Violence Quotes

War is a terrible, bloody thing.

All violence is based on blindness, on a lack of reflection and empathy.

Difficult times do not produce gentility, as if there is an angle hovering over the world of the oppressed.

There’s fear and violence under the surface. One always follows the other.

She checked herself in the mirror. She was a roadmap of violence.

He can neither read nor write and in him broods already a taste for mindless violence. All history present in that visage, the child the father of the man.

A man of peace shall always live in peace, if all chances are given and only shall he stand to fight for his rights if peace and freedom isn't granted to him.

When fear meets fear nothing good ever happens.

When fear meets fear nothing good every happens.

A director's dream? No, Bollywood reality in 1995.Business is booming, but cliché's are passée. A different sort of breeze-fresh, young-is unsettling fatigued conventions.

We can't win the world with weapons or violence.We can win the world with love and practice of nonviolence.

Be an active bystander because sooner or later you or someone you love could be a victim too.

The saying goes, if you love something, let it go. I always though it was better to just shoot the damn thing so it'd never go anywhere.

Today you closed your eyes on violence, tomorrow, the violence will close your eyes on you.

I suspect that a greater and more insidious influence [than violence in movies] may lie in what they tell us about being in love, and how to conduct ourselves while in that condition.

The system wears a mask of civility, yet will quickly reveal its true nature in the form of magnificently-purposed violence when needed.

Deeply-rooted conditioning has perverted us. We ARE the culture of violence. We must look at ourselves.

Violence can be a gift. Violence belongs to everyone.

Love surrounds, softens and tires violence and force.

As long as we do violence to other animals, we’ll keep on doing violence to ourselves.

Governments are committed to preserving the myth of their monopoly on violence. Violence belongs to everyone.

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We have placed such idolatrous faith in our ability to protect ourselves that we call it more courageous to die killing than to die loving.

I aint sure we've seen these people before. Their kind. I dont know what to do about em even. If you killed em all they'd have to build a annex on to hell.

The rivers fight with each other with the only currency that they know water. We humans fight with the only currency that we know in this age violence.

They understood what had really held the market together before. Violence. After all, what good was a debt if the creditor couldn't compel it to be paid?

We kill at every step, not only in wars, riots ad executions. We kill every time we close our eyes to poverty, suffering and shame.

Through our expectations, we violently expand and try to fill the world with our proofs of worth.

Eastward and westward storms are breaking, --great, ugly whirlwinds of hatred and blood and cruelty. I will not believe them inevitable.

Other girls play with soft toys, ” I said, “and you play with knives…

As a product of Anglo-Saxon-Protestant culture, I am familiar with its centuries-old tradition of hiding its abuse of women under pretty packaging.

Is racial violence is the answer for happened racial violence? Which planet am I? Where are the people who taught me there is no difference? Why?

A bullet leaves evidence that a mortar doesn't.

Guns are like thermometers, only instead of measuring body temperatures they measure our fear.

The worst kind of tyrant is one that is righteously wrong

He'd possessed all the key elements of a school shooter: hormones, misery, ammunition. People wondered how something like Columbine could happen. Jude wondered why it didn't happen more often.

Unfortunately, violence has a way of overpowering even the strongest of wills

The conquest of the earth is not a pretty thing.

Violence is not the answer. Terrorism is the most dangerous of answers.

It’s comforting to me, ” he added, “that beauty can come from violence, if only in metaphor.

There is violence in this supposedly tender heart of mine.

I have always felt, ” he said, “that violence was the last refuge of the incompetent, and empty threats

Any one war seems rooted in its antecedents.

Go that way, past the viaduct, and the wops will jump you, or chase you into Jew town...Polacks would stomp on you...Micks will shower you with Irish confetti from the brickyards.

He had conquered murder only to be faced with war. There were no laws for that.

Nausea and panic rose in my throat. I had killed a man.

Education about gender and peace is important. Educational strategies to promote peace must consider all relations of dominance.

A day came when I should have died, and after than nothing seemed very important, so I stayed as I am, without regret separated from the normal human condition.

We can’t answer King’s assassination with violence. That would be the worst tribute we could pay him.

Only victors have stories to tell, we the vanquished were then thought ofas cowards and weaklings whose memoriesand fears should not be remembered.