Muhammad Ali Quotes

You don't hurt 'em if you don't hit 'em.

Keep violence in the mind where it belongs.

No doubt it requires two to fight. But both of them need not necessarily be fighters. It is, all the same, a fight, even if one goes on beating and the other gets beaten. There is no guarantee that others would behave properly with us even if we remain peaceful and cordial with them.

Anybody who resorts to violence will have no friends in the United States.

Violence against violence? That will never solve the problem.

Blood must not have blood... I don't stand for anyone bullying bullies.

Violence doesn't interest me very much.

When someone mistreats you, the correct reaction is not to go out and do something to destroy somebody else's property.

People are mean to each other.

There is nothing to be gained by being unnecessarily nasty. Violence begets violence.

I'd never hurt another person.

I do not like violence.

A lot of times, you had to beat the bullies at their own game. But the difficulty is not becoming the bully yourself.

I don't ever believe in violence as a kind of medicine.

I don't like violence.

My message to kids who bully other kids is: You know it's wrong! What's really going on? Try not to make somebody else's life miserable because you are.

One can imagine nonviolent or minimally violent ways to reduce or eliminate hatred, but there's no mollifying evil.

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

One should not evoke violence by acting fearful.

It is my contention that most people are not mugged every day, that most people in this world do not encounter violence every day. I think we prepare people for violence, and I think just as importantly we prepare people for the definition of being gentle.

I have a zero-tolerance policy when it comes to bullies.

It is my contention that most people are not mugged every day, that most people in this world do not encounter violence every day. I think we prepare people for violence, and I think it just as important that we prepare people for the definition of being gentle. ... for so many years gentle has been equated with weakness but it requires more strength to be gentle. So it's the every day encounters of life that I think we prepare children for and prepare them to be good to other people and to consider other people.

… morality ends where the gun begins.

In a perfect world, I don't think any man should slap anyone.

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