Violence Quotes · Page 37

“A valid contract requires voluntary offer, acceptance, and consideration.”

— Robert Higgs

Violent excitement exhausts the mind and leaves it withered and sterile.

— Francois Fenelon

In a world built on violence, one must be a revolutionary before one can be a pacifist.

— A. J. Muste

The very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence.

— Adolf Hitler

All the violence in videos and movies, you can't tell me that that wouldn't influence a disturbed person.

— Alana Stewart

One the most efficient ways to combat gun violence is to prevent criminals from obtaining guns in the first place.

— Conor Lamb

When has religion ever been unifying? Religion has introduced many wars in this world, enough bloodshed and violence.

— Elie Wiesel

I think we're at a time where people just want to join together and cause change. People don't want to live like…

— Charlize Theron

I watch life trickle from the bullet wound of a sixteen-year-old "example" and marvel how things weak, even words, will turn vicious…

— Susan Abulhawa

Khadi has been conceived as the foundation and the image of ahimsa. A real khadi-wearer will not utter an untruth. A real…

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Learn this now and learn it well. Like a compass facing north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. You…

— Khaled Hosseini

Childhood depression tends to be more common in inner cities, being most frequently related to serious social deprivation, bullying, domestic violence, wartime…

— Robert Winston

The effects of abuse are devastating and far-reaching. Domestic violence speaks many languages, has many colours and lives in many different communities.

— Sandra Pupatello

The most brutal form of domestic violence is the violence against unborn children, and this particular bill would prohibit abortions after the…

— Joseph Fischer

There is a correlation between economic inequality and personal violence. The explanation for the correlation isn't completely clear; there are a number…

— Steven Pinker

Rohini Mohan read. While she did, I sketched her. She writes with such beauty and violence, and it seemed like the best…

— Molly Crabapple

Typhoons are a sort of violent whirlwinds. Before these whirlwinds come on... there appears a heavy cloud to the northeast which is…

— William Dampier

I think fundamentally the bigger question is, what are we expecting peacekeepers to do? Are they actually, as the traditional conception would…

— Rebecca Hamilton

Let's create a regime that makes sale of bullets to anybody not licensed to carry a gun illegal, makes resale illegal, micro-stamps…

— Eliot Spitzer

When people are oppressed, and human rights are denied - particularly along sectarian lines or ethnic lines - when dissent is silenced,…

— Barack Obama

“Living in this city, you developed a certain relationship with violence and news of violence: you expected it, dreaded it, and then…

— Bilal Tanweer

There are times when I wouldn't rule violence out. I personally don't like violence at all. But it wasn't until we had…

— Alice Nutter

We lose eight children and teenagers to gun violence every day. If a mysterious virus suddenly started killing eight of our children…

— Elizabeth Warren

As long as I breathe I hope. As long as I breathe I shall fight for the future, that radiant future, in…

— Leon Trotsky

I'm not affected by violence the way some people are. I don't know why, but I enjoy that intensity.

— Paul Walker

Violence is essentially wordless. and it can begin only where thought and rational communication have broken down.

— Thomas Merton

I find it really weird that sexuality is still so taboo in films and violence isn't. It really bewilders me.

— Morgan Saylor

“Believing that one person can improve another person’s life through force is a mistake. Violence”

— Leo Tolstoy

“...kissing me with a violence that was terrifying and yet, somehow, the summit of all my tenderest dreams.”

— Mary Stewart

He who achieves power by violence does not truly become lord or master.

— Thomas Aquinas

I support peaceful protests and the rule of law, and denounce all acts of violence.

— Lauren Boebert

The unutterable violence of the Holocaust shook our confidence in the possibility of telling any story of faith at all.

— Timothy Radcliffe

Methink'st thou art a general offence and every man should beat thee.

— William Shakespeare

The man who coerces another not to eat fish commits more violence than he who eats it.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.

— Ellen Glasgow

I will also continue to fight to provide better economic security for victims of domestic violence.

— Lucille Roybal-Allard

Until we eliminate the mentality of violence, we will not find the harmony within ourselves we're looking for.

— Maya Tiwari

I sleep well. It's the politicians who are to blame for failing to come to an agreement and resorting to violence.

— Mikhail Kalashnikov

“Anyone who remains silent in the face of murder is an accomplice to murder. Anyone who does not condemn approves.”

— Zofia Kossak-Szczucka

Let us reject violence and selfishness which could destroy our country's unity.

— Mwai Kibaki