Quotes About Not Using Violence

#1. These [Arab] youth who have been inspired by universal values are idealistic enough to imagine a magnificent future and, at the same time, realistic enough to balance this kind of imagination and the process leading to it - not using violence, not trying to create chaos.

Wadah Khanfar

#2. I don't believe in revenge. It's unnecessary. I prefer using a very discreet psychological intervention topped of with a short burst of extreme violence!

Jose N. Harris

#3. The challenges should be familiar. They should have some relationship to the feelings - like, if a movie's about being demoralized at work, it should feel familiar to people, whether you're a roofer or a lifeguard. But there's a million different ways to be demoralized, especially at work.

Steven Conrad

#4. And we've also had now the speaker of the Parliament in Iraq using blatantly anti-Semitic remarks, saying the Jews and sons of Jews are the problem of all the violence that's in Iraq.

Jan Schakowsky

#5. By using violence to subjugate one another we are using violence against our own souls.

Mahatma Gandhi

#6. Love has a timeframe all of its own and love never dies. It is eternal. There is no end. There is no rush. There is no hurrying it. It waits patiently. It waits because it knows that there is no end and that like the sea it comes and goes.

Kate McGahan

#7. The individual that believes God permits a man to hit a woman or speak to her using abusive language, is void of understanding who God is. He condemns violence in any form.

Ellen J. Barrier

#8. Most times you only have to be Brave ENOUGH.

Andrea T. Goeglein

#9. Word of advice," the Colonel said from the other side. "Don't tease the zombies.

Peter Watts

#10. What I think we need to do is infuse everyday and every action with the kind of values we hope will be in the future, with kindness, with nurturing, with dreams, ambition, using your talents, not resorting to violence, other forms of conflict resolution, with humor, with poetry, with music.

Gloria Steinem

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Behati Prinsloo

#12. If you succumb to the temptation of using violence in the struggle, unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and desolate night of bitterness, and your chief legacy to the future will be an endless reign of meaningless chaos.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#13. Without democracy there is no freedom. Violence, no matter who is using it, is always reactionary.

Friedrich Ebert

#14. There's less violence in the world when people are using Hula-Hoops.

Mikey Way

#15. Slavery is what slavery's always been: About one person controlling another person using violence and then exploiting them economically, paying them nothing. That's what slavery's about

Kevin Bales

#16. Washington State has a strong tradition of a positive relationship - positive working relationship between labor and management, whether in the private sector or the public sector. It needs to continue to be that way.

Rob McKenna

#17. I breath wrestling. It's in my blood. I have kind of a confidence when I walk ...

Kane

#18. Do not conquer the world with force, for force only causes resistance. Thorns spring up when an army passes. Years of misery follow a great victory. Do only what needs to be done without using violence.

Lao-Tzu

#19. I used to say, "I sure hope things will change." Then I learned that the only way things are going to change for me is when I change

Jim Rohn

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

Dan McCall

#21. I mean, you really can't imagine how awesome coffee tastes, or how awesome it is to hear music, to hear idiots talking ... I mean, it hurts. Everything hurts. But everything in the world is so awesome that sometimes I just can't stand it.

Adam Selzer

#22. I don't believe in using too much graphic violence, although I've done it. It's better to be suggestive and to allow the viewer to fill in the blanks in their minds.

Tobe Hooper

#23. Cooking for my son is a challenge. I have to feed him right. He can't eat French fries and candy every day.

Kym Whitley

#24. When you vote, you are exercising political authority, you're using force. And force, my friends, is violence. The supreme authority from which all other authorities are derived.

Robert A. Heinlein

#25. To fight tyranny and oppression by using tyrannical and oppressive means, to combat a single-minded and ruthless fanaticism by becoming equally fanatical and ruthless, will not further the cause of justice or bring about a meaningful democracy. It can only prolong the cycle of violence.

Tariq Ali

#26. If one's cause is supported by sound reasoning, there is no point in using violence. It is those who have no motive other than selfish desire and who cannot achieve their goal through logical reasoning who rely on force.

Dalai Lama

#27. Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

James Joyce

#28. Nikolas was his Morning Star and nothing Nikolas now said or did could lessen the brilliance of his fallen grace.

John Wiltshire

#29. Every time I am in the dark and a bit of light falls on me, I see a bit of you in my shadows. There is always a bit of you in every song I hear, in every thought I conceive, in every rain that I drench in, in every star that I stare at in the sky every night and in every breeze that touches me.

Akshay Vasu

#30. I never knew any of these people who were using my name, if I had a fiver for every time my name was used for protective purposes by these people to ward off trouble then I'd be a millionaire many times over by now.

Stephen Richards

#31. The Jihad is not just a way of testing yourself but also means using violence to spread Islam.

Bassam Tibi

#32. Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#33. Opting for peace does not mean a passive acquiescence to evil or compromise of principle. It demands an active struggle against hatred, oppression and disunity, but not by using methods of violence. Building peace requires creative and courageous action

Pope John Paul II

#34. To punish failure is yet another way to encourage mediocrity.

Michael Eisner