Violence Quotes · Page 40

Young people across the country have grown up traumatized by the gun violence epidemic.

— Wayne Messam

When faced with a choice between violence and cowardice, always choose violence

— Mahatma Gandhi

Violence has been a part of films since the beginning of time. It's been a form of entertainment.

— Vanessa Hudgens

We owe our children – the most vulnerable citizens in any society – a life free from violence and fear.

— Nelson Mandela

“The threatening to, harsh aggression, made her submissive. (Across Time And Space)”

— Mala Naidoo

Violence up close has a smell. Like copper blood and charcoal burning.

— Anonymous

“Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat for it is momentary." ( Satyagraha Leaflet No. 13 , 3 May 1919)”

— Mahatma Gandhi

“The violence of power is unacceptable only when we see it in action.”

— Olivier Razac

It is difficult to get Latina and Asian women to speak out. We must make it clear it's not their problem, it's…

— Juanita Millender-McDonald

The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion […] but rather by its superiority…

— Samuel P. Huntington

Candyman' is so perennial. We're talking about the cycles of violence and how history repeats itself and how we collectively process trauma…

— Nia DaCosta

We have to make truth and non-violence not matters for mere individual practice but for practice by groups and communities and nations.…

— Mahatma Gandhi

A little girl robbed you?" Tessa said. "Actually, she wasn’t a little girl at all, as it turns out, but a midget…

— Cassandra Clare

All issues, therefore, must be resolved through dialogue and there can be no place for violence. Negativity and rejection cannot be the…

— Pratibha Patil

I think I've always had these two currents, equally strong, of wanting to change the world and make the world better and…

— Eve Ensler

My coverage of Antifa has been critical: not just critical of the hooliganism and the street violence because violence, of course, is…

— Andy Ngo

By far the greater part of violence that humans inflicted on each other is not the work of criminals or mentally deranged,…

— Eckhart Tolle

Sentimentalising is anathema, as far as I am concerned. It leads you into ethical problems about violence and killing and eating meat.…

— David Attenborough

It is wrong to take an 18-year-old boy or girl and arm them with machine guns and make them the almighty king…

— Amos Oz

“You stubborn bastard. Take it from someone who knows firsthand, there’s a lot to be said for forgiveness. Grudges seldom hurt anyone…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

I did the movie [Valley of Violence] from two perspectives. You're with Ethan [Hawke] the whole movie, but for the first half,…

— Ti West

I'm not criticizing how people experience what they might call spirituality. I am interested in looking critically at something else - at…

— Talal Asad

I think the violence is important. It all depends on the genre. Rambo was ultra-violent, and I think it worked. You have…

— Dolph Lundgren

You can be a rapper born and raised in go-go music, violence, drugs, crack, Reagonomics, and still, if you hear 'Wake Me…

— Wale

I didn't meddle. If I did meddle there wouldn't be all this violence. All this horrible sexism in games.

— Lincoln Chafee

When I was a kid, my mother's parenting style teetered between benign neglect and intense bouts of violence.

— Ariel Gore

All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“They fight with a bloodthirstiness I wouldn't expect outside a maximum-security prison or suburban PTA meeting.”

— Eliza Crewe

In my political philosophy I think that there sometimes is room for violence.

— Pierre Trudeau

“I do believe that, where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

The more weapons of violence, the more misery to mankind. The triumph of violence ends in a festival of mourning.

— Laozi

So I think we're kind of an alternate choice for people who have had it with sex and violence.

— Dick Van Dyke

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Courtesy towards opponents and eagerness to understand their view-point is the ABC of non-violence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“The ability to offer empathy to people in stressful situations can defuse potential violence.”

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

Indeed the very word, nonviolence, a negative word, means that it is an effort to abandon the violence that is inevitable in…

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Every gesture was one of disorder and violence, as if a lioness had come into the room.”

— Anaïs Nin

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

— Uri Avnery

“Violence, especially if you are a woman, is not something spoken about with ease.”

— Kay Redfield Jamison

Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by committee meetings.

— Anonymous