Avoid Violence Quotes

#1. Pirates worked to avoid violence and fighting.

Robert Kurson

#2. You have a right against any forms of domestic violence.
Protect your life.
Protect your family and love ones.
Mutual respect and love are main keys to avoid violence.
~ Angelica Hopes, Life Issues

Angelica Hopes

#3. I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man's problem just to avoid violence.

Malcolm X

#4. 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

#5. Peace is not just the mere absence of violence or disturbance. It's when there is a possibility of conflict, but you deliberately avoid violence and adopt methods to solve the problem through peaceful means. That is real peace.

Dalai Lama

#6. Moralists advise us all to avoid violence, of course, but only insofar as this is possible. They authorize us, at least tacitly, to reply to obvious provocations by the measured counterviolence that I described earlier, and which seems to us always justified.

Rene Girard

#7. If we can avoid doing violence to the minds of unseen others on the internet, others will learn to do the same. And then perhaps our internet traffic will cease to look like one great, bloody accident.

Timothy Snyder

#8. I like so many different kinds of chick flicks. I like rom-coms, I like female friendship movies.

Drew Barrymore

#9. My words like eyes that flinch from light, refuse And shut upon obscurity; my acts Cast to their opposites by impatient violence Break up the sequent path; they fly On a circumference to avoid the centre.

Stephen Spender

#10. The unsparing savagery of stories like the Robber Bridegroom is a sharp reminder that fairy tales belong to the childhood of culture as much as the culture of childhood ... they capture anxieties and fantasies that have deep roots in childhood experience

Maria Tatar

#11. The argument of socialists, that people really want to share, beyond a reasonable level of charity, is rubbish, though it is espoused by a lot of rich, pious hypocrites who want to share only enough to avoid widespread starvation, mob violence, and government seizure of more of their incomes.

Conrad Black

#12. The excellent fail more often than the mediocre.

Eric Greitens

#13. We have to promote human solidarity, avoid indifference, and play a part with society in the solution of the problem of violence ...

Shakira

#14. It is not the truth which has to be sought, it is you who have to be brought home.

Osho

#15. When it comes to men, it's often easier done than said.

Michele Weiner-Davis

#16. Though the body is its
genesis, a poem is the vision of a process
Out of ceaseless motion in edgeless space
Carved in space, vision your poor eye's single
armor against winter spring summer fall

Frank Bidart

#17. Pacifism in the face of war is not only irresponsible - it is immoral. Refusing to meet force with force in the name of peace will beget not peace, but further death and destruction, the very violence the pacifists seek to avoid.

David Limbaugh

#18. We are a society of excuses, shame and blame; we avoid accountability and often project our responsibility when involving domestic violence.

Asa Don Brown

#19. We must come together in ways that respect the solitude of the soul that avoid the unconscious violence we do when we try to save each other that evoke our capacity to hold another life without dishonoring its mystery never trying to coerce the other into meeting our own needs.

Parker J. Palmer

#20. There are many ways to roll with the punches. Still, it's probably best to avoid people who punch you.

Alex Bosworth

#21. Respect the delicate ecology of your delusions.

Tony Kushner

#22. I will not look at another's bowl intent on finding fault: a training to be observed.

Gautama Buddha

#23. The free person does not live by an unexamined faith. To do so is to worship an idol whittled out and made into a fetish.

James Luther Adams

#24. To enter others' minds and let them enter yours.

Marcus Aurelius

#25. Looked at objectively, it is clear that the overwhelming majority of civilian deaths resulting from political violence are produced by what should be understood as "state terror." Terrorism also serves as an excuse to avoid diplomacy and the peaceful resolution of conflict.

Richard A. Falk

#26. I avoid all the language and nudity and violence and everything. I have enough of that at home.

Tim Conway

#27. I am deeply worried because we are seeing an unleashing of violence by 2,000 to 3,000 thugs who come to smash and loot. My objective is to avoid mistakes by the police, so that people can protest in safety.

Nicolas Sarkozy

#28. Some primitive societies avoid striking out at the true guilty party because it might awaken the spirit of vengeance. Channeling violence toward a sacrificial victim as if toward a lightning rod doubtless stops violence, but it's not very pretty.

Rene Girard

#29. The implication that women as a category are unreliable and that false rape charges are the real issue is used to silence individual women and to avoid discussing sexual violence, and to make out men as the principal victims.

Rebecca Solnit

#30. - I used to love you.
- What's changed?
- You.
- No. Now you see me. That's all.

Sarah Kane