Violence Quotes · Page 74

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

— Junichiro Koizumi

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

— Tariq Ramadan

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

— Dalai Lama

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Nothing Good Can Ever Come Out Of Violence, Abuse Or Hatred! Nothing Ever Does.”

— Timothy Pina

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to…

— Leo Tolstoy

Somebody's gotta stand up and say pubic hair is good, murder is bad. Sex is good, violence is bad.

— William H. Macy

What's amazing about 'White Heat' is that, even for its time, it's very truthful in the way it deals with violence.

— John Hillcoat

President [Barack] Obama's choice of Rahm Emmanuel as his Chief of Staff was questionable, and perhaps coverups around the police violence against…

— Julianne Malveaux

They're reacting and that's wonderful. It's better than them sitting there doing nothing. I say make them react - do whatever's in…

— Alice Cooper

If you are passed out drunk or if there is a gun to your head, it is the same crime. It is…

— Claire McCaskill

Having abandoned the taking of life, refraining from killing, we dwell without violence, with the knife laid down, scrupulous, full of mercy,…

— Gautama Buddha

The establishment will irritate you - pull your beard, flick your face - to make you fight. Because once they've got you…

— John Lennon

What is this thing we call government? Is it anything but organized violence? The law orders you to obey, and if you…

— Alexander Berkman

Women, who enjoyed a high social status and levels of education under Saddam, saw terrible setbacks as Iraq fell into civil war.…

— Richard Engel

“When we use violence as a currency to buy justice, it is like a man using his daily wage to buy bread.…

— James Flerlage

Aziraphale collected books. If he were totally honest with himself he would have to have admitted that his bookshop was simply somewhere…

— Terry Pratchett

I don't belong to a church or political party or a group of any kind. I feel that Amnesty International is the…

— Sting

Dickens didn't have access to any other epistemologies other than those prevailing in Britain. But a novelist today cannot plausibly claim ignorance…

— Pankaj Mishra

Watching violence in movies or in TV programs stimulates the spectators to imitate what they see much more than if seen live…

— Steven Spielberg

It's so effortless to let my loneliness defeat me, make me mold myself to whatever would (in some way - but not…

— Susan Sontag

In the reading and writing life, delight, for me, is where the mystery lies. Easy enough to figure out how scenes of…

— Alice McDermott

Part of what my work has always been about is to show that the apocalyptic character of the gospel makes the everyday…

— Stanley Hauerwas

The violence in the Executioner books is merely stage-dressing for dramatizing the commitment and dedication Bolan has to his ideals and the…

— Don Pendleton

Kids shouldn't see all the violence they do these days. But the industry just doesn't care.

— Linda Blair

I avoid all the language and nudity and violence and everything. I have enough of that at home.

— Tim Conway

Violence is stupid. Even as a last resort, it only ever begets more of the same.

— Brian K. Vaughan

Where there is love, there is a possibility of violence but it's not that love is connected to violence but there's a…

— Takashi Miike

Violence, whether spiritual or physical, is a quest for identity and the meaningful. The less identity, the more violence.

— Marshall McLuhan

We are going to have to do something about all this violence, or people are going to keep buying tickets.

— Conn Smythe

There is considerable merit to the notion of treating gun violence as a public health matter.

— Peter Bergen

Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest of violence.

— Anonymous

I firmly believe today that the only way to stop violence against women is to speak out and refused to be silenced.

— Zainab Salbi

There is no greater violence than to deny the dreams of our children.

— Kailash Satyarthi

The incidence of violent brand-loyalty to one's own current dogma has risen.

— Marge Piercy

“The amount of violence against another human being we are willing to accept is a litmus test for our own freedom.”

— Diana Oestreich

The foundation of my beliefs is the same as it was when I was 10. Non-violence.

— Joan Baez

Constantly worrying about your reflection and criticizing your body, shape and size is an act of violence against yourself.

— Emma Thompson

We do want to drive out the beast in man, but we do not want on that account to emasculate him.

— Mahatma Gandhi

You can't answer violence with counter violence ... The answer is love. The best sabotage is love.

— Athol Fugard