Non-Violent Communication Quotes

Peace is not the absence of conflict. It is the ability to cope with conflict by peaceful means.

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

It actually dawned on me that I don’t fight. I just kill whatever annoys me, and it’s over. (Savitar)

War is the sure result of the existence of armed men. That country which maintains a large standing army will sooner or later have a war. The man who prides himself on fisticuffs is going, some day, to meet a man who considers himself the better man, and they will test the issue.

When the other man has none, you don't need a gun.

When adults wage war, children perish.

By criticizing, we do not make lasting changes and often incur resentment.

My last fight was more than 20 years ago. I'm not a fighter, I'm a lover. If somebody's going to speak bad about me, I will walk away. But if a guy like Steven Seagal slaps me once, I will slap him twice as hard. Life is full of violence.

Violence against violence? That will never solve the problem.

We must teach our children to resolve their conflicts with words, not weapons.

I do not wish to kill nor to be killed, but I can foresee circumstances in which these things would be by me unavoidable.

I've come to terms with the fact that standing and screaming in someone's face about how wrong they are is never gonna make anyone change.

Hatred is never ended by hatred but by love.

Nor is mine a trumpet which summons and excites men to cut each other to pieces with mutual contradictions, or to quarrel and fight with one another; but rather to make peace between themselves, and turning with united forces against the Nature of Things

Jaw jaw is better than war war.

If yelling and threatening, intimidating and chanting solved problems, Illinois wouldn't have any problems. We're good at that stuff.

The neighbor's kid was bullying my kid. Crossing the line. Threatening him all the time. I went over there to tell him what was going on. I had on flip-flops. I wasn't there to fight. It was a misunderstanding between a couple of dudes where one thing led to another.

Outside from with my older brother - and this would have stopped about age 12 - I haven't been in a physical fight in my life. We used to punch each other, but that was little kid punching. You're too scared to hit anybody really.

No more hellfires and please no more gunfire.

The only methods we shall employ will be English ones. The good old English fist.

Help and not fight. Assimilation and not destruction. Harmony and Peace and not dissension.

Do you think you can cure the hatreds and the maladjustments of the world by hanging them? You simply show your ignorance and your hate when you say it. You may here and there cure hatred with love and understanding, but you can only add fuel to the flames by cruelty and hate.

Violence is my last option.

First, I'll kill the dog with kindness, and if that doesn't work, I'll just kill him.

The truth is that every morning war is declared afresh. And the men who wish to continue it are as guilty as the men who began it, more guilty perhaps, for the latter perhaps did not foresee all its horrors.