Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old violence quotes, violence sayings, and violence proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.Henri Nouwen
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Violence is like a strong perfume. It may seem good from afar, but as soon as you get close it's sickening.unknown
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Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.Lao Tzu
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Violence is not power, but the absence of power.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Violence is the problem, not the solution.unknown
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Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars.Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.Malcolm X
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Violence is man re-creating himself.Frantz Fanon
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Violence is the last word of the illiterate. Also the first.Solomon Short
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What is gained by violence must be lost before superior violence.Mahatma Gandhi
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Violence ends up defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Violence of the tongue is very real- sharper than any knife.Teresa Giudice
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At the end of the day, violence never really solves any problem…it just creates new ones.unknown
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The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing that it seeks to destroy.Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Violence is not only impractical but immoral.Martin Luther King Jr.
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Violence is never the answer, until it's the only answer.Derek Landy
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Return not violence for violence.Abu Hanifa
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No amount of violence you've done to others prepares you for violence done to yourself.Glen Duncan
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The violence done us by others is often less painful than that which we do to ourselves.Francois de la Rochefoucauld
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Through violence, you may murder the hater, but you do not murder the hate.Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Violence is born of the desire to escape oneself.Iris Murdoch
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An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.Mahatma Gandhi
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Nothing good ever comes of violence.Martin Luther
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Nonviolence doesn't always work — but violence never does.Madge Micheels-Cyrus
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He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.J.R.R. Tolkien
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Answer violence with violence. If one of us falls today, five of them must fall tomorrow.Evita Peron
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When you used violence to achieve "peace"; what did you achieve ? -Supressed violence!Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel
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Violence does not always take visible form, and not all wounds gush blood.Haruki Murakami
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In violence, we forget who we are.Mary Mccarthy
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It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.Mohandas K. Gandhi