Violence Quotes · Page 46

True violence, not the kind you usually see in television or movies, touches something very deep and primal in people.

— Mark Frost

I believe the gun has no power because a gun can only kill, but a pen can give life.

— Malala Yousafzai

We are all victims of the violence that animals suffer... their liberation is also our liberation.

— George Bernard Shaw

We know violence isn’t the answer. When we take up our arms, we’re talking about our vote.

— Sarah

There are so many things going on in this world that are unbelievable. A lot of gun violence and police brutality.

— Kemba Walker

“Violence. My body has learned to love violence, and my mind imagines terrible things”

— D.S. Wrights

“We also self-inflict violence, because violence is our only way of relating to the world, to others and to ourselves.”

— Bryant McGill

As the welfare state is hollowed out, a culture of compassion is replaced by a culture of violence, cruelty and disposability.

— Henry Giroux

This poem has been called obscure. I refuse to believe that it is obscurer than pity, violence, or suffering. But being a…

— Dylan Thomas

I admire the strength and courage of all young people faced with difficult situations in life. You are an inspiration to me…

— Fearne Cotton

When you get to the fourth, fifth and sixth years of a show, it's really good to have held back, so that…

— Bruno Heller

What is magnificent about humans is when they decide to turn and stand. If they respond with non-violence on principle and hold…

— James Cromwell

The kingdom of heaven suffers violence and the violent take it by force. Such force demands an equal response, and Jesus is…

— Lou Engle

Certainly I think the state is more than willing to not only attempt to change the consciousness of people, but to employ…

— Henry Giroux

For generations America and its institutions have refused to acknowledge the true severity of the harm that domestic violence imposes on our…

— Letitia James

[Deadpool] is definitely squirm-inducing. It's a pretty hard R, violence-wise. But cartoony, also. Maybe fast-forward through to torture scenes.

— Doug Benson

“The violence of hierarchy is the violence that the powerful use against the dispossessed to keep them subordinated. As an example, the…

— Lierre Keith

If someone needs to express their gender in a way that is different, that is okay, and they should not be denied…

— Laverne Cox

The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together; nature and art are ransacked for illustrations, comparisons, and allusions; their learning instructs,…

— Samuel Johnson

I detest violence. I have a tremendous respect not only for human life but also for the animal life that I have…

— Murray Bookchin

I had these experiences as a kid; I remember certain things happening in school that were horrifying that I would see, certain…

— Harmony Korine

Cats are oppressed, dogs terrify them, landladies starve them, boys stone them, everybody speaks of them with contempt. If they were human…

— William Butler Yeats

“I could say the world is ending tomorrow, and no one would care. I could say the world will go forever, and…

— Anthony Liccione

The greatest threat to civility - and ultimately civilization - is an excess of certitude. The world is much menaced just now…

— George Will

Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak... Non-violence is hard work.

— Cesar Chavez

If every 8 year old in the world is taught meditation, we will eliminate violence from the world within one generation

— Dalai Lama

It's hard to say whether the general incidence of school violence of all types is increasing or not.

— Bill Dedman

The violence of either grief or joy, their own enactures with themselves destroy.

— William Shakespeare

I don't approve of any of kind of violence, but I'll always support my country.

— Joey Heatherton

Of course I am frustrated with regard to extreme poverty, to violence that never seems to cease.

— Roger Moore

With God as witness, I want to proclaim this truth, that the way of violence cannot bring Swaraj, it can only lead…

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Violence is weakness. True strength comes not through brutality and savagery, but through tenderness, mercy and grace.”

— Mango Wodzak

We need to vote people out of office that are perpetuating issues affecting young people, like gun violence.

— David Hogg

They don't like the thought of someone else making demands on the person whom they see as belonging entirely to them.

— Jodi Picoult

I think the violence in 'The Hills Have Eyes' and 'High Tension' is much more traumatic than 'Piranha.'

— Alexandre Aja

Prison officers face enormous pressure. The levels of violence inside our prisons are too high.

— David Lidington

No form of violence can ever be excused in a society that wishes to call itself decent

— Nelson Mandela

The violence against unarmed Black people - names we know, and names we don't know - must end.

— Mike Espy

Tortures are a dangerous invention, and seem to be a test of endurance rather than of truth.

— Michel de Montaigne

Freedom of speech should be wide open as long as it doesn't incite violence.

— Mike Leach