Violence Quotes

The fact is that violence gives you a rush.

The violence of sorrow is not at the first to be striven withal; being, like a mighty beast, sooner tamed with following than overthrown by withstanding.

Past violence is detrimental to our present action, and it is not in the name of principles that we denounce it, but in the name of efficiency.

Violence is just, where kindness is vain.

I think all of us, politicians and churchmen, should do our utmost to change the society so that there would be no need for violence.

I feel perhaps I didn't deal with the question of violence in depth.

In my religion I really cannot think of cases where violence is justified.

I think violence is counter-productive and it is bad in democratic societies.

Violence against even one human being is violence against all.

For the sake of peace, religious beliefs must never be allowed to be abused in the cause of violence and war.

No one must use the name of God to commit violence. To kill in the name of God is a grave sacrilege. To discriminate in the name of God is inhuman.

Today in many places we hear a call for greater security. But until exclusion and inequality in society and between peoples is reversed, it will be impossible to eliminate violence.

If I speak of Islamic violence, I must speak of Catholic violence.

I do not believe it is right to identify Islam with violence. This is not right or true.

The rules are rather simple to understand: Under democracy you can defend any view, but only defend it. You can not try to realise it through power, violence or weapons.

Nearly every black man faces an unacceptable level of violence in this society. I'm not different. Money can shield you; it can protect you. But it doesn't make you white.

Violence is a form of cinematic entertainment. Asking me about violence is like going up to Vincente Minnelli and asking him to justify his musical sequences.

Nowadays, everything is so gratuitous. The violence is suggested, and it's much more impactful than showing everything.

We cannot allow violence from militant activists to dictate where and how democratically elected state leaders hold their meetings.

Very slight violence will break that which has once been cracked.

Fascist political gatherings tend to encourage or at least expect a little violence around the edges, particularly against counter protesters.

Ambition is violence, the very effort to succeed in the world is violent.

I believe that the very effort to convert anybody is violence, it is interfering in his individuality, in his uniqueness, into his freedom.

The terrorism is not in the bombs, in your hands; the terrorism is in your unconscious.

Meditation is not doing anything directly to your violence, not doing anything to your jealousy, to your hate. It is simply brining light into your house, and the darkness disappears.

Thus grows up fashion, an equivocal semblance, the most puissant, the most fantastic and frivolous, the most feared and followed, and which morals and violence assault in vain.

There is no one in al-Nahda that is violence is a means of change or to keep power. Everyone in al-Nahda believes that democracy is the only way to reach power and to stay in power.

You just have to open the newspapers in most Western news to see real violence.

I didn't want people to go out wanting to go tool up against the bad guys (and at impressionable ages). I said, don't shy away from the violence or pull back on this, commit to this.

Philosophical thinking that doesn't do violence to one's settled mind is no philosophical thinking at all.

And what is it, according to Plato, that philosophy is supposed to do? Nothing less than to render violence to our sense of ourselves and our world, our sense of ourselves in the world.

Violence doesn't have a race, a class, a religion, or a nationality, but it does have a gender.

There's an economy of violence. It's sexy. It's being exploited.

Parents are the most likely to be victims of the violence of their mentally ill children.

I'm absolutely confident that the God that I worship abhors violence.

He soon recognized the fact that the stimulus proceeded from the idea to be in the power of a woman rather than from the act of violence itself.

I do think that my work has gotten calmer, and that the violence of some of the earlier series was necessary to reach the higher degree of concentration in the later ones.

Fundamentalism is not bred in poverty. There are plenty of poor countries in the world that don't have violence because amid the poverty there is a kind of justice and in some countries a democracy.

People turn to violence, because they have no other avenue left.

Our history doesn't look at our own violence, the violence in our own past, and we go out and repeat it someplace else.

I believe actual violence scars children much more than violence in storybooks.

What if angry vectors veer Round your sleeping head, and form. There's never need to fear Violence of the poor world's abstract storm.

Violence is a dark contrast to what so many of us still believe in -- love.

I think that man is conditioned to violence.

Deeds of violence in our society are performed largely by those trying to establish their self-esteem, to defend their self-image, and to demonstrate that they, too, are significant.

The only thing we should prohibit is violence.

Unfortunately, the greater the humanitarian outreach, the greater the violence required to achieve it.

If somebody's in prison for non-violence, drug usage, and never committed a hard crime, they should be pardoned and let out.

Those most likely to be raped or sexually assaulted are young women between the ages of 16 and 24, women with their whole lives ahead of them. This one act of violence will alter their lives forever.

I grew up a squatter on the Lower East Side, so it's kind of a given that I'd have very strong opinions on everything from cyclical violence to teenage pregnancy to environmental justice.