Quotes and Sayings about Violence

Quotes and Sayings about Violence

Don't do drugs, don't have unprotected sex, don't be violent... leave that to me.

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Who overcomes
By force, hath overcome but half his foe.

John Milton in Paradise Lost

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Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.

Pope Johannes Paul II

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Dizzy: "My mother always told me that violence doesn't solve anything."
Jean Rasczak: "Really? I wonder what the city founders of Hiroshima would have to say about that."
Carmen: "They wouldn't say anything. Hiroshima was destroyed."
Jean Rasczak: "Correct. Naked force has resolved more conflicts throughout history than any other factor. The contrary opinion, that violence doesn't solve anything, is wishful thinking at its worst. People who forget that always die."

Lt. Jean Rasczak in Starship Troopers

There were not so many physical threats that could not be countered with a decent hammer.

Stieg Larsson in The Girl Who Played with Fire

The axe forgets, but the tree remembers.

Arvel Skeen in Star Wars: Andor - Season 1 Episode 5

When a thing doesn't bend, it must break.

Princess Sophia in The Empress - Season 1 Episode 1

Must violence always be the solution?

Mercy in Overwatch

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

Isaac Asimov in Foundation

The world is ruled by violence, or at least the imminent threat of violence. It always has been.

John Malkovich

Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we.

Jean Rostand

Foolishness Vanity

In all the world, violent men are the easiest to deal with.

Irene O'Donnell in Peaky Blinders - Season 2 Episode 1

You can build a throne with bayonets, but you can't sit on it for long.

Boris Yeltsin

I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life.

Mahatma Gandhi

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They got money for the war, but can't feed the poor.

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War is when the young and stupid are tricked by the old and bitter into killing each other.

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I was a warrior who dreamed he could bring peace. Sooner or later though, you always have to wake up.

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This is how it's done. When people are sittin' on shit that you want, you make 'em your enemy. Then you're justified in taking it.

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War educates the senses, calls into action the will, perfects the physical constitution, brings men into such swift and close collision in critical moments that man measures man.

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An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.

Mahatma Gandhi

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Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.

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Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.

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Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

Albert Einstein

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The war is won, but the peace is not.

Albert Einstein - December 1945

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You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

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Bob Marley had this idea. It was kind of a virologist idea. He believed that you could cure racism and hate... literally cure it, by injecting music and love into people's lives. When he was scheduled to perform at a peace rally, a gunman came to his house and shot him down. Two days later he walked out on that stage and sang. When they asked him why - he said, "The people, who were trying to make this world worse... are not taking a day off. How can I? Light up the darkness."

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There is no "way to peace," there is only "peace".

Mahatma Gandhi

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I don't care if you're black, white, straight, bisexual, gay, lesbian, short, tall, fat, skinny, rich or poor. If you're nice to me, I'll be nice to you. Simple as that.

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Tolerance Kindness

If you want more sex, just ask for it.

Damon Salvatore in The Vampire Diaries

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So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear

John Milton in Paradise Lost

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The mind is its own place, and in itself
Can make a heav'n of hell, a hell of heav'n.

John Milton in Paradise Lost

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The future starts today, not tomorrow.

Pope Johannes Paul II

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Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain. The best things in life are beyond money; their price is agony and sweat and devotion... and the price demanded for the most precious of all things in life is life itself - ultimate cost for perfect value.

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What she had realized was that love was that moment when your heart was about to burst.

Stieg Larsson in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

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Don't ever fight with Lisbeth Salander. Her attitude towards the rest of the world is that if someone threatens her with a gun, she'll get a bigger gun.

Stieg Larsson in The Girl Who Played with Fire

Yeah, luck. It drives the whole damn galaxy, doesn't it?

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Everything I did, I did for the Rebellion.

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I don't want to be a tree; I want to be its meaning.

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The people's rage. It is like an illness, an ulcer. And ulcers must be cauterized.

Princess Sophia in The Empress - Season 1 Episode 1

Swallow, lend me your wings
Take me with you to the faraway land
And should I with you soar up there
In the ever blue firmament
How I then shall fervently praise the god
From whom freedom was sent

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Mercy: "Why are you looking at me, Mei?"

Mercy in Overwatch

Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.

Isaac Asimov

A long time ago... a man showed me how to predict the future. Our foundation to save humanity was born.

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You can be a mason and build 50 buildings, but it doesn't mean you can design one.

John Malkovich

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One kills a man, one is an assassin; one kills millions, one is a conqueror; one kills everybody, one is a god.

Jean Rostand

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