Top 40 Resort To Violence Quotes
#2. Berdyaev remarks that "no one ever proposes evil ends: evil is always disguised as good, and detracts from the good."[49] Yet the resort to violence is precisely where evil seeps in. Besides,
Alexandre Christoyannopoulos
#3. As a tactic, violence is absurd. No one can compete with the Government in violence, and the resort to violence, which will surely fail, will simply frighten and alienate some who can be reached, and will further encourage the ideologists and administrators of forceful repression.
Noam Chomsky
#4. If the only option you leave poor people with is to resort to violence in order to survive, they'll do just that. And there are lots more poor people in this world than there are rich ones.
Michael Monroe
#5. On my knees, I beg of you to turn away from the paths of violence and to return to the path of peace. Those who resort to violence always claim that only violence brings about change. You must know there is a political, peaceful way to justice.
Pope John Paul II
#6. If you're ever in a dark place, don't resort to violence. Talk to someone; whether it be a therapist, teacher, parent, or just someone you can trust. We all have our dark places and it's important that you get help.
Gerard Way
#7. It shocked his sense of dramatic economy that they should have to resort to violence when the same result could have been obtained by a minimum expenditure of energy.
Hope Mirrlees
#8. This fearful grief has grown familiar to me since I first felt it at the start of World War II, but at each of its returns it is worse. Each new resort to violence enlarges the argument against our species, and the task of hope becomes harder. I
Wendell Berry
#9. When you resort to violence to prove a point, you've just experienced a profound failure of imagination.
Sherman Alexie
#10. I'm a very great non-violent character. I would never resort to violence to change anything.
Bob Brown
#11. If you have to resort to violence, you've already lost.
Sean Connery
#12. Two days overdue, THE WORLD'S WORK has not reached me. Pray make a note of this. I would rather not have to resort to violence.
Mark Twain
#13. Must we vampires always resort to violence so quickly? Could we not just all sit down over a "refreshing Bud Light" and "just chill," as my television and my teammates relentlessly urge me to do?
Beth Fantaskey
#14. It is useful to remember that no matter where we turn, there is rarely any shortage of elevated ideals to accompany the resort to violence.
Noam Chomsky
#15. I myself am a very nonviolent person and only resort to violence when I absolutely have to.
Steven Seagal
#16. A second way that oppressed people sometimes deal with oppression is to resort to physical violence and corroding hatred.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#17. Violence is stupid. Even as a last resort, it only ever begets more of the same.
Brian K. Vaughan
#18. So many things fail to interest us, simply because they don't find in us enough surfaces on which to live, and what we have to do is to increase the number of planes in our mind, so that a much larger number of themes can find a place in it at the same time
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#19. Perhaps violence, like pornography, is some kind of an evolutionary standby system, a last-resort device for throwing a wild joker into the game?
J.G. Ballard
#20. It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results.
Bertrand Russell
#21. For how little have we lost, when the two finest things of all will accompany us wherever we go, universal nature and our individual virtue.
Seneca.
#22. I personally don't like school, but you have to do it if you want to get through life, so pretty much I put up with it.
RJ Mitte
#23. Obedience is a powerful spiritual medicine. It comes close to being a cure-all.
Boyd K. Packer
#24. There are times when reason does not work, and peaceful efforts prove inadequate. Violence is ultimately the last resort. This is the way it has been. The world will, perhaps, never be any different.
Amish Tripathi
#25. The easy, gentle, and sloping path ... is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road.
Michel De Montaigne
#26. When I recall my own path of life I cannot but speak of the violence, hatred and lies. A lesson drawn from such experiences, however, was that we can effectively oppose violence only if we ourselves do not resort to it.
Lech Walesa
#27. Sex in general, for me, is a lot of different aspects of humanity, not just my relationships. It's my relationship to myself and my body.
Margaret Cho
#28. The World War broke out with such elemental violence, and with such resort to all means for leading or misleading public opinion, that no time was available for reflection and consideration.
Hjalmar Branting
#29. If I ever let you down, it's not because I don't love you. It's because I don't love myself.
William Chapman
#30. Quite frankly, I would prefer to have a non-Christian like Mitt Romney who at least pretends to embrace biblical principles over a professing Christian like Barack Obama who embraces very unbiblical positions on abortion.
Robert Jeffress
#31. One of my earliest ventures was when I was nine years old. I realized there was a shortage of pencils at school, so I started Rent-a-Pencil. But I made a fundamental mistake. Everybody stole my pencils.
Bruce Dickinson
#32. Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.
Anne Carson
#33. I got into comics on John Byrne's run of the X-Men and the Dark Phoenix Saga. I got in around X-Men 95, right when it turned to the new X-Men. So that whole family, all those characters are kind of my favorite characters, just the X-Men world.
Timothy Miller
#34. Fellow seems quite unbalanced," said Fudge, staring after him. "I'd watch out for him if I were you, Dumbledore.
J.K. Rowling
#35. I only escaped from Tibet because I feared my people would resort to desperate violence if the Chinese took me as their prisoner.
Dalai Lama
#36. Almost any established decision procedure is better than a resort to force; for when force is used, people get hurt and the desire for retaliation is likely to lead to more violence. Moreover, most decision procedures produce results at least as beneficial and just as a resort to force.
Peter Singer
#37. Two centuries ago our nation's birth was a milestone in the long quest for freedom, but the bold and brilliant dream which excited the founders of our nation still awaits its consummation. I have no new dream to set forth today, but rather urge a fresh faith in the old dream.
Jimmy Carter
#39. Are you telling me that men are compelled by the mere fact of their gender to choose violence as their first resort?"
"Partly. It satisfies our sense of justice, it makes us feel good, and it always improves our odds with women.
Kate Meader
#40. Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.
Emily Bronte
