Quotes About Responding To Violence

#1. Loving your enemy. Doing good things for evil people. Never taking vengeance. Responding to violence with nonviolent love - even if it brings suffering. These are not options, but the primary character traits of those who claim to follow a crucified God.

Preston Sprinkle

#2. People want poetry and need it - we need what's not honored by the corporate mentality that has taken over. It gives people a language for responding to the violence, the shallowness, the near-nothings, the toys we're all supposed to want. It's a way for people to be able to connect with themselves.

Joan Larkin

#3. Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict
alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.

Dorothy Thompson

#4. Pleasure which must be enjoyed at the expense of another's pain, can never be enjoyed by a worthy mind. Pleasure's couch is virtues grave.

Augustine Joseph Hickey Duganne

#5. It is better to have no emotion when it is work. Do what needs to be done, and do it coolly.

Louis L'Amour

#6. Poetry is like a beef bouillon cube; it's hardly ever needed (or perhaps never needed at all); it sits in its precious wrapper, well out of view, until everyone has forgotten it's there.

Joe Wenderoth

#7. Being aware is a lot more than just reading a couple of news articles and talking about it on your preferred social network.

Noelle Scaggs

#8. Touch me
It's so easy to leave me
All alone with my memory
Of my days in the sun
If you touch me
You'll understand what happiness is
Look, a new day has began

T. S. Eliot

#9. My parents have lived longer than most and have expected very little. We have been blessed in too many ways to count.

Ralph Webster

#10. I grew up in a place that felt very integrated.

Craig Brewer

#11. The air swirled into darkness around Paran. He blinked, saw the trees of the estate garden rising before him.

Steven Erikson

#12. He puts the killing thing in his mouth but doesn't give it the power to kill him.

John Green