Violence Quotes
Decriminalization would take the profit out of drugs and greatly reduce, if not eliminate, the drug-related violence that is currently plaguing our streets.
My wish for the world would be to end violence against women. My wish for myself would be for peace of mind.
There is a legacy of violence against native women that has gotten worse and worse over time.
If the adjustment made by a court can be accepted or not, it will be refused whenever the men can gain more by continuing the strike, with whatever of violence that involves.
So, these political activities will create friction in and of themselves, and in this environment of friction there'll be additional violence.
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.
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 violence betwen women is unbelievable. Women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding.
We can't answer King's assassination with violence. That would be the worst tribute we could pay him.
The fragrance of nonviolence was never sweeter than it was today amidst the stink of violence of the most cowardly type that was being displayed in the cities of India.
If you must hate, if hatred is the leaven of your life, which alone can give flavor, then hate what should be hated: falsehood, violence, selfishness.
Because the twentieth century was a century of violence, let us make the twenty-first a century of dialogue.
I prefer rugby to soccer. I enjoy the violence in rugby, except when they start biting each other's ears off.
The first function of violence in Native American literatures is simply to acknowledge that violence is implicit, like gravity and sunlight, in the world and our relations with the world.
I only escaped from Tibet because I feared my people would resort to desperate violence if the Chinese took me as their prisoner.
There is nothing more American than brutal violence. The country was built on it, revels in it and shows every evidence of clinging to it with the crazed, destructive strength of an obsessive lover.
Violence wounds the body and it wounds the soul. Of the predator. Of the prey. Of the mourners. Of collective humanity. It diminishes us all.
At least in my country, we have come to accept the flags burning, but what we cannot accept is violence, burning of embassies and intimidations, and there is no excuse for that.
My love ,she speaks like silence, without ideals or violence. She doesn't have to say she's faithful, yet she's true.
Violence never settles anything should be debated by the ghosts of Hitler and Stalin, with the city fathers of Carthage as referees.
Jealousy is a painful passion; yet without some share of it, the agreeable affection of love has difficulty to subsist in its full force and violence.
I always thought the real violence in Hollywood isn't what's on the screen. It's what you have to do to raise the money.
I was just walking around like a zombie..I really had no idea what I was doing.. But the best thing that I did do was leave and get the hell out of there. I have no regrets.
This is what terrorism is occupied with as well: making real, palpable violence surface in opposition to the invisible violence of security.
I think there's a certain numbness in modern society, that accepts certain kinds of violence, but represses other kinds of violence.
There's an incredible fascination for that and that goes with violence and everything else in pictures.
Only reverence can restrain violence - reverence for human life and the environment.
The other person has wrong perceptions about himself and about us. And we have wrong perceptions about ourselves and the other person. And that is the foundation for violence and conflict and war.
Women are rising. And I think that's all the violence and war - it could be the last gasp of the patriarchy, actually.
Nothing comes from violence and nothing ever could, for all those born beneath an angry star, lest we forget how fragile we are.
We improved the environment in which our children live, learn and play by decreasing crime and clamping down on abuse and violence in the home and on the streets.
Yes, ISIS is a threat. It's more than a nuisance. It's also in many respects criminal violence. But it isn't, in my view, a central strategic issue facing humanity.
The injustice is that women continue to be the main target of violence both during wartime and peacetime and yet there is still a lack of a public outrage.
Democracy is an imperfect way of steering between the violence of anarchy and the violence of tyranny, with the least violence you can get away with.
If we go back in the history of different nations, violence and the use of force are part of their heritage. These are the traditions of mankind.
These days, our senses are bombarded with aggression. We are constantly confronted with global images of unending, escalating war and violence.
There was no violence, no speed. It moved to the rhythm of an elder dance, putting all the rituals of the world to shame. Black, silver, gold and moon-opal, night and sea, fire, earth, air and water.
I am committed to the principle that violence is never justified as a means of ameliorating a grievance.
The only way to end a culture of violence is to proactively create a culture of peace.
Violence must be inflicted once for all; people will then forget what it tastes like and so be less resentful. Benefits must be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.