Quotes About Violence

They make a desert and call it peace.

Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.

Violence brings only temporary victories; violence, by creating many more social problems than it solves, never brings permanent peace.

We are meeting here to put an end to this cycle [of violence], to put things back in order and to put the wheel of peace on the right track. The task is very great, but our hopes are greater.

Peace is the time it takes to reload your rifle.

May the God of peace arouse in all an authentic desire for dialogue and reconciliation. Violence cannot be overcome with violence. Violence is overcome with peace.

To rob, to ravage, to murder, in their imposing language, are the arts of civil policy. When they have made the world a solitude, they call it peace.

Sometimes violence cannot be stopped no matter what we do. But the more peaceful we are, the better chance we have of bringing out the peace in those around us.

Darkness cannot be overcome with more darkness, only with light. Violence cannot be overcome with more violence, only with peace.

Being vegan provides us with the peace of knowing that we are no longer participants in the hideous violence that is animal exploitation.

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

If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless.

Violence never brings permanent peace. It solves no social problem: it merely creates new and more complicated ones.

The world is tired of seeing the perpetuation of violence and terrorism, but the effort to create a real peace needs to go hand in hand with the struggle to restore justice.

Wars are always madness: all is lost in war, all is to be gained in peace.

The God of peace is never glorified by human violence.

Mark! Where his carnage and his conquests cease, He makes a solitude and calls it-peace!

Islam is not part of the problem in combating violent extremism - it is an important part of promoting peace.

My door will always be open to those who genuinely renounce violence and seek peaceful accommodation into our nascent democracy.

You can't talk about peace nor agreement while terror is used as the main argument.

There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.

God of peace, bring your peace to our violent world: peace in the hearts of all men and women and peace among the nations of the Earth.

Human war has been the most successful of our cultural traditions.

The path of violence has not yielded anything. Shed guns and adopt the path of peace, unity, goodwill and brotherhood.