Simon Wiesenthal Quotes

Violence does not contribute to anything.

Violence is not funny.

Violence is both unavoidable and unjustifiable.

There's more than one way to sense violence.

Fear is the parent of cruelty.

Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire.

Violence is the first refuge of the violent.

Violence is a calm that disturbs you.

Violence is a tool of the ignorant.

These days, our senses are bombarded with aggression. We are constantly confronted with global images of unending, escalating war and violence.

Hate breeds violence.

Violence is totally accepted in this country.

There are certain wicked people in the world that you can't deal with except by force.

I was hoping he would get up so I could hit him again and keep him down.

In violence, we forget who we are.

You know, violence, I think, knocks on everyone's door.

The public makes it so that we have to keep assaulting each other.

I never caught on to being a bully.

Actual violence has no attraction for me at all.

Aggression is inherently destructive of relationships. People and ideologies are pitted against each other, believing that in order to survive, they must destroy the opposition.

I've had threats.

Bullets, beatings and bombings—not bullshit!

to vex and oppress each other.

You’re a thug. Now get out of here and keep away.

There was great persecution in many places, both by imprisoning, and by breaking up of meetings. At a meeting about seven miles from London, the rude people usually came out of several parishes round about, to abuse Friends, and often beat and bruised them exceedingly. One day they abused about eighty Friends that went to that meeting out of London, tearing their coats and cloaks from off their backs, and throwing them into ditches and ponds; and when they had besmeared them with dirt, they said they looked like witches.