Petra Kelly Quotes

I do not like violence, but ours is a violent time, and there are some men who understand nothing else.

People.. .love to say that 'Violence never solved anything.' But what solved Hitler? Was It a team of social workers? Was it putting daisies into the gun barrels of Nazi Panzer divisions? Was it a commission that tried to understand what made Hitler sorry? ?No. What solved Hitler was violence.

One bleeding-heart type asked me in a recent interview if I did not agree that 'violence begets violence.' I told him that it is my earnest endeavor to see that it does. I would like very much to ensure - and in some cases I have - that any man who offers violence to his fellow citizen begets a whole lot more in return than he can enjoy.

Violence is the only way to answer violence.

I hold that the world is sick of armed rebellions.

Violence will only increase the cycle of violence.

An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.

Reconciliations are for after the violence has ended.

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

If a man smites you on one cheek, smash him on the other.

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

An eye for an eye leaves everybody blind.

I am totally against the war but violence is part of mankind and it's going to happen, but as musicians I think we've got to step up and say 'come on'.

Peace produced by suppression is neither natural nor desirable.

Through violence, you may 'solve' one problem, but you sow the seeds for another.

Our nonviolent tactics are not as effective. We ask nicely for years and get nothing. Someone makes a threat, and it works.

Non-violence has suffered its biggest defeat in the hands of people who most want to talk about it.

We can forgive you for killing our children, but we can never forgive you for making us kill your children.

The whole human race loses by every act of personal vengeance.

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

Sometimes you must live in a violent world in order to get greater justice.

Nonviolence is the only way. Even if you achieve your goal by violent means there are always side effects, and these can be worse than the problem. Violence is against human nature.

War is never lenient but where it is wanton; where men are compelled to fight in self-defence, they must hate and avenge. This may be bad, but it is human nature; it is the clay as it came from the hands of the Potter.

Peace for any prolonged period of time is impossible. Humans have a natural thirst for chaos and war is the most readily available form of chaos.

It is fear which leads us to war, ... It is fear which leads us to believe that we must kill or be killed. Fear which leads us to attack those who have not attacked us. Fear which leads us to ring our nation in the very heavens with weapons of mass destruction.