Violence Quotes · Page 86

I don't know - personally, I don't watch many films where the violence itself is the main entertainment, because I find them…

— Stellan Skarsgard

“Violence, the great equaliser. Cared nothing for money, class, occupation. One day, it simply found you.”

— Lisa Gardner

Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“There comes a time, however, when violence is seen as juvenile and boring. It is the repartee of the stupid and ignorant.”

— Anthony Burgess

The votaries of nonviolence cannot harbour violence even in thought, let alone the question of doing it.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“We are what we think about and meditate on. Look around people! America is a buffet of violence; a total immersion.”

— Bryant McGill

Anyone who endorses violence, hatred or oppression is not welcome in America and never, ever will be!

— Donald Trump

I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write songs like, "What I'm…

— Lenny Bruce

In violence there is often the quality of yearning - the yearning for completion. For closure. For that which is absent and…

— Peter Straub

My administration has been calling upon all the leaders in the - in the Middle East to do everything they can to…

— George W. Bush

I've been in the newspapers since I was about 15 - not for rapping, but for real substantive stuff I was doing…

— Killer Mike

“Only victors have stories to tell, we the vanquished were then thought of as cowards and weaklings whose memories and fears should…

— Guy Sajer

Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or…

— Dorothy Thompson

[Michael] Brown's mom, Lesley McSpadden, is the latest African American mother whose tear-streaked face forces the nation to remember the name of…

— Jonathan Capehart

“there is virtually no credible social science evidence to support the idea that violence in societies can be effectively addressed in the…

— Gary A. Haugen

No Arab ruler will consider the peace process seriously so long as he is able to toy with the idea of achieving…

— Yitzhak Rabin

The community does not fight crime well by chasing it; after-the-fact, crime has won and the target of violence is injured or…

— John Longenecker

“This doll-guy situation is an extreme of what I deal with in everyday life, where men believe that what they want I…

— Taylor Stevens

What hope is there for individual reality or authenticity when the forces of violence and orthodoxy, the earthly powers of guns and…

— Ben Okri

When you see the violence of Hollywood movies, there is a tendency that the hero is combating and confronting many people, without…

— Takashi Miike

I think the way the country has changed in part because of the presidency of Barack Obama, I think in part because…

— Killer Mike

Violence is not merely killing another. It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

What infuriates me is that in America violence is judged in context, whereas language is not. So with language there is an…

— Colin Firth

I do fear that global capitalism is making us more like each other in regrettable ways, e.g., more people are increasingly captivated…

— David Wong

“If German boys had learned to be contemptuous of violence, Hitler would have had to take up knitting to keep his ego…

— J.D. Salinger

That fact is that we live in an extremely violent culture, and we all justify violence if it's for what we believe…

— Paul Watson

“Unjust systems perpetuate themselves by means of institutionalized violence.”

— Walter Wink

Even in a healthy society, violence, lawlessness, and predation lie just below the surface.

— William Barr

But the myth of violent solutions as the ultimate solutions maintains itself in much of popular media.

— Stanley Crouch

The only way to end a culture of violence is to proactively create a culture of peace.

— Marianne Williamson

The violence done us by others is often less painful than that which we do to ourselves.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

As women, we have to deal with constant threats of violence. And it's in our media and fiction, too. So we internalize…

— Marjorie Liu

It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.

— Anonymous

“Just thugs only ever got so far. The best thugs were all psychologists.”

— China Miéville

The trafficking of sex and violence is comes after the demand for ratings.

— Norman Lear

A revolution is not a dinner party [...] A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.

— Mao Zedong

Mental violence is as bad as physical violence. You don't see that very often in movies, so it was a good subject…

— Chazz Palminteri

Violence, if it is not solving all your problems, you simply are not using enough of it

— Anonymous

I ain't the type for begging, I am not the type to plead. If she don't change those evil ways, I'm gonna…

— Frank Zappa

Mission accomplished, we didn't have any problems as far as violence goes.

— Dr Dre