Violence Quotes

To imitate the hatred and violence of tyrants and murderers is the best way to take their place.

There's more danger in the violence you don't face.

Let us pray for the many Christians in the world who still suffer persecution and violence. May God grant them the courage of fidelity.

Film seems to be a medium designed for betrayal and violence.

We must not believe the Evil One when he tells us that there is nothing we can do in the face of violence, injustice and sin.

My view is when you use violence on your people, that never ends well.

Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation.

I do not like violence.

Please be peaceful. We believe in law and order. We are not advocating violence, I want you to love your enemies... for what we are doing is right, what we are doing is just -- and God is with us.

Dr. King used Gandhi's commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance.

Violence may be a good focus to organize around, but we have to look at women's lives in our entirety.

Violence against women is the single greatest human rights violation of our generation.

The violence of either grief or joy, their own enactures with themselves destroy.

The use of violence as an instrument of persuasion is therefore inviting and seems to the discontented to be the only effective protest.

I think the violence in the world right now is being reflected inside people. And I also believe the violence inside people is being reflected in the world.

The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is non-interference with their own particular ways of being happy, provided those ways do not assume to interfere by violence with ours.

In my sick brain, gruesome violence and comedy go as hand-to-hand together as anything else in the world.

A man who lives with nature is used to violence and is companionable with death. There is more violence in an English hedgerow than in the meanest streets of a great city.

As a Goodwill Ambassador for UNIFEM, I've learned that violence against women knows no boundaries. Join me in helping women worldwide who have suffered unthinkable violence.

Between shame and shamelessness lies the axis upon which we turn; meteorological conditions at both these poles are of the most extreme, ferocious type. Shamelessness, shame: the roots of violence.

The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence.

People are still thinking of solving problems by violence and war, and that has to stop.

She knew that she could not have reached this white serenity except as the sum of all the colors, of all the violence she had known.

For me, the toughest thing for kids to deal with is when the parents are fighting. It's not violence on them - it's the feeling of violence in the family.

Even the wisest man grows tense With some sort of violence Before he can accomplish fate, Know his work or choose his mate. Poet and sculptor, do the work, Nor let the modish painter shirk

The level of violence on the planet today is no longer sustainable.

Yes, always avoid violence. In this age of charity and kindliness, the time has gone by for such things. Leave dynamite to the low and unrefined.

The Jihad is not just a way of testing yourself but also means using violence to spread Islam.

When an audience does not complain, it is a compliment, and when it does, it is a compliment, too, if unaccompanied by violence.

Non-violence should be a tactic - not an ideology preached from the sidelines to victims of massive violence.

The private terror of the liberal spirit is invariably suicide, not murder.

Violence is sometimes a duty.

Soccer just couldn't satisfy my thirst for watching violence up close.

I have mastered the principles of several religions. They have all shocked me by the violence which I should have to do to my reason to accept the dogmas of any one of them.

It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.

Americans love to read about violence.

Delimitation is always difficult. The world is one, life is one. The sweetest and most heavenly of activities partake in some measure of violence - the act of love, for instance; music, for instance.

Contemporary movies just drive me crazy. The violence and the sentimentality and the spiritual materialism and Theism and the incredible indulgence in ignorance is so claustrophobic.

It is my belief that the problem of bringing peace to the world on a supranational basis will be solved only by employing Gandhi's method on a larger scale.

All forms of violence are quests for identity. When you live on the frontier, you have no identity. You're a nobody.

The TV generation is postliterate and retribalized. It seeks by violence to scrub the old private image and to merge in a new tribal identity, like any corporate executive.

I know the usual answer of Christ using violence to get the sellers out of the temple, but to me this was impatience rather than violence.

Sickness, doctors, that scares me, not violence -- helplessness. That's why I turn to violent stories.

Time does us violence; it is the only violence.

I hate superficial violence. It's shallow and stupid, and the impact on the audience is really bad.

Religious fanaticism has clearly produced, and in all probability will continue to produce, enormous amounts of bickering, fighting, violence, bloodshed, homicide, feuds, wars, and genocide.

I'm especially interested in helping to give visibility to the pandemic of violence against women

Obviously if there are guns on the street there's going to be more violence. That being said, I happen not to trust the government.

All the violence in videos and movies, you can't tell me that that wouldn't influence a disturbed person.

Most dramatically, and perhaps least noticed, is the violence inside Saudi Arabia itself.