Violence Quotes · Page 35

There are great and terrible consequences to any act of violence, and they reverberate beyond the act itself.

— Paul G. Tremblay

[Uniting workers should not] lead to a war upon property, or the owners of property.

— Abraham Lincoln

You can't reason with gang violence: you can't talk to it, sit it at the table, and negotiate with it.

— Greg Boyle

Peace, non-violence, human rights and the environment - if only everybody saw these as the seamless whole that they are

— Jonathon Porritt

Whenever we engage in consumption or production patterns which take more than we need, we are engaging in violence.

— Vandana Shiva

Every woman who thinks she is the only victim of violence has to know that there are many more.

— Salma Hayek

“Let them have guns' is as much a solution to mass murder and gun violence as 'Let them have drugs' is a…

— DaShanne Stokes

The convoluted wording of legalisms grew up around the necessity to hide from ourselves the violence we do to each other.

— Frank Herbert

“Violence isn't the answer to your problems," he said sagely. "She's the one with the problem. And I thought the whole point…

— richelle mead

“The violence that Jesus endured only makes sense if you understand that here was God taking upon himself the punishment for the…

— David Gregory

The violence in 'EastEnders' is a lot more dangerous than the violence in 'Family.' It becomes dangerous when it is softened, like…

— Martin Kemp

An act of violence against any innocent person eludes moral justification, disgraces the millions of Americans and people throughout the world who…

— Benjamin Crump

The violence engulfing the region today has made too many Israelis ready to abandon the hard work of peace. But let’s be…

— Barack Obama

To cure the violence, we must identify and heal the causes of hatred and violence. If we dont deal with the causes…

— Peter Yarrow

First of all, my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because religion serves as the soul of community,…

— Huston Smith

“Go that way, past the viaduct, and the wops will jump you, or chase you into Jew town...Polacks would stomp on you...Micks…

— Mike Royko

Marginalized youth, workers, artists and others are raising serious questions about the violence of inequality and the social order that legitimates it.…

— Henry Giroux

“Contrary to what we’d hope, good people aren’t exempt from violence. Murderers don’t give the godly a pass. Rapists don’t vet victims…

— Max Lucado

A totally different attitude is needed: the attitude of love. Christ brings love to the world. He destroys law, the very basis…

— Rajneesh

...so much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty, and greed with all their tragic effects, that…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

“Nonetheless, the homicide rate in the United States, Europe, China and Japan is less than 2 per 100,000 people, whereas in most…

— Nicholas Wade

I offer a genuine insight into how you can, and should, be a rational, science-believing human being and at the same time…

— Bernard Haisch

When I was writing the script, I knew didn't want to make a sports movie. I was very clear that I wanted…

— Carlos Cuaron

I felt there was a certain amount of violence in the graphic and that it could still be cheated on screen so…

— Sylvain White

It started with the Godfather, this operatic violence. I don't know.

— William H. Macy

“I can assure you that no kingdom has ever had as many civil wars as the kingdom of Christ.”

— Montesquieu

“In a stress pressure-cooker like America, I believe we will see more and more shooting massacres. Violence is in our cultural DNA.”

— Bryant McGill

Non-co-operators will make a serious mistake if they seek to convert people to their creed by violence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“We sleep safely at night because rough men stand ready to visit violence on those who would harm us.”

— Winston S. Churchill

Here's a rule of life: You don't get to pick what bad things happen to you

— Rory Miller

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

— Philibert Joseph Roux

Violence does not and cannot flourish by itself; it is inevitably intertwined with lying.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

We ask why there is violence in our schools, but we have systematically removed God from our schools.

— Mike Huckabee

Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“A young girl’s body is the most dangerous place in the world, as it is the spot where violence is most likely…

— Heather O'Neill

A bottomless pit of violence, a Tower of Babel where all are speakers and no hearers.

— Alexander Smith

Sometimes in the dark of night I begin to think. And I wonder if Lee started all this violence.

— Marina Oswald

When you resort to violence to prove a point, you’ve just experienced a profound failure of imagination.

— Sherman Alexie

The whole history of the Christian Church is a mixture of errors and violence.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Violence is like a weed - it does not die even in the greatest drought.

— Simon Wiesenthal