Violence Quotes
You have to show violence the way it is. If you don't show it realistically, then that's immoral and harmful. If you don't upset people, then that's obscenity.
Violence is fomented by the imposition of singular and belligerent identities on gullible people, championed by proficient artisans of terror.
War has been the necessary and inevitable consequence of the establishment of a monopoly on security.
Political violence is organized violence on the top which creates individual violence at the bottom.
We are stronger than those who oppress us, who seek to silence us. We are stronger than the enemies of education. We are stronger than fear, hatred, violence and poverty.
Auschwitz stands as a tragic reminder of the terrible potential man has for violence and inhumanity.
I want to tell people that family violence happens to anybody, no matter how nice your house is, no matter how intelligent you are.
It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.
Emotional abuse is any type of abuse that is not physical in nature. It can include everything from verbal abuse to the silent treatment, domination to subtle manipulation.
States have invested themselves with the right to legitimise violence - so who gets criminalised and delegitimised? Only - or well that's excessive - usually, the resistance.
Those who do nothing are inviting shame as well as violence. Those who act boldly are recognizing right as well as reality.
Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.
Revenge only engenders violence, not clarity and true peace. I think liberation must come from within.
Love is basic for the birth of a true society, while violence has in it the essence of anti-sociality. Love is positive, is eternal: violence is degeneracy, it is it's own destruction.
In each of us, there lies a divine connection to a power more powerful than hate or violence. Today is the day to attune to that power and use it on behalf of peace on earth.
Violence among all people is based on dissatisfaction, frustration and crushed ambition and people who don't know who to strike at and who to blame, and not willing to blame themselves.
Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.
I believe that the United States is not genuine regarding having a cessation of violence in Syria.
"Terrorism" is what we call the violence of the weak, and we condemn it; "war" is what we call the violence of the strong, and we glorify it.
I sleep well. It's the politicians who are to blame for failing to come to an agreement and resorting to violence.
We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.
Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
Moderate strength is shown in violence, supreme strength is shown in levity.
He who has renounced all violence towards all living beings, weak or strong, who neither kills nor causes others to kill - him I do call a holy man.
A nation that combines the America predilection towards violence, the American stockpile of weapons and the American lack of empathy for the earth's humiliated peoples is a dangerous nation.
The real destroyer of inner peace is fear and distrust. Fear develops frustration, frustration develops anger, anger develops violence.
Try to remain truthful. The power of truth never declines. Force and violence may be effective in the short term, but in the long run it's truth that prevails.
I am deeply disturbed by the senseless violence instigated by some leaders in pursuit of their personal political agenda.
The lesson I learned in Cairo still applies. The only way to deal with bureaucrats is with stealth and sudden violence.
What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? No martyr's cause has ever been stilled by an assassin's bullet...
You may gain temporary appeasement by a policy of concession to violence, but you do not gain lasting peace that way.
Blaming Obama for Iraq violence is like blaming Daniel Craig because Octopussy sucked.
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours.
As the State is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence.
There is nothing to be gained by being unnecessarily nasty. Violence begets violence.
Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.
A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort ... is not strictly speaking a society, but a mob held together by institutionalized gang violence.
It is spring time now! While the world looks for a new war to fight, you look for a cherry blossom to watch! Let the stupid seeks the violence; you seek the elegance!
We know we can't stop every act of violence, every act of evil in the world, but maybe we could try to stop one act of evil, one act of violence.
Any situation in which some men prevent others from engaging in the process of inquiry is one of violence;… to alienate humans from their own decision making is to change them into objects.
The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose.
The key fallacy of so called gun control laws is that such laws do not in fact control guns. They simply disarm law abiding citizens, while people bent on violence find firearms readily available.
