Violence Quotes · Page 138

Nobody's born evil. I guess that's why we're drawn to violence. We're fascinated by it, but there's a moral in how you…

— Niels Arden Oplev

During my eleven years as a New York City public school teacher, I saw firsthand the impact that poverty has on the…

— Sal Albanese

Sometimes I wonder if there is something about my family which invites violence. 'Is it envy,' you ask? I don't know... I've…

— Rose Kennedy

I won't make games with senseless violence. There has to be a reason for it, such as war.

— Hideo Kojima

I believe that the United States is not genuine regarding having a cessation of violence in Syria.

— Bashar al-Assad

When you get to the fourth, fifth and sixth years of a show, it's really good to have held back, so that…

— Bruno Heller

Almost half of the population of the world lives in rural regions and mostly in a state of poverty. Such inequalities in…

— Anonymous

Eradicating violence of every kind in this country is a fight that requires a commitment from every single person.

— Cori Bush

There is a problem here in America when it comes to police violence and gun violence, that I believe is being ignored…

— Jumaane Williams

Violence is interesting. This is a great obstacle to world peace and also to more thoughtful television programming.

— P. J. O'Rourke

The shortcomings of economics are not original error but uncorrected obsolescence. The obsolescence has occurred because what is convenient has become sacrosanct.…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Even the wisest man grows tense With some sort of violence Before he can accomplish fate, Know his work or choose his…

— William Butler Yeats

I firmly believe today that the only way to stop violence against women is to speak out and refused to be silenced.

— Zainab Salbi

The same authorities who insist upon beginnings, middles, and ends, declare that Great Literature (by which they mean the stories they have…

— Gene Wolfe

“Men protect women from those like them.”

— Ljupka Cvetanova

It [9/11 tragedy] was the spectacle, what al-Qaeda gets its main power from - why their terrorism truly earns the word "acts."…

— Porochista Khakpour

Violence and irrationality were so long and thoroughly cultivated among the Irish, and so perfectly ingrained into their nature, that modern civilization…

— Thomas Mellon

Over and over again, I looked family members who had lost loved ones to police violence, I looked them right in the…

— Shaun King

Hillary Clinton has a strong and powerful voice regarding ending violence against women and girls.

— Amanda Lindhout

“Among the many symbols used to frighten and manipulate the populace of the democratic states, few have been more important than "terror"…

— Noam Chomsky

I would quite like to see stories that are not necessarily to do with the violence, because I think there was quite…

— Ian McElhinney

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

— Lionel Trilling

If a spaceship from the outer reaches of the galaxy landed on Earth in the next two months, and its occupants climbed…

— Neale Donald Walsch

If you're young and inexperienced you might accept what people tell you, that everything's going to be fine, it's okay. It's usually…

— Jon Lee Anderson

Marijuana is the most violence causing drug in the history of mankindMost marijuana smokers are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos and entertainers.

— Harry J. Anslinger

Francesco Damiani punches with all the violence and bad intentions of Mahatma Gandhi.

— Jerry Izenberg

'Fargo' is a tragedy with a happy ending. So you need to have that tragic underpinning, that all of this could be…

— Noah Hawley

“God, who is omnipotent, could have softened Pharaoh’s heart, but he hardens it instead, which gives him a reason to afflict every…

— Steven Pinker

“Fear could drive one to violence as quickly as anger could.”

— Nenia Campbell

When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her.

— Oscar Wilde

To believe that man's aggressiveness or territoriality is in the nature of the beast is to mistake some men for all men,…

— Leon Eisenberg

My mother saw her mother... her father walked out when they were very young and it was a lot of, I'd say…

— Kathy Hochul

Somehow, we have to realize that what we watch and what we listen to not only often reflects our most violent tendencies…

— Bernice King

Tangier is one of the few places left in the world where, so long as you don't proceed to robbery, violence, or…

— William S. Burroughs

Two generations ago only a few unfortunate children ever saw anyone hit over the head with a brick, shot, rammed by a…

— Penelope Leach

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

— Mao Zedong

Revenge tries to solve the problem of vulnerability. If I strike back, I transfer vulnerability from myself to the other. And yet…

— Judith Butler

The state is the institutional manifestation of violence.

— Javier Milei

The values a man must cherish as his life-breath are, Truth, Righteousness, Peace, Love and Non violence.

— Anonymous

If there isn't at least the threat of violence in art, it tends to be kind of tiresome.

— Teller