Violence Quotes · Page 65

The decline of violence is a fractal phenomenon. You can see it over millennia, over centuries, over decades and over years.

— Steven Pinker

Lawyers will always buckle under to something, whether its bribes, violence, court orders, or the weight of their own bullshit.

— James Alan Gardner

“Guns are like thermometers, only instead of measuring body temperatures they measure our fear.”

— Jean Zimmerman

Crime and violence is an attack on the poor and will never be accepted in a Trump administration.

— Donald Trump

We had good years, with no violence, in a sense we were victims of our success.

— Ari Shavit

I think movies glamorize violence, in the sense that they make it in a way that it's either cool or funny.

— Matthew Vaughn

Everyone knows what a hypocrite is. That's the guy who gripes about the sex, violence and nudity on his VCR.

— Zig Ziglar

There is a direct connection between violence against the Earth and violence against women.

— Lee Maracle

I want to make it very clear, collaboration with the regime of Mr. Lukashenko at the moment means the support for violence…

— Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya

Night after night we watch the news and see families who have lost loved ones via violence. We eat our dinner, shake…

— Sharon G. Flake

“I am very much concerned that American Negroes achieve their freedom here in the United States. But I am also concerned for…

— James Baldwin

I guess I just couldn't see standing there -- alive, talking, thinking, breathing, being -- one second, and dead the next. It…

— Anonymous

Violence, and evil, doesn't always come dressed in black, and it doesn't always look like Charles Manson. Nor does it always come…

— Derrick Jensen

While it can be aggressive playing rugby, the aggression doesn't leave the rugby pitch. A Real Man doesn't need to use violence…

— Danny Care

Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination to empathy, to cooperation, to self-control.

— Steven Pinker

God called Abraham and commanded him to go out from the country where he was living. With this call God has roused…

— Justin Martyr

The science of war leads one to dictatorship, pure and simple. The science of non-violence alone can lead one to pure democracy.…

— Mahatma Gandhi

When we speak about a culture of violence in the American society, we're not just talking about the mass killers. We're also…

— Jim Steyer

It (the Chinese move to embrace capitalism in 1989) is a mirror of the corporatist state first pioneered in Chile under Pinochet:…

— Naomi Klein

We no longer have the public spheres available to be able to contest that violence. We don't see it in the mainstream…

— Henry Giroux

It's the kind of turn that happened to the great country of Germany, when Nazis came over and created tragic things, and…

— Tony Bennett

Have you ever wondered, perhaps, why opinions which the majority of people quite naturally hold are, if anyone dares express them publicly,…

— Enoch

I was speaking to a writer the other day and he gave me a valuable piece of advice. He said that you…

— Aung San Suu Kyi

To me, the best zombie movies aren’t the splatter fests of gore and violence with goofy characters and tongue in cheek antics.…

— Robert Kirkman

The problem of gun violence goes beyond the countless demographic differences between people.

— Emma Gonzalez

“But strength doesn’t always mean brute force. You don’t have to kick ass to be a fighter. Violence doesn’t equal strength.”

— Becca Fitzpatrick

When there is no desire for fruit, there is also no temptation for untruth or himsa.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.

— Jesse Jackson

Generally speaking, violence always arises out of impotence. It is the hope of those who have no power.

— Hannah Arendt

We can all agree that violence against any community should never be tolerated.

— Michelle Steel

It is better to be violence, if thare is violence in our hearts , than to put on the clock of nonviolence…

— Drparth

“Violence?"Skulduggery said. "Violence is never the answer, until it's the only answer.”

— Derek Landy

Life etches itself onto our faces as we grow older, showing our violence, excesses or kindnesses.

— Anonymous

I think we have too much violence in wrestling, on TV in general, and society as a whole.

— Terry Funk

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

— Jane Levy

I must declare that it is better for India do discard violence altogether even for defending her borders.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Through violence, you may 'solve' one problem, but you sow the seeds for another.

— Dalai Lama

Feeling sympathy and searching for explanations isn't the same as believing that the violence is justified.

— Tariq Ramadan

This outrageous and vicious act of violence against the United States is unforgivable.

— Junichiro Koizumi

Violence is anything that denies human integrity, and leads to hopelessness and helplessness.

— Martin Luther King, Jr