Violence Quotes · Page 53

“There is only one rule about violence. Do whatever you must do to make it stop.”

— Megan Lindholm

I will work tirelessly to defend all communities, including the LGBTQ one, from terrorism and violence.

— Donald Trump

Better be secure under one king, than exposed to violence from twenty millions of monarchs, though oneself be one of them.

— Herman Melville

Violence produces only something resembling justice, but it distances people from the possibility of living justly, without violence.

— Leo Tolstoy

I think everyone is aware there's something wrong about the way violence is enacted against Black people in this country.

— Nia DaCosta

The situation is getting worse, and people are losing hope. That despair stokes violence.

— Saleh al-Mutlaq

Disapproving and boycotting is the Quranic thing to do, whereas violence and threats are not.

— Mustafa Akyol

“This might not be true nay other time, but tonight you're safe with me." Page 167 Chap 17”

— Katee Robert

Religious fanaticism has clearly produced, and in all probability will continue to produce, enormous amounts of bickering, fighting, violence, bloodshed, homicide, feuds,…

— Albert Ellis

Within the existing neoliberal historical conjuncture, there is a merging of violence and governance and the systemic disinvestment in and breakdown of…

— Henry Giroux

Thwart," I said. "To prevent someone from accomplishing something by means of visiting gratuitous violence upon his smarmy person." "I'm pretty sure…

— Jim Butcher

In general, the mass media tell us that black people are not loving, that our lives are so fraught with violence and…

— bell hooks

It's one of those things, when you look back on it, you'd go, "Oh, I could've done without that. If I could…

— Ti West

In a way, a stage can be the safest place to be visibly queer and non-gender conforming because you're literally surrounded by…

— Liv Bruce

Love and violence-not to conquer one with the other but to live with both, that's what I've learned. Each pulling me a…

— Denis Johnson

I think that when we're talking about youth violence, we're talking about kids who don't have opportunities, so they're engaged in a…

— Matt Gonzalez

When I say 'I will be true to you' I am drawing a quiet space beyond the reach of other desires. No…

— Jeanette Winterson

In stark contrast with the views of the Greek philosophers and with those of the rest of western intellectuals to the present…

— Anonymous

We New Yorkers see more death and violence than most soldiers do, grow a thick chitin on our backs, grimace like a…

— Edward Hoagland

Goodness has no opposite. Most of us consider goodness as the opposite of the bad or evil and so throughout history in…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Air traffic control is going to have a steamy old fit on your dime, boy. They can get in line behind the…

— Howard Tayler

Although violence and the use of force may appear powerful and decisive, their benefits are short-lived. Violence can never bring a lasting…

— Dalai Lama

One day, I stopped hating. I ceased all meaningless activity. I completed the circle. I Set my sights straight. Like an Arrow…

— Henry Rollins

What's very interesting about the violence in Lebanon and the violence in Iraq and the violence in Gaza is this: These are…

— George W. Bush

Nothing comes from violence and nothing ever could, for all those born beneath an angry star, lest we forget how fragile we…

— Sting

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The most important rule of the new Europe is: There must never again be violence in Europe.

— Helmut Kohl

I have recognized that the nation has the right, if it so wills, to vindicate her freedom even by actual violence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

It is bad for the soul to know itself a coward, it is apt to take refuge in mere wordy violence.

— Radclyffe Hall

“Hostility and violence doesn't solve anything. It solves everything.”

— David Ricker

Show me pornography which promotes violence against women, and I'll buy it.

— Jim Goad

There's some basic ideals that we should be able to agree on as Americans: We don't tolerate violence on our streets.

— Ted Wheeler

If you intend to use our beautiful city to cause mayhem, disturb the peace, create fear and commit violence, you are not…

— Ted Wheeler

“Wherever farming took root, violence emerged as a more important feature of social life.”

— James Dale Davidson

Had dad chosen to use violence he would have been immediately annihilated.

— Martin Luther King III

Pornography and violence are by-products of societies in which private identity has been ... destroyed by sudden environmental change.

— Marshall McLuhan

Liberating Iraq from a legacy of violence and putting it on the path to peace and prosperity will take time.

— George Voinovich

Every act of violence is also a message that needs to be understood. (23-24)

— Jean Vanier

I honestly never understood how violence against women became a women's issue. 95 percent of the violence men are doing to women.

— Eve Ensler

Violence is a part of the world and life, and you shouldnt have to take it out of stories.

— Jane Levy