Violence Quotes · Page 51

Deceit and violence - these are the two forms of deliberate assault on human beings.

— Sissela Bok

“Violence is there because you have not grown your potential for love; it is the absence of love.”

— Osho

I sometimes go for the strongest, most vivid colour on the palette, which in the case of movies is violence.

— Brian De Palma

I think that art is an act of violence, and the more emotionally engaged you are in a piece of art, the…

— Nicolas Winding Refn

It definitely could have been a horror story [Valley of Violence], oh my God, if the dog was impossible. So could the…

— Ti West

I am deeply disturbed by the senseless violence instigated by some leaders in pursuit of their personal political agenda.

— Mwai Kibaki

I think there are other alternatives there than hitting a child, striking the child.

— Sean Hannity

Art should cause violence to be set aside and it is only art that can accomplish this.

— Leo Tolstoy

We can never allow people who use nondemocratic means, people who use violence instead of arguments, people who use knives instead of…

— Geert Wilders

Sarah Palin's whole family got into a drunken public fistfight. Something police are calling a 'tragic case of trash-on-trash violence.'

— Bill Maher

BABE or BABY, n. A misshapen creature of no particular age, sex, or condition, chiefly remarkable for the violence of the sympathies…

— Ambrose Bierce

I support the death penalty because I believe, if administered swiftly and justly, capital punishment is a deterrent against future violence and…

— George W. Bush

There are many women in their late teens and early twenties who have either experienced violence in a relationship or have witnessed…

— Miquita Oliver

I dare because I want no misunderstanding between us. I am everything you think I am, but I love your daughter, and…

— Jeaniene Frost

It was the government that should have been told to refrain from its inhuman policy of violence and massacre, not the African…

— Nelson Mandela

I was a monster. I don't deny it. I wasn't a monster until a few years ago. But you have to be…

— Bernhard Goetz

Of course, in the reality of history, the Machiavellian view which glorifies the principle of violence has been able to dominate.Not the…

— Stefan Zweig

We cannot be secure by limiting our liberties, as some of our political leaders are demanding, but only by expanding themWe should…

— Howard Zinn

Unfortunately, we live at a moment in which ignorance appears to be one of the defining features of American political and cultural…

— Henry Giroux

When we got down there were some agent provocateurs, if you've never heard of them, these are people sent in intentionally into…

— Matt Shea

People who object to weapons aren't abolishing violence, they're begging for rule by brute force, when the biggest, strongest animals among men…

— L. Neil Smith

What shocked me was three different anti-prostitution feminists asking me to justify that I had been a sex worker, to prove it.…

— Melissa Gira Grant

My own view is that violence is a part of classical Haida literature - and of every mythology everywhere, so far as…

— Robert Bringhurst

So it is not an accident that the Nazi lads vent a particular fury against (Einstein). He does truly stand for what…

— John Maynard Keynes

When I first ran for mayor in 2005, I made a pledge to confront the epidemic of gun violence in Braddock.

— John Fetterman

there were moments in life when violence was necessary to save lives

— Nicholas Sparks

Sex and violence was never really my cup of tea; I was always more into sax and violins.

— Wim Wenders

The best genius is that which absorbs and assimilates everything without doing the least violence to its fundamental destiny.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Pressure or violence will ever move us to relinquish our honor or our equality of rights.

— Adolf Hitler

Peace needs and takes time, it needs and takes caution, it needs and takes patience after 30 years of terrorism and violence.

— Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

Crime and violence are a threat to the freedom and liberty people should enjoy and to our orderly way of life.

— Priti Patel

There are an awful lot of things going on that need understanding and explanation, but - to put it mildly - the…

— Madeleine Albright

I do not believe in terrorism, violence, destruction, murder, pre-emption, or War.

— Rosanne Cash

Non-violence has suffered its biggest defeat in the hands of people who most want to talk about it.

— Cesar Chavez

Odd how often blood is shed to obtain freedom from those in power. Oppressors must be the most insecure people in the…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“We will not go quietly away. If in the future that requires violence”

— Richard Dawkins

On this International Day of Peace, let us dare to imagine a world free of conflict and violence

— Kofi Annan

Extraneous violence is totally wrong. 'Robocop' was violence for violence's sake - you don't shoot somebody's arm off.

— Lee Rich

We have to start from the fact that there are always alternatives to violence.

— Mairead Corrigan

Senseless violence is a prerogative of youth, which has much energy but little talent for the constructive.

— Anthony Burgess