Violence Quotes

I think I am more of a coward than anybody. It's a very weird feeling. The more I fear violence, the more I'm inclined to depict it in films.

My philosophy is that one shall not resort to violence unless one is resolved to become the subject of violence at any time.

The principal instances of mass violence in the world today are those committed by governments within their own legally recognized borders.

No matter where you go and what you do in America, you turn the tele on and you're confronted with violence.

We decry violence all the time in this country, but look at our history. We were born in a violent revolution, and we've been in wars ever since. We're not a pacific people.

Force, punishment, and violence are patriarchy's answer to conflicts and social problems. Patriarchy finds its ultimate expression in war.

Have you any idea of what you’ve unleashed? (Hades) Cruelty, pestilence, wrath, violence, ultimate suffering…what other gifts did the gods bestow on him?

In Buddhist teaching, ignorance is considered the fundamental cause of violence - ignorance... about the separation of self and other... about the consequences of our actions.

We can remind the world that all the dead on both sides have not settled our differences, so now it is time for the living to renounce violence as a means of solving this conflict.

My mother spoke of Christ to my father, by her feminine and childlike virtues, and, after having borne his violence without a murmur or complaint, gained him at the close of his life to Christ.

It’s impossible to say who has guns in Gaza anymore. The ballots are the only thing that can stop the violence at this point.

Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire

Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.

We can all do something to help end domestic violence. A Real Man would never abuse his partner or children, and I am proud to put my name to the Women's Aid Real Man campaign.

When there is violence against any person in society, because he or she is different, it threatens us all. Only by speaking out are any of us safe.

Legitimacy, when challenged, bases itself on an appeal to the past, while justification relates to an end that lies in the future. Violence can be justifiable, but it never will be legitimate.

Violence is an expression of impotence.

The rise of Hamas is a product of the failures of political will in the international community, of the absence of the peace process, of the increase in violence and ideology.

When you're trapped in an abusive home environment you can feel completely hopeless and lost. Remember that situations can change with time, and that it won't be this way forever.

Its typical of Mexico, of the whole human race perhaps — violence in favour of an ideal and then the ideal lost but the violence just going on.

If [George] Zimmerman had been arrested for domestic violence, Trayvon Martin might still be alive.

I condemn, for all climes and for all times, secret murders and unfair methods even for a fair cause.

One who, while seeking happiness, oppresses with violence other living beings who also desire happinesss, will not find happiness hereafter.

Having abandoned the taking of life, refraining from killing, we dwell without violence, with the knife laid down, scrupulous, full of mercy, trembling with compassion for all sentient beings.

Enough with the slaughters. Enough with the violence. Enough with the hatred in Iraq!

How can it be that the most wonderous and sacred human space - the womb - has become a place of unutterable violence?

Men often prove the violence of their own prejudices, even by the violence with which they attack the prejudices of other people.

Rome has betrayed itself. It knew the truth and chose violence, it knew humaneness and it chose tyranny.

So, those who hate, those who are violent in nature, live in a world of hate and fear and violence inside themselves, inside their minds, inside their awareness.

Most of us, I believe, admire strength... Sometimes, though, I wonder if we confuse strength with other words like aggression or even violence.

In my political philosophy I think that there sometimes is room for violence.

They say they seek security and quiet, the condition they call peace. Even as they speak they create the seeds of turmoil and violence.

Argument closes off the doors of the senses. It always masks violence. Continued too long, argument always leads to violence.

I know of a charm by way of a prayer that will preserve a man from the violence of guns and all manner of fire-weapons and engines but it will do me no good because I do not believe it

The chief cause of our misery is less the violence of our passions than the feebleness of our virtues.

You cannot commit an act of violence against a non-sentient object, only against a living thing.

I recognize no empire of this present age.

I met soldiers coming back from war and I was impressed by their description of PTSD, all the symptoms: the outburst of violence, the impossibility to cope with reality anymore, all that stuff.

Violence is never random.

What you might not know is that shortly after she worked alongside Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and others, Rosa Parks had to leave her home in Alabama to escape the constant threat of violence.

Power-Over leads to punishment and violence. Power-With leads to compassion and understanding, and to learning motivated by reverence for life rather than fear, guilt, shame, or anger.

I have recognized that the nation has the right, if it so wills, to vindicate her freedom even by actual violence.

I don't initiate violence, I retaliate.

Be it caste or communal violence, they stall the growth of the nation. Let us affirm that we will be free from these tensions.

God, in His wisdom, has so linked the whole human family together that any violence done at one end of the chain is felt throughout its length.

We remain in the Romantic cycle initiated by Rousseau: liberal idealism canceled by violence, barbarism, disillusionment and cynicism.

Counter-violence against the colonial regime is liberatory because it is an act, and by acting, the absolute power of colonialism, internalized by the colonized, is shaken.

One only needs to read twentieth-century history to see that it has been the climax of human madness, if it's measured in terms of human violence inflicted on other humans.

Preventing radicalization that leads to violence here in America is part of our larger strategy to decisively defeat al Qaeda.

They call me "a teacher, a fomenter of violence." I would say point blank, "That is a lie. I'm not for wanton violence, I'm for justice."