Violence Is Not The Answer Quotes

#1. Violence is not the answer, it doesn't work any more. We are at the end of the worst century in which the greatest atrocities in the history of the world have occurred ... The nature of human beings must change. We must cultivate love and compassion.

Martin Scorsese

#2. As a society how do we do better and stop things like this happening time after time!! I'm so sorry to these families. Violence is not the answer people. Retaliation isn't the solution as well.

LeBron James

#3. Interesting office management skills, kind of a 'violence is not the answer so I'm going to beat the shit out of you philosophy.

Craig Johnson

#4. The president welcomes peaceful protests - it is a time-honored tradition. The president agrees violence is not the answer in Iraq, and that's why he hopes Saddam Hussein will disarm.

Ari Fleischer

#5. Violence is not the answer but neither is peace.

Roxane Gay

#6. Violence is not the answer. Terrorism is the most dangerous of answers.

Elie Wiesel

#7. Guy Boy Man," says Baby Doll15. "Violence is not the answer."
I look down the hallway, steely eyed. "Then I don't like the question." Sweetie and I high five.

James Marshall

#8. We know violence isn't the answer. When we take up our arms, we're talking about our vote.

Sarah

#9. What I hope to do is create a play that investigates the ongoing violence toward women and children in the world, and searches for some kind of answer to the question, 'What Can We Do?'

Marsha Norman

#10. I'm not a fan of Donald Trump. To be perfectly honest, I don't think violence is the answer to anything and I think, hopefully, she [Hillary Clinton] will be our president.

Donna Karan

#11. Violence is never the answer, unless you don't feel like talking.

Dov Davidoff

#12. Violence is the only way to answer violence.

Gudrun Ensslin

#13. Violence is never the answer but sometimes, like with cockroaches, it is the only possible response.

Tanya Huff

#14. We are determined to answer evil with GOOD, slavery with FREEDOM, rape with hope!
We are against slavery, rape, beheading, torture, violations of human rights, corruption and misuse of religion!

Widad Akreyi

#15. What you need to do in conflict resolution is to bring the people who believe that the answer to their political ambitions will be achieved through violence into a frame of mind that they accept that their political ambitions will be delivered by politics.

Des Browne

#16. I wrote a call to the contemporary Muslim conscience, saying to the ordinary people that we might not like the video or the cartoons, but that violence certainly isn't the right answer. I don't think laws are going to solve the problem.

Tariq Ramadan

#17. The central question of the Chicago conference was whether the mechanisms underlying microevolution can be extrapolated to explain the phenomena of macroevolution. At the risk of doing violence to the positions of some of the people at the meeting, the answer can be given as a clear No.

Roger Lewin

#18. When we don't fund Child Protective Services, there are consequences for all of us. Violence manifests itself. Mental health services in Texas are extremely poor. The answer is not to wait until they do something to get them help.

David Atwood

#19. The answer to violence is even more democracy. Even more humanity.

Jens Stoltenberg

#20. We can't answer King's assassination with violence. That would be the worst tribute we could pay him.

Sammy Davis Jr.

#21. Violence?"Skulduggery said. "Violence is never the answer, until it's the only answer.

Derek Landy

#22. Violence should never be the answer.
Aye, in a perfect world. But sometimes animals don't understand anything but their own language.

Samantha Young

#23. You can't answer violence with counter violence ... The answer is love. The best sabotage is love.

Athol Fugard

#24. And I thought the whole point of my education was that violence IS the answer.

Richelle Mead

#25. Al Qaeda's message that violence, terrorism and extremism are the only answer for Arabs seeking dignity and hope is being rejected each day in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Bahrain and throughout the Arab lands.

Elliott Abrams

#26. Force, punishment, and violence are patriarchy's answer to conflicts and social problems. Patriarchy finds its ultimate expression in war.

Starhawk

#27. When I had asked Mrs. Flowers how she held up in the face of all the death and violence within her neighborhood, she had given me a simple answer: This family talks to God.

Jonathan Kozol

#28. Violence is never the right answer, unless used against heathens and monsters.

Alexander Anderson

#29. It was much easier to explain the veil than to answer questions about the wounds.

Pawan Mishra

#30. The most revolutionary thing anybody can do is to raise good, honest and generous children who will question the answers of people who say the answer is violence. That's what the schools should be doing.

Colman McCarthy

#31. Without action, words are just words. Without violence, laws are just words. Violence isn't the only answer, but it is the final answer.

Jack Donovan

#32. War is not the answer. Violence is not the solution. A more peaceful world is possible.

Ron Kovic

#33. The principle of always seeking an alternative applies to nonviolence as well. It is this: If nonviolence is to be credible, it must answer the questions that violence purports to answer, but in a better way.

Jim Wallis

#34. Answer violence with violence. If one of us falls today, five of them must fall tomorrow.

Evita Peron

#35. The only acceptable response to the threat of lethal violence is immediate and savage counterattack. If you resist, you just may get killed. If you don't resist you almost certainly will get killed. It is a tough choice, but there is only one right answer.

Jeff Cooper

#36. Violence isn't the answer.

Shannon Messenger

#37. Please stay safe inside, and should you see yourself, I cannot condone murdering yourself. I just do not believe violence is ever the answer. (It is a question. The real answer is far more terrifying.)

Jeffrey Cranor

#38. Violence and resistance are the only answer. Empire has to feel pain or it will never stop devouring you. It is only when a gun is put in a person's face that anything changes. All empires are hungry cannibals ...

Rawi Hage

#39. Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political moral questions of our time.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#40. Always talk, talk, talk with you people," Pearl said. "You know, sometimes violence really is the answer.

Sarah Beth Durst