Violence Quotes · Page 45

“We get into fights or lust for imperial dominion over another nation for reasons of pride.”

— Richard W. Wrangham

“the peace’ is normally created through the willingness of a few to do great violence in its name.”

— Ken Lange

Television is full of fictional and real violence that's turned into entertainment.

— Bill James

We see violence to forcibly seize land, at any price, murders and corruption.

— Claudio Hummes

From the director's point of view, it's infinitely easier to do violence than to do a good dramatic scene.

— George Cukor

Let us pray for the many Christians in the world who still suffer persecution and violence. May God grant them the courage…

— Pope Francis

We all have violence inside of us, but we try to channel it into what we do.

— Max Cavalera

Be it caste or communal violence, they stall the growth of the nation. Let us affirm that we will be free from…

— Narendra Modi

The solution to our energy needs must go through a show of respect for nature, not, once again, a policy that does…

— George Horace Lorimer

So, if falling crime rates coincide with the rise of violent video games and increasing violence on TV and at the cinema,…

— Hugh Mackay

Yet again, the family of a young black man is grieving a life cut short. Yet again, the streets of an American…

— Hillary Clinton

We cannot - and will not - tolerate hatred, bigotry, and violence in our society, and no one should ever have to…

— Chris Sununu

There are a great number of peoples who need more than just words of sympathy from the international community. They need a…

— Kofi Annan

I'd like to know why sociologists can't decide whether movie sex and violence has any effect on children, but there's a universal…

— Jonah Goldberg

To observe people in conflict is a necessary part of a child's education. It helps him to understand and accept his own…

— Anonymous

“What greater violence can be done to the poet’s experience than to drag it into an early morning classroom and to go…

— John Ciardi

It's a form of violence, in the way that we look at women and how we expect them to look and be…

— Rosario Dawson

For some years now, there has been proof that the devastating effects of the traumatization of children take their inevitable tollon society--a…

— Alice Miller

You condition a vulnerable boy at puberty to become aroused by brutality. It's the violence, not the nudity. Frankly, I wouldn't mind…

— Park Dietz

All the fear in the world, and the violence that comes from the fear, and the hatred that comes from the violence,…

— William Nicholson

My mom told us never to reveal that we were Shia in school. You would find out that some other kid was…

— Kumail Nanjiani

The natives of England are closing their doors to relationships with Asians and Africans or, for that matter, Turks and Spaniards. While…

— Norbert Elias

I believe that telling our stories, first to ourselves and then to one another and the world, is a revolutionary act. It…

— Janet Mock

While I didn't grow up in a family where there was domestic violence I knew of families in my neighbourhood where abuse…

— Huey Morgan

I can't remember any text of mine where I said that one should fight Hitler without violence; I'm not an idiot.

— Adam Michnik

Very few police officers are ever held accountable for even the most egregious shootings and acts of violence.

— Shaun King

A lot of guys don't want to admit that they have a propensity for generosity and for violence.

— Sylvester Stallone

But transitions from the politics of violence to democratic compromise are always messy.

— Timothy Garton Ash

I have consistently preached that nonviolence demands that the means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

We must choose between the violence of adults and the smiles of children

— Elie Wiesel

I do not like violence, but ours is a violent time, and there are some men who understand nothing else.

— Louis L'Amour

Those who use the term 'alt-left' consistently point to violence from the left, often by anti-fascists - both perceived and real.

— Elizabeth Flock

I would never ever condone any violence of any kind. But in the theater of fiction, blood is delightful.

— Jonathan Raymond

America's addiction to violence is partly evident in the heroes it chooses to glorify.

— Henry Giroux

“Never since that time has this house got itself clear of rawblood butchery.”

— Sophocles

Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.

— Emile M. Cioran

The abuse of women and girls is the most pervasive and unaddressed human right violation on earth.

— Jimmy Carter

The world is in such a place of social unrest and there's so much violence.

— Walt Dohrn

Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them.

— Louise Bogan

Don't stand back with your arms folded; step forward... There is hope and light to resist injustice and promote peace without violence.

— Adolfo Perez Esquivel