Violence Quotes

Mercantile jealousy is excited, and both inflames, and is itself inflamed, by the violence of national animosity.

But what all the violence of the feudal institutions could never have effected, the silent and insensible operation of foreign commerce and manufactures gradually brought about.

Pressure or violence will ever move us to relinquish our honor or our equality of rights.

Any violence which does not spring from a spiritual base, will be wavering and uncertain. It lacks the stability which can only rest in a fanatical outlook.

We have lived with violence far too long.

Any use of the names of Eric Garner and Michael Brown, in connection with any violence or killing of police, is reprehensible and against the pursuit of justice in both cases.

Poverty doesn't imply necessarily violence.

I personally can't handle frivolous violence. I overreact to it.

You can't change the system through violence.

A bottomless pit of violence, a Tower of Babel where all are speakers and no hearers.

I'm not going to appeal to violence or aggression - of course not.

If we want world peace, we must break the vicious circle of violence and reprisal, of an eye for an eye, of endless hate.

The ingredients for another Palestinian uprising are always there because as long as there is so much violence it is bound to explode. How, I cannot tell. But people will not accept it forever.

Our age has need of violence," he writes. And he is violence.

I like violence to be upsetting. The only reason to do it subtley is if doing it subtley makes it more effective somehow.

I like comedy, not violence, but violence is making a lot of money. But comedy is what I like.

I think that the response to the OJ Simpson trial was based on a kind of sensibility that emerged out of the many campaigns to defend black communities against police violence.

As long as music of mine is not used to preach hate, or to bash women, it's okay for me. If it doesn't promote violence against women, drugs, this and that, use it, go ahead.

Seeing images of violence - it's always about how somebody's going to kill you.

Kids and violent TV, violent TV and violence, violence and kids. The only people missing from this discussion are the parents. Where are we? Gone. Abdicated.

We wake, if we ever wake at all, to mystery, rumors of death, beauty, violence.

I'd seen too many shrines in South Central and thought it was worth asking where the first bullet came from that started all this violence.

We had good years, with no violence, in a sense we were victims of our success.

As a woman, you accept the situation, adapt to it, and do your best, whereas men would choose violence.

If you see something, say something. This is more than a slogan. If you see someone turning toward violence, say something. Say something to law enforcement or to one of you in your community.

I do not hold to non-violence for moral reasons, but for political and practical reasons.

I've always been strongly on the side of non-violence. Also, I think that if you use the wrong means, the ends themselves get distorted.

The world's a poor standard. any society which is free of hunger and violence looks bright against that background.

Young men need to show women the respect they deserve and recognize sexual assault and to do their part to stop it.

It's time to "stop being ambivalent." ... They (groups like the Islamic State) have no ideology beyond violence and chaos and the slaughter of innocent people.

I am living testimony to the moral force of non-violence. I know there's nothing weak - nothing passive - nothing naïve - in the creed and lives of Gandhi and King.

We know that ISIL and other terrorist groups are actively encouraging people, around the world and in our country, to commit terrible acts of violence, oftentimes as lone-wolf actors.

Mexico is going to need the United States to cooperate in order to rid itself of the violence and corruption that results from the drug trade.

We may never understand what leads anybody to terrorize their fellow human beings. Such violence, such evil is senseless. It's beyond reason.

Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.

People aren't for hitting.

Violence doesn't equal strength.

[Vladimir] Putin is an enemy of political dissent. The U.S. celebrates political dissent and the right for people to argue free from violence about places where our ideas are in conflict.

The application of military force, or the prospect of such application, inhibits terrorist violence.

Politics is a way of ruling in divided societies without undue violence...politics is not just a necessary evil; it is a realistic good.

Every statute for terrorism requires violence.

I don't like violence. I get sick from violence. Do you think people are excited by violence?

Television is full of fictional and real violence that's turned into entertainment.

Terrorism is the intentional use of, or threat to use violence against civilians or against civilian targets, in order to attain political aims.

I'm a very great non-violent character. I would never resort to violence to change anything.

Violence is stupid. Even as a last resort, it only ever begets more of the same.

Violence - look, we live in a violent world, man. This country was founded on violence. Who's kidding who?

If you see the blood, then there's an easy association of the violence. The violence that happens when there isn't blood is actually much more subversive and unsettling.

Wanting anything too desperately is a form of aggression and violence, which will always be met with resistance.

Syrian people have right to fight for democracy and freedom in their country but they don't need the penetration of foreign elements, fundamentalist ideologies and violence.