Violence Quotes

In violence, we forget who we are

— Mary McCarthy

Violence isn't really my thing.

— Nick Nolte

“Guns make small men feel big.”

— Oliver Gaspirtz

The suburbs dream of violence.

— J. G. Ballard

I cannot accept violence.

— Miriam Margolyes

I ain't never liked violence.

— Sugar Ray Robinson

Violence never settles anything.

— Genghis Khan

I just love violence.

— James Toney

For decades, we resisted violence - until Sharpeville.

— Oliver Tambo

Education is a vaccine for violence.

— Edward James Olmos

Where love stops, power begins, and violence, and terror

— Carl Jung

“Love heals violence and all its sources”

— Bryant McGill

“Everything boiled down to alcohol and guns.”

— Nisi Shawl

Take away the violence and who will hear the man of peace?

— Lorraine Hansberry

It's not OK to condone violence because of free speech.

— Colby Covington

Violence is not completely fatal until it ceases to disturb us.

— Thomas Merton

Conflict exists only when there are two opposing things: fear and non-fear,violence and non-violence.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

One of the most basic things we can do is let the men in our lives know it's not okay to mistreat…

— Tim McGraw

Women trapped in violent relationships need to know that there's no shame in talking out and walking out on their abusive partners.

— Kate Thornton

“Resorting to violence is always a clear sign of a culture at risk rather than a culture of strength.”

— Gary Holthaus

It's pure Black Label. It's about violence and booze. That's all it is. There is no plan

— Zakk Wylde

To fight the violence we must be brave, hold on strong to the love God gave.

— Elton John

Learn about the incorruptible King, and know his heroes who never inflict slaughter on the peoples.

— Tertullian

The traits of our sexual culture are still speechlessness, loneliness, violence and not enough desire and love.

— Volkmar Sigusch

I try to be as specific as possible when saying 'Arab Muslims' because there are a lot of different Muslims. I've never…

— Ramy Youssef

To help break the cycle of domestic violence, we must allow survivors to take time off from work without fear of losing…

— Lucille Roybal-Allard

I'm just trying to make movies simply about life. Naturally, when I'm doing that, horror, violence, and all those kinds of things…

— Takashi Miike

If you check back through human history, you will find that three things, more than any others, have produced social transformation: violence,…

— C. Wagner

It's always difficult to play a scene of physical violence because you're always afraid that you don't know your own strength and…

— Catherine Deneuve

“He'd possessed all the key elements of a school shooter: hormones, misery, ammunition. People wondered how something like Columbine could happen. Jude…

— Joe Hill

Obsession with a consumerist lifestyle, above all when few people are capable of maintaining it, can only lead to violence and mutual…

— Pope Francis

I know now that gang warfare is not the Middle East or Northern Ireland. There is violence in gang violence, but there…

— Greg Boyle

Whoever relies on the Tao in governing men doesn't try to force issues or defeat enemies by force of arms. For every…

— Laozi

It seems to me that the real political task in a society such as ours is to criticise the workings of institutions,…

— Michel Foucault

Some philosophers would give a sex to revenge, and appropriate it almost exclusively to the female mind. But, like most other vices,…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Widespread violence now functions as part of an anti-immune system that turns the economy of genuine pleasure into a mode of sadism…

— Henry Giroux

“But strength doesn’t always mean brute force. You don’t have to kick ass to be a fighter. Violence doesn’t equal strength. Lead…

— Becca Fitzpatrick

In many instances violence - which obviously inflicts tremendous trauma on victims - also inflicts trauma on the perpetrator. Radical evil takes…

— Payam Akhavan

Foreign audiences are used to seeing Mexico in other sorts of movies. 'Casi divas' is a step toward a more commercially successful…

— Ana Layevska

A single good government becomes... a blessing to the whole earth, its welcome to the oppressed restraining within certain limits the measure…

— Thomas Jefferson