Violence Quotes · Page 59

Any time you do physical stuff, violence, it is controlled. It's a little bit like you block the move.

— Ron Livingston

If you disapprove of violence, then you can't think there is any age when violence is appropriate.

— Jane Goldman

Legitimate use of violence can only be that which is required in self-defense.

— Ron Paul

“For every fatal shooting, there were roughly three non-fatal shootings. And, folks, this is unacceptable in America.”

— George W. Bush

I hate violence, and I didn't plan to write horror; it just poured out of me.

— James Herbert

Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, are both uncivilized and undemocratic

— Mahatma Gandhi

Spaghetti Westerns are really brutal and operatic with a surreal quality to the violence.

— Quentin Tarantino

The struggle with evil by means of violence is the same as an attempt to stop a cloud, in order that there…

— Leo Tolstoy

War, and the preparation for war, are the two greatest obstacles to human progress, fostering a vicious cycle of arms buildups, violence…

— Oscar Arias

It seems that the only gun violence some leftists approve of is gun violence aimed at cops and other groups they see…

— Gary Bauer

I do feel that movies and music do have the power to slightly influence a person's decision. I believe that if violence…

— Morris Chestnut

The number of people who believe in stopping violence in the world is wildly greater than those that want to perpetrate it.…

— Jared Cohen

“It’s easier to put warning labels on video games than to address all the very real social, cultural, and psychological factors that…

— Nick Yee

Who has not hoped To outrage an enemy's dignity? Who has not been swept By the wish to hurt? And who has…

— Jacob Bronowski

My favorite moment of the 2012 election was the debate question where they asked Romney and Obama what they would do to…

— Rebecca Traister

The history of racial violence in our country is both omnipresent and unspoken. It is a smog that surrounds us that few…

— Clint Smith

Even if, personally, I'm in a place of contentment or solidity, I feel like it's hard not to look out into American…

— Carrie Brownstein

When schools truly become centers of the community, where you have extraordinary teachers, the best teachers, the best principals, great nonprofit partners…

— Arne Duncan

Let us no longer be blinded by the dim theology that only in the far seeing vision discovers a millennium, when violence…

— Lucretia Mott

“[Letter to his wife, Natalia Sedova] In addition to the happiness of being a fighter for the cause of socialism, fate gave…

— Leon Trotsky

The reason I've gotten into script-writing, which was accidental to begin with, was that I found it was a far more effective…

— Nick Cave

We have become too civilized to grasp the obvious. For the truth is very simple. To survive you often have to fight,…

— George Orwell

A form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy…

— Robert O. Paxton

I believe there's something very salutary in, say, beating up a gay-bashing policeman. Preferably one fights through the courts, through the laws,…

— Gore Vidal

I am not a pacifist - I think that violence and self-defence are often morally justified.

— Martha Nussbaum

He gave an impression of coiled power, a contained violence that if released, would explode with terrifying intensity.

— Ilona Andrews

Violence IS NOT the answer & being positive for others will benefit you in the long run

— Anonymous

I think that just as we're in the nuclear era we're also in an era of non-violence. It's undefeatable.

— Dorothy Day

My moral compass swings far to the left, but when it comes to gratuitous violence, I have trouble.

— Michael Biehn

He lies right at you, you know you hate this game. He slaps you once in a while and you live and…

— Alice Cooper

Hate begets hate, violence engenders violence, hypocrisy is answered by hypocrisy, war generates war, and love creates love.

— Pitirim Sorokin

The violence and obscenity are left unadulterated, as manifestation of the mystery and pain which ever accompanies the act of creation.

— Anais Nin

“If nothing else, Malus Darkblade, you can be counted on to react to adversity with as much violence as physically possible"- Tzarkan”

— Dan Abnett

“When Violence floods the State from above, flowery land razed for robot proliferation”

— Allen Ginsberg

The atrocities in Cambodia are a direct and understandable response to the violence of the imperial system.

— Noam Chomsky

I'm not sure that the problem of violence in society can be put at the feet of the entertainment industry.

— Ivana Milicevic

My wish for the world would be to end violence against women. My wish for myself would be for peace of mind.

— Gabrielle Union

Sexual assault and domestic violence are difficult things to talk about. Talk about them anyway.

— Mariska Hargitay

Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and…

— Murray Edelman

Is it not possible for us all to realize that the masses will never mount to freedom through murder?

— Mahatma Gandhi