Violence Quotes

I don't mean to romanticise the struggle, that leads to all kinds of terrible violence and absurdities that are even worse than the perverse immediate gratification.

What is magnificent about humans is when they decide to turn and stand. If they respond with non-violence on principle and hold their ground, they are really magnificent.

War is not the answer. Violence is not the solution. A more peaceful world is possible.

Violence in real life is terrible; violence in movies can be cool. It's just another colour to work with.

Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men.

Free-market capitalism is a network of free and voluntary exchanges in which producers work, produce, and exchange their products for the products of others through prices voluntarily arrived at.

We have to start from the fact that there are always alternatives to violence.

Human nature at times is unfortunately very ugly and I learned the world can be a very ugly place. For as much beauty there is, there's just as much brutality and violence and ugliness.

The Norwegian response to violence is more democracy, more openness and greater political participation.

Since the primitive times, the wealth of the popes was exposed to envy, their powers to opposition, and their persons to violence.

Nothing violent, oft have I heard tell, can be permanent.

Darkness cannot be overcome with more darkness, only with light. Violence cannot be overcome with more violence, only with peace.

Root out the violence in your life, and learn to live compassionately and mindfully. Seek peace. When you have peace within, real peace with others is possible.

I was grateful for the opportunity to make a difference. The political violence really started in 1970-1971. The political difficulties start a little bit beyond that.

I sometimes go for the strongest, most vivid colour on the palette, which in the case of movies is violence.

Violence in our society has reached epidemic proportions. ... Violence in the media for entertainment purposes has been established as a major contributing factor.

Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence.

Every rock or molotov cocktail thrown should make a very obvious political point. Random violence produces random propaganda results. Why waste even a rock?

We set ourselves the ultimate aim of abolishing the state, i.e., all organized and systematic violence, all use of violence against people in general.

Punishment is the root of violence on our planet.

Violence is the way stupid people try to level the playing field.

Today the data linking violence in the media to violence in society are superior to those linking cancer and tobacco.

Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.

Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.

I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.

If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

If you remembered somebody was as real as yourself, how could you kill anybody?

I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life.

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat for it is momentary.

War, and the preparation for war, are the two greatest obstacles to human progress, fostering a vicious cycle of arms buildups, violence and poverty.

They believed that Britain was in Ireland defending their own interests, therefore the Irish had the right to use violence to put them out. My argument was that that type of thinking was out of date.

We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence.

Abortion is violence; a deep, desperate violence inflicted by a woman upon, first of all, herself.

What I have set down in a moment of ardour I must then critically examine. Sometimes I must do myself violence before I can mercilessly erase things thought out with love.

Violence against women can end only when the culprits get punished.

I'm very careful about violence in games. I'm not interested in creating violent effects.

I think the president's comfortable with a certain level of violence.

I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if we do not stop being violent we have no future.

Violence is hidden within democratic structures because they are not radically democratic - Western democracy is merely a domestic convenience of consumerism.

The link between intimate violence in the home and the international violence of terrorism and war is as tightly bound together as the fingers of a clenched fist.

Generally speaking, violence always arises out of impotence. It is the hope of those who have no power.

All violence is the illustration of a pathetic stereotype.

I don't support violence, period.

I call on men and boys everywhere to join us. Violence against women and girls will not be eradicated until all of us - men and boys - refuse to tolerate it.

Every act of violence is also a message that needs to be understood. (23-24)

In a world built on violence, one must be a revolutionary before one can be a pacifist.

My people have been sucked into the violence because some feel they have to retaliate, and some feel they have to protect themselves.

One in three women may suffer from abuse and violence in her lifetime. This is an appalling human rights violation, yet it remains one of the invisible and under-recognized pandemics of our time.

Though defensive violence will always be 'a sad necessity' in the eyes of men of principle, it would be still more unfortunate if wrongdoers should dominate just men.