Violence Quotes · Page 43

Those who 'abjure' violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf.

— George Orwell

If love or non-violence be not the law of our being, the whole of my argument falls to pieces.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“...always- the sharp, plaintive edge on the rim of the spoon of my giving. (lines 8-13 of the poem 'Confessions')”

— Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno

We will export death and violence to the four corners of the earth in defense of our great nation.

— George W. Bush

I want to speak on behalf of the American people because the American people have been the one that have endured violence.

— Marjorie Taylor Greene

War is an attempt of one group to impose its will upon another group by armed violence.

— Anonymous

Movies and television don't make you violent; all they do is channel the violence more creatively.

— George Carlin

A lot of violence, a lot of gore in it, and I just didn't want to do that kind of thing.

— Dick Van Dyke

I think it is obvious that people repeat acts that are shown on the television or the screen and I wouldn't want…

— Mackenzie Astin

Bodies of holy men and women exude Miraculous oil, odour of violet. But under heavy loads of trampled clay Lie bodies of…

— William Butler Yeats

The reduction in gun violence President Obama claims to desperately want comes from law enforcement and prosecution, not from political rhetoric, lectures…

— Katie Pavlich

I don't like gratuitous violence. I don't like the 'Saw' movies. I don't like the 'Hostel' movies. I don't like anything that…

— Michael Biehn

Enslavement is when one person completely controls another person, uses violence or violent threats to maintain that control, exploits them economically, and…

— Julia Ormond

I think where you get into trouble - for instance the mixing of sex and violence - is when you're telling an…

— Susan Sarandon

Racism is not just slavery and Jim Crow. It is the daily violence that is enacted on our communities each and every…

— Cori Bush

I think that all the silence is worse than all the violence, Fear is such a weak emotion that's why I despise…

— Lupe Fiasco

Another problem about writing about politics in the "age of globalization" is that so much of the violence in the form of…

— Robert Hass

You must not sneeze. If you have a vehement cold you must take no notice of it; if your nose membranes feel…

— Fanny Burney

As a tactic, violence is absurd. No one can compete with the Government in violence, and the resort to violence, which will…

— Noam Chomsky

I found that looking at the Israeli/Palestinian conflict from an outside vantage point was actually quite distancing. The history of the conflict,…

— Jason Alexander

For me, it's a real shock to see American mainstream films. I can't see these films because it's always the same thing…

— Javier Camara

“They" hate us because they feel--and "they" are not wrong--that it is within our power to do so much more, and that…

— Bill Maher

I had no companions to quarrel with, nobody to assist, and nobody to thank... the evil consequence of all this was not,…

— John Ruskin

Muslim leaders around the globe have to continue working with us to decisively and unequivocally reject the hateful ideology that groups like…

— Barack Obama

When people say there is too much violence in my books, what they are saying is there is too much reality in…

— Joyce Carol Oates

“Maxim 37: There is no "overkill." There is only "open fire" and "reload." -The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries”

— Howard Tayler

“The time, the mosquito will land on your testicles, the way you'll kill it, will help you to resolve world issues without…

— Ntambara Sylvestre Owen Berbason

The world suffers a lot. Not because of the violence people. But because of the silence of good people.

— Xiang16

I think if we could raise one generation of kids without violence and shaming, we don't know what might be possible.

— Gloria Steinem

He who trifles with truth cuts at the root of Ahimsa [non-violence]. He who is angry is guilty of Himsa.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I was born in West Baltimore, lived in a situation in which violence was everywhere.

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

The Background Check Expansion Act will help prevent guns from falling into the wrong hands, and combat senseless gun violence.

— Alex Padilla

“Violence send deep roots into the heart, it has no seasons, it is always ripe, evergreen.”

— Pat Conroy

Pornography does not inspire violence, but you can break a leg trying to imitate it.

— Mason Cooley

“It's an unwritten and widely unacknowledged fact, that land always ends up belonging to the most violent.”

— Mango Wodzak

“There's nowhere in existence you could go that I wouldn't find you, Violence.”

— Rebecca Yarros

Most dramatically, and perhaps least noticed, is the violence inside Saudi Arabia itself.

— Michael Scheuer

The sexual energies returned, when they're not evolved, are still linked with violence and the fear of power - the fear of…

— Frederick Lenz

“There is more than one way to lose your life; quickly through violence, or fettered-away and wasted around dreadful, toxic people.”

— Bryant McGill

In the absence of a Congress ready to act to reduce gun violence, we will keep working to create a different Congress.

— Gabrielle Giffords