Violence Quotes

It's a subject that is often hidden and very secretive, but it's something which I feel should have a light shone upon it.

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

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

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

Nonviolence is an unchangeable creed. It has to be pursued even in face of violence raging around you.

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

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.

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.

The violence in the world comes about because we human beings are forever creating barriers between men who are like us and men who are not like us.

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

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

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.

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 reaction that a ruthless dictator sets up in us either that of awe or pity according respectively as we react to him violently on nonviolently.

Violence becomes imperative when an attempt is made to assert rights without any reference to duties.

The man who coerces another not to eat fish commits more violence than he who eats it.

In Chicago, they've had thousands of shootings, thousands since January 1st [2016]. Is this a war-torn country? What are we doing? And we have to stop the violence.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Violence will only increase the cycle of violence.

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

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

One who uses coercion is guilty of deliberate violence. Coercion is inhuman.

We see violence to forcibly seize land, at any price, murders and corruption.

We must never violate principles. We must never initiate violence. And we should never harm the innocent. But at some point, unless governments back off, we have to stop being nice.

Nonviolence in the sense of mere non-killing does not appear to me, therefore, to be of any improvement on the technique of violence.

What a vast difference there is between the barbarism that precedes culture and the barbarism that follows it.

The violence of war is random. It does not make sense. And many of those who struggle with loss also struggle with the knowledge that the loss was futile and unnecessary.

Hillary Rodham Clinton was America's chief diplomat. So let's look around at the violence and danger in our world today in every region of the world that has been infected with her flawed judgment.

Until mankind is peaceful enough not to have violence on the news, there's no point in taking it out of shows that need it for entertainment value.

If you love with violence and you hate with violence there is nothing that can be questioned.

In all places, and in all times, those religionists who have believed too much have been more inclined to violence and persecution than those who have believed too little.

Comparison leads to violence.

Violence is almost an everyday occurrence in some Muslim lands: it should not be exacerbated by revenge attacks on more innocent families and communities.

Until we all start to take responsibility, until we do all we can to improve the character of our communities, we'll never break the cycle of violence and indifference.

War is an act of violence pushed to its utmost bounds.

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

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

Clarity moves much more efficiently than violence or stress.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Spaghetti Westerns are really brutal and operatic with a surreal quality to the violence.