Violence Quotes · Page 237

Violence is part of the resistance to occupation. The basic fact is not the violence; the basic fact is the occupation. Violence…

— Uri Avnery

My oldest brother was stabbed thirty to forty times and strangled to death with his own belt when I was eight years…

— Jim Goad

The community does not fight crime well by chasing it; after-the-fact, crime has won and the target of violence is injured or…

— John Longenecker

It's a subject that is often hidden and very secretive, but it's something which I feel should have a light shone upon…

— Fern Britton

Unplanned urbanisation can create urban chaos and trigger urban violence.

— Sanjaya Baru

In a culture of electronic violence, images that once caused us to empathize with the pain and trauma of another human being,…

— John Naisbitt

Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

At least my situation I can be like, look, I avoid physical confrontations, obviously not because I have an issue with physical…

— Frank Mir

Goodness has no opposite. Most of us consider goodness as the opposite of the bad or evil and so throughout history in…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

I am not [...] asserting that humans are either genial or aggressive by inborn biological necessity. Obviously, both kindness and violence lie…

— Stephen Jay Gould

A bonus, being a writer, is that the true-life source material is fabulously bizarre. There's so much corruption, violence and free-floating depravity…

— Carl Hiaasen

Violence against women is not inevitable.

— Caroline Lucas

Let us make war on the phrase 'violence doesn't solve anything.' It is a lie, and anyone who utters it cannot be…

— Dennis Prager

I had to fight hard for everything. I wanted to get out. I want to take my destiny into my own hands…

— Paul Kagame

Nonviolence is an unchangeable creed. It has to be pursued even in face of violence raging around you.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Terrorism: deadly violence against humans and other living things, usually conducted by government against its own people.

— Edward Abbey

My focus is first of all, to remove every thought of violence from my own consciousness.

— Deepak Chopra

To break out of the chaos of my darkness Into a lucid day is all my will. My words like eyes in…

— Stephen Spender

We can all do something to help end domestic violence. A Real Man would never abuse his partner or children, and I…

— Ricky Whittle

As a mode of public pedagogy, a state of permanent war needs willing subjects to abide by its values, ideology, and narratives…

— Henry Giroux

My visual landscape as a child was the inside of a lot of these old churches. And the Baroque drama of the…

— Florence Welch

Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination to empathy, to cooperation, to self-control.

— Steven Pinker

One of the paradoxes of our time is that the War on Terror has served mainly to reinforce a collective belief that…

— Eula Biss

We're fascinated by things that scare us, and one of the things that scares us is violence. Violence exists. It's a real…

— Ethan Hawke

They say violence isn't the answer, but actions speak louder than words.

— Anonymous