Violence Quotes · Page 78

The convoluted wording of legalisms grew up around the necessity to hide from ourselves the violence we do to each other.

— Frank Herbert

“Violence isn't a Democrat or Republican problem. It's an American problem, requiring an American solution.”

— DaShanne Stokes

[Uniting workers should not] lead to a war upon property, or the owners of property.

— Abraham Lincoln

There are great and terrible consequences to any act of violence, and they reverberate beyond the act itself.

— Paul G. Tremblay

You can't reason with gang violence: you can't talk to it, sit it at the table, and negotiate with it.

— Greg Boyle

Peace, non-violence, human rights and the environment - if only everybody saw these as the seamless whole that they are

— Jonathon Porritt

Refrain from the violence of fist, tongue or heart. And heart is real important.

— Alveda King

There are numerous groups across the country, both local and national, that are working to prevent gun violence in our communities.

— Chris Murphy

“Of course civilizations are aggressive, Holmes says, but when they take up arms in order to impose their conception of civility on…

— Louis Menand

The older I get, the more I can't stand violence and have a hard time with seeing people die in horrific ways.…

— Matthew Lillard

Our most important task is to transform our consciousness so that violence is no longer an option for us in our personal…

— Deepak Chopra

From climate change to the gun violence epidemic, our nation faces many pressing problems. We - the President and Congress - were…

— Dean Phillips

If the State does not enjoy a monopoly of violence, which then gives it the power to order people's lives and to…

— Murray Bookchin

[S]tatism is a system of institutionalized violence and perpetual civil war. It leaves men no choice but to fight to seize political…

— Ayn Rand

“So you're a fellow mercenary, then." "Does this mean you'll afford me some professional courtesy?" "Don't ask for that. All it means…

— Howard Tayler

I did it for political, moral reasons, thinking that I was making this great sacrifice, but it was absolutely necessary; I was…

— Alicia Silverstone

The United States supports the reintegration of people who have fought with the Taliban into Afghan society provided they: one, renounce al…

— Richard Holbrooke

I was working within a figurative representational framework, and there was a sense of reading the painting as a transparency, or truth,…

— Chitra Ganesh

It is horrible! It is not the suffering and the death of the animals that is horrible, but the fact that the…

— Leo Tolstoy

If you're young and inexperienced you might accept what people tell you, that everything's going to be fine, it's okay. It's usually…

— Jon Lee Anderson

Ay, but to die and go we know not where; To lie in cold obstrution and to rot; This sensible warm motion…

— William Shakespeare

Just for a few tiny buds on your tongue you are killing live animals, with no sensitivity, with no awareness, with no…

— Rajneesh

Another bigger problem is the fact that these incidents of police violence continue to occur because far too often the officers on…

— Hakeem Jeffries

Decade after decade, the police culture has been just the very opposite. And that's been to ignore or to rally around. And…

— Hakeem Jeffries

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do…

— George Orwell

The lesson I learned in Cairo still applies. The only way to deal with bureaucrats is with stealth and sudden violence.

— Boutros Boutros-Ghali

Parents are the most likely to be victims of the violence of their mentally ill children.

— Rich Lowry

I don't like violence in movies, I'm not a kind of Tarantino fan. But sometimes it's necessary.

— Fatih Ak?n

I know and understand the result of extreme violence in my own life, in my friends' lives, and so I know what…

— Salim Akil

The best way to deal with bureaucrats is with stealth and sudden violence.

— Anonymous

“God is a hoax. Religion is a scam. Religious politics is a slaughter house.”

— Vidyut

The internet has made possible a frightening practice of threats and intimidation - threats of unspeakable violence and death.

— Joan Wallach Scott

Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence.

— John Foster Dulles

Man has an innate capacity for violence, but can only justify it in the name of justice.

— Ralph Steadman

Here we will solve with laws and dollars, problems that too many people around the world still must solve with violence and…

— Marco Rubio

The world suffers a lot, Not because of the violence of bad people, But because of the silence of good people!

— Anonymous

Murder is not about lust and it's not about violence. It's about possession.

— Ted Bundy

We live in a world where we have to hide to make love, while violence is practiced in broad daylight.

— John Lennon

Challenges like climate change, gun violence and white supremacy will wait for no one.

— Jake Auchincloss

When the masses begin to vibrate with an energy of love, the world will no longer be a container for war, violence,…

— Gabrielle Bernstein