Violence Quotes - Page 38

• What is wanted is a deliberate giving up of violence out of strength.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Giving Up, Wanted, Deliberate

  Mahatma Gandhi (1986). “The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Truth and Non-Violence”, Clarendon Press

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• He who achieves power by violence does not truly become lord or master.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Doe, Lord, Achieve

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• Where violence reigns, reason is weak.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Reign, Reason, Weak

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• Most do violence to their natural aptitude, and thus attain superiority in nothing.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Aptitude, Natural, Ability

  Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.20, Shambhala Publications

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• Now at last the slowly gathered, long-pent-up fury of the storm broke upon us. Four or five millions of men met each other in the first shock of the most merciless of all the wars of which record has been kept.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Men, Long

  Winston Churchill (1959). “Memoirs of the Second World War: An Abridgement of the Six Volumes of the Second World War”

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• The same old caveman feeling-greed, envy, violence, and mutual hate, which along the way assumed respectable pseudonyms like class struggle, racial struggle, mass struggle, labor-union struggle-are tearing our world to pieces.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Hate, Struggle, Our World

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• The simple act of an ordinary courageous man is not to take part, not to support lies! Let that come into the world and even reign over it, but not through me. Writers and artists can do more: they can vanquish lies! ... Lies can stand up against much in the world, but not against art.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Art, Lying, Simple

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• It was not the violence of our enemies [in World War I] that would undo us, I thought, but our own spiritual weakness, the shallowness of our convictions.

  Learned Hand

  Spiritual, War, Enemy

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• Suppose that men kill thee, cut thee in pieces, curse thee, what can these things do to prevent thy mind from remaining pure, wise, sober, just?

  Marcus Aurelius

  Wise, Cutting, Men

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.93, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• A child who has been severely punished for sex play is not necessarily less inclined to continue; and a man who has been imprisoned for violent assault is not necessarily less inclined toward violence.

  B. F. Skinner

  Sex, Children, Men

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• Ah, how wonderful is the advent of the Spring!—the great annual miracle.... which no force can stay, no violence restrain, like love, that wins its way and cannot be withstood by any human power, because itself is divine power. If Spring came but once in a century, instead of once a year, or burst forth with the sound of an earthquake, and not in silence, what wonder and expectation would there be in all hearts to behold the miraculous change!... We are like children who are astonished and delighted only by the second-hand of the clock, not by the hour-hand.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Children, Spring, Heart

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• There is a direct connection between violence against the Earth and violence against women.

  Lee Maracle

  Native American, Connections, Earth

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• Redheaded Peckerwood, which unerringly walks the fine line between fiction and nonfiction, is a disturbingly beautiful narrative about unfathomable violence and its place on the land

  Luc Sante

  Beautiful, Land, Nonfiction

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• I have an implicit faith ... that mankind can only be saved through non-violence, which is the central teaching of the Bible, as I have understood the Bible.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Teaching, Mankind, Understood

  Mahatma Gandhi (1977). “Collected Works”

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• Woman, I hold, is the personification of self-sacrifice, but unfortunately today she does not realize what a tremendous advantage she has over man. As Tolstoy used to say, they are laboring under the hypnotic influence of man. If they would realize the strength of non-violence they would not consent to be called the weaker sex.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Sex, Women, Sacrifice

  Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “The Selected Works of Mahatma Gandhi: The voice of truth”

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• My non-violence bids me dedicate myself to the service of the minorities.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Minorities, Non Violence

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.339, Rajpal & Sons

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• If ambitious fantasies make people blush, and sexual fantasies make people blush and feel guilty, fantasies of violence and death may make people blush and feel guilty-and frightened too.

  Judith Viorst

  People, Ambitious, May

  Judith Viorst (2010). “Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex”, p.163, Simon and Schuster

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• There exists, at the bottom of all abasement and misfortune, a last extreme which rebels and joins battle with the forces of law and respectability in a desperate struggle, waged partly by cunning and partly by violence, at once sick and ferocious, in which it attacks the prevailing social order with the pin-pricks of vice and the hammer-blows of crime.

  Victor Hugo

  Depression, Struggle, Blow

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• Battered women is a phrase that uncovered major, long-hidden violence. It helps us to face the fact that, statistically speaking, the most dangerous place for a woman is in her own home, not in the streets.

  Gloria Steinem

  Home, Long, Faces

  Gloria Steinem (1986). “Outrageous acts and everyday rebellions”, New Amer Library

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• Obviously, untangling sex from aggression and violence or the threat of it is going to take a very long time. And the process is going to be greatly resisted as a challenge to the very heart of male dominance and male centrality.

  Gloria Steinem

  Sex, Heart, Aggression And Violence

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions”, p.339, Open Road Media

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• Gentleness succeeds better than violence.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Succeed, Gentleness

  "Fables", VI, 3, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 311, 1922.

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• You have enemies. For who can live on this earth without them? Take heed to yourselves: love them. In no way can your enemy so hurt you by his violence, as you hurt yourself if you love him not.

  Saint Augustine

  Hurt, Self Love, Enemy

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• The violence we do to ourselves in order to remain faithful to the one we love is hardly better than an act of infidelity.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Relationship, Love Is, Order

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• My heart goes out to the families of innocent children who were killed today in Pakistan!! I do not accept a world where kids are killed for wanting an education! This violence and ignorance has to stop!!!! It starts with all of us treating all human beings with dignity and respect!!

  Madonna Ciccone

  Children, Heart, Ignorance

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• Government is violence masquerading as answers to strangers' problems using other peoples' money.

  Dan McCall

  Government, Answers, Problem

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