Violence Quotes · Page 87

Political violence is organized violence on the top which creates individual violence at the bottom.

— Emma Goldman

It is not tricks of sense But the time's fright within me which distracts Least fancies into violence

— Richard Wilbur

Violence against women is as American as apple pie. I know, not only as a legislator, but from personal experience.

— Gwen Moore

It's possible to disagree with someone about the ethics of non-violence without wanting to kick his face in.

— Christopher Hampton

Violence and racism are bad. Whenever they occur they are to be condemned and we should not turn a blind eye to…

— Cate Blanchett

Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Now I see it clearly. My whole life has pointed in one direction. I see that now. There never has been any…

— Paul Schrader

“Sentiment is an echo of violence. It's not really a vital expression.”

— Joseph Campbell

We Americans claim to be a peace-loving people. We hate bloodshed; we are opposed to violence. Yet we go into spasms of…

— Emma Goldman

The commonly accepted definition of terrorism is that it is politically motivated violence directed at civilians by entities other than a state.…

— Peter Bergen

If a life can be ruined in a single moment, a moment of betrayal, or violence, or ill luck, then why can…

— Marcus Sedgwick

The pursuit of otherness, the sense that we are somehow different than our brothers and sisters, no matter where we find them,…

— Anna Quindlen

I'm not saying that women leaders would eliminate violence. We are not more moral than men; we are only uncorrupted by power…

— Gloria Steinem

To be good or bad doesn't count: life out in this world doesn't depend on that. It depends on a relation of…

— Oriana Fallaci

Muslims have different meanings for the same words that we use. They are so convinced of the "truth" of Islam that they…

— Ali Sina

The more potent, unasked question is how society at large reacts to eager, voluntary violence by females, and to the growing evidence…

— Katherine Dunn

There is a tendency under capitalism system to reduce everything to a kind of commodity fetish, and this order tends to promote…

— Bruce LaBruce

Tessa: "A little girl robbed you?" Will: "Actually, she wasn't a little girl at all, as it turns out, but a midget…

— Cassandra Clare

I have a very hard time with this word 'non-violence,' because I don't believe that I am non-violent. ... Right now, I…

— Betty Williams

The 'realist' conception of continuing old-fashioned 'balance of power' politics may have been well founded in the past, but it is inconsistent…

— Robert McNamara

No matter how civilized we are and how much society has curbed violent behavior. Human beings still have the same genes they…

— Joe Rogan

I have asserted the right of Negroes to meet the violence of the Ku Klux Klan by armed self-defense — and have…

— Robert F. Williams

It's true that we in Iraq are now paying a heavy price as a consequence of senseless violence, but nonetheless there are…

— Hassan Blasim

“It happens to all of us," I concluded that Easter Sunday morning. "God simply keeps reaching down into the dirt of humanity…

— Nadia Bolz-Weber

War therefore is an act of violence to compel our opponent to fulfill our will.

— Carl von Clausewitz

I don't support violence and I don't support negative energy. I don't support people putting other people down.

— Lil B

There's a hollowness to civilized life. It doesn't appeal to people, and some people react with extreme violence.

— John Zerzan

Where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I condemn, for all climes and for all times, secret murders and unfair methods even for a fair cause.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Language failed me very often, but then, the substitute for me was silence, but not violence.

— Elie Wiesel

I prefer rugby to soccer. I enjoy the violence in rugby, except when they start biting each other's ears off.

— Elizabeth Taylor

Supporting mental wellness is crucial to any goal of decreasing gun violence in America.

— Charles B. Rangel

I think violence is counter-productive and it is bad in democratic societies.

— Pierre Trudeau

I have no secret methods. I know no diplomacy save that of truth. I have no weapon but non-violence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Multiply your death, divide by sex, add up your violence, what do you get?

— Marilyn Manson

Violence always seems to me the worst form of tyranny. It deprives people of their rights, including the right to live.

— Rebecca Solnit

The Constitution protects our right to peacefully protest injustices, but violence has no place in our civic discourse.

— Ronny Jackson

“At the same time that we see a massive deployment of wireless radiation, we see the most violent attacks on modern society.”

— Steven Magee

I think, personally, nothing comes from violence other than more violence.

— Christopher Priest

Only through loving and supporting one another, even in the face of unbearable pain and suffering, will this cycle of violence end.

— Mandy Patinkin