Comments on: Violence Quotes and Sayings

By: Jond

Jond — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 23:57:56 +0000

The moment a man claims a right to control the will of a fellow being by physical force, he is at heart a slaveholder.

By: Adin Ballou

Adin Ballou — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 12:39:15 +0000

How many does it take to metamorphose wickedness into righteousness? One man must not kill. If he does, it is murder…. But a state or nation may kill as many as they please, and it is not murder. It is just, necessary, commendable, and right. Only get people enough to agree to it, and the butchery of myriads of human beings is perfectly innocent. But how many does it take?

By: Bekarar

Bekarar — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 20:04:35 +0000

It’s not the bullet with my name on it that worries me. It’s the one that says “To whom it may concern.”

By: Manitonquat

Manitonquat — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 11:06:21 +0000

It is clear that the way to heal society of its violence… and lack of love is to replace the pyramid of domination with the circle of equality and respect.
- Manitonquat

By: Dave Barry

Dave Barry — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:37:34 +0000

Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
- Dave Barry

By: Martin

Martin — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 07:13:37 +0000

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

By: Scott Adams

Scott Adams — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:55:14 +0000

I believe everybody in the world should have guns. Citizens should have bazookas and rocket launchers too. I believe that all citizens should have their weapons of choice. However, I also believe that only I should have the ammunition. Because frankly, I wouldn’t trust the rest of the goobers with anything more dangerous than string.
- Scott Adams

By: Dexter

Dexter — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 17:12:15 +0000

There have been periods of history in which episodes of terrible violence occurred but for which the word violence was never used…. Violence is shrouded in justifying myths that lend it moral legitimacy, and these myths for the most part kept people from recognizing the violence for what it was. The people who burned witches at the stake never for one moment thought of their act as violence; rather they thought of it as an act of divinely mandated righteousness. The same can be said of most of the violence we humans have ever committed.
- Gil Bailie

By: Philiep

Philiep — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 12:44:56 +0000

He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster.
- Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

By: Gaurav

Gaurav — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 13:14:30 +0000

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
- Gandhi