Violence Quotes · Page 58

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

— Roger Moore

“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

All politics is a struggle for power; the ultimate kind of power is violence.

— C. Wright Mills

“Violence mixed with pseudo-loving behaviour is a potent and dangerous combination. Like a drug. Keeps the woman hooked, in the hope the…

— Maggie James

“..each bloodletting hastens the next, and as the value of human life is degraded and violence becomes tolerated, the unimaginable becomes more…

— Bill Clinton

Victims of the violence are black and white, rich and poor, young and old, famous and unknown. They are most important of…

— Robert Kennedy

Drama lives on conflict. If you're trying to deal with social issues seriously, there's no way of avoiding violence, which is so…

— Michael Haneke

I'm not talking so much about sex - after you've seen sex in a picture, what else can happen - but violence…

— Sophia Loren

Like most human behavior, violence has meaning: it only seems 'senseless' or 'meaningless' to the extent we are unable-or unwilling-to decode it.

— Stephen A. Diamond

You can make your superhero a psychopath, you can draw gut-splattering violence, and you can call it a "graphic novel," but comic…

— Bill Watterson

I am not only overwhelmed with excitement to be back in the seat but also to show my support to help raise…

— Amber Cope

I cannot believe that violence depicted onscreen actually causes people to act out violently. That's oversimplifying the issue. If somebody commits a…

— Park Chan-wook

We have seen a man dragged to death in Texas simply because he was black. A young man murdered in Wyoming simply…

— William J. Clinton

Poetry has always mattered, through human history, through all kinds of cultures, all kinds of violence and human desolation, as well as…

— Adrienne Rich

As long as I breathe I hope. As long as I breathe I shall fight for the future, that radiant future, in…

— Leon Trotsky

“In it's purest form, an act of retribution provides symmetry. The rendering payment of crimes against the innocent. But a danger on…

— Emily Thorne

In a culture of electronic violence, images that once caused us to empathize with the pain and trauma of another human being,…

— John Naisbitt

I'm really interested in violence. And I think there's an inevitably cinematic property that violence brings to the moviegoing experience. But one…

— Karyn Kusama

I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the…

— Oscar Wilde

Just bring love. Everybody keeps bringing violence, let's bring love.

— RZA

I don't think I'll ever do a show with violence where there's no consequences, 'cause I know the consequences.

— Salim Akil

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

— Malala Yousafzai

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

— Mark Frost

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

— Sarah

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

— George Bernard Shaw

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

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

— Henry Giroux

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

— Bryant McGill

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

I see contemporary violence as a kind of sardonic response to the promise of consumer fulfilment in America.

— Don DeLillo

Disorder and violence are, in fact, things that might check the pace of India's progress.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Violence against women and children resembles an epidemic. It has spread through society, sparing no social group or class.

— Cyril Ramaphosa

There are some people that just attract violence to them. No matter where they go, they'll find a fight.

— Antony Starr