Violence Quotes

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.

Violence in any form is evil and to kill innocent animals in tantamount to blatant savagery.

Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.

At the very center of our culture is a crucified man, a tortured man hanging on a cross of wood. You have an image of violence at the very center of our spiritual investigation.

Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture.

Violence as a way of gaining power... is being camouflaged under the guise of tradition, national honor [and] national security.

I write against violence. I write against fascism. I write against one person dominating another.

We cannot eradicate violence if we do not build strong, inclusive communities.

Yet the basic fact remains: we live in a world marked by violence, and if we want to protect others, we sometimes have to be willing to fight.

We do not deride the fears of prospering white America. A nation of violence and private property has every reason to dread the violated and the deprived.

My niece was a sexual-assault victim. My sister is a survivor of domestic violence. We have more shelters for animals than for battered women. That's not the message we should be sending.

In every religion, there are those who would drape themselves in the mantle of belief and faith only to distort it's most sacred teachings - preaching intolerance and resorting to violence.

It's always difficult to play a scene of physical violence because you're always afraid that you don't know your own strength and might hurt someone.

While many hackers have the knowledge, skills, and tools to attack computer systems, they generally lack the motivation to cause violence or severe economic or social harm.

Art, in fact, can be nothing but violence, cruelty and injustice.

It is clear that the way to heal society of its violence . . . and lack of love is to replace the pyramid of domination with the circle of equality and respect.

To tackle the underlying roots of violence and conflict, we need a massive international effort to reduce poverty and injustice, and to promote development, democracy and human rights.

The principle of nonviolent resistance seeks to reconcile the truths of two opposites-Acquiescence and violence -while avoiding the extremes and immoralities of both.

I found a religion that blended scientific reason with spiritual reality in a unifying faith far removed from the headlines of violence, destruction and terrorism.

When you resort to violence to prove a point, you’ve just experienced a profound failure of imagination.

A martial art that has no rules is nothing but violence.

There is no lasting hope in violence, only temporary relief from hopelessness.

Peace in patriarchy is war against women.

If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.

A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to violence and crime, and any sense of loyalty and good faith will be abandoned.

I intentionally shoot violence to make the audience feel real pain. I have never and I will never shoot violence as if it's some kind of action video game.

So many people suffer from abuse, and suffer alone.

For thugs from the ghetto, violence is a way of life - it's what helps you survive.

Travel the world, learn other languages, demand liberty, despise violence, read books, and keep a dictionary nearby.

Hate begets hate; violence begets violence; toughness begets a greater toughness. We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love.

All violence is an attempt to replace shame with self-esteem.

No act loses us; no violence we're subjected to destroys us; no debasement chases out the divine, and no one can take the divine from us.

Nearly one in four women will experience domestic violence during her lifetime. And slightly more than half of female victims of domestic violence live in households with children under age 12.

Once one assumes an attitude of intolerance, there is no knowing where it will take one. Intolerance, someone has said, is violence to the intellect and hatred is violence to the heart.

The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.

Revolution does have to be violent precisely because the Pharaoh won't let you go. If the Pharaoh would let you go, the revolution won't have to be violent.

Let us reject violence and selfishness which could destroy our country's unity.

We can all take responsibility for helping to bring about change, and keeping our friends and colleagues safe from domestic violence

Symbolic violence is violence wielded with tacit complicity between its victims and its agents, insofar as both remain unconscious of submitting to or wielding it.

Unnecessary bureaucracy hinders creativity, growth, justice and the attainment of peace.

Peace, non-violence, human rights and the environment - if only everybody saw these as the seamless whole that they are

Violence cannot destroy the body of the Goddess, for Her body is the world itself.

I think 'Hero' is not a real martial arts movie; it is not about violence, or formula.

So when you spot violence, or bigotry, or intolerance or fear or just garden-variety misogyny, hatred or ignorance, just look it in the eye and think, 'The good outnumber you, and we always will.'

Women have a better chance to secure freedom and protect themselves from violence, from abuse, from injustice, if they are well-educated and know their rights.

Rather than bring peace and harmony, the EU will cause insurgency and violence.

What bothers me most about today is that we're getting used 2 it. ENOUGH. 2nd amendment must go. Violence has 2 stop. Culture MUST change.

If a life can be ruined in a single moment, a moment of betrayal, or violence, or ill luck, then why can a life not also be saved, be worth living, be made, by just a few pure moments of perfection?

The whole army is burning with an insatiable desire to wreak violence upon South Carolina. I almost tremble for her fate.

Where love stops, power begins, and violence, and terror