Violence Quotes · Page 71

This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence.

— Ben Elton

Claiming that you have got the truth wrapped up does breed violence and intolerance.

— Timothy Radcliffe

It is claimed for satyagraha that it is a complete substitute for violence or war.

— Mahatma Gandhi

A film is like a battleground. It's love, hate, action, violence, death—In one word, emotions.

— Samuel Fuller

Criticism is different from violence and damaging public properties.

— Hassan Rouhani

Paul Verhoeven is one of my favourite directors. I love his ability to mash extreme violence with humour and satire.

— Kayvan Novak

In real life I do violence, but for psychic stuff I do other things better.

— Laurell K. Hamilton

“When we allow violence against some, we enable violence against all.”

— DaShanne Stokes

While our country has made great strides, the Jewish community is still the target of anti-Semitism, and we must continue to stand…

— Lucy McBath

Hatred, intolerance, poor hygienic conditions and violence all have roots in illiteracy, so we're trying to do something to help the poor…

— Abdul Qadeer Khan

To destroy governmental violence, only one thing is needed: It is that people should understand that the feeling of patriotism, which alone…

— Leo Tolstoy

Give peace a chance, yes, but why not get serious and give it a place in the curriculum: peace courses in every…

— Colman McCarthy

Black Power If the motive is good, and there are no other possibilities, then seen most deeply it [violence] is nonviolence, because…

— Dalai Lama

In the global push to stop gender-based violence, men in the entertainment industry need to join forces with women to end violence…

— John Kani

Since Castro took power, the Cuban people have been denied basic human freedoms. No freedom of religion, no freedom of the press,…

— Mitt Romney

We must never violate principles. We must never initiate violence. And we should never harm the innocent. But at some point, unless…

— Claire Wolfe

Many people today agree that we need to reduce violence in our society. If we are truly serious about this, we must…

— Anonymous

At the movies, we are gradually being conditioned to accept violence as a sensual pleasure. The directors used to say they were…

— Pauline Kael

It isn't very nice to admit, but domestic violence has its uses. So raw and unleashed, it tears away the veil of…

— Lionel Shriver

“Things began to go wrong when I was seventeen. My band’s twenty-year-old lead guitarist earned seven years in jail for a drug-fuelled…

— Mark Rice

A lot of people in the movie industry tend to run and hide from it like ostriches. Movie industry people are definitely…

— Madeleine Stowe

I don't think the government (of El Salvador) was responsible. The nuns were not just nuns; the nuns were political activists. We…

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

I cannot make myself believe that God wanted me to hate. I'm tired of violence, I've seen too much of it. I've…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

To think better, to think like the best humans, we are probably going to have to learn again to judge a person's…

— Wendell Berry

Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death.

— Billy Graham

The Nazis believed in a master race. The militant Islamists believe in a master faith.

— Benjamin Netanyahu

Violence begets violence, and then you get leaders who are violent men. And you don't want that.

— Robert Crumb

“Deeply-rooted conditioning has perverted us. We ARE the culture of violence. We must look at ourselves.”

— Bryant McGill

Unless we teach our children peace, somebody else will teach them violence.

— Colman McCarthy

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

— Xiang16

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

— Rebecca Yarros

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

— Michael Scheuer

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

“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

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

Movies and television don't make you violent; all they do is channel the violence more creatively.

— George Carlin