Violence Quotes · Page 39

Only reverence can restrain violence - reverence for human life and the environment.

— William Sloane Coffin

We are all shot through with enough motives to make a massacre, any day of the week that we want to give…

— Jacob Bronowski

Acts of violence that occur simply because of how someone looks are horrific.

— Conner Eldridge

“There is no Situation in which Arms can get an Answer. Arms only ensure, that there would Never be an Answer.”

— Vineet Raj Kapoor

I'm not advocating violence but I think somebody should shoot Simon Cowell.

— Martin Gore

With violence, as with so many other concerns, human nature is the problem, but human nature is also the solution.

— Steven Pinker

There are things that can be accomplished only by violence. Physical love is unthinkable without violence.

— Milan Kundera

“Violence - the kind you see on television - is not honestly violent, there lies its harm.”

— William Strunk Jr

India has a consistent and well-known position on terrorism. We oppose all acts of terrorism, wherever they occur. We have repeatedly said…

— Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Somebody said to me, in a very well-meaning way, at a screening, "We love the movie but it's too violent. If you…

— Guillermo del Toro

If we go back in the history of different nations, violence and the use of force are part of their heritage. These…

— Harri Holkeri

If you see the blood, then there's an easy association of the violence. The violence that happens when there isn't blood is…

— Bryan Fuller

The reader who likes my stories, I think they would see the violence on the surface, but I think they would also…

— Jenny Zhang

Generally speaking, I'm much more in favour of penises entering vaginas than axes entering skulls. But the world seems to accept the…

— George R. R. Martin

I believe in both my right and my responsibility to work to create a world that doesn't glorify violence and war but…

— Jody Williams

Real silencing occurs when a conservative tries to speak at a liberal university like Berkeley, and the party of anger and violence…

— Jeanine Pirro

While the Pilgrims landed on 'Plymouth Rock' in 1620, the Spanish had already settled in to the Southwest beginning in the late…

— Deb Haaland

For centuries, our country has welcomed people fleeing religious persecution, war and humanitarian crises to create a better future for themselves and…

— Jaime Harrison

“Violent love eats up what it does love, and it is mere appetite. I scribbled on the bottom of this before sending…

— Maria McCann

In our darkest hour, in my deepest despair Will you still care? Will you be there? In my trials and my tribulations…

— Michael Jackson

One of the things I love about wen wu is its encouragement of developing the spiritual and intellectual aspects of the self…

— Alex Tizon

Think of civil society and the state as joined in a marriage of necessity. You already know who the wife is, the…

— Rebecca Solnit

You will have to go deep into man. From where comes this violence? From where comes this exploitation? From where come all…

— Rajneesh

When the taste for physical gratifications among them has grown more rapidly than their education . . . the time will come…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“Everybody wanted a better life away from the streets and drugs and violence and hopelessness.”

— John Grisham

If there is violence, it will certainly be crushed because violence can only end in a disgraceful rout.

— Mahatma Gandhi

We know that police alone can't prevent violence. Support of political parties is imperative to maintain peace.

— Pinarayi Vijayan

“To break the silence the old man said the first thing that came to his mind: "Loneliness is a type of violence.”

— Jonathan Messinger

Nonviolence is an unchangeable creed. It has to be pursued even in face of violence raging around you.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I only escaped from Tibet because I feared my people would resort to desperate violence if the Chinese took me as their…

— Dalai Lama

I don't require movies to be about good people, and I don't reject screen violence.

— Roger Ebert

Violence is never a solution in my plays, just as ultimately violence is never a solution in human affairs.

— Edward Bond

Being a Southerner, I'm interested in sex, violence, religion and all the things that make life interesting.

— Karin Slaughter

Passion is all but soft, it's not tender, it's violence to which you get hooked by pleasure.

— Isabelle Adjani

We have to promote human solidarity, avoid indifference, and play a part with society in the solution of the problem of violence...

— Shakira

We cannot turn our back and say that violence in films or anything that we do doesn't have a sort of influence.…

— Jamie Foxx

Condemned to violence, arrested by pain. Inside the soul lies a man insane.

— Ozzy Osbourne

By using violence to subjugate one another we are using violence against our own souls.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“These raids didn't usually end in violence, but people got emotional, and emotional people did stupid things.”

— Aron Christensen

“No matter what creatures people fear in the dead of the night, in this city, violence is more likely to be carried…

— Bethany Griffin