Violence Quotes - Page 31

• When we dehumanise and demonise our opponents, we abandon the possibility of peacefully resolving our differences, and seek to justify violence against them.

  Nelson Mandela

  Differences, Opponents, Possibility

  Nelson Mandela (2003). “Nelson Mandela: from freedom to the future : tributes and speeches”, Jonathan Ball Publishers

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• The truth comes to rule, not through violence, but rather through its own power; [this is the central theme of John's Gospel:] When brought before Pilate, Jesus professes that He Himself is The Truth and the witness to the truth. He does not defend the truth with legions but rather makes it visible through His Passion and thereby also implements it.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Jesus, Passion, Doe

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• If somebody's in prison for non-violence, drug usage, and never committed a hard crime, they should be pardoned and let out.

  Ron Paul

  Drug, Prison, Crime

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• If we are demoralized, sad and only complain, we’ll not solve our problems. If we only pray for a solution, we’ll not solve our problems. We need to face them, to deal with them without violence, but with confidence - and never give up. If you adopt a non-violent approach, but are also hesitant within, you’ll not succeed. You have to have confidence and keep up your efforts - in other words, never give up.

  Dalai Lama

  Giving Up, Effort, Faces

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• Today, together, let us repeat as our slogan that all trace of violence must disappear from this earth, then the sun will be honey-colored and music good to hear.

  Monique Wittig

  Peace, Together, Earth

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• Constantly worrying about your reflection and criticizing your body, shape and size is an act of violence against yourself.

  Emma Thompson

  Reflection, Worry, Body

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• Yes, always avoid violence. In this age of charity and kindliness, the time has gone by for such things. Leave dynamite to the low and unrefined.

  Mark Twain

  Age, Gone, Charity

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.4158, Delphi Classics

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• Violence begins where knowledge ends.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Ends

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• When a man carries an instrument of violence, he'll always find the justification to use it.

  Brian K. Vaughan

  Men, Use, Justification

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• If we know how much passive violence we perpetrate against one another, we will understand why there is so much physical violence plaguing societies and the world.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  World, Passive, Know How

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• We are assailed by the temptation of the love of money. If you wish to acquire riches ? they are the bait of the fishers hook ? by greed, by trafficking, by violence, by ruse or by excessive manual work that deprives you of leisure for the service of God ? in a word by any other means ? if you have desired to pile up gold or silver, remember what the Gospel says, 'Fool! They will snatch your soul away during the night! Who will get your hoard' (cf. Lk. 12:20)? Again, 'He piles up money without knowing to whom it will go' (Ps. 39:6).

  Pachomius the Great

  Christian, Mean, Night

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• Do not delay in coming to grace, but hasten, lest the robber outstrip you, lest the adulterer pass you by, lest the insatiate be satisfied before you, lest the murderer seize the blessing first, or the publican or the fornicator, or any of these violent ones who take the Kingdom of heaven by force (cf. Mt. 11:12). For it suffers violence willingly, and is tyrannized over through goodness.

  Gregory of Nazianzus

  Christian, Blessing, Cfs

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• Maybe I'm a bad feminist, but I am deeply committed to the issues important to the feminist movement. I have strong opinions about misogyny, institutional sexism that consistently places women at a disadvantage, the inequity in pay, the cult of beauty and thinness, the repeated attacks on reproductive freedom, violence against women, and on and on. I am as committed to fighting fiercely for equality as I am committed to disrupting the notion that there is an essential feminism.

  Roxane Gay

  Inspiring, Strong, Fighting

  "Roxane Gay: the bad feminist manifesto" by Roxane Gay, www.theguardian.com. August 2, 2014.

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• ...we must also acknowledge that the majority of the men and women of our time continue to live daily in situations of insecurity, with dire consequences. Certain pathologies are increasing, with their psychological consequences; fear and desperation grip the hearts of many people, even in the so-called rich countries; the joy of life is diminishing; indecency and violence are on the rise; poverty is becoming more and more evident. People have to struggle to live and, frequently, to live in an undignified way.

  Pope Francis

  Country, Struggle, Heart

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• The stones tear like flesh, rather than breaking. Although what happens is violent, it is a violence that is in stone. A tear is more unnerving than a break.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Artist, Promise, Tears

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• We'll engage in pretty extreme violence in the world but, you know, the one thing that comes to humans as easily as eating or breathing or sleeping, is sex.

  Mark Ruffalo

  Sex, Sleep, Breathing

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• We must have our say, not through violence, aggression or fear. We must speak out calmly and forcefully. We shall only be able to enter the new world era if we agree to engage in dialogue with the other side.

  Tahar Ben Jelloun

  Speaks Out, Engagement, World

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• Let no one consider themselves to be the 'armour' of God while planning and carrying out acts of violence and oppression!

  Pope Francis

  Planning, Oppression, Armour

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• As a society how do we do better and stop things like this happening time after time!! I’m so sorry to these families. Violence is not the answer people. Retaliation isn’t the solution as well.

  LeBron James

  Sorry, People, Answers

  FaceBook post by LeBron James from Nov 25, 2014

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• All politics is a struggle for power; the ultimate kind of power is violence.

  C. Wright Mills

  Struggle, Kind, Ultimate

  C. Wright Mills (2000). “The Power Elite”, p.171, Oxford University Press

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• So it is essential to bring more consciousness into your life in ordinary situations when everything is going relatively smoothly. In this way, you grow in presence power. It generates an energy field in you and around you of a high vibrational frequency. No unconsciousness , no negativity, no discord or violence can enter that field and survive, just as darkness cannot survive in the presence of light.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Light, Negativity, Darkness

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.75, New World Library

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• Violence and war lead only to death.

  Pope Francis

  War, Violence And War

  Pope Francis (2017). “Embracing the Way of Jesus: Reflections from Pope Francis on Living Our Faith”, p.24, Loyola Press

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• It's not the violence of the few that scares me, it's the silence of the many

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Silence, Scare

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• On this International Day of Peace, let us dare to imagine a world free of conflict and violence

  Kofi Annan

  World, Conflict, Imagine

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• Violence will prevail over violence, only when someone can prove to me that darkness can be dispelled by darkness

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Darkness, Prove To Me, Prove

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