Moderate strength is shown in violence, supreme strength is shown in levity.
– GK Chesterton
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- My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity. – George Bernard Shaw
- Strength, strength is what I need; nothing can be done without strength; and strength must be gained by strength. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Man (human life form) is a ‘second-hand’ quality of the absolute supreme Self (Parmatma, Lord). Man is close to the Lord [absolute supreme Self]. – Dada Bhagwan
- I see in Jesus not only the supreme act of humility in God, but the supreme act of humanity in God. – William Porcher Dubose
- Somewhere Chesterton writes–I think it is Chesterton–that you cannot reason a man from a position that reason didn’t deliver him to. – Alec Wilkinson
- But strength doesn’t always mean brute force. You don’t have to kick ass to be a fighter. Violence doesn’t equal strength. – Becca Fitzpatrick
- It’s all about money. Sometimes it is merciful, sometimes it is magnificent and sometimes it is moderate – Bhavik Sarkhedi
- Fear does not incline people to be moderate in their use of extreme tactics. – Joe Hill
- As far as I’m concerned, I’m a middle-of-the-road moderate and the rest of you are crazy. – Ann Coulter
- Luck which so often defies anticipation in matrimonial affairs, giving attraction to what is moderate rather than to what is superior. – Jane Austen
- A moderate silence ensued. A neutral-to-slightly-positive silence. True, silence is still silence, except when you think about it too much. – Haruki Murakami
- There is so much debate about moderate and radical Islam but there is only one Islam. – Imran Khan
- One life per year. It seemed so moderate a price… until you looked back and realized you could fill a movie theater with your victims. – Kelley Armstrong
- One can with but moderate possessions do what one ought. – Aristotle
- The need to find out what will happen if I don’t relent or moderate my actions has been a constant source of difficulty and discomfort in my life. – Russell Brand
- You can be beautiful, kind and, also, strong. Strength can be shown in very many ways besides a sword or bow. – Ufuoma Apoki
- Nothing is easier than to get peaceful people to renounce violence, even when they provide no concrete ways to prevent violence from others. – Thomas Sowell
- A president who has incited violence inspires citizens towards hate and violence. – DaShanne Stokes
- To protect one’s own statement is the greatest form of violence. To impress upon others that his statement is correct is a form of violence itself. – Dada Bhagwan
- Violence never can wipe out violence, only a caring heart with love can do that. – Debasish Mridha
- If you have a drop of violence or anger in your mind, it can ignite a candle and be the source of violence, so be kind. – Debasish Mridha
- Non-violence is more powerful than violence. Nature eliminates violent animals bit by bit. – Amit Ray
- Violence can only breed more violence and suffering. Our struggle must remain non-violent and free of hatred. – Dalai Lama XIV
- Where love is absent, violence is a glaring possibility. Introduce love into any situation and violence gradually evaporates. – Pooja Ruprell
- Violence is violence and can in no way be misconstrued as discipline under any circumstance cultural or otherwise. – Aysha Taryam
- Violence is violence and can in no way be misconstrued as discipline under any circumstance cultural or otherwise. – Aysha Taryam
- We have been trained by a culture of violence and we are all agents of passive violence. – Bryant McGill
- No violence, gentlemen -” no violence, I beg of you! Consider the furniture! – Arthur Conan Doyle
- When we allow violence against some, we enable violence against all. – DaShanne Stokes
- Where ever there’s guilt there’s violence, and if guilt is a smell then violence is a taste: strawberries and formaldehyde and ironish blood. – Glen Duncan
- It didn’t take much prompting for Cariocas who were sick of living with violence to advocate violence as a solution. – Juliana Barbassa
- As if violence could make light. Maybe violence could make light. – Aspen Matis
- In Labor movements generally, success through violence can hardly be expected except in circumstances where success without violence is attainable. – Bertrand Russell
- Today you closed your eyes on violence, tomorrow, the violence will close your eyes on you. – VicDo
- Violence can be a gift. Violence belongs to everyone. – Bryant McGill
- As long as we do violence to other animals, we’ll keep on doing violence to ourselves. – Paul Russell
- Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create. – John Paul II
- Don’t you understand that freedom depends upon the continuing possibility of rebel violence. When violence becomes unthinkable, freedom dies-¦ – Samuel B Southwell
- All violence demands reform, and all violence desperately begs to be healed. – Bryant McGill
- Never in history has violence been initiated by the oppressed. How could they be the initiators, if they themselves are the result of violence? – Paolo Freire