Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes

It really is a strange time we're living in, when saying 'Don't kill people' is considered a radical point of view.

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy.

The most identifying trait of humanity is our abilty to be inhumane to one another.

Nothing comes from violence and nothing ever could, for all those born beneath an angry star, lest we forget how fragile we are.

There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.

It's obvious you shouldn't steal, kill or be cruel.

I know that war and mayhem run in our blood. I refuse to believe that they must dominate our lives. We humans are animals, too, but animals with amazing powers of rationality, morality, society. We can use our strength and courage not to savage each other, but to defend our highest purposes.

The difference between humans and wild animals is that humans pray before they commit murder.

I'd never hurt another person.

I think for really good-hearted people, that idea of putting yourself in the shoes of a monster to figure out why they acted that way, that's a really frightening idea.

Until we have created a romance of peace that would equal that of war, violence will not disappear from people's lives.

As a person, I'm anti-violence.

Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey.

I think that if people are instructed about anything, it should be about the nature of cruelty. And about why people behave so cruelly to each other. And what kind of satisfactions they derive from it. And why there is always a cost, and a price to be paid.

We would all love to walk up to someone and shoot them in the head, there's no doubt about that. We're too civilised to admit it, but we're happy to read about it.

I don't think anyone should grow up wanting to go around killing people. I don't think anyone should grow up wanting to be a secret agent.

We'd all like to believe that perhaps people could stop killing each other.

I've been fascinated by the idea that evil is the absence of empathy.

You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.

No problems are ever resolved by violence. It only aggravates the pain and the hurt on every side.

I am opposed to war, to killing people, to any kind of hatred and violence.

Are we beasts? Are we taking this too far?

There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing worth killing for

… morality ends where the gun begins.