Tom Steyer Quotes

Violence does not resolve. It always leads to more violence.

An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.

Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease.

Answer a violent action with another action still more violent.

The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy.

Violence is a great breeder of violence.

I think, personally, nothing comes from violence other than more violence.

Warmaking doesn't stop warmaking. If it did, our problems would have stopped millennia ago.

My people have been sucked into the violence because some feel they have to retaliate, and some feel they have to protect themselves.

Violence begets violence, and then you get leaders who are violent men. And you don't want that.

Aggression only moves in one direction - it creates more aggression.

We cannot get stuck in a cycle of violence which cannot be broken.

Violence against violence? That will never solve the problem.

Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars.

You can't put out fire with fire.

Violence always thrived on counter violence.

Aggression only breeds more aggression. It only creates more fear and anger.

Violence is stupid. Even as a last resort, it only ever begets more of the same.

Fighting fire with fire only gets you ashes!

Violence multiplies violence.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth.

All men kill the thing they hate, too, unless, of course, it kills them first.

I do not like violence.

I think violence can never be justified.