Violence Quotes · Page 142

I don't mean go out and get violent; but at the same time you should never be nonviolent unless you run into…

— Malcolm X

Violence and wrong enclose all who commit them in their meshes and do mostly recoil on him from whom they begin.

— Lucretius

The Koran is a fascist book which incites violence. That is why this book, just like [Adolf Hitler's] Mein Kampf, must be…

— Geert Wilders

Unfortunately there is a standard set for it that precedes hip-hop. It would be great if corporate America didn't do this, but…

— Bakari Kitwana

Today the data linking violence in the media to violence in society are superior to those linking cancer and tobacco.

— David Grossman

Within hours of a tragedy unfolding, journalists and pundits should not manufacture a blood libel that serves only to incite the very…

— Sarah Palin

I believe myself that the secretary of state, secretary of defense and - you have to make your own decisions as to…

— Harry Reid

Together we can decrease the level of violence, raise awareness of our activities and save lives around the world. The impact of…

— Jeremy Gilley

Under current law, there is no additional penalty for someone who enters the United States illegally and then commits either a crime…

— John Shadegg

I can look violence in the face and either reject or accept it.

— Wole Soyinka

There's nothing funny about violence. Death is a real thing.

— George Pelecanos

The march of intellect is proceeding at quick time; and if its progress be not accompanied by a corresponding improvement in morals…

— Robert Southey

No free people ever existed, or can ever exist, without keeping the purse strings in their own hands. Where this is the…

— John Dickinson

When they can't win a debate (can they ever?), leftists deploy what the late novelist/philosopher Ayn Rand called the argument from intimidation.…

— Don Feder

It's the sad truth that gun violence can often be prevented.

— Lucy McBath

Because I'm a civil rights activist, I am also an animal rights activist. Animals and humans suffer and die alike. Violence causes…

— Dick Gregory

Crowds of people moved through the streets with a dream-like violence.

— Nathanael West

The god entered some women so completely that they became immortal, or very close to it. Bacchus was the god of the…

— Charlaine Harris

Gender based violence anywhere is a threat to peace and security everywhere.

— John F. Kerry

I don't think there is anything wrong with watching violence but I just think you have to present it in the appropriate…

— Rob Zombie

In the secret of my heart I am in perpetual quarrel with God that He should allow such things [as the war]…

— Mahatma Gandhi

It is customary for columnists to complain about the excesses of Premiership footballers, whenever - as happens regularly - there is an…

— Matthew Engel

We have to continue to do the work, because we can't see people lose their lives over senseless gun violence.

— Karamo Brown

When I am abused online I take snapshots for evidence, I report it to the social media platform and I ban the…

— Tara Moss

“…but then came another blow and something in him disconnected, like he’d been detached from a rock and was falling through an…

— Yuri Herrera

Dance with all the might of your body, and all the fire of your soul, in order that you may shake all…

— Lola Montez

“Critics of soccer contend that the game inherently culminates in death and destruction. They argue that the game gives life to tribal…

— Franklin Foer

The refugees flee to protect their families from violence; the Europeans, on the other hand, fear for their jobs that they need…

— Jane Goodall

...those serpents! There's no pleasing them!

— Lewis Carroll

The major violence now is because of a plethora, explosion almost, of rebel groups, all of whom oppose the government, and they're…

— Jimmy Carter

I have an implicit faith ... that mankind can only be saved through non-violence, which is the central teaching of the Bible,…

— Mahatma Gandhi

“If you hate violence and don't believe in politics, the only major remedy remaining is education.”

— George Orwell

All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence,…

— Isabel Allende

In any conflict area, it is always the women who are the first point of attack. But I think the more they…

— Fatima Bhutto

Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor…

— Joseph Addison

Europe has been at peace since 1945. But it is a restless peace thats shadowed by the threat of violence. Europe is…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

“Love surrounds, softens and tires violence and force.”

— Bryant McGill

I don't ever want anyone to hear my music and look at it as just gratuitous violence, or hustling and money-getting -…

— Pusha T

In America, the traditional routes to black identity have hardly been normal. Suicide (disappearance by imitation, or willed extinction), violence (hysterical religiosity,…

— June Jordan

The bulldozers and the tanks, The gases and the guns, The bombs that fall outside my door, All due to your funds

— Outlandish