Violence Quotes · Page 36

You just have to open the newspapers in most Western news to see real violence.

— Ray Stevenson

I was exposed to violence while I was still in the womb - my father punched my mother in the stomach while…

— Jim Goad

Those of us who have the eyes and ears of the media have a responsibility to amplify the voices of the voiceless.

— Peter Gabriel

Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

I think violence in a cinematic context can be, if handled in a certain way, very seductive.

— Kathryn Bigelow

Conquer the heart of the enemy with truth and love, not by violence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

While the vast majority of hackers may be disinclined towards violence, it would only take a few to turn cyber terrorism into…

— Anonymous

God of love, please deliver us from being both victims of violence and agents of violence. Amen.

— Judges Chp 4

The way of acquiescence leads to moral and spiritual suicide. The way of violence leads to bitterness in the survivors and brutality…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

[Valley of Violence] was written for James Ransone. PJ's a friend of mine, I've known him for a long time, he's always…

— Ti West

Children are the seed for peace or violence in the future, depending on how they are cared for and stimulated. Thus, their…

— Zilda Arns

Being vegan provides us with the peace of knowing that we are no longer participants in the hideous violence that is animal…

— Gary L. Francione

He seems like a nice charming guy. [Mike Huckabee] doesn't believe in evolution and has some nutty views about what it is…

— Elizabeth Edwards

“The researchers argued that an orderly environment fosters a sense of responsibility not so much by deterrence (since Groningen police rarely penalize…

— Steven Pinker

We must be welcoming to those who flee their country because of violence and abject poverty in hopes of a better future…

— Deb Haaland

The world today is so full of violence, obscenity, war, the failure of political systems. I try to make movies that make…

— Rouben Mamoulian

My disciples are vegetarian not as a cult, not as a creed. They are vegetarians because their meditations make them more human,…

— Rajneesh

When spectators and fans say about drunken brawls, violence, and dog fights, "Well, football players are prone to these things - that's…

— Stanton Peele

It's a cliche, but Americans are puritanical. In their movies, they are scared of sex, but they overindulge in violence. I could…

— Alfonso Cuaron

Multiculturalism for any western country is a massive issue. The lack of integration, the increase of crime, violence, and mistrust in society,…

— Lauren Southern

Violence never really deals with the basic evil of the situation. Violence may murder the murderer, but it doesn’t murder murder. Violence…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The only proper, moral purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence -…

— Ayn Rand

You know, people see [August: Osage County], and I tell them that it's based on my family, and they assume that I…

— Tracy Letts

“One of the tragic ironies of the second half of the 20th century is that when colonies in the developing world freed…

— Steven Pinker

One must acknowledge with cryptography no amount of violence will ever solve a math problem.

— Jacob Appelbaum

To kill these (rabid) dogs, in my opinion, amount to himsa, but I believe it to be inevitable if we are to…

— Mahatma Gandhi

“It’s comforting to me,” he added, “that beauty can come from violence, if only in metaphor.”

— Keith Hollihan

Good stuff tends to happen gradually, whereas violence or catastrophes are deemed more newsworthy.

— Bill Gates

The mechanism of violence is what destroys women, controls women, diminishes women and keeps women in their so-called place.

— Eve Ensler

Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.

— Pope John Paul II

The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it,…

— E. B. White

The rishis, who discovered the law of nonviolence in the midst of violence, were greater geniuses than Newton.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Guns were made to be used in war; not to be used against the innocent.

— Wazim Shaw

Nonviolence in the sense of mere non-killing does not appear to me, therefore, to be of any improvement on the technique of…

— Mahatma Gandhi

My wife and I run a foundation where we deal with domestic violence.

— Guy Sebastian

Violence of action, as we call it in the Spec Ops community, will often change the odds in your favor.

— Brandon Webb

Urbanisation, poverty, youth unemployment are leading to violence-prone cities.

— Peter Maurer

Seeing images of violence - it's always about how somebody's going to kill you.

— Ann Patchett

“Violence is compelling and ineffective, it can be ascertained, as one becomes an expert at it.”

— Patricia Dsouza

“You don't get it boy... this isn't a mudhole... its an operating table. (KRAKKKKK) And I'm the surgeon.”

— Frank Miller