Violence Is Not The Solution Quotes

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

Ron Kovic

#2. Violence needs to stop. All of us - men and women - need to speak up and teach our children that violence is never the solution. Together we can all make a difference. The best place to start is with yourself.

Will Young

#3. Only in humans, alone among the animals, did violence make victim mechanisms necessary and bring them into being. If original sin created the problem of violence, it found a solution in archaic religion. The paradox of human cultures is that violence expels violence: Satan casts out Satan. MSB

Rene Girard

#4. The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.

David M. Friedman

#5. Ideally, I'm also sending a message that everything passes, even hope, and sometimes you have to be patient while you wait for it to come back around again.

Heather Donahue

#6. I was really into my studies and wanted to be a doctor.

Ieva Laguna

#7. I am not going to believe in militant nationalism, which cultivates a culture of intolerance, Can't we think of a solution without violence.

Tarif Naaz

#8. I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man's problem just to avoid violence.

Malcolm X

#9. You'll find out when you reach the top, you're on the bottom.

Bob Dylan

#10. We have to promote human solidarity, avoid indifference, and play a part with society in the solution of the problem of violence ...

Shakira

#11. Advocating sexual repression as a solution to violence against women ends up mobilizing women around their fears rather than their visions.

Alice Echols

#12. Ukraine is a tinderbox, and the fuse is lit. There is no solution through violence in Ukraine.

Frank-Walter Steinmeier

#13. The writer Richard Manning has argued that 'the most destructive force in the American West is its commanding views, because they foster the illusion that we command.

Phillip Connors

#14. Violence and cruelty were just a stupid person's way of making himself felt, because it was easier to use your hands to strike a blow then to use your brain to find a logical and just solution to a problem.

Anne Holm

#15. While violence was almost certainly the solution, Lenk knew he needed to apply it selectively.

Sam Sykes

#16. The solution to violence in America is the acceptance of reality

Gavin De Becker

#17. Throughout my chess career I sought out new challenges, looking for things no one had done before.

Garry Kasparov

#18. In our nation masses of people are concerned about violence but resolutely refuse to link that violence to patriarchal thinking or male domination. Feminist thinking offers a solution. And it is up to us to make that solution available to everyone.

Bell Hooks

#19. In my books, I never portray violence as a reasonable solution to a problem. If the lead characters in the story are driven to it, it's at the extreme end of their experience.

Dean Koontz

#20. Violence: the brutish solution of the ignorant who know they could never get enough people to vote for them.

Peter F. Hamilton

#21. I have said that they were truly happy; and without strong affection and humanity of heart,
and gratitude to that Being whose code is Mercy, and whose great
attribute is Benevolence to all things that breathe, happiness
can never be attained.

Charles Dickens

#22. No matter how much violence or how many bad things we have to go through, I believe that the ultimate solution to our conflicts, both internal and external, lies in returning to our basic or underlying human nature, which is gentle and compassionate.

Dalai Lama XIV

#23. The solution to our energy needs must go through a show of respect for nature, not, once again, a policy that does violence to our hills.

George Horace Lorimer

#24. It didn't take much prompting for Cariocas who were sick of living with violence to advocate violence as a solution.

Juliana Barbassa

#25. Wherever arms flow, violence follows. Bullets replace ballots as the solution to political disputes.

Michael Douglas

#26. With violence, as with so many other concerns, human nature is the problem, but human nature is also the solution.

Steven Pinker

#27. O Earth, O Earth, return! Arise from out the dewy grass; Night is worn; And the morn Rises from the slumbrous mass.

William Blake

#28. The only solution to the violence problem in America is a return to traditional parental involvement. This should be encouraged by every elected official. Also, the abandonment and neglect of children by their parents should have civil consequences.

Bill O'Reilly

#29. Johannes had once said that violence and cruelty were just a stupid person's way of making himself felt, because it was easer to use your hands to strike a blow than to use your brain to find a logical and just solution to the problem.

Anne Holm

#30. But the U.S. government bets its last penny on violence as the magic solution for every problem, and so the country is losing friends every day and doesn't seem to give a damn about it.

Mohamedou Ould Slahi

#31. We hit every jazz and blues club on and off Bourbon Street, dancing and drinking until we girls were drunk enough to go with the boys to the strip clubs which outnumbered all other businesses in the French Quarter. Here is where my solution unfolded.

Darwun St. James

#32. If someone is killing, on a regular basis, thousands of animals, and if that person can only be stopped in one way by the use of violence, then it is certainly a morally justifiable solution.

Jerry Vlasak

#33. There is a crucial difference between a one-state solution and a binational state. In general, nation-states have been imposed with substantial violence and repression for one reason - because they seek to force varied and complex populations into a single mold.

Noam Chomsky

#34. The prayers of all good people are good.

Willa Cather

#35. 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

#36. He said: Who then are the true philosophers? Those, I said, who are lovers of the vision of truth. That is also good, he said; but I should like to know what you mean? To

Plato

#37. Violence is never a solution in my plays, just as ultimately violence is never a solution in human affairs.

Edward Bond

#38. But what can I do? I can - she leapt into the abyss - join a ladies' club. There! That's respectable! That's something I can do! I can be ladylike. Why, I can be more ladylike than anyone, as long as I can keep myself from saying the first thing that pops into my mind.

Annie Barrows