Violence Being Justified Quotes & Sayings

A belief in moral absolutes should always make us more, not less, critical of both sides in any conflict. This doesn't mean that both sides are equally wrong; it means that since we all fall short of moral perfection, even the side whose cause is truly righteous may commit terrible acts of violence in defense of that cause
and, worse, may feel quite justified in committing them. That is the difference between being righteous and being self-righteous. Moral standards are absolute; but human fidelity to them is always relative. — Joseph Sobran

I think all comics borrow from each other. Only a few have an original voice, and I wasn't one of them. In the end, I couldn't figure out who to steal from, so I stopped doing it. — Steve Buscemi

There is a rhythm to our language. they echo the rhythm of our life. — Ninotaziz

Avoid excessive merriment. A mind in that state never becomes calm; it becomes fickle. Excessive merriment will always be followed by sorrow. Tears and laughter are near kin. People so often run from one extreme to the other. — Swami Vivekananda

That's me
The silent girl
The stutterer
The prisoner
The smart girl
The valedictorian scribbling maledictions to no one — Jasinda Wilder

Having signed a few autographs in my time, I always wonder what the heck people do with them. — Jasper Carrott

In time of grief and sorrow I will hold you and rock you, and take your grief and make it my own. When you cry, I cry, and when you hurt, I hurt. And together we will try to hold back the floods of tears and despair and make it through the potholed streets of life. — Nicholas Sparks

If the tradition which claims that war may be justified does not also admit that it could be unjustified, the affirmation is not morally serious. A Christian who prepares the case for a justified war without being equally prepared for hte negative case has not soberly weighted the prima facie presumption that any violence is wrong until the case for an exception has been made. — John Howard Yoder

But as soon as he made her responsible for his happiness, she broke the star because she could not be responsible for his happiness. No — Miguel Ruiz

The arctic atmosphere, necessary for the maintenance of broadcast equipment, is air-conditioner sterile, with occasional stray smells of brewed coffee and toner for photocopying machines. — F.H. Batacan

I am not a committed pacifist. I would not hold that it is under all imaginable circumstances wrong to use violence, even though use of violence is in some sense unjust. I believe that one has to estimate relative justices. But the use of violence and the creation of some degree of injustice can only be justified on the basis of the claim and the assessment-which always ought to be undertaken very, very seriously and with a good deal of scepticism that this violence is being exercised because a more just result is going to be achieved. — Noam Chomsky

Your value is in your individuality. — Dorla Rudd Jenkins

He lifts his hand in a cheery wave. "Molinaro men, huh?" he says. "Irresistible." Kimberly — Leta Blake

a woman's body and her pleasure belong to her and no one else; that it's possible to say no to intercourse without saying no to all the other things that come with it - the love and the affection and the pleasure and the play; and that my own internal experience was a legitimate guide for whether or not I wanted to try something — Emily Nagoski

Intolerance of your present creates your future. — Mike Murdock

What you are looking for is within you Fall silent a moment and contemplate what that means ... You lack nothing. — Prem Rawat