Violence Quotes · Page 64

“Maxim 37: There is no "overkill." There is only "open fire" and "reload." -The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries”

— Howard Tayler

The world suffers a lot. Not because of the violence people. But because of the silence of good people.

— Xiang16

I think if we could raise one generation of kids without violence and shaming, we don't know what might be possible.

— Gloria Steinem

The Background Check Expansion Act will help prevent guns from falling into the wrong hands, and combat senseless gun violence.

— Alex Padilla

I was born in West Baltimore, lived in a situation in which violence was everywhere.

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“Violence send deep roots into the heart, it has no seasons, it is always ripe, evergreen.”

— Pat Conroy

Pornography does not inspire violence, but you can break a leg trying to imitate it.

— Mason Cooley

“It's an unwritten and widely unacknowledged fact, that land always ends up belonging to the most violent.”

— Mango Wodzak

I hated Shallow Grave, that movie made me angry. And I hated Happiness. I generally hate movies that use extreme violence or…

— Jesse Michaels

Sports (and the often barely withheld violence around them) have become one of the few modern ways to connect with strangers. They…

— Perry Brass

But Hillary Clinton’s legacy does not have to be America’s legacy. The problems we face now – poverty and violence at home,…

— Donald Trump

I was raised well. My parents are from Nigeria; their culture is respectful. Very respectful. But I learnt that you have to…

— Anthony Joshua

A lot of action heroes, we're told they are heroic primarily because they commit violence upon the bad guy. It can be…

— Gail Simone

When a creature is exposed to violence, it will tend to adapt to that disturbance, so that when the violence ceases or…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Children will watch anything, and when a broadcaster uses crime and violence and other shoddy devices to monopolize a child's attention, it's…

— Newton N. Minow

Before the L.A. riots, I'd only heard of the original Watts riots. But I'd also seen violence like that close up, but…

— DJ Yella

Many original occupiers believe the political system has become so corrupt that even participating in it, engaging with it, corrupts the movement.…

— Jennifer Granholm

For myself, I think that those who cultivate wisdom and believe themselves able to instruct their fellow-citizens as to their interests are…

— Xenophon

If busyness can become a kind of violence, we do not have to stretch our perception very far to see that Sabbath…

— Wayne Muller

“From my childhood I had heard read, and read the Bible myself. Morning and evening the sacred volume was opened and prayers…

— Robert G. Ingersoll

I think my ideal man would speak many languages. He would speak Ibo and Yoruba and English and French and all of…

— Chris Cleave

Let us not accept violence as the way of peace. Let us instead begin by respecting true freedom: the resulting peace will…

— Pope John Paul II

We shall not bind ourselves by treaties. We shall not allow ourselves to be entangled by treaties. We reject all clauses on…

— Vladimir Lenin

Much of the violence that humanity suffers in our times is rooted inmisunderstanding as well as in the rejection of the values…

— Pope John Paul II

He who trifles with truth cuts at the root of Ahimsa [non-violence]. He who is angry is guilty of Himsa.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Most dramatically, and perhaps least noticed, is the violence inside Saudi Arabia itself.

— Michael Scheuer

“There's nowhere in existence you could go that I wouldn't find you, Violence.”

— Rebecca Yarros

“There is more than one way to lose your life; quickly through violence, or fettered-away and wasted around dreadful, toxic people.”

— Bryant McGill

In the absence of a Congress ready to act to reduce gun violence, we will keep working to create a different Congress.

— Gabrielle Giffords

The sexual energies returned, when they're not evolved, are still linked with violence and the fear of power - the fear of…

— Frederick Lenz

We need a tough approach to make justice prevail and, also, because sports should not be damaged by the violence of hooligans.

— Frans Timmermans

Violence against the other, and the way we otherize people out of fear, has to be examined across the board.

— Yance Ford

I've been on the wrong end of violence, and I've done violence myself... I refuse to glorify violence in my movie and…

— James Garner

Being offended by freedom of speech should never be regarded as a justification for violence.

— Alan Dershowitz

In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence.

— Adrienne Rich

“Even truth becomes just another weapon of division and violence, when shared with impure motives and a defiled heart.”

— Hope D. Blackwell

Armed conspiracies against something satanic is like matching Satans against Satan.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Thunder without sound jolted the air around her. The violence of it was magnificent, immaculate, glorious.”

— Terry Goodkind

The violence we do to ourselves in order to remain faithful to the one we love is hardly better than an act…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Stassi is always so hurtful with her words she doesn't need to use physical violence.

— Scheana Shay