Violence Quotes · Page 77

I was exposed to violence while I was still in the womb - my father punched my mother in the stomach while…

— Jim Goad

You just have to open the newspapers in most Western news to see real violence.

— Ray Stevenson

Those of us who have the eyes and ears of the media have a responsibility to amplify the voices of the voiceless.

— Peter Gabriel

Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

I think violence in a cinematic context can be, if handled in a certain way, very seductive.

— Kathryn Bigelow

Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.

— Mahatma Gandhi

We ask why there is violence in our schools, but we have systematically removed God from our schools.

— Mike Huckabee

When you resort to violence to prove a point, you’ve just experienced a profound failure of imagination.

— Sherman Alexie

Our work in Britain suggests that radicalization is driven by an ideology which claims that Muslims around the world are being oppressed…

— Anonymous

Learn how to cook. Read books that will educate you. Get an education. Get a career. And support yourself. And live in…

— Chris Rock

Civilisation is partly about restraining the male of the species from engaging in the violence of the hunter-gatherer period. But it doesn't…

— Niall Ferguson

One who, while seeking happiness, oppresses with violence other living beings who also desire happinesss, will not find happiness hereafter.

— Gautama Buddha

We must understand the factors that cause fragility, violence, and conflict in order to develop solutions that will meaningfully reduce instability at…

— Peter Maurer

It is, however, well known that the main national liberation organizations in this country have consistently followed a policy of non-violence. They…

— Nelson Mandela

“[T]he life of a person does not first leave when the heart weakens and ceases to beat. The life of a person…

— Kelleen Goerlitz

I can't help but believe that at some time in the not-too-distant future, there is going to be another movement to change…

— Coretta Scott King

I don't think I'm more politically-based as much as socially-based. My grandmother died on February 29th, and she kept all of my…

— Killer Mike

“The prolonged use of violence may lead in the end to the loss of freedom, since it is liable to bring about…

— Karl R. Popper

Society had grown cruel. People who felt they were unwanted or unwelcome in their own country, reacted with aggression. There was no…

— Henning Mankell

The relationship between violence and nonviolence in this country is interesting. The fact of the matter is, you know, people do respond…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

We can love religion as we need rituals, but The Holy Spirit is a bird, free to fly and land where it…

— Sinead O'Connor

Because I'm a civil rights activist, I am also an animal rights activist. Animals and humans suffer and die alike. Violence causes…

— Dick Gregory

I've told the kids in the ghettos that violence won't solve their problems, but then they ask me, and rightly so; "Why…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Violence is so terribly fast . . . the most perverse thing about the movies is the way they portray it in…

— Jim Carroll

Sometimes in the dark of night I begin to think. And I wonder if Lee started all this violence.

— Marina Oswald

A bottomless pit of violence, a Tower of Babel where all are speakers and no hearers.

— Alexander Smith

“A young girl’s body is the most dangerous place in the world, as it is the spot where violence is most likely…

— Heather O'Neill

Violence is like a weed - it does not die even in the greatest drought.

— Simon Wiesenthal

The whole history of the Christian Church is a mixture of errors and violence.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“I can assure you that no kingdom has ever had as many civil wars as the kingdom of Christ.”

— Montesquieu

“We sleep safely at night because rough men stand ready to visit violence on those who would harm us.”

— Winston S. Churchill

Non-co-operators will make a serious mistake if they seek to convert people to their creed by violence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“In a stress pressure-cooker like America, I believe we will see more and more shooting massacres. Violence is in our cultural DNA.”

— Bryant McGill

Here's a rule of life: You don't get to pick what bad things happen to you

— Rory Miller

Violence does not and cannot flourish by itself; it is inevitably intertwined with lying.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The chief cause of our misery is less the violence of our passions than the feebleness of our virtues.

— Philibert Joseph Roux

Every woman who thinks she is the only victim of violence has to know that there are many more.

— Salma Hayek

Whenever we engage in consumption or production patterns which take more than we need, we are engaging in violence.

— Vandana Shiva

“Let them have guns' is as much a solution to mass murder and gun violence as 'Let them have drugs' is a…

— DaShanne Stokes

It started with the Godfather, this operatic violence. I don't know.

— William H. Macy