Violence Quotes

I've never laid a cane on the back of a lord before, but if you force me to I shall speedily become used to the practice.

Deceit and violence - these are the two forms of deliberate assault on human beings.

The God of peace is never glorified by human violence.

It seems evident that the basis for civil safety is homogeneity. A culture which is socially uniform is pretty well devoid of informal violence.

Comparing yourself to others is an act of violence against your authentic self.

Passion is all but soft, it's not tender, it's violence to which you get hooked by pleasure.

I loved my parents... but that can never change the fact that my father's violence ruined my childhood.

In Japan, violence in games is pretty much self-regulated.There's more violence in games in the U.S., in things like Mortal Kombat, where they rip out hearts and cut off heads.

I don't believe in using too much graphic violence, although I've done it. It's better to be suggestive and to allow the viewer to fill in the blanks in their minds.

The stronger our gun control laws are, the fewer acts of violence.

War, hatred, and violence all spring from one infernal idea: that one person, race, creed, or culture is better than another.

Law And Freedom without Violence (Anarchy) Law And Violence without Freedom (Despotism) Violence without Freedom And Law (Barbarism) Violence with Freedom And Law (Republic)

Practically every violent conflict or social change has proved that violence unleashes violence in return.

The sport [football] is simply more and more identified with violence, both in its inherent nature and in its savage personnel... [The National Football League] now needs a guardian, not a CEO.

Nothing in our society-with the exception of violence and fear-has been more effective in keeping women in their place than the degradation of the menstrual cycle.

Violence begets violence, you know. And you can't kill off all the violent people or all the murderers. We'd have to kill off the government.

For violence or fraud can create no right.

I did it for political, moral reasons, thinking that I was making this great sacrifice, but it was absolutely necessary; I was not going to contribute to the violence in the world anymore.

Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.

Our silence is deafening and deadly.

We have not yet made violence against women abnormal, extraordinary, unacceptable. We have not yet come to see it as a pathological issue.

Violence comes from the belief that other people cause our pain and therefore deserve punishment.

If non-violence is the Law of our being, the future is with Women.

My holy of holies is the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love, and absolute freedom--freedom from violence and falsehood, no matter how the last two manifest themselves.

There's a difference between violence and senseless violence.

Violence is a crime against humanity, for it destroys the very fabric of society.

There are two ways to resolve conflicts, through violence or through negotiation. Violence is for wild beasts, negotiation is for human beings.

I would risk violence a thousand times rather than risk the emasculation of the whole race.

Violence is the ultimate human degradation.

This is a time that calls for extreme restraint. In a world of outright aggression and violence there can be no winners. To respond to violence with counter-violence only throws oil on the fire.

I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man's problem just to avoid violence.

I think there's a natural system in your own head about how much violence the scene warrants. It's not an intellectual process, it's an instinctive process.

Love soothes wounds, while hatred and violence deepen them.

For violence, like Achilles' lance, can heal the wounds it has inflicted.

As men, we all have something to give. We all have the power to do our own part to stop the global pandemic of violence against women and girls. It is holding us all back.

I'm just hoping that people understand that Islam is peace and not violence.

Senseless violence is a prerogative of youth, which has much energy but little talent for the constructive.

violence is an evil thing, but when the guns are all in the hands of the men without respect for human rights, then men are really in trouble.

Claiming that you have got the truth wrapped up does breed violence and intolerance.

I distrust the incommunicable; it is the source of all violence

My door will always be open to those who genuinely renounce violence and seek peaceful accommodation into our nascent democracy.

Like a dead man, only friction could make him warm or violence make him mobile.

When we use the word domestic [terrorism], we discount its actual impact as political terrorism, which is, of course, political violence meant to impact an audience outside of the immediate victims.

Until we eliminate the mentality of violence, we will not find the harmony within ourselves we're looking for.

It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas

We may never be strong enough to be entirely non-violent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep non-violence as our goal and make steady progress towards it.

Violence does even justice unjustly.

Friends that I value most are people who would essentially use physical violence against me at a time when I seem to be teetering on the edge.

This idea that America is somehow on the verge of collapse, this vision of violence and chaos everywhere, doesn't really jibe with the experience of most people.

We must talk about how sexism and patriarchy operate in conjunction with state violence. Until we're honest about that, and do something to resist, we're complicit in the persistence of oppression.