Violence Quotes

Violence is a calm that disturbs you.

The love of violence is an aspect of our humanity. Even the weak wish to be strong primarily so they can wield the whip.

This is about saving children's lives. It is not about agencies and services protecting themselves.

War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.

We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion.

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

When you vote, you are exercising political authority, you're using force. And force, my friends, is violence. The supreme authority from which all other authorities are derived.

Wrestling is ballet with violence.

Physical love is unthinkable without violence.

As a human rights issue, the effort to end violence against women becomes a government's obligation, not just a good idea.

If we know anything about man, it's that he's not pacific. The temptation to butcher anyone considered undesirable seems to be a common temptation, not always resisted.

The germ of creation lies in violence.

In a world gushing blood day and night, you never stop mopping up pain.

War therefore is an act of violence to compel our opponent to fulfill our will.

Violence is fun, man.

When we judge others we contribute to violence.

I believe humor nullifies violence.

The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility.

I think we're at a time where people just want to join together and cause change. People don't want to live like this any more.

We can't answer King's assassination with violence. That would be the worst tribute we could pay him.

I wished to see storms only on those coasts where they raged with most violence.

The violence and obscenity are left unadulterated, as manifestation of the mystery and pain which ever accompanies the act of creation.

I can't remember any text of mine where I said that one should fight Hitler without violence; I'm not an idiot.

The violence betwen women is unbelievable. Women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding.

The essential function of the State is to maintain peace, justice, law, and order, and to protect the individual citizen against aggression, violence, theft, and fraud.

In some cases non-violence requires more militancy than violence.

If I've made it a little easier for artists to work in violence, great! I've accomplished something.

It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.

Take away the violence and who will hear the man of peace?

I know that in embarking on non-violence I shall be running what might be termed a mad risk. But the victories of truth have never been won without risks.

The world is ruled by violence, or at least the imminent threat of violence. It always has been.

It is the quietest and meekest people who are often capable of the most sudden and unexpected violences for the reason that when their control does snap, it goes entirely. (Hercule Poirot)

The truth that we must finally confront is that Islam contains specific notions of martyrdom and jihad that fully explain the character of Muslim violence.

The Muslim world is deeply hurt by the campaign of violence initiated against our Palestinian brothers.

What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?

Violence is the quest for identity. When identity disappears with technological innovation, violence is the natural recourse.

What opera isn't violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can't

I don't require movies to be about good people, and I don't reject screen violence.

Man has an innate capacity for violence, but can only justify it in the name of justice.

These women need to feel that we're all aware of what they may be going through, to give them the confidence to speak out.

Working conditions for me have always been those of the monastic life: solitude and frugality. Except for frugality, they are contrary to my nature, so much so that work is a violence I do to myself.

Violence sometimes may have cleared away obstructions quickly, but it never has proved itself creative.

Violence is the repartee of the illiterate.

I have never intended in any of my films to sell violence or to glorify it. Even in the most intense action sequences in my films, there is a message about how evil violence is.

Dignity does not come from avenging insults, especially from violence that can never be justified. It comes from taking responsibility and advancing our common humanity.

Truth quenches untruth, love quenches anger, self-suffering quenches violence. This eternal rule is a rule not for saints only but for all.

LGBT youth face a much higher risk of violence and homelessness after being rejected by their family of origin.

The true master lives in truth, in goodness and restraint, non-violence, moderation, and purity.

In England ... education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and would probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.

All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. The violence of revolutions is the violence of men who charge into a vacuum.