Violence Quotes · Page 214

Ignorance leads to fear, fear leads to hate, and hate leads to violence. This is the equation.

— Averroes

We have to tackle the plague of gun violence, which is a big contributor to a lot of the problems that we're…

— Hillary Clinton

Until we all start to take responsibility, until we do all we can to improve the character of our communities, we'll never…

— Carrie P. Meek

My intimate knowledge of many central African tribes has everywhere convinced me of the necessity that the Negro does not respect treaties…

— Frantz Fanon

Those of us who are most genuinely repelled by war and violence are also those who are most likely to decide that…

— Christopher Hitchens

We have not yet made violence against women abnormal, extraordinary, unacceptable. We have not yet come to see it as a pathological…

— Eve Ensler

I was roommates with 2 of the guys who were influential in forming the Black Arts philosophy. I called them "goons," and…

— Ishmael Reed

My dictionary has no such expression as a violent fight.

— Mahatma Gandhi

There is far too much aggression and violence in society and people should be kinder to one another.

— Tony Hadley

The only way to end a culture of violence is to proactively create a culture of peace.

— Marianne Williamson

There's been an increase in the number of Iraqis in training, but more Americans are dying and violence is increasing.

— Lawrence Korb

Better than cowardice is killing and being killed in battle.

— Mahatma Gandhi

It seems to me that the real political task in a society such as ours is to criticise the workings of institutions,…

— Michel Foucault

I come from where Mike Tyson came from. I come from right across the street from Jay-Z. I didn't have a pond…

— Tracy Morgan

We should understand that in the context of the US, where our legal system is based in settler colonialism, capitalism and white…

— Dean Spade

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself,…

— Abraham Lincoln

Violence against women and children resembles an epidemic. It has spread through society, sparing no social group or class.

— Cyril Ramaphosa

There is a cultural factor promoting violence which nowadays undoubtedly is highly effective is the mass media. And particularly everything that enters…

— Alva Myrdal

“Maxim 12: A soft answer turneth away wrath. Once wrath is looking the other way, shoot it in the head. -The Seventy…

— Howard Tayler

Violence doesn't have a race, a class, a religion, or a nationality, but it does have a gender.

— Rebecca Solnit

The American formal position has been that we oppose violence by governments against their people. That principle should not be abandoned.

— Henry A. Kissinger

I've always been very interested in political violence. When I finished high school, I did a small dissertation about political violence and…

— Loretta Napoleoni

The vision I see is not only a movement of direct democracy, of self- and co-determination and non-violence, but a movement in…

— Petra Kelly

[I]t must be emphasized that nonviolent resistance is not a method for cowards; it does resist. If one uses this method because…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The one thing in my films, I only kill people who need to be killed, or killers killing killers. And I believe…

— Sylvester Stallone