Violence Quotes · Page 199

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

The problem after a war is with the victor. He thinks he has just proved that war and violence pay. Who will…

— A. J. Muste

You have to give everybody another recourse as some means other than violence, no matter how distasteful it may be to have…

— Anthony Zinni

Against the tyranny of forgetting, educators, young people, social activists, public intellectuals, workers and others can work to make visible and oppose…

— Henry Giroux

“You look at the history of any sentient species and what do you find but tableaux of violence and slaughter. It’s finger-painted…

— James Luceno

Its [Communism's] unfortunate association with violence encourages a certain evil tendency in human beings.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

For every stone that [Pablo Escobar] threw, he would get many thrown back at him and us, his family, because we were…

— Juan Pablo Escobar

There's something about rhetorical violence that is ugly and worrying.

— Mario Cuomo

The votaries of nonviolence cannot harbour violence even in thought, let alone the question of doing it.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The pornography of violence of course far exceeds, in volume and general acceptance, sexual pornography, in this Puritan land of ours. Exploiting…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“Violence is the result of hatred & greed conquering the heart of lesser souls.”

— Rehan Waris

You have a great leader now, you have a great president, you have a tough president. He's not gonna be easy on…

— Donald Trump

We need to take violence against women seriously. It is the biggest indicator of whether a country is violent inside itself, and…

— Gloria Steinem

One of the things I love about wen wu is its encouragement of developing the spiritual and intellectual aspects of the self…

— Alex Tizon

In the 21st Century, I'd like to think women have the right to live lives free of both sexual violence and daily…

— Laura Bates

We're showing a situation that these kids are caught in and being forced to do but the violence is not glorified. Most…

— Liam Hemsworth