Violence Begets Violence Quotes

#1. Violence begets violence by whomever used. War is a dirty business and entails the use of degrading means, whoever wages it.

A.J. Muste

#2. Hate begets hate; violence begets violence; toughness begets a greater toughness. We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#3. There is nothing to be gained by being unnecessarily nasty. Violence begets violence.

Aung San Suu Kyi

#4. Violence begets violence, you know. And you can't kill off all the violent people or all the murderers. We'd have to kill off the government.

John Lennon

#5. Parents, choose your words wisely, carefully, thoughtfully. In the same way that violence begets violence and anger begets anger, kindness begets kindness and peace begets peace. Sow words of peace, words that build, words that show respect and belief and support.

L.R. Knost

#6. Violence begets violence, and then you get leaders who are violent men. And you don't want that.

Robert Crumb

#7. Violence begets violence.

Grace Lozada

#8. Behind every person who's committed an unimaginable crime is an adult who committed unimaginable violence against them as a child. All of them, as if it was plotted that way. Violence begets violence, and that violence begets even more violence.

Gong Ji-young

#9. No thanky-you; you can't overcome hatred with more hatred. Force can kill the liar but not the lie, the hater but not the hate, and the violent but not the violence. Hate begets hate, violence begets violence, and war begets war.

Joss Sheldon

#10. Unfortunately, violence begets violence. And this is how the war on terrorism seems to be going at this juncture. A lot of people are losing their lives. Many children are losing their parents. Too many houses are being destroyed. And, unfortunately, the arms industry seems to flourish.

Shirin Ebadi

#11. The common breeds the common,
A lout begets a lout,
So when I take on half a score
I knock their heads about.

William Butler Yeats

#12. Actually, I think living's the worst habit.

Stephen King

#13. I listen to my daughter. I listen to Paula, but I make the decisions. The decision to say goodbye to Cruise was mine.

Sumner Redstone

#14. Hate begets hate, violence engenders violence, hypocrisy is answered by hypocrisy, war generates war, and love creates love.

Pitirim Sorokin

#15. Violence is stupid. Even as a last resort, it only ever begets more of the same.

Brian K. Vaughan

#16. Yes, violence begets more violence, but historically this has been the way of the world.

Meshell Ndegeocello

#17. The soul of the newly born baby is marked for life by the pattern of the stars at the moment it comes into the world, unconsciously remembers it, and remains sensitive to the return of configurations of a similar kind.

Johannes Kepler

#18. Rioting begets violence begets rioting. I sometimes think the entire human race is comprised of barely restrained animals, avid for any excuse to tear off their masks of civility. And here I am, always trying desperately to keep mine on.

Karen Marie Moning

#19. If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.

Saint Augustine

#20. Violence only begets violence when we allow it to. We always have a choice.

P.T. Denys

#21. I'm grateful I got the opportunity to do it because I know this now. If anybody ever asked me to do a daytime show again I would go no, no. I can't do that. Not because it's beneath me. It's above me. It's beyond my resources.

Richard Masur

#22. Violence should not always beget more violence.

Gabrielle Zevin