Violence Quotes

I think violence against women in America has become ordinary - it's been made absolutely acceptable.

I think of the security of cages. How violence, cruelty, oppression, become a kind of home, a familiar pattern, a cage, in which we know how to operate and define ourselves.

My commitment originated in my own story and my own relationship to violence.

The mechanism of violence is what destroys women, controls women, diminishes women and keeps women in their so-called place.

I really want to help stop violence toward women.

In New York we have zillions of different kinds of people, many of them hate each other, but violence based on that hatred is really uncommon here.

The problem is that our whole tribe - if you will, the larger community of humanity itself - is on a death march ecologically and in terms of the intensification of violence and conflict.

The truest comparison we can make of love is to liken it to a fever; we have no more power over the one than the other, either as to its violence or duration.

The violence done us by others is often less painful than that which we do to ourselves.

Violent excitement exhausts the mind and leaves it withered and sterile.

Prophets have a way of dying by violence.

I hit you and I beat you and I told you that I love you.

Is this something new, having people stomp on you? Is it what I need to do for your pleasure?

I ain't the type for begging, I am not the type to plead. If she don't change those evil ways, I'm gonna make her bleed.

The imbalance I speak of in the world, which we see manifested in wars, violence, poverty and other depressed social conditions stems from a lack of knowledge.

We live in a world that is dominated by war, hate, violence and suspicion. Those are the things that come naturally in this world. So you have to will something else.

See how it's a philosophy that's been handed to you by a bunch of men who were afraid. So instead, they overcompensate with hatred and violence and repression.

The sexual energies returned, when they're not evolved, are still linked with violence and the fear of power - the fear of women.

If people see North American hockey and they see violence and brutality and it's not so interesting, that sends a message too about your culture.

When the masses begin to vibrate with an energy of love, the world will no longer be a container for war, violence, and lies.

When love is the trend, there is no room for violence and war.

Violence should not always beget more violence.

All fear violence, all are afraid of death.

You wanted to drown in a woman. Here's your chance. Drown in her blood" ~Violence(Maddox)

Nicolai, the Dark Seducer as his people called him, had been in bed, but not alone. He was never alone. He was a man known for the violence of his temper as well as the deliciousness of his touch

I hold that all the evil we know on earth finds in this violence done to love its true and legitimate birth.

Movies and television don't make you violent; all they do is channel the violence more creatively.

We cannot anticipate the moral circumstances under which we will live. And therefore [I refuse] to say that I will not live in a moral circumstance that requires violence.

By merely foreswearing violence and taking advantage of their unique position contiguous with the world’s most creative people, the Palestinians could be rich and happy.

Vehemence without feeling is but rant.

The solution to our energy needs must go through a show of respect for nature, not, once again, a policy that does violence to our hills.

Liberating Iraq from a legacy of violence and putting it on the path to peace and prosperity will take time.

I support the death penalty because I believe, if administered swiftly and justly, capital punishment is a deterrent against future violence and will save other innocent lives.

We will not permit the triumph of violence in the affairs of men; free people will set the course of history.

The greatest power of freedom is to overcome hatred and violence, and turn the creative gifts of men and women to the pursuits of peace.

Coalition forces have encountered serious violence in some areas of Iraq. Our military commanders report that this violence is being insticated by three groups.

We will export death and violence to the four corners of the earth in defense of our great nation.

Either well succeed, or we wont succeed. And the definition of success as I described is sectarian violence down. Success is not no violence.

The work in Iraq is difficult and it is dangerous. Like most Americans, I see the images of violence and bloodshed. Every picture is horrifying, and the suffering is real.

I think if we have a policy of zero violence, it won't be met, but the policy of getting the Iraqis in the fight and marginalizing those who are trying to stir up trouble will be effective.

[O]rganized violence punctuated by committee meetings.

Domestic violence and sexual assault go hand in hand.

I'm not someone who is a fan of a lot of violence.

No amount of violence you've done to others prepares you for violence done to yourself.

If you have two groups of people and you say one is inferior to the other, which is a lie, then the only way to maintain the lie is through violence or the threat of violence.

Violence is not inevitable. I mean, the only inevitable form of violence is the kind that we understand, the only legitimate (if there can ever be legitimate violence) and that's self-defense.

I would say that reproductive freedom comes first, then violence and economics.

It was the first female-style revolution: no violence and we all went shopping.

No other form of violence is legitimate. It is never acceptable to use violence to solve a problem. Whether personal or political.

One act of violence takes four generations to heal.