Violence And War Quotes:

Returning hate for hate multiplies hate...

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Hate, Social Equality, Love And Hate, Make Peace Not War, Social Programs

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Inspirational, Peace, War, Social Evils, Media Violence

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Inspirational, Spiritual, Peace, Make Peace Not War, Lack Of Understanding

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

- Bertrand Russell

topic: Peace, War, Fighting, Make Peace Not War, Soldiers At War

There is a great streak of violence in every human being. If it is not channeled and understood, it will break out in war or in madness.

- Sam Peckinpah

source: "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

topic: War, Violence, Madness, Violence And War

Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

- Thomas A. Edison

topic: Life, Peace, Honesty, Animal Cruelty, Non Violence

Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Animal, Savages, Stills, Inspirational Animal, Animal Cruelty

Returning violence for violence multiplies violence... Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Hate, Violence, Social Equality, Kings And Love, Police Brutality

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

- John F. Kennedy

source: Address on first anniversary of Alliance for Progress, 13 Mar. 1962

topic: Inspirational, Peace, Freedom, Social Revolution, American Revolution

The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility.

- John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher

source: Lecture notes 1899-1902, in R. H. Bacon Life of Lord Fisher (1929) vol. 1, ch. 7

topic: War, Essence, Violence, Just War, Violence And War

Even today we raise our hand against our brother... We have perfected our weapons, our conscience has fallen asleep, and we have sharpened our ideas to justify ourselves as if it were normal we continue to sow destruction, pain, death. Violence and war lead only to death.

- Pope Francis

source: Pope Francis (2017). “Embracing the Way of Jesus: Reflections from Pope Francis on Living Our Faith”, p.24, Loyola Press

topic: Brother, Pain, War, Pain Death, Violence And War

There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.

- A. J. Muste

source: Quoted in N.Y. Times, 16 Nov. 1967

topic: Peace, Way, International Peace Day, Peacekeeping, Peace Sign

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

source: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.67, Beacon Press

topic: Inspirational, Life, Inspiring, Social Equality, Love And Hate

People are still thinking of solving problems by violence and war, and that has to stop.

- Yoko Ono

topic: War, Thinking, People, Violence And War

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

- Albert Einstein

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Make Peace Not War, Inspirational Science

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat for it is momentary.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Victory, Violence, Defeat, Momentary, Victory And Defeat

The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.

- Ulysses S. Grant

source: Statement to John Hill Brinton at the start of his Tennessee River Campaign, early 1862. "Personal Memoirs of John H. Brinton, Major and Surgeon U.S.V., 1861-1865". Book by John H. Brinton, p. 239, 1914.

topic: Peace, Art, Military, Great War, Violence And War

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.

- Jimi Hendrix

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Love Freedom, True Peace

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

- Plato

topic: Plato, War, Ends, Soldiers At War, Just War

Only the dead have seen the end of the war.

- George Santayana

topic: Military, War, Philosophical, Soldiers At War, Just War

It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

- Albert Einstein

source: "Small is Beautiful". The Radical Humanist, Vol. 37, No. 5, (p. 22), August 1973.

topic: Courage, Moving, Simple, Software Design, Something Bigger Than Yourself

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

- E. F. Schumacher

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Courage, Making A Living, Software Design

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Peace, War, Mean, Maintaining Peace, Peacefulness

It is my conviction that there is no way to peace - peace is the way.

- Nhat Hanh

topic: Peace, Truth, Yoga, International Peace Day, Non Violence

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

- John Milton

topic: Powerful, Military, War, Paradise Lost Book 1, Violence And War

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: Peace, War, 4th Of July, International Peace Day, Good War

Some people say, therefore, that violence and war are inevitable. I say rubbish: Our brains are fully capable of controlling instinctive behavior.

- Jane Goodall

topic: War, People, Brain, Violence And War

Women are rising. And I think that's all the violence and war - it could be the last gasp of the patriarchy, actually.

- Jane Fonda

source: "Jane Fonda, Fitness Guru, Reveals What Inspires Her In Origin Magazine Interview". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 15, 2013.

topic: War, Thinking, Rising, Violence And War

When love is the trend, there is no room for violence and war.

- Gabrielle Bernstein

topic: War, Love Is, Trends, Violence And War

I am convinced that if we lose kids to the culture of drugs and materialism, of violence and war, it's because we don't dare them, not because we don't entertain them. It's because we make the gospel too easy, not because we make it too difficult. Kids want to do something heroic with their lives, which is why they play video games and join the army. But what do they do with a church that teaches them to tiptoe through life so they can arrive safely at death?

- Shane Claiborne

source: Shane Claiborne (2010). “The Irresistible Revolution: Living As an Ordinary Radical”, p.177, ReadHowYouWant.com

topic: War, Kids, Army, Joining The Army, Violence And War

For the sake of peace, religious beliefs must never be allowed to be abused in the cause of violence and war.

- Pope Francis

topic: Religious, War, Sake, Violence And War

Heaven, the seat of bliss, Brooks not the works of violence and war.

- John Milton

source: John Milton, James BUCHANAN (Grammarian.) (1773). “The First Six Books of Milton's Paradise Lost, Rendered Into Grammatical Construction ... With Notes ... To which are Prefixed Remarks on Ellipsis and Transposition ... By J. Buchanan”, p.399

topic: War, Heaven, Violence, Violence And War

I have always been vitally interested in physical conditioning. I have long believed that athletic competition among people and nations should replace violence and wars.

- Johnny Weissmuller

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: War, Long, People, Violence And War, Physical Attraction

In the seed and the soil, we find the answers to every one of the crises we face. The crises of violence and war. The crises of hunger and disease. The crisis of the destruction of democracy.

- Vandana Shiva

topic: War, Democracy, Answers, Violence And War