Violence Quotes · Page 231

You cannot cheat with the law of conservation of violence: all violence is paid for, and for example, the structural violence exerted…

— Pierre Bourdieu

Refraining from harm, not out of fear, but out of concern for others, their well-being and out of respect is non-violence.

— Dalai Lama

I think being a woman and writing frankly about violence has gotten me some attention, and as someone who wants people to…

— Karin Slaughter

No act loses us; no violence we're subjected to destroys us; no debasement chases out the divine, and no one can take…

— Daniel Odier

This is the beginning of a social movement in fact and not in pronouncements. We seek our basic, God - given rights…

— Cesar Chavez

I think if we could raise one generation of kids without violence and shaming, we don't know what might be possible.

— Gloria Steinem

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and…

— George Orwell

As the third anniversary of the September 11th attacks draws near we must ensure our nation is prepared to handle the continued…

— Leonard Boswell

In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence.

— Adrienne Rich

As sensors and networks continue to expand around the world, we'll see violence drop even further. After all, when there's a danger…

— Peter Diamandis

There is only one way fit for a man -- Heroism, or Master-Morality, or Violence. All the other people in between are…

— C. S. Lewis

The obvious types of American fascists are dealt with on the air and in the press. These demagogues and stooges are fronts…

— Anonymous

“Implicit in the stare of those eyes, the power of those knobbly hands, was labor's historic threat of violence against capital.”

— Edmund Morris

It's this long monologue [in Valley of Violence] with Ethan Hawke talking about life and everything with a dog. That's not in…

— Ti West

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to…

— Leo Tolstoy

Novelists who treat violence and cruelty as something to be exploited for their effect, or to enjoy the pleasure of an evacuation,…

— Storm Jameson

A revolution is an act of violence whereby one class shatters the authority of another.

— James MacGregor Burns

The use of violence by individuals... is not a position that I support or would ever want to be in again.

— Susan Rosenberg

Many others will have the want for world peace but I don't want a world where it just magically becomes peaceful. People…

— Me

Battered women is a phrase that uncovered major, long-hidden violence. It helps us to face the fact that, statistically speaking, the most…

— Gloria Steinem

It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.

— Tertullian

I think the last one would have to be The Godfather because it was such a powerful story. There was lots of…

— Bobby Farrelly

All forms of violence, especially war, are totally unacceptable as means to settle disputes between and among nations, groups and persons.

— Dalai Lama

We try really hard to avoid those conventional experiences, these adrenaline rush, anger, competition, violence. We intentionally avoid that. We try to…

— Jenova Chen

Violence is the instinctive response to fear.

— Margaret Millar