Profoundly inspirational violence quotes will encourage you to think a little deeper than you usually would and broaden your perspective.
Famous Violence Quotes
Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Martin Luther King, Jr
As long as people use violence to combat violence, we will always have violence.
Violence is the weapon of weak, non violence that of the strong. Mahatma Gandhi
Violence is not a catalyst but a diversion. Joseph Conrad
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. Isaac Asimov
The sight of blood to crowds begets the thirst of more, As the first wine cup leads to the long revel. Lord Byron
The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it. Bill Cosby
Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Nothing good ever comes of violence. Martin Luther
A man with a briefcase can steal millions more than any man with a gun. Don Henley
Violence ends up defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers. Martin Luther King, Jr
A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the football field, or in the conduct of its business, cannot help making celebrities of the people who would destroy it. Lewis H. Lapham
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. Richard Grenier
object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent. Mahatma Gandhi
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. John F. Kennedy
I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if we do not stop being violent we have no future. Edward Bond
The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence, you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence, you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. Martin Luther King, Jr.
If you strike a child, take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk of maiming it for life. A blow in cold blood neither can nor should be forgiven.
George Bernard Shaw
The State calls its own violence, law; but that of the individual, crime. Max Stirner
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. George Orwell
Violence is not merely killing another. It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person, when we obey because there is fear. So violence isn’t merely organized butchery in the name of God, in the name of society or country. Violence is much more subtle, much deeper, and we are inquiring into the very depths of violence. Jiddu Krishnamurti
We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict. Jim Morrison
Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nonviolence doesn’t always work but violence never does. Isaac Asimov
Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love but to use violence to get what they want. Mother Teresa
Violence and smut are of course everywhere on the airwaves. You cannot turn on your television without seeing them, although sometimes you have to hunt around. Dave Barry
Violence isn’t always evil. What’s evil is the infatuation with violence Jim Morrison
What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another? Alan Paton
When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her. Oscar Wilde
Those who ‘abjure’ violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf. George Orwell
Violence is an admission that one’s ideas and goals cannot prevail on their own merits. Edward Kennedy
All violence is the result of people tricking themselves into believing that their pain derives from other people and that consequently, those people deserve to be punished. Marshall B. Rosenberg
Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding. Ralph Waldo Emerson
I don’t even call it violence when it’s in self defense; I call it intelligence. Malcolm X
The sword of murder is not the balance of justice. Julia Ward Howe
Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages. Thomas Jefferson
You must show the world that you abhor fighting. Bishop Desmond Tutu
Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Violence of the tongue is very real sharper than any knife. Teresa Giudice
Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power’s disappearance. Hannah Arendt
Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. Mao Zedong
In America all too few blows are struck into flesh. We kill the spirit here, we are experts at that. We use psychic bullets and kill each other cell by cell. Norman Mailer
Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him. Martin Luther King, Jr.
We must unite. Violence against women cannot be tolerated, in any form, in any context, in any circumstance, by any political leader or by any government. Ban Ki moon
In violence, we forget who we are Mary McCarthy
More and more leaders around the world are joining the struggle. More and more individuals understand that any abuse of any woman is intolerable. Asha Rose Migiro
Through violence, you may murder the hater, but you do not murder the hate. Martin Luther King, Jr.
If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month. Theodore Roosevelt
Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding. Albert Einstein
There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit. Napoleon Bonaparte
Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction. Martin Luther King, Jr.
