Violence Quotes

When a trans woman gets called a man, that is an act of violence.

The aggressive, unprovoked acts of violence against Israel by Hezbollah and Hamas are revealing. It is clear they don't want peace, but rather seek the ultimate destruction of Israel.

Violence has been Nicaragua's most important export to the world.

I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie.

All violence is the result of people tricking themselves into believing that their pain derives from other people and that consequently those people deserve to be punished.

If men will not do us justice, they shall do us violence.

Love as Thought is Truth. Love as Action is Right Conduct. Love as Understanding is Peace. Love as Feeling is Non-violence.

By peace we mean the capacity to transform conflicts with empathy, without violence, and creatively- a never-ending process

By what standard of morality can the violence used by a slave to break his chains be considered the same as the violence of a slave master?

Cruelty to animals can become violence to humans.

The State calls its own violence, law; but that of the individual, crime.

If more people were stoned there would be less violence in the world.

The sexual abuse and exploitation of children is one of the most vicious crimes conceivable, a violation of mankind's most basic duty to protect the innocent.

Answer violence with violence. If one of us falls today, five of them must fall tomorrow.

Life etches itself onto our faces as we grow older, showing our violence, excesses or kindnesses.

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.

They have the guns, we have the poets. Therefore, we will win.

The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.

We must unite. Violence against women cannot be tolerated, in any form, in any context, in any circumstance, by any political leader or by any government.

Turning a human being into a thing is almost always the first step towards justifying violence against that person.

Child abuse casts a shadow the length of a lifetime.

This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.

I think that all the silence is worse than all the violence

Hate begets hate, violence engenders violence, hypocrisy is answered by hypocrisy, war generates war, and love creates love.

What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?

A question settled by violence, or in disregard of law, must remain unsettled forever.

It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge.

One must do violence to the object of one's desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.

Violence against women is an appalling human rights violation. But it is not inevitable. We can put a stop to this.

Nothing good ever comes of violence.

If the Arabs put down their weapons today, there would be no more ‎violence. If the Jews put ‎down their weapons ‎today, there would be no ‎more Israel'‎

There exists in this country, sadly, a callous, corrupt and corrupting shadow industry that sells and stows violence against its own people. Through vicious, violent video games...

The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. Only reverance can restrain violence - reverance for human life and the environment.

The number one worst piece of horsemanship on earth is violence.

It takes four generations to recover from every act of violence.

The schizoid man is the natural product of the technological man. It is one way to live and is increasingly utilized and it may explode into violence.

If violence wasn't your last resort, you failed to resort to enough of it.

Comparison is an act of violence against the self.

My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.

There's less violence in the world when people are using Hula-Hoops.

So, if falling crime rates coincide with the rise of violent video games and increasing violence on TV and at the cinema, should we conclude that media violence is causing the drop in crime rates?

There is one universal truth, applicable to all countries, cultures and communities: violence against women is never acceptable, never excusable, never tolerable.

The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is a more violent world.

The true cause of hatred and violence is faith versus faith, an outward expression of the ancient instinct of tribalism.

Liberty is to be free from restraint and violence from others

The US is indeed a terrorist nation. ...It's also the greatest purveyor of violence on earth over the past half century, and the foremost threat to world peace today.

Violence is a disease, a disease that corrupts all who use it regardless of the cause.

All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom.

All my humor is based upon destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I’d be standing on the breadline right in back of J. Edgar Hoover.

The world soffers a lot. Not because the violence of bad people. But because of the silence of the good people.