Weakness Violence Quotes

#1. Violence is a concession to human weakness, satyagraha is an obligation.

Mahatma Gandhi

#2. Refraining from violence is not a sign of weakness in one's faith but a sign that one's faith is unshakeable

Hillary Clinton

#3. Let no one charge me with ever having abused or encouraged weakness or surrendered on matters of principle. But I have said, as I say again, that every trifle must not be dignified into a principle.

Mahatma Gandhi

#4. Violence is the sign of temporary weakness.

Jean Jaures

#5. Through cruelty force confesses its powerlessness to achieve omnipotence . . . We see weakness dawning at the very height of force. Unable to admit that total destruction is impossible, the conqueror can only reply to the mute defiance of his defenseless adversary with an ever-growing violence.

Rachel Bespaloff

#6. Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.

Georges Bataille

#7. I consider non-violence to be compassion in action. It doesn't mean weakness, cowering in fear, or simply doing nothing. It is to act without violence, motivated by compassion, recognising the rights of others.

Dalai Lama XIV

#8. The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#9. It was not the violence of our enemies [in World War I] that would undo us, I thought, but our own spiritual weakness, the shallowness of our convictions.

Learned Hand

#10. I am trying to find the courage to be tender in my life. I know violence is weakness. Only the gentle are ever really strong.

James Dean

#11. Go ahead, kill me! But live with this: All those people die!

For the rest of your life, somewhere behind the feeds, that human part of you hiding down deep will always wonder how much pain you could have prevented if you hadn't been so weak!

Rick Remender

#12. The difficulty one experiences in meeting himsa arises from weakness of mind.

Mahatma Gandhi