Truth, Lying, Mean

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• Jesus himself, and most of the message of the Gospels, is a message of service to the poor, a critique of the rich and the powerful, and a pacifist doctrine. And it remained that way, that's what Christianity was up... until Constantine. :Constantine shifted it so the cross, which was the symbol of persecution of somebody working for the poor, was put on the shield of the Roman Empire. It became the symbol for violence and oppression, and that's pretty much what the church has been until the present.

  Noam Chomsky

  Jesus, Powerful, Church

  "Science in the Dock". Science & Theology News Interview, chomsky.info. March 1, 2006.

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• Violence often brings about momentary results.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Results, Peace And Justice

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1968). “I Have a Dream: The Quotations of Martin Luther King, Jr”

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• A second way that oppressed people sometimes deal with oppression is to resort to physical violence and corroding hatred.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, People, Hatred

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1964). “A Martin Luther King Treasury”

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• Violence is not the way.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Way

  Sermon at Temple Israel of Hollywood, delivered 26 February 1965

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• The principle of nonviolent resistance seeks to reconcile the truths of two opposites-Acquiescence and violence -while avoiding the extremes and immoralities of both.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Opposites, Two

  "Stride Toward Freedom". Book by Martin Luther King, Jr., November 30, 1957.

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• A belief in moral absolutes should always make us more, not less, critical of both sides in any conflict. This doesn't mean that both sides are equally wrong; it means that since we all fall short of moral perfection, even the side whose cause is truly righteous may commit terrible acts of violence in defense of that cause -- and, worse, may feel quite justified in committing them. That is the difference between being righteous and being self-righteous. Moral standards are absolute; but human fidelity to them is always relative.

  Joseph Sobran

  Fall, Mean, Self

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• It is a sound interpretive rule...that anything that cannot be accomplished except with the aid of threats or the actual exercise of violence against unoffending persons cannot be beneficial to one and all.

  Robert Higgs

  Exercise, Sound, Aids

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• Despite what your momma told you, Violence does solve problems.

  Chris Kyle

  Doe, Problem, Your Mom

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• The gun livens things up. The colonized European comes alive, not to the subject and problem of the violence of our circumstances, but because all armed actions subjects the force of circumstances to the force of events.

  Andreas Baader

  Gun, Nihilism, Events

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• If the adjustment made by a court can be accepted or not, it will be refused whenever the men can gain more by continuing the strike, with whatever of violence that involves.

  John Bates Clark

  Men, Gains, Accepted

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• Liberating Iraq from a legacy of violence and putting it on the path to peace and prosperity will take time.

  George Voinovich

  Peace, Iraq, Legacy

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• It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death.

  Elijah Cummings

  Journey, Rights, Hymns

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• PANTOMIME, n. A play in which the story is told without violence to the language. The least disagreeable form of dramatic action.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Play, Stories, Action

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.179, University of Georgia Press

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• The function of law and theology are the same: to keep the poor from taking back by violence what the rich have stolen by cunning.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Law, Rich, Poor

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• However, don't let these statistics mislead you, gang violence is not limited to California and or big urban areas - that might have been true a while ago but it is no longer the case today.

  Bob Filner

  California, Statistics, Might

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• I told the students that we can exert pressure without resorting to violence, and that we can move towards democracy without violence; that way, God will allow it.

  Abdurrahman Wahid

  Moving, Democracy, Pressure

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• Violence is always the last option, but if that time comes, it is the only option.

  Sir John Gilmour, 2nd Baronet

  Lasts, Ifs

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• Mediocrity is no answer to violence. In fact, it probably invites violence. At least the mediocre and the violent appear together as in the old Western movies - the ruffian outlaw band shooting up main street and the little white church with the little white schoolteacher wringing her hands. To cool violence you need rhythm, humor, tempering; you need dance and rhetoric. Not therapeutic understanding.

  James Hillman

  Hands, White, Understanding

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