Top 1200 Non Violent Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

A light breath fans the flame, a violent gust extinguishes it.

The majority of our criminals that we lock up are non-violent offenders.

The forceful and violent will not die from natural causes.

But woman's grief is like a summer storm, Short as it violent is.

I don't see much good coming out of violent revolution.

Coming from the '50s, things were very violent.

I want to be optimistic because I don't think man is intrinsically violent.

Centralization as a system is inconsistent with a non-violent structure of society.

Pure motives can never justify impure or violent action.

Probably all cultures, certainly Western culture, always have been violent.

We still have a choice today: nonviolence coesistence or violent coannihilation.

My wife and daughters have faced vile and violent threats.

This violent rage that turned inward cannot be helped by drink.

Violent excitement exhausts the mind and leaves it withered and sterile.

An escalating, violent tit-for-tat may lead to terrorism.

The most violent show on TV is the six o'clock news.

I am concerned about any form of violent extremism.

I think children are really violent with each other often.

I'm not going to allow inmates and officers to be the victims of violent people.

The thing about a violent kid is that he can't play imaginatively.

The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

The first principle of non-violent action is that of non-cooperation with everything humiliating.

I have never been in a violent movie or television show.

Harmless and innocent until they're taught to be violent and militant.

A violent wind does not last for a whole morning.

We should not have people in prisons and jails who aren't a violent threat.

It's not that the film is violent, it's that people have an issue with violence right now.

A rabbit that runs away from the bull-terrier is not particularly non-violent.

So confident am I that the number of deaths from violent storms will continue to decline that I challenge Mr. McKibben - or Al Gore, Paul Krugman, or any other climate-change doomsayer - to put his wealth where his words are. I'll bet $10,000 that the average annual number of Americans killed by tornadoes, floods and hurricanes will fall over the next 20 years. Specifically, I'll bet that the average annual number of Americans killed by these violent weather events from 2011 through 2030 will be lower than it was from 1991 through 2010.

I am not a violent person. I actually don't like to hurt people.

I guess you could say I've been in my share of violent movies.

I've written films that are violent. I'm not big on sitting and watching violence.

I was in the courtroom prosecuting violent felonies for well over a decade.

Love unrequited is violent. He loves you so much that he's turned it into hate.

We may outrun By violent swiftness And lose by over-running.

Divine souls suffer violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Societies that empower women are less violent in every way.

Guys are getting so big, so fast, so explosive. The game's so violent.

When their love was not reciprocated, it could quickly turn to violent hatred.

We are always the most violent against those whom we have injured.

Not all animal brides are doomed. Not all men are greedy or violent or possessive.

We're a violent nation, and we need to confront it. This gun plague has to stop.

Playing characters that speak a very violent language was my livelihood.

Photography is the most direct communication in non-violent contacts.

The ideally non-violent state will be an ordered anarchy.

Revolution has become a sort of violent and hollow routine.

Someone who decides to turn in a violent criminal isn't a snitch; they're a hero.

I have a reputation for writing all kinds of hard-core, violent things.

Violent antipathies are always suspicious, and betray a secret affinity.

Love is every bit as violent and dangerous as murder.

Talking of white supremacist violent types, I was in America, recently.

Violent people usually express their love of a thing by their hatred of its opposite.

The kid who can play imaginatively doesn't tend to be violent. It's the same with adults.

Violent revolutions usually only mean a change of personnel at the top.

Ambition is violence, the very effort to succeed in the world is violent.

Of all the violent passions, the one that becomes a woman best is love.

Cryptography is the ultimate form of non-violent direct action.

I wish I was beautiful or at least wise, but I’m simply mad and violent.

At heart, we're all violent raging wolves, but in our actions we can be pacifists.

I didn't get into comedy to talk about violent death all the time.