Quotes About Justified Violence

#1. There'll always be small, bitter people ready to follow some charismatic leader who promises them peace and happiness through justified violence and the killing of scapegoats.

Simon R. Green

#2. I am committed to the principle that violence is never justified as a means of ameliorating a grievance.

Justin Sane

#3. I think violence can never be justified.

Abbas Kiarostami

#4. No system of regulation can safely be substituted for the operation of individual liberty as expressed in competition.

Louis D. Brandeis

#5. From pacifist to terrorist, each person condemns violence - and then adds one cherished case in which it may be justified.

Gloria Steinem

#6. In myth, violent death is always justified.

Rene Girard

#7. He who asserts his own views is not distinguished;

Lao-Tzu

#8. The use of violence is justified only under a tyranny which makes reforms without violence impossible, and should have only one aim, that is, to bring about a state of affairs which makes reforms without violence possible.

Karl Popper

#9. The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one
soul, and he has got dozens.

D.H. Lawrence

#10. I am not an absolute pacifist, because I can't rule out the possibility that under some, carefully defined circumstances, some degree of violence may be justified, if it is focused directly at a great evil.

Howard Zinn

#11. No-one wants to see violence of any kind on our streets, certainly not any violence that's justified by extreme nationalist ideas or that targets people because of their religion.

Tim Soutphommasane

#12. For me personally and for most other Americans, this commitment to peace and diplomacy does not imply a blind or total pacifism. There are times when war is justified, and for many centuries the moral criteria for violence have been carefully delineated.

Jimmy Carter

#13. A baby smiles between fifty and seventy times a day, and a toddler approximately six hundred times, according to research. I'm sure some of us have asked ourselves where that smile goes. What robs us of it? - GOLDIE HAWN, 10 Mindful Minutes

Joseph Emet

#14. Feeling sympathy and searching for explanations isn't the same as believing that the violence is justified.

Tariq Ramadan

#15. The incident does not mean that most Japanese were not appalled by Aum. It does suggest that many young adults viewed their society as so corrupt and hypocritical that any degree of mockery, if not violence against it, was justified.

Robert Jay Lifton

#16. Although under particular circumstances, the violence method - any method - can be justified, nevertheless once you commit violence, then counterviolence will be returned.

Dalai Lama

#17. In a world wounded by conflicts, where violence is justified in God's name, it's important to repeat that religion can never become a vehicle of hatred, it can never be used in God's name to justify violence.

Pope Benedict XVI

#18. Look on education as something between the child's soul and God. Modern Education tends to look on it as something between the child's brain and the standardized test.

Charlotte Mason

#19. 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

#20. Dignity does not come from avenging insults, especially from violence that can never be justified. It comes from taking responsibility and advancing our common humanity.

Hillary Clinton

#21. A person (or an animal) who feels there are no alternatives will fight even when violence isn't justified, even when the consequences are perceived as unfavorable, and even when the ability to prevail is low.

Gavin De Becker

#22. I use computers and the Internet every day of my life, and yet I have absolutely no idea how they work. I'm like a labrador watching 'The Matrix.'

John Niven