Violence Quotes

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.

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.

I only escaped from Tibet because I feared my people would resort to desperate violence if the Chinese took me as their prisoner.

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 prefer rugby to soccer. I enjoy the violence in rugby, except when they start biting each other's ears off.

Because the twentieth century was a century of violence, let us make the twenty-first a century of dialogue.

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.

Peace is the alternative to war, and nonviolence should be seen as the antidote to violence, not simply as its opposite. Nonviolence is more concerned with saving life than with saving face.

How we become moral and understand good and bad, and how we overcome our impulse towards violence, is all really important to me, as a person.

You know, what we do know is that there is a high frequency of violence in the home of those who bully.

Fear, she's the mother of violence.

When we commit violence against an infant girl, we call it child abuse; when we commit violence against an infant boy, we call it circumcision.

There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors.

I think the suffering, violence and cruelty and Guantanamo and the rest is going to go on and on in Iraq.

Interesting. You Earth people glorify organized violence for 40 centuries, but you imprison those who employ it privately.

As a society how do we do better and stop things like this happening time after time!! I’m so sorry to these families. Violence is not the answer people. Retaliation isn’t the solution as well.

All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.

When a man carries an instrument of violence, he'll always find the justification to use it.

I don't go to things because I want to see violence, I go to things because I want to see them handled well.

I have never made a threat. I've never made a threat, never expressed a threat, never - I've never - I would never threaten violence ever, because I am a man of peace, dedicated to peace.

It is intolerable that the world's religions - founded on the values of love and compassion - should provide a pretext for the expression of hatred and violence.

Why does man have reason if he can only be influenced by violence?

I was a barbarian, tender and full of violence. I translated by instinct, without any method, not merely an artistic truth but above all a human one.

Violence and wrong enclose all who commit them in their meshes and do mostly recoil on him from whom they begin.

The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.

The cause of all these evils was the lust for power arising from greed and ambition; and from these passions proceeded the violence of parties once engaged in contention.

Protection of children from violence and abuse has always been my main activity or campaign.

Most do violence to their natural aptitude, and thus attain superiority in nothing.

We are spectators to violence, and therefore are, how well we don't know and make sure we don't know the difference of real violence to that of simulation.

I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

No violence, gentlemen — no violence, I beg of you! Consider the furniture!

Non-violence is the article of faith.

Compassion is the signature of Higher Consciousness. Non-violence is the tool to evolve into the Higher Consciousness.

Don't play his game. Play yours.

I am a violent man who has learned not to be violent and regrets his violence.

A place where something so terrible had happened shouldn't continue to exist in the world

The violence of language consists in its effort to capture the ineffable and, hence, to destroy it, to seize hold of that which must remain elusive for language to operate as a living thing.

Death is ordinary. Behold it, subtract its patterns and lessons from those of the death that weapons bring, and maybe the residue will show what violence is.

Mercy is stronger than your sword.

It seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does not change the world and if it does, then only temporarily.

As the third anniversary of the September 11th attacks draws near we must ensure our nation is prepared to handle the continued threat of violence and terrorism on our country.

You can do a lot with diplomacy, but with diplomacy backed up by force you can get a lot more done.

Violence is not funny.

Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination to empathy, to cooperation, to self-control.

This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence.

The democracy process provides for political and social change without violence.

Beheading, burying and burning humans alive are extreme acts of cruelty. Such crimes against humanity must be investigated and the guilty parties brought to justice. May ALL victims rest in peace!

I do not like violence, but ours is a violent time, and there are some men who understand nothing else.

After decimating several vegetables, I decide juicing is my favorite form of food preparation. There's something perversely appealing about subjecting an innocent plant to that much violence.

The case against vivisection is the same as that against war and all other forms of cruelty - that violence does not produce long-term solutions.