Violence Quotes

Whenever you have war, you often have more deaths because the medical system and the food system breaks down, than you have directly through violence.

The more potent, unasked question is how society at large reacts to eager, voluntary violence by females, and to the growing evidence that women can be just as aggressive as men.

Sarah Palin's whole family got into a drunken public fistfight. Something police are calling a 'tragic case of trash-on-trash violence.'

To be reserved, secretive, with a passionate violence that causes suffering.

This is not violence, this is legitimate resistance. This is our people's right to resist Israeli occupation.

I will also continue to fight to provide better economic security for victims of domestic violence.

Europeans are familiar with terrorism and violence. We have not experienced a true conflict on our soil in a hundred years, and especially not one that involved 3,000 dead.

Keep violence in the mind Where it belongs (Barefoot in the Head)

Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies.

Wars such as those which have occurred in Iraq only allow hatred, violence and terror to proliferate

Redheaded Peckerwood, which unerringly walks the fine line between fiction and nonfiction, is a disturbingly beautiful narrative about unfathomable violence and its place on the land

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.

Until you can love what is - everything, including the apparent violence and craziness - you're separate from the world, and you'll see it as dangerous and frightening.

Clarity moves much more efficiently than violence or stress.

I grew up with a very quick temper, and the language of violence is a language that I'm very familiar and comfortable with.

I couldn't think of one clever way to stop this guy, so I just trusted to mindless violence.

All politics is a struggle for power; the ultimate kind of power is violence.

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

Personally, I don't like watching violence. I'd much rather see more skin.

From pacifist to terrorist, each person condemns violence - and then adds one cherished case in which it may be justified.

It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death.

If someone is killing, on a regular basis, thousands of animals, and if that person can only be stopped in one way by the use of violence, then it is certainly a morally justifiable solution.

Family violence is a criminal act; perpetrators, while often former victims themselves, need to accept culpability.

Unless men are active allies, we'll never end violence against women and girls.

He seems to me to be headed for his ideal fate, which is compulsive psychosis dashed with a jigger of psychopathic irresponsibility and violence

Democracy is the most realistic way for diverse peoples to resolve their differences, and share power, and heal social divisions without violence or repression.

There was violence because first of all, there were ethnic differences and names. If you were small, they called you a runt, and you had to do something about that even if there were five other guys.

We are all shot through with enough motives to make a massacre, any day of the week that we want to give them their head.

There are different forms of anarchy and different currents in it. I must, first say very simply what anarchy I have in view. By anarchy I mean first an absolute rejection of violence.

Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.

Peace isn't the mere absence of violence; peace must come from inner peace. And inner peace comes from taking others’ interests into account.

Violence will only increase the cycle of violence.

Too strong a media emphasis on death and violence can lead to despair.

The stage play is a trial, not a deed of violence. The soul is opened, like the combination of a safe, by means of a word. You don't require an acetylene torch.

Black Power If the motive is good, and there are no other possibilities, then seen most deeply it [violence] is nonviolence, because its aim is to help others.

I am a steadfast follower of the doctrine of non-violence which was first preached by Lord Buddha, whose divine wisdom is absolute.

Where there is no emotion, there is no motive for violence.

One of the main purveyors of violence in this world has been this country America.

I was never violent. I denounced even back then violence and left it because I didn't want to be associated with that kind of taint.

In my books, I never portray violence as a reasonable solution to a problem. If the lead characters in the story are driven to it, it's at the extreme end of their experience.

In the application of the method of non-violence, one must believe in the possibility of every person, however depraved, being reformed under humane and skilled treatment.

The purpose and function of government is not to preside over change but to prevent change. By political methods when unavoidable, by violence when convenient.

A successful bloody revolution can only mean further misery for the masses.

So natural to man is the practice of violence that our indulgence allows the slightest provocation, the most disputable right, as a sufficient ground of national hostility.

Armed conspiracies against something satanic is like matching Satans against Satan.

If love or non-violence be not the law of our being, the whole of my argument falls to pieces.

The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.

Peace through superior violence inevitably leads to the atom bomb and all that it stands for.

When every young man refuses to go to war, you will have peace. You do not defend any idea with violence.

If you have Palestinians who have no hope, who don't have a job, who've used up all their resources, the notion of getting rid of violence is a dream.