Violence Quotes

So many women have experienced horrific forms of male violence throughout their lives, and why isn't there a song about how you get depressed because of it?

Education is a vaccine for violence.

If our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.

Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat, or violence, or accident, may as well be broken at once; it can never be trusted after.

I myself am a very nonviolent person and only resort to violence when I absolutely have to.

He [John Hampden] knew that the essence of war is violence, and that moderation in war is imbecility.

Revival comes from heaven when heroic souls enter the conflict determined to win or die - or if need be, to win and die! The kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.

Violence ends up defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.

Whenever we engage in consumption or production patterns which take more than we need, we are engaging in violence.

Any man who is a man may not, in honor, submit to threats or violence. But many men who are not cowards are simply unprepared for the fact of human savagery.

The problem after a war is with the victor. He thinks he has just proved that war and violence pay. Who will now teach him a lesson?

The survival of democracy depends on the renunciation of violence and the development of nonviolent means to combat evil and advance the good.

Extremists and populist movements are exploiting people's fear of those who are not like us. We can see the consequences in the form of terrorism and racially motivated violence.

This much is clear: violence breeds violence, repression brings retaliation, and only a cleansing of our whole society can remove this sickness from our soul.

To anyone out there who has ever been assaulted: You will never be alone. You are never alone. We have your back. I've got your back.

When our communication supports compassionate giving and receiving, happiness replaces violence and grieving.

Violence is both unavoidable and unjustifiable.

The origins of violence against women by men are not biological. If that were the case, it would exist in every culture. And it doesn't exist in every culture.

We need to get serious about combating gang violence on Long Island, and the entire nation.

Together we can decrease the level of violence, raise awareness of our activities and save lives around the world. The impact of a day of global ceasefire and non-violence cannot be underestimated.

You know what I think about violence. For me it is profoundly moral -more moral than compromises and transactions.

Cryptography shifts the balance of power from those with a monopoly on violence to those who comprehend mathematics and security design.

Once the violence has ceased, the US should immediately call on the World Bank and other international institutions to convene a donors conference to rebuild Lebanon's shattered infrastructure.

Hatred, intolerance, poor hygienic conditions and violence all have roots in illiteracy, so we're trying to do something to help the poor and the needy.

I don't advocate violence; but if a man steps on my toes, I'll step on his.

. . . first in myth, later in reality, passion and violence watered my root soil.

Violence multiplies violence.

A peaceful world is a world in which differences are tolerated, and are not eliminated by violence.

War is obsolete. We are not here to fight something or tear something down; We are here to be the example of what is possible. Any sane individual will tell you that violence is ... not the way.

Violence against women is an everyday reality, act now, always, and forever before its too late.

The midwife of history is violence.

Power call achieve more by gentle means than by violence.

Unless we teach our children peace, somebody else will teach them violence.

I never supported violence. Before the formation of TMC, I was a member of the Congress Party. Gandhi's Congress. Non-violence is a philosophy that runs deep.

Violence does not and cannot flourish by itself; it is inevitably intertwined with lying.

Legitimate use of violence can only be that which is required in self-defense.

Emotional abuse is like being continuously kicked in the shins. It can be worse than getting one punch in the face, and it cements itself.

Every woman who thinks she is the only victim of violence has to know that there are many more.

Do not ever threaten an Afghan with violence. We will rise as one and we will face every threat the way we have taken on thousands of previous armies and conquerors.

Violence is the weapon of weak, non-violence that of the strong.

Women trapped in violent relationships need to know that there's no shame in talking out and walking out on their abusive partners.

Violence, whether spiritual or physical, is a quest for identity and the meaningful. The less identity, the more violence.

Violence is the weapon of the weak.

Any man who has once acclaimed violence as his method must inexorably choose falsehood as his principle.

Violence diminishes our humanity.

Violence ravaged my life. I was a victim of hatred, and I have dedicated my life to reversing that hatred.

What postmodernism gives us instead is a multicultural defense for male violence - a defense for it wherever it is, which in effect is a pretty universal defense.

We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.

From a parent's right to know what their children are doing, to protecting citizens across the country from the growing threat of gang violence, the House Democrat leadership is simply out to lunch.

Get what you can with words, because words are free, but the words of an armed man ring that much sweeter.