Violence Quotes · Page 43

We protest to our last breath against the purveyors of hatred, cruelty and violence.

— Ephraim Mirvis

Get what you can with words, because words are free, but the words of an armed man ring that much sweeter.

— Joe Abercrombie

Any act of violence creates resentment and resistance, because humans were meant to be free.

— Anonymous

Nonviolence is the only credible response to the violence we're seeing around the world.

— Coretta Scott King

Structures can be manipulated for ill as well, especially when people are dealing with issues of power, or control, or violence.

— Ian MacKaye

“She knew violence- and my, what a lovely thing to profess knowledge of.”

— Shiloh Walker

“We kill at every step, not only in wars, riots ad executions. We kill every time we close our eyes to poverty,…

— Eberhard Arnold

A civilization based on nonviolence must be different from that organized for violence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

But does that mean that war and violence are inevitable? I would argue not because we have also evolved this amazingly sophisticated…

— Jane Goodall

I intentionally shoot violence to make the audience feel real pain. I have never and I will never shoot violence as if…

— Takeshi Kitano

It's always fair to criticize, to question, to engage about things like whitewashing and violence against women and choices of lack of…

— Laeta Kalogridis

It is clear that the American people are weary of war. However, Assad gassing his own people is an issue of our…

— Nancy Pelosi

Street fights in Hawaii are so controlled you would think they were sanctioned. It's really hard to explain. It's almost like a…

— Brad Tavares

What I have set down in a moment of ardour I must then critically examine. Sometimes I must do myself violence before…

— Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

We're going to send a unified message to the rest of this country, which is that we do not accept violence in…

— Ted Wheeler

I always feel that there's no violence in a movie - it's not real, it's a magic trick. Nobody is really dying.…

— Eli Roth

Of course we in Europe also have epidemic, structural sexual violence. Violence is always the dark core of dominance. The men who…

— Alice Schwarzer

There is no denying that unhappiness - even violence - exists in some arranged marriages. Or that some arranged marriages are borne…

— Elizabeth Flock

In their overestimation of the role of civilization, the humanists misunderstand the primary forces of the world of primitive human drives with…

— Stefan Zweig

“One of the most damaging, longest-lasting consequences of the War on Terror years is an utter obliteration of the obvious moral case…

— Omar El Akkad

Not only are the numbers of migrants entering the United States at the lowest levels in a generation, but they are now…

— Alan Bersin

A belief in feminism is a belief in personal freedom - the freedom to live a life free of fear of violence,…

— Aisha Tyler

“radical violence was so deeply woven into the fabric of 1970s America that many citizens, especially in New York and other hard-hit…

— Bryan Burrough

I've never trained anyone that I haven't known as a child. I knew Kirkland when he was 12. Every one of them…

— Ann Wolfe

“Structural violence is visited upon all those whose social status denies them access to the fruits of scientific and social progress.”

— van Dernoot Lipsky, Laura

I think humor and protest can be subtle, instead of loud and going to the level of violence.

— Kiku Sharda

It's very odd that we have such an easy relationship to violence in this country, and we're still shocked by the female…

— Gaby Hoffmann

We all come from different levels, and I think every human has their own relationship to violence, athletic violence and fighting.

— Jon Bernthal

We are told that violence is not the answer, yet our country goes to war when we have problems...

— Anonymous

Abortion should be listed as a weapon of mass destruction against the voiceless.

— Anonymous

Mercantile jealousy is excited, and both inflames, and is itself inflamed, by the violence of national animosity.

— Adam Smith

It's senseless. I've lost several uncles, I've lost my best friend to gun violence in New Orleans.

— Tyrann Mathieu

Every authentic poem contributes to the labour of poetry... to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart...

— John Berger

I think that violence and nonviolence are not moral principles, they’re tactics.

— Jerry Vlasak

It's the suppression of the word that gives it the power, the violence, the viciousness.

— Lenny Bruce

“You better watch out. You better not cry. You better not pout, I'm telling you why, Cause Santa Clause might put a…

— Craig Ferguson

We cannot allow violence from militant activists to dictate where and how democratically elected state leaders hold their meetings.

— Otto Schily

The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked (Proverbs 10:11).

— Bible

Political violence has no place in Pennsylvania - the birthplace of American democracy - nor anywhere else across this country.

— Josh Shapiro

In the city, a lot of crime happens, a lot of violence happens from time to time,

— Victor Cruz