Violence Quotes · Page 67

Violence and wrong enclose all who commit them in their meshes and do mostly recoil on him from whom they begin.

— Lucretius

Violence and force are the natural tools of failures, those unable to persuade or compromise.

— Frank Matobo

America has become numb to violence because it just drowns in it, day in and day out.

— Janet Reno

The role of the intellectual cannot be to excuse the violence of one side and condemn that of the other.

— Albert Camus

The violence associated with the A.N.C. is minimal, infinitesimal next to the violence of the apartheid regime.

— Oliver Tambo

“violence toward another human being must become as abhorrent as eating another’s flesh.’ — Martin Luther King, Jr.”

— Joe Haldeman

Speech is not violence. The Left conflates the two in order to justify its own violent reactions to differing points of view.

— Michael J. Knowles

I'm a very great non-violent character. I would never resort to violence to change anything.

— Bob Brown

American Indian and Alaska Native people suffer from unacceptable and disproportionately high levels of violence, which can have lasting impacts on families…

— William Barr

Unfortunately there is a standard set for it that precedes hip-hop. It would be great if corporate America didn't do this, but…

— Bakari Kitwana

As capitalism falters, the rich move their money out of the country, violence increases, and politicians promising prosperity are elected.

— Robert Kiyosaki

Military dictatorship is born from the power of the gun, and so it undermines the concept of the rule of law and…

— Benazir Bhutto

My oldest brother was stabbed thirty to forty times and strangled to death with his own belt when I was eight years…

— Jim Goad

But I like schlocky violent movies, but I'm for strict gun control. But then there was a time I was at a…

— Robert Sapolsky

It's not the plot [of Valley of Violence] - the plot is the reason to get all these things to happen, all…

— Ti West

There's no evidence that registering guns reduces the level of gun violence. It's not that I don't think it's something worth doing,…

— Kim Campbell

If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also…

— Carl Jung

Looking at the huge number of transgender women of color who have been murdered since the beginning of the year - that…

— Melissa Gira Grant

I don't think sexual repression leads to violence, but I can see the situation where you're trying very hard to be very…

— Karan Mahajan

If someone can produce the law that keeps guns out of the hands of criminals but protects the right of law-abiding citizens…

— Marco Rubio

Human beings are not our enemy. Our enemy is not the other person. Our enemy is the violence, ignorance, and injustice in…

— Nhat Hanh

As a mother trying to raise kids with some kind of a code, an honorable way to solve problems without using violence,…

— Susan Sarandon

Had the cub thought in man-fashion, he might have epitomized life as a voracious appetite, and the world as a place wherein…

— Jack London

If the first casualty of war is innocence, then perhaps with each bullet fired, bomb detonated, leader overthrown, wall built, economy destroyed…

— Michael Franti

Monarchy degenerates into tyranny, aristocracy into oligarchy, and democracy into savage violence and chaos.

— Polybius

the fateful equating of power with violence, of the political with government, and of government with a necessary evil has begun.

— Hannah Arendt

The whole army is burning with an insatiable desire to wreak violence upon South Carolina. I almost tremble for her fate.

— William Tecumseh Sherman

“Saying both sides participated in violence doesn't mean both sides are equally ideologically wrong, you know.”

— T.J. Kirk

The same way that racism is a white person's problem, violence against women is a men's problem.

— Gloria Steinem

Disarmed citizens encourage crime and violence. Armed citizens encourage criminals to find a safer line of work.

— Harry Browne

The greatest dramas in the world are all about sex, violence and death.

— Ray Winstone

“This table felt extremely dangerous. He understood now that what held his family together was violence.”

— David Vann

History has not looked kindly on us when we've prevented people fleeing violence from seeking refuge in this country.

— Bill Foster

What I've tried to do is bring the madness out in the open. Keep it under wraps, and it erupts into wars…

— Dory Previn

I don't think violence on film breeds violence in life. Violence in life breeds violence in films.

— Robert Aldrich

[Domestic violence is] a carefully laid physical, financial and psychological trap.

— Anonymous

All tremble at violence; all fear death. Putting oneself in the place of another, one should not kill nor cause another to…

— Gautama Buddha

Personally, I don't like watching violence. I'd much rather see more skin.

— Cameron Diaz

If I had my own world I'd build you an empire from here to the far lands to spread love like violence!

— Tom DeLonge

Violence is never the answer, It is a question..and the answer is yes

— Anonymous