Violence Quotes

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People who fight with fire usually end up in ashes. - Abigail Van Buren quote.
People who fight with fire usually end up in ashes.
The aftermath of violence is always bitterness; the aftermath of nonviolence is the creation of the beloved community so that when the battle is over, it's over, and a new love and a new understanding and a new relationship comes into being between the oppressed and the oppressor. - Martin Luther King Jr. quote.
The aftermath of violence is always bitterness; the aftermath of nonviolence is the creation of the beloved community so that when the battle is over, it's over, and a new love and a new understanding and a new relationship comes into being between the oppressed and the oppressor.
Martin Luther King Jr. Palm Sunday sermon on Mahatma Gandhi, March 22, 1959. Delivered at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama

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The aftermath of nonviolence is the creation of the beloved community, while the aftermath of violence is tragic bitterness. - Martin Luther King Jr. quote.
The aftermath of nonviolence is the creation of the beloved community, while the aftermath of violence is tragic bitterness.

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The aftermath of nonviolence is the creation of the beloved community. The aftermath of nonviolence is redemption. The aftermath of nonviolence is reconciliation. The aftermath of violence are emptiness and bitterness. - Martin Luther King Jr. quote.
The aftermath of nonviolence is the creation of the beloved community. The aftermath of nonviolence is redemption. The aftermath of nonviolence is reconciliation. The aftermath of violence are emptiness and bitterness.

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I never intend to become adjusted to the madness of militarism and the self-defeating method of physical violence. I call upon you to be maladjusted. - Martin Luther King Jr. quote.
I never intend to become adjusted to the madness of militarism and the self-defeating method of physical violence. I call upon you to be maladjusted.
Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived. - Abraham Lincoln quote.
Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.

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I am never proud to participate in violence, yet I know that each of us must care enough for ourselves to be ready and able to come to our own defense. - Maya Angelou quote.
I am never proud to participate in violence, yet I know that each of us must care enough for ourselves to be ready and able to come to our own defense.
There's a bit of ancient wisdom that appeals to us: it's a saying that a fight starts only with the second blow. - Hugh Allen quote.
There's a bit of ancient wisdom that appeals to us: it's a saying that a fight starts only with the second blow.

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Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. - Isaac Asimov quote.
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

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Violence is a tool of the ignorant.
Take away the violence and who will hear the men of peace? - Lorraine Hansberry quote.
Take away the violence and who will hear the men of peace?

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He who throws a bomb and kills a pedestrian, declares that as a victim of society he has rebelled against society. But could not the poor victim object: "Am I society?"

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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 quote.
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.

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Perhaps violence, like pornography, is some kind of evolutionary standby system, a last-resort device for throwing a wild joker into the game? - J.G. Ballard quote.
Perhaps violence, like pornography, is some kind of evolutionary standby system, a last-resort device for throwing a wild joker into the game?
The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence. - Joan Baez quote.
The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence.
I say violence is necessary.  It is as American as cherry pie. - H. Rap Brown quote.
I say violence is necessary.  It is as American as cherry pie.
Just as violence is the last refuge of the inarticulate, so it is also the first resort of the incompetent, the easy out for the man who is capable of expressing himself only in the most primitive and vulgar of dramatic terms.
Judith Crist The Private Eye, the Cowboy, and the Very Naked Girl: Movies from Cleo to Clyde
Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another. - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle quote.
Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
Men are rewarded for learning the practice of violence in virtually any sphere of activity by money, admiration, recognition, respect, and the genuflection of others honoring their sacred and proven masculinity. - Andrea Dworkin quote.
Men are rewarded for learning the practice of violence in virtually any sphere of activity by money, admiration, recognition, respect, and the genuflection of others honoring their sacred and proven masculinity.
In violence, we forget who we are. - Mary McCarthy quote.
In violence, we forget who we are.
Violence is like a weed—it does not die even in the greatest drought.
Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create. - Pope John Paul II quote.
Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.

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