Violence Quotes · Page 19

I don't initiate violence, I retaliate.

— Chuck Norris

We must unite to end gun violence.

— Al N. Green

The only thing we should prohibit is violence.

— Ron Paul

I've always been strongly on the side of non-violence.

— Aung San Suu Kyi

Actual violence has no attraction for me at all.

— Jane Campion

“I threatened to gouge one of his eyes out." Cathy”

— Dennis Kelly

Violence is good for those who have nothing to lose.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

We don't need to respond with desperate violence.

— Dalai Lama

Real suffering bravely borne, melts even a heart of stone. Such is the potency of suffering. And there lies the key to…

— Mahatma Gandhi

“the flames are silent, Peace is violent, Tears are frozen ’cause massacre was chosen. ~~ 26/11– Mumbai terror attack memories”

— Ankita Singhal

“The tank, the submarine, the torpedo, the machine-gun, even the rifle and the hand grenade are still in use.”

— George Orwell

I write against violence. I write against fascism. I write against one person dominating another.

— Timothy Findley

I've written films that are violent. I'm not big on sitting and watching violence.

— John Ridley

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

— Mahatma Gandhi

In non-violence the cause has to be just and clear as well as the means.

— Cesar Chavez

The currents rage so deep upon us, this is the age of video violence.

— Lou Reed

The one thing in my films, I only kill people who need to be killed, or killers killing killers. And I believe…

— Sylvester Stallone

I did it for political, moral reasons, thinking that I was making this great sacrifice, but it was absolutely necessary; I was…

— Alicia Silverstone

“So you're a fellow mercenary, then." "Does this mean you'll afford me some professional courtesy?" "Don't ask for that. All it means…

— Howard Tayler

I can't help but believe that at some time in the not-too-distant future, there is going to be another movement to change…

— Coretta Scott King

It is, however, well known that the main national liberation organizations in this country have consistently followed a policy of non-violence. They…

— Nelson Mandela

“[T]he life of a person does not first leave when the heart weakens and ceases to beat. The life of a person…

— Kelleen Goerlitz

Our most important task is to transform our consciousness so that violence is no longer an option for us in our personal…

— Deepak Chopra

“Of course civilizations are aggressive, Holmes says, but when they take up arms in order to impose their conception of civility on…

— Louis Menand

“Here, then, happiness is obviously a form of strength, a subversion even, a modus of survival, even if at times it appears…

— Glenn Diaz

One [idea] was that the Universe started its life a finite time ago in a single huge explosion, and that the present…

— Fred Hoyle

“The scriptures present a God who delights in genocide, rape, slavery, and the execution of nonconformists, and for millennia those writings were…

— Steven Pinker

If we start treating addiction as a public health issue, with more compassion, and without the criminal element, our society will be…

— John Fetterman

The British have been more up for it than the Americans were, particularly with respect to nudity in the show. In Europe…

— Kim Cattrall

The real political task in a society such as ours is to criticize the workings of institutions that appear to be both…

— Michel Foucault

Technology companies must constantly weigh ethical decisions: Where should Facebook set its privacy defaults, and should it tolerate glimpses of nudity? Should…

— Nicholas Kristof

We often seem to be swimming through such a miasma of sexual violence - in advertising, television programming, heavy metal, rap, films,…

— Molly Ivins

Virginia will not stand for lawlessness or violence.

— Glenn Youngkin

There's violence in my culture [from America's South].

— William Gibson

Education is a vacine for violence

— Edward James Olmos

Comparison is an act of violence against the self.

— Iyanla Vanzant

When a trans woman gets called a man, that is an act of violence.

— Laverne Cox

Propaganda is to a democracy what violence is to a dictatorship.

— William Blum

“The answer to violence is the improvement of childhood.”

— Stefan Molyneux

Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.

— Anonymous