Best method & violence Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I was a barbarian, tender and full of violence. I translated by instinct, without any method, not merely an artistic truth but above all a human one.”

Humans Violence Method Instinct Artistic Barbarians

Author:Maurice de Vlaminck

“There exists a law, not written down anywhere but inborn in our hearts; a law which comes to us not by training or custom or reading but by derivation and absorption and adoption from nature itself; a law which has come to us not from theory but from practice, not by instruction but by natural intuition. I refer to the law which lays it down that, if our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.”

“A new type of superstition has got hold of people's minds, the worship of the state. People demand the exercise of the methods of coercion and compulsion, of violence and threat. Woe to anybody who does not bend his knee to the fashionable idols!”

People Mind Doe States Violence Type Exercise Demand Worship Method Threat Knees Idols Superstitions Woe Compulsion Coercion Fashionable

Book:Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War

Source: Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War

“In the history of the world the prize has not gone to those species which specialized in methods of violence, or even in defensive armor. In fact, nature began with producing animals encased in hard shells for defense against the ill of life. But smaller animals, without external armor, warm-blooded, sensitive, alert, have cleared those monsters off the face of the earth.”

World Hard Facts Earth Faces Animal Gone Violence Method Species Ill Warm Defense Monsters Sensitive Prize Shells World History Armor

Author:Alfred North Whitehead

“Munificent nature follows the methods of the divine and true, and rounds all things to her perfect law. While nations are convulsed with blood and violence, how quietly the grass grows.”

Law Nations Grows Nature Perfect Violence Blood Divine All Things Method Rounds Grass

Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“Not all ants use violence to dominate their world, some use more subtle methods.”

World Use Violence Method Subtle Ants

Author:E. O. Wilson

“I condemn, for all climes and for all times, secret murders and unfair methods even for a fair cause.”

Causes Secret Violence Fairs Murder Method All Time Unfair

Book:Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace

Source: Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace

“If our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.”

Ifs Enemy Our Lives Violence Method Plot Robbers Protecting Ourselves

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“There is a pervasive form of contemporary violence to which the idealist fighting for peace by nonviolent methods most easily succumbs; activism and overwork.”

Form Fighting Violence Method Activism Contemporary Idealist Overwork

Book:Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander

Source: Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander

“Violence is the tool of the barbarian; aggression is the method of the primitive; bloodshed is the way of the savage; cruelty is the manner of the brutish! To be called as a 'civilised,' man must be peaceable!”

Men Way Violence He Man Tools Method Cruelty Primitive Aggression Savages Barbarians Bloodshed Civilised

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Opting for peace does not mean a passive acquiescence to evil or compromise of principle. It demands an active struggle against hatred, oppression and disunity, but not by using methods of violence. Building peace requires creative and courageous action”

Mean Doe Action Evil Principles Struggle Creative Violence Building Demand Hatred Method Active Oppression Compromise Courageous Passive Using Me Acquiescence Disunity

Author:Pope John Paul II

“Although under particular circumstances, the violence method - any method - can be justified, nevertheless once you commit violence, then counterviolence will be returned.”

Violence Particular Circumstances Method Commit Nevertheless Justified

Author:Dalai Lama

“Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.”

Source: The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:

“Any man who has once acclaimed violence as his method must inexorably choose falsehood as his principle.”

War Lying Politics Peace Principles Violence Method Tyranny Anti War Antiwar

Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.”

Men War Lying Peace Principles Violence Method Psychopath

Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time: the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.”

Source: The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:

“I cannot make myself believe that God wanted me to hate. I'm tired of violence, I've seen too much of it. I've seen such hate on the faces of too many sheriffs in the South. And I'm not going to let my oppressor dictate to me what method I must use. Our oppressors have used violence. Our oppressors have used hatred. Our oppressors have used rifles and guns. I'm not going to stoop down to their level. I want to rise to a higher level. We have a power that can't be found in Molotov cocktails.”

“Leo Tolstoy's life has been devoted to replacing the method of violence for removing tyranny or securing reform by the method of nonresistance to evil. He would meet hatred expressed in violence by love expressed in selfsuffering.”

Has Beens Self Suffering Evil Violence Hatred Method Tyranny Resistance Reform Devoted

Book:Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi

Source: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi

“The followers of Christ have been called to peace. . . . And they must not only have peace but make it. And to that end they renounce all violence and tumult. In the cause of Christ nothing is to be gained by such methods . . . . His disciples keep the peace by choosing to endure suffering themselves rather than inflict it on others. They maintain fellowship where others would break it off. They renounce hatred and wrong. In so doing they overcome evil with good, and establish the peace of God in the midst of a world of war and hate.”

World Has Beens War Ends Suffering Hate Evil Causes Peace Christ Break Violence Hatred Overcoming Method Endure Midst Followers Disciple Fellowship Renounce Tumult

Author:Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“The desire for an increase of wealth can be satisfied through exchange, which is the only method possible in a capitalist economy, or by violence and petition as in a militarist society, where the strong acquire by force, the weak by petitioning.”

Desire Strong Force Wealth Economy Violence Capitalism Weak Increase Method Satisfied Socialism Acquire Capitalist Petitions Capitalist Economy

Book:Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist

Source: Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist

“Non-violent resistance implies the very opposite of weakness. Defiance combined with non-retaliatory acceptance of repression from one's opponents is active, not passive. It requires strength, and there is nothing automatic or intuitive about the resoluteness required for using non-violent methods in political struggle and the quest for Truth.”

“If you only notice human proceedings, you may observe that all who attain great power and riches, make use of either force or fraud; and what they have acquired either by deceit or violence, in order to conceal the disgraceful methods of attainment, they endeavor to sanctify with the false title of honest gains.”

Source: History of Florence and the Affairs of Italy

“In our struggle against racial segregation in Montgomery, Alabama, I came to see at a very early stage that a synthesis of Gandhi's method of nonviolence and the Christian ethic of love is the best weapon available to Negroes for this struggle for freedom and human dignity. It may well be that the Gandhian approach will bring about a solution to the race problem in America. His spirit is a continual reminder to oppressed people that it is possible to resist evil and yet not resort to violence.”

“It is my belief that the problem of bringing peace to the world on a supranational basis will be solved only by employing Gandhi's method on a larger scale.”

World Problem Belief Peace Violence Bases Method Scales Employing Bringing Peace

Book:The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

“Let us not forget that violence does not live alone and is not capable of living alone: it is necessarily interwoven with falsehood. Between them lies the most intimate, the deepest of natural bonds. Violence finds its only refuge in falsehood, falsehood its only support in violence. Any man who has once acclaimed violence as his method must inexorably choose falsehood as his principle.”

Men Doe Lying Natural Forget Principles Support Violence Capable Ethics Method Intimate Falsehood Refuge Living Alone

Book:The Gulag Archipelago Volume 2: An Experiment in Literary Investigation

Source: The Gulag Archipelago Volume 2: An Experiment in Literary Investigation

“World peace through nonviolent means is neither absurd nor unattainable. All other methods have failed. Thus we must begin anew. Nonviolence is a good starting point. Those of us who believe in this method can be voices of reason, sanity, and understanding amid the voices of violence, hatred, and emotion. We can very well set a mood of peace out of which a system of peace can be built.”

“As a nation, this is the moment to start seriously investing our time, energy and resources into proven methods of reducing violence, both within our nation as well as internationally. The cost of violence to our culture and our children is simply not sustainable.”

Wells Children Moments Culture Energy Nations Violence Cost Resources Our Children Method Investing Our Time Sustainability Proven Reducing

Author:Joaquin Phoenix

“However much I may sympathise with and admire worthy motives, I am an uncompromising opponent of violent methods even to serve the noblest of causes.”

May Causes Violence Method Worthy Violent Admire Opponents Motive Non Violence Uncompromising

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“The purpose and function of government is not to preside over change but to prevent change. By political methods when unavoidable, by violence when convenient.”

Government Political Purpose Violence Function Method Convenient

Book:A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

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