Violence Quotes · Page 44

We need a tough approach to make justice prevail and, also, because sports should not be damaged by the violence of hooligans.

— Frans Timmermans

In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence.

— Adrienne Rich

Being offended by freedom of speech should never be regarded as a justification for violence.

— Alan Dershowitz

I've been on the wrong end of violence, and I've done violence myself... I refuse to glorify violence in my movie and…

— James Garner

Violence against the other, and the way we otherize people out of fear, has to be examined across the board.

— Yance Ford

“Even truth becomes just another weapon of division and violence, when shared with impure motives and a defiled heart.”

— Hope D. Blackwell

Stassi is always so hurtful with her words she doesn't need to use physical violence.

— Scheana Shay

The violence we do to ourselves in order to remain faithful to the one we love is hardly better than an act…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A fourth-grade reader may be a sixth-grade mathematician. The grade is an administrative device which does violence to the nature of the…

— Anonymous

The East Timorese government does not believe that we should consider compensation for the victims because there are tens of thousands of…

— Jose Ramos-Horta

As someone who grew up between two cultures, I have been fascinated with the question of why men and women with similar…

— Deeyah Khan

Government is violence, Christianity is meekness, non-resistance, love. And, therefore, government cannot be Christian, and a man who wishes to be a…

— Leo Tolstoy

Since [violence against women] is rooted in discrimination, impunity and complacency, we need to change attitudes and behavior - and we need…

— Ban Ki-moon

We cannot afford to regard as normal the presence of injustice, inhumanity, and violence, including their verbal and cyber manifestations.

— Bernice King

No problem is so deep that it cannot be overcome, given the will of all parties, through discussion and negotiation rather than…

— Nelson Mandela

I don’t think a naked body is particularly shocking or interesting. . . . It’s not the culture I was raised in.…

— Anna Paquin

“The reason is that as far as I am concerned, what happened to me is a purely private matter. In another time,…

— J.M. Coetzee

You say you love your wife. You depend on her; she has given you her body, her emotions, her encouragement, a certain…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

To believe that man's aggressiveness or territoriality is in the nature of the beast is to mistake some men for all men,…

— Leon Eisenberg

I’ve also been reminded recently that while as a society we are moving toward greater inclusion and equality for all people, the…

— Anderson Cooper

I really value and appreciate Menaka Guruswamy and Arundhati Katju's contribution in spearheading the historic judgement of decriminalisation of Section 377 in…

— Dutee Chand

It is suggested that in domestic violence at least the presence or absence of a firearm, or of any other type of…

— Colin Greenwood

“We were all involved in the death of John Kennedy. We tolerated hate; we tolerated the sick stimulation of violence in all…

— Martin Luther King Jr

Greediness consists in ravishing the goods of another through violence or cunning, as in the two noble professions of the conqueror and…

— Augustin Thierry

“Thunder without sound jolted the air around her. The violence of it was magnificent, immaculate, glorious.”

— Terry Goodkind

Armed conspiracies against something satanic is like matching Satans against Satan.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The decline of violence is a fractal phenomenon. You can see it over millennia, over centuries, over decades and over years.

— Steven Pinker

Lawyers will always buckle under to something, whether its bribes, violence, court orders, or the weight of their own bullshit.

— James Alan Gardner

“Guns are like thermometers, only instead of measuring body temperatures they measure our fear.”

— Jean Zimmerman

Crime and violence is an attack on the poor and will never be accepted in a Trump administration.

— Donald Trump

We had good years, with no violence, in a sense we were victims of our success.

— Ari Shavit

The peace produced by grace is a spiritual stability too deep for violence — it is unshakeable

— Thomas Merton

If anyone hits me, they can expect to be hit back, and harder. I never turn the other cheek because in my…

— Alice Bag

I like violence to be upsetting. The only reason to do it subtley is if doing it subtley makes it more effective…

— Andrew Dominik

Despite hundreds of studies, cause-and-effect relationship between pornography and violence has never been satisfactorily proved.

— Camille Paglia

In my religion I really cannot think of cases where violence is justified.

— Pierre Trudeau

Telling the truth about domestic violence - and those who shield it - should not be punished.

— Letitia James

Never do what I did, my friend Chelsea threw a hard piece of ice at my nose so I punched her in…

— Shay

“I have always felt,” he said, “that violence was the last refuge of the incompetent, and empty threats”

— Neil Gaiman

What a vast difference there is between the barbarism that precedes culture and the barbarism that follows it.

— Christian Friedrich Hebbel