Violence Quotes · Page 48

I don't want to express violence or anger or hate in my art. I want to express forgiveness.

— Raymond Pettibon

Non violence means people in action. People have to understand that with non-violence goes a hell of a lot of organization.

— Cesar Chavez

Our common goal is to keep Hong Kong from chaos, severe polarisation, and violence.

— Carrie Lam

“anger sweeping society expressed itself in significantly rising crime rates and everyday violence.26”

— Tarek Osman

“Your reckless streak will be your best friend or your worst enemy.”

— Nancy Mangano

Freedom of expression is not an absolute, it comes with responsibility. But violence is not the answer.

— Anonymous

The question is no longer between violence and non-violence it is between non-violence and non-existence.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Returning violence for violence multiplies violence... Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Islam doesn't have a monopoly on violence in Africa. And violence plays a particularly critical role in places where statehood is weak…

— Eliza Griswold

“I would like to say to those who think of my pictures as serene, whether in friendship or mere observation, that I…

— Mark Rothko

“The recent failure of democracy to take hold in many African and Islamic states is a reminder that a change in the…

— Steven Pinker

Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Well, you know, the violence is mostly in Mexico itself, at least the violence that people are worried about. And so we…

— Janet Napolitano

For all of the continued awareness of systemic violence and oppression, there isn't a lot of talk about that psychological toll of…

— Tavi Gevinson

Native women and girls experience violence at far higher rates than any other female population in the country - a crisis that…

— Sharice Davids

“Modern warfare wasn't supposed to have this much blood in it. The weapons were supposed to cook everyone neatly, like eggs in…

— Lois McMaster Bujold

Did you see, after this horrific tragedy in Boston, that [Barack] Obama cannot utter the word 'terrorist.' It's not politically correct. He…

— Rafael Cruz

To some men peace merely means the liberty to exploit other people without fear of retaliation or interference. To others peace means…

— Thomas Merton

“Domestic violence is just as much a quality-of-life and liberty for community, social, and legal attention to support mental, emotional, health, wellness…

— Tracey Bond

Veganism is about nonviolence. It is about not engaging in harm to other sentient beings; to oneself; and to the environment upon…

— Anonymous

There are times when you should do as Jesus would do and turn the other cheek, while there are other times that…

— Eugene Nathaniel Butler

We will not find the solution to problems of violence, alienation, ignorance, and unhappiness in increasing our security, imposing more tests, punishing…

— Nel Noddings

These concerns (for orphan children in India and elsewhere in the world) are very good, but often these same people are not…

— Mother Teresa Of Calcutta

The founders of the United Nations sought to replace a world at war with a world of civilized order. They hoped that…

— Ronald Reagan

“Being made up of distinctions, language finds it almost impossible to express undifferentiation.”

— René Girard

Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.

— Leo Tolstoy

My focus is first of all, to remove every thought of violence from my own consciousness.

— Deepak Chopra

“in the antagonistic society, the relationship of the generations is also one of competition, behind which stands naked violence.”

— Theodor W. Adorno

“There just seems to be too much violence everywhere, even the news can't help break now and then on TV”

— Nikhil Sharda

No one deserves to be beaten, talked down to and controlled... Stop the Violence!

— YaPrecia

Even extreme grief may ultimately vent itself in violence--but more generally takes the form of apathy

— Joseph Conrad

CARE is participating in a groundbreaking summit to end sexual violence in conflict.

— Anonymous

It's Ethan Hawke and John Travolta [in Valley of Violence]. It's awesome. They're awesome.

— Ti West

Ultimately, in the battle against lies and violence, truth and love have no other weapon than the witness of suffering.

— Pope Benedict XVI

Extreme violence has a way of preventing us from seeing the interests it serves.

— Naomi Klein

Attica. The name itself has long signified resistance to prison abuse and state violence.

— James Forman, Jr

“They said the shape-shifters fucked with the enthusiasm of animals—if they didn't devour you with the enthusiasm of one first.”

— Nenia Campbell

It was his eyes. When you looked into them, you saw chained violence baring teeth and claws back at you.

— Ilona Andrews

“Peace is not the absence of violence, peace is an act of controlled violence.”

— Abhijit Naskar

The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is a more violent world.

— Hannah Arendt