Violence Quotes · Page 84

My view is when you use violence on your people, that never ends well.

— Anonymous

there is enough treachery , hatred violence absurdity in the average human being to supply any given army on any given day

— Charles Bukowski

Our society has gotten to the point where we might soon become less and less shocked by any kind of violence.

— Stanley Crouch

Look past the violence. There is a wonderful brimming spirit of innocence and fun.

— Don DeLillo

“Police routinely shooting mentally challenged people is a very disturbing trend.”

— Steven Magee

In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival.

— Andrew Young

1819 was a year of hunger, mass unemployment, political repression and murderous, state-sanctioned violence.

— David Olusoga

Only thought which does violence to itself is hard enough to shatter myth.

— Anonymous

This is why my art is about violence. Because I was subjected to so much of it as a kid. After that,…

— Jack Bowman

Soup puts the heart at ease, calms down the violence of hunger, eliminates the tension of the day, and awakens and refines…

— Auguste Escoffier

It is far easier and more effective - and not just in terms of cost - to prevent conventional conflicts than to…

— Miroslav Lajcak

Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness: none of them shall remain, nor of their multitude, nor of any of…

— Bible

Whether we are talking about access to affordable birth control, feeling safe from violence in our homes, or being able to earn…

— Ann McLane Kuster

“The essence of a culture of honor is that it does not sanction predatory or instrumental violence, but only retaliation after an…

— Steven Pinker

I'm also interviewing a guy who's just written a book about his experience living in Iraq, faced with the type of violence…

— Jon Stewart

The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is non-interference with their own particular ways of being happy, provided those ways…

— William James

“[from Some words about 'War and Peace' ] In those days also people loved, envied, sought truth and virtue, and where carried…

— Leo Tolstoy

I think trauma gets a reductive treatment. We tend to think only violence or molestation or total abandonment qualify as "childhood trauma,"…

— Melissa Febos

Why do people think that it's appropriate to talk to me about my body? Why do men think it's appropriate to literally…

— Sophia Bush

Boxing is an American sport - a 'so-called sport' to many - in which images of incalculable beauty and violence, desperation and…

— Joyce Carol Oates

“On the individual level, violence is driven by shame, isolation, exposure to violence, and an inability to meet one’s economic needs—factors that…

— Danielle Sered

There is no military solution to the war in Iraq. Our troops can help suppress the violence, but they cannot solve its…

— Barack Obama

I don't favor violence. If we could bring about recognition and respect of our people by peaceful means, well and good. Everybody…

— Malcolm X

The television screen is the lens through which most children learn about violence. Through the magnifying power of this lens, their everyday…

— Sissela Bok

Violence is a choice a man makes and he alone is responsible for it.

— Patrick Stewart

“Great God! hast Thou given men Thine own image that it should be thus cruelly defaced by the hands of their brethren!”

— Walter Scott

To what extent has each one of us contributed to the rise in violence and hatred?

— Laura Esquivel

It is no non-violence if we merely love those that love us. It is non-violence only when we love those that hate…

— Mahatma Gandhi

I always thought the real violence in Hollywood isn't what's on the screen. It's what you have to do to raise the…

— David Mamet

Not all cultural borrowing is a form of social violence: some of it is just cringe.

— Ash Sarkar

I think violence has always been popular, way before movies started being made.

— Norman Reedus

It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

We must not believe the Evil One when he tells us that there is nothing we can do in the face of…

— Pope Francis

Far more violence has been done in obeying the law than in breaking the law.

— Robert Frost

“There is no document of civilization that is not also a document of barbarism.”

— Walter Benjamin

A government is an institution that holds a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence.

— Max Weber

Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.

— Anonymous

There is no shame in being a survivor of sexual violence. The shame is on the aggressor.

— Angelina Jolie

The big thrillers may make people aware of the violence in the society, and I guess that serves a purpose.

— Diane Ladd

“From the violence on TV to the over-stimulation from our phones, we are constantly fueled by fight-or-flight energy.”

— Shawn Wells