Violence Quotes · Page 38

“We sleep safely at night because rough men stand ready to visit violence on those who would harm us.”

— Winston S. Churchill

“I can assure you that no kingdom has ever had as many civil wars as the kingdom of Christ.”

— Montesquieu

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

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The chief cause of our misery is less the violence of our passions than the feebleness of our virtues.

— Philibert Joseph Roux

Here's a rule of life: You don't get to pick what bad things happen to you

— Rory Miller

We ask why there is violence in our schools, but we have systematically removed God from our schools.

— Mike Huckabee

Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Violence is like a weed - it does not die even in the greatest drought.

— Simon Wiesenthal

You can make your superhero a psychopath, you can draw gut-splattering violence, and you can call it a "graphic novel," but comic…

— Bill Watterson

I am not only overwhelmed with excitement to be back in the seat but also to show my support to help raise…

— Amber Cope

War, and the preparation for war, are the two greatest obstacles to human progress, fostering a vicious cycle of arms buildups, violence…

— Oscar Arias

It seems that the only gun violence some leftists approve of is gun violence aimed at cops and other groups they see…

— Gary Bauer

I do feel that movies and music do have the power to slightly influence a person's decision. I believe that if violence…

— Morris Chestnut

My ethics are basically around animals. I cannot do animals in distress. I was able to shut myself off with humans, and…

— Harry Benson

Domestic violence was a way of life in my home growing up, my brother and I watched helplessly numerous times as my…

— Troy Vincent

Children need to get a high-quality education, avoid violence and the criminal-justice system, and gain jobs. But they deserve more. We want…

— Colin Powell

Our hearts are being stretched to span the violence and the suffering in our lives and world, and at the same time…

— Marianne Williamson

What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? No martyr's cause has ever been stilled by an assassin's bullet. No…

— Robert Kennedy

The more children see of violence, the more numb they are to the deadly consequences of violence. Now, video games like 'Mortal…

— William J. Clinton

As anyone who has received or dispensed psychotherapy knows, it's a profession whose mainspring is love. Nearly everyone who visits a therapist…

— Diane Ackerman

When women's sexuality is imagined to be passive or "dirty," it also means that men's sexuality is automatically positioned as aggressive and…

— Jessica Valenti

There are certain fundamental requisites for wise and resolute democratic leadership. It must build on hope, not on fear; on honesty, not…

— Edmund Ezra Day

If all religions displayed peace in action rather than displaying violence and adamancy towards a certain doctrine. Most people would disagree with…

— Jeremy Limn

Only the violent acts of men "count" toward something besides evil in a patriarchy. It is the male story of violence that…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

The whole history of the Christian Church is a mixture of errors and violence.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A bottomless pit of violence, a Tower of Babel where all are speakers and no hearers.

— Alexander Smith

“A young girl’s body is the most dangerous place in the world, as it is the spot where violence is most likely…

— Heather O'Neill

Sometimes in the dark of night I begin to think. And I wonder if Lee started all this violence.

— Marina Oswald

When you resort to violence to prove a point, you’ve just experienced a profound failure of imagination.

— Sherman Alexie

There are great and terrible consequences to any act of violence, and they reverberate beyond the act itself.

— Paul G. Tremblay

[Uniting workers should not] lead to a war upon property, or the owners of property.

— Abraham Lincoln

“Violence isn't a Democrat or Republican problem. It's an American problem, requiring an American solution.”

— DaShanne Stokes

Peace, non-violence, human rights and the environment - if only everybody saw these as the seamless whole that they are

— Jonathon Porritt

You can't reason with gang violence: you can't talk to it, sit it at the table, and negotiate with it.

— Greg Boyle

“Let them have guns' is as much a solution to mass murder and gun violence as 'Let them have drugs' is a…

— DaShanne Stokes

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

— Vandana Shiva

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

— Salma Hayek

It started with the Godfather, this operatic violence. I don't know.

— William H. Macy

The convoluted wording of legalisms grew up around the necessity to hide from ourselves the violence we do to each other.

— Frank Herbert

Good stuff tends to happen gradually, whereas violence or catastrophes are deemed more newsworthy.

— Bill Gates