Violence Quotes · Page 124

The truth comes to rule, not through violence, but rather through its own power; [this is the central theme of John's Gospel:]…

— Pope Benedict XVI

If we want to build communities that are safe, we have to address the root causes of violence.

— Cori Bush

If an adult uses violence on a child, the child will naturally assume that he too, has the right to use it…

— Dora Russell

The law of violence is not a law, but a simple fact which can only be a law when it does not…

— Leo Tolstoy

... in a cycle as old as tribalism, ignorance of the Other engenders fear; fear engenders hatred; hatred engenders violence; violence engenders…

— David Mitchell

Mankind has to get out of violence only through non-violence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Revenge and retaliation always perpetuate the cycle of anger, fear and violence.

— Coretta Scott King

I've always argue against emotions. You're seeing intimidating threats against anchors by people in the Trump campaign. You see physical violence at…

— Eric Bolling

Non-violence is not a passive idea. It is ethical activism at its political best

— Ela Bhatt

A violent act pierces the atmosphere, leaving a hole through which the cold, damp draft of its memory blows forever.

— Jane Stanton Hitchcock

Sea Shepherd does not condone, nor do we practise, violence.

— Paul Watson

Comparison leads to violence.

— Mandy Patinkin

“Why fight to the death when we can love eachother to death?”

— Sigurd Bache Hungnes

I want to speak on behalf of the American people because the American people have been the one that have endured violence.

— Marjorie Taylor Greene

“I admit to a feeling of pride that my father had saved the day yet again, although I also thought that nothing…

— Omar bin Laden

Economic activity can help repair war-torn societies, but if it's not conducted responsibly, it can also create or prolong violence. Companies and…

— Peter Maurer

Want of passion is, I think, a very striking characteristic of Americans, not unrelated to their predilection for violence. For very few…

— Marguerite Yourcenar

The violence of either grief or joy, their own enactures with themselves destroy.

— William Shakespeare

The time when domestic violence is the most lethal is when the person is trying to leave the situation.

— Julie Johnston

Video games seem to be mostly a boy thing - viewed by young boys and created by big boys. I believe that…

— Madeleine M. Kunin

Even extreme grief may ultimately vent itself in violence--but more generally takes the form of apathy

— Joseph Conrad

The police are not taking accountability for the violence that they enact in our communities, and yet there isn't as much outrage…

— Alicia Garza

Do you know what the largest single cause of death in South Africa is? The largest single cause of death is what…

— Thabo Mbeki

To tackle the underlying roots of violence and conflict, we need a massive international effort to reduce poverty and injustice, and to…

— Clare Short

One hundred percent of the time, no plea bargain, no bail, you're going to the penitentiary - - that will change the…

— Wayne LaPierre

All tremble at violence; all fear death. Putting oneself in the place of another, one should not kill nor cause another to…

— Gautama Buddha

“Oh, they don't allow the Bible in Heaven, Miss Mary...It contains far too much sex and violence.”

— Bryan Talbot

The greatest threat to civility - and ultimately civilization - is an excess of certitude. The world is much menaced just now…

— George Will

I think violence can never be justified.

— Abbas Kiarostami

Girls begin to have second thoughts about the violence. Studies show they feel a considerable amount of guilt about it. They feel…

— Meda Chesney-Lind

I will try to be non-violent one more day this morning, waking the world away in the violent day.

— Muriel Rukeyser

There are certain things that they say you can't do, there are all these secret people behind the scenes who make things…

— Afrika Bambaataa

If anyone hits me, they can expect to be hit back, and harder. I never turn the other cheek because in my…

— Alice Bag

Judeo-Christians have got to respect the pagan truth shown in the popular culture of sex and violence. It's meaningful about the elemental…

— Camille Paglia

Another problem about writing about politics in the "age of globalization" is that so much of the violence in the form of…

— Robert Hass

War is not the answer. Violence is not the solution. A more peaceful world is possible.

— Ron Kovic

Truth and reason are eternal. They have prevailed. And they will eternally prevail; however, in times and places they may be overborne…

— Thomas Jefferson

I am willing to accept that there are women out there who say they have chosen to sell sex. But they are…

— Jacqui Smith

“The violence of hierarchy is the violence that the powerful use against the dispossessed to keep them subordinated. As an example, the…

— Lierre Keith

There is a subconscious way of taking violence as a way of expression, as a normality, and it has a lot of…

— Salma Hayek