Violence Quotes · Page 146

Violence is never the answer, unless you don't feel like talking.

— Dov Davidoff

I believe that the very effort to convert anybody is violence, it is interfering in his individuality, in his uniqueness, into his…

— Rajneesh

It is time to stop talking about non-violence and to begin talking about force without violence.

— David Dellinger

Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what is most truly is is disguised combat. For all its…

— Willie Mays

Arnold Schwarzenegger campaigned in New York this week, where he stepped up his controversial goal of helping children.... It's all summed up…

— Jon Stewart

“I don’t get you people. You watch the Godfather on television and tons of people are getting shot and stabbed to death,…

— Mario Stinger

Film seems to be a medium designed for betrayal and violence.

— Nick Cave

Here I stand and make Both myth and reality in my own way And live the violence of my dream and of…

— Jabra Ibrahim Jabra

Violence existed before our music was even suggested.

— Big Pun

I think violence in a cinematic context can be, if handled in a certain way, very seductive.

— Kathryn Bigelow

Since the primitive times, the wealth of the popes was exposed to envy, their powers to opposition, and their persons to violence.

— Edward Gibbon

As Commander of the Faithful, it is out of the question that I fight Islam. We need to fight violence and ignorance.…

— Mohammed VI of Morocco

We all like to think that if we were the victims of domestic abuse we'd up and leave - but it's not…

— Kate Thornton

When people don't have a hopeful vision before them or the possible resolution of their difficulties by peaceful means, then they can…

— Condoleezza Rice

The chief cause of our misery is less the violence of our passions than the feebleness of our virtues.

— Philibert Joseph Roux

It is an evil world. The fires of hatred and violence burn fiercely. Evil is powerful, the devil covers a darkened earth…

— Johan Huizinga

Civilized people are taught by logic, barbarians, by necessity, communities by tradition; and the lesson inculcated even in wild beasts by nature…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Fanaticism is the greatest threat today. Literally, the 21st century threatened by fanatics, and we have fanatics in every religion, unfortunately, and…

— Elie Wiesel

“Some werewolves are hairy on the inside.”

— Stephen King

“When I walked into the room, I looked down to the floor and saw that each and every garment I owned had…

— Rasmenia Massoud

In many parts of the world, women and girls are especially vulnerable to HIV/AIDS because they lack control over most aspects of…

— Hillary Clinton

I am opposed to war, to killing people, to any kind of hatred and violence.

— John Boyne

As a Goodwill Ambassador for UNIFEM, I've learned that violence against women knows no boundaries. Join me in helping women worldwide who…

— Nicole Kidman

What is poverty, if not violence. Like, the number of people who die every year from starvation and from hunger and poverty…

— Tom Morello

“Love and violence always go hand in hand. You can only ever truly hurt those you love. You must love them first…

— Ava Farmehri

Instead of more violence why isn't there a [meeting of religious leaders]. It's all got to be dialogue - that's the only…

— Elton John

Claiming that you have got the truth wrapped up does breed violence and intolerance.

— Timothy Radcliffe

Corruption is... the result of a decadent political regime. We are absolutely convinced that this evil is the main cause of social…

— Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador

Dunbar-Ortiz strips us of our forged innocence, shocks us into new awareness, and draws a straight line from the sins of our…

— Bill Ayers

Those most likely to be raped or sexually assaulted are young women between the ages of 16 and 24, women with their…

— Rosa DeLauro

Obviously this is the world descending into worse and worse standards of targeting civilians both in state violence in Iraq, Gaza and…

— Clare Short

Are terrorists going to be deterred - are terrorists going to be scared if we react violently? No. They love it. That's…

— Howard Zinn

I think that maybe human beings are conditioned to violence.

— Rod Lurie

When I see what is happening all over the world today - the violence - the stupid, arrogant, grotesque violence that is…

— Elie Wiesel

“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

Violence toward women isn't cultural; it's criminal.

— Hillary Clinton

Violence and war lead only to death...

— Pope Francis

The facts are men, women, children, gay, lesbian, transgender, old, young, wives, husbands, black, white are all affected... the face of domestic…

— Kenya Moore

“[Picasso] loved...women for the sexual, carnivorous impulses they aroused in him. Mixing blood and sperm, he exalted women in his paintings, imposed…

— Marina Picasso

The gaming world isn't filled only with violence and depravity. In fact, it's mostly enchanting.

— Naomi Alderman