Violence Quotes · Page 89

Preventing gender-based violence is critical to establishing safe, productive, and healthy workplaces for all.

— Jan Schakowsky

“The last thing we wanted was for the Machiguenga to be sad again. Sadness appeared to bring out their violence.”

— Tahir Shah

“A real lion hunt, is as much a mind game as it is a physical explosion of violence.”

— Sameh Elsayed

In the Age of Kali the meek and helpless will be preyed upon without mercy, and there will be a surplus of…

— Ian McDonald

In the course of my lifetime, that world went from violence to a kind of peace.

— Kenneth Branagh

Disarm, disarm. The sword of murder is not the balance of justice. Blood does not wipe out dishonor, nor violence indicate possession.

— Julia Ward Howe

The true cause of hatred and violence is faith versus faith, an outward expression of the ancient instinct of tribalism.

— Edward'O

Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised.

— Marilyn Manson

Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward…

— Hermann Hesse

I did not enjoy the violence of boxing so much as the science of it. I was intrigued by how one moved…

— Nelson Mandela

We can protect the Second Amendment, we can protect our constitutional rights, and we can still do something about this public health…

— Seth Moulton

I am often asked what it is like to be on the 'front line.' But I do not use the term 'front…

— DeRay Mckesson

Around the world, human traffickers trick many people into slavery by false promises of good jobs or good education, only to find…

— Lisa Kristine

While we have entertained the contention that a deed may make more propaganda than hundreds of speeches, thousands of articles, and tens…

— Johann Most

Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater…

— Jeremy Taylor

We would never ask any other faith community to stand up and condemn acts of violence committed by people within their groups.…

— Linda Sarsour

One thing that I noticed is having met some former Taliban is even they, as children, grew up being indoctrinated. They grew…

— Greg Mortenson

When some of the gangs got involved with the drug trade, particularlythe crack cocaine trade, and the lethal violence started to flare…

— Meda Chesney-Lind

People have long assumed that violence is necessary for political change. Rulers never cede power voluntarily, the argument goes, so progressives have…

— Steven Pinker

Disgust is expressed by violence, and it is to be noted of our intellectual temper that violence is a quality which is…

— Lionel Trilling

“I know you didn’t see the violence and need for control in him in the beginning, but I’m sure it was there.…

— Susan Crandall

Only with gun violence do we respond to repeated tragedies by saying that mourning is acceptable but discussing how to prevent more…

— Ezra Klein

In far Eastern Russia, there's just some towns that time has forgotten. I guess they used to maybe be industrial or something…

— Ewan McGregor

We Die Young is about gang violence. That was something that was happening in Seattle, something that kinda opened our eyes. It…

— Layne Staley

Violence against women is an everyday reality, act now, always, and forever before its too late.

— The Forgotten

There is no religion in fact that I know that encourages or propagates violence in that its adherents should carry out.

— Desmond Tutu

Terrorism: deadly violence against humans and other living things, usually conducted by government against its own people.

— Edward Abbey

The police represent the authority of the state, the willingness of the state to use violence to assert their will.

— Vermin Supreme

Violence never settles anything should be debated by the ghosts of Hitler and Stalin, with the city fathers of Carthage as referees.

— Robert A. Heinlein

I understand people who believe that without violence they will not achieve anything at all.

— Uri Avnery

Sometimes it seems like this is the choice - either kick ass or kiss ass.

— James Caan

“This violence, as a process, is perpetuated from generation to generation of oppressors, who become its heirs and are shaped by it.”

— Paulo Freire

I think loathing begets fanaticism, and in the end, loathing begets hatred and violence.

— Amos Oz

The shackles and the chains, the violence and aggression, the pettiness and scorn, the jealousy and hatred, the tempest and discord.

— Joe Walsh

Violence becomes imperative when an attempt is made to assert rights without any reference to duties.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The gun violence epidemic is out of control and it's a crisis that is too glaring to ignore.

— Ritchie Torres

“The slick concrete reflected the facades of the work weary - grey, cracked and old, but more importantly, trodden upon.”

— Martin Hopkins

They say they seek security and quiet, the condition they call peace. Even as they speak they create the seeds of turmoil…

— Frank Herbert

Even though you may think someone is a douche, you shouldn't mock a victim of violence because that victimizes them again.

— Perez Hilton

You are free to protest peacefully, but the minute you use violence and attack police, all bets are off.

— Miranda Devine