Violence Quotes

“GUNS ARE NOT THE ISSUE. WE ARE.”

— Aaron B. Powell

Comparison leads to violence.

— Mandy Patinkin

Violence is my last option.

— Chuck Norris

Violence is not the way.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

If you see violence, condemn it.

— Hillary Clinton

I just love violence.

— James Toney

I cannot accept violence.

— Miriam Margolyes

The suburbs dream of violence.

— J. G. Ballard

Often things are as bad as they seem.

— Sheldon B. Kopp

If men will not do us justice, they shall do us violence.

— Emmeline Pankhurst

You know, violence, I think, knocks on everyone's door.

— Juanes

“...robots pencil prescriptions for acid gas sunsets”

— Allen Ginsberg

“There are so many people now who aren’t people anymore.”

— Bhuwan Thapaliya

All domestic violence stories break my heart.

— Kenya Moore

It's pornography for me only when it involves violence or children.

— Ruth Westheimer

A lust for the violence is the science of their behavior.

— Krs One

The true cause of hatred and violence is faith versus faith, an outward expression of the ancient instinct of tribalism.

— Edward'O

Disarm, disarm. The sword of murder is not the balance of justice. Blood does not wipe out dishonor, nor violence indicate possession.

— Julia Ward Howe

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

— The Forgotten

Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised.

— Marilyn Manson

“A real lion hunt, is as much a mind game as it is a physical explosion of violence.”

— Sameh Elsayed

In the course of my lifetime, that world went from violence to a kind of peace.

— Kenneth Branagh

In the Age of Kali the meek and helpless will be preyed upon without mercy, and there will be a surplus of…

— Ian McDonald

Non-violence exacts a very high price from one who practices it. But once you are able to meet that demand then you…

— Cesar Chavez

For me, the toughest thing for kids to deal with is when the parents are fighting. It's not violence on them -…

— Avi Arad

“We do not have a choice between purity and violence but between different kinds of violence. Inasmuch as we are incarnate beings,…

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

I've been trying to understand conflict and violence ever since I was a kid. You know. There were a few things that…

— Forest Whitaker

“When we police a woman's affect, when we privilege it or equate it with her actions, with what she actually does, we're…

— Toni Jensen

No Bolshevik, no Communist, no intelligent socialist has ever entertained the idea of violence against the middle peasants. All socialists have always…

— Vladimir Lenin

“Commitment to nonviolence must not be based on patient acquiescence in intolerable conditions. Rather, it stems from a deeper knowledge of the…

— David T. Dellinger

I am certainly vulnerable when I sit down with parents who have lost their children to gun violence. The emotion that they…

— Michael Skolnik

More and more leaders around the world are joining the struggle. More and more individuals understand that any abuse of any woman…

— Asha-Rose Migiro

We're either awake or we're sleeping. During the time that we're awake, we work very hard at denying things, mainly because we…

— Shirin Neshat

“I was cyber-bullied before all those Myspace-related suicides, so my school principal wasn't really impressed when my mom complained about what was…

— Nenia Campbell

Things will be different this time," Caine said. "There was too much contention, too much violence the last time. I tried to…

— Anonymous

A form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy…

— Robert O. Paxton

We have become too civilized to grasp the obvious. For the truth is very simple. To survive you often have to fight,…

— George Orwell

The reason I've gotten into script-writing, which was accidental to begin with, was that I found it was a far more effective…

— Nick Cave

I believe there's something very salutary in, say, beating up a gay-bashing policeman. Preferably one fights through the courts, through the laws,…

— Gore Vidal

There's no way to escape the fact that we've grown up in a violent culture, we just can't get away from it,…

— Sam Shepard