Violence Quotes · Page 46

Francesco Damiani punches with all the violence and bad intentions of Mahatma Gandhi.

— Jerry Izenberg

In 'Gangs of Wasseypur,' I wanted to take violence forward and play it up.

— Anurag Kashyap

Trust your intuition, rather than technology, to protect you from violence.

— Tom Butler-Bowdon

Whenever evil is destroyed people are happy. Then what's wrong in depicting positive violence?

— Suniel Shetty

Peace through superior violence inevitably leads to the atom bomb and all that it stands for.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Gun violence should have no home in the richest country in the history of the world.

— Jasmine Crockett

“America isn’t perfect but there’s not a better place in the world for people of any faith.”

— Tucker Elliot

“Man kept control over the machines he created, I wish God would have done the same with the man he created.”

— Amit Kalantri

Suicidal violence is not the exclusive property of the Muslim world. Suicide bombings were a tactic of nationalist struggles in 19th-century Europe…

— James Buchan

For decades, the violence in the Middle East has claimed a multitude of innocent civilian victims: Men, women and children, Arab and…

— John Conyers

Violence of all forms is wreaking havoc in communities across the country, disproportionately impacting communities of color and shaving half a million…

— Mike Quigley

Dehumanization, although a concrete historical fact, is not a given destiny but the result of an unjust order that engenders violence in…

— Paulo Freire

In a world of deep injustice and violence, a people exists that thinks some can be given time to study. We need…

— Stanley Hauerwas

We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Creole women take after Europe in their intelligence, after the Tropics in the illogical violence of their passions, and after the Indies…

— Honore de Balzac

I'm sure my father would applaud the explosion of youth activism that has emerged in response to the gun violence pandemic. I'm…

— Martin Luther King III

While religious fundamentalism is treated as a serious social problem because it has the potential to lead to rare but devastating acts…

— Deeyah Khan

Domestic violence does not only happen to adults. Forty percent of girls age 14 to 17 report knowing someone their age who…

— Dianne Feinstein

“Whenever any American’s life is taken by another American unnecessarily—whether it is done in the name of the law or in the…

— Anonymous

Truth affirms freedom of speech. Putin is no friend of reli - freedom of speech. Putin is an enemy of freedom of…

— Benjamin E. Sasse

I am no fun at all. In fact, I am anti-fun. Not as in anti-violence, but as in anti-matter. I am not…

— David Rakoff

I always have a high regard for the individual and have an insuperable distaste for violence and clubmanship. All these motives made…

— Albert Einstein

If you feel your school is failing you, the question is why. Is it a lack of parental involvement, large classes, school…

— Anonymous

The Photograph is violent: not because it shows violent tings, but because on each occasion (i)it fills the sight by force(i), and…

— Roland Barthes

My people have been sucked into the violence because some feel they have to retaliate, and some feel they have to protect…

— Mangosuthu Buthelezi

“Oh, they don't allow the Bible in Heaven, Miss Mary...It contains far too much sex and violence.”

— Bryan Talbot

Wherever arms flow, violence follows. Bullets replace ballots as the solution to political disputes.

— Michael Douglas

“Turns out if you write about police violence and atrocities, if you wait a month, it'll happen again, so... That's America.”

— Colson Whitehead

“A culture of vultures steeped and born of violence shall choke on the blood of its offspring.”

— T.F. Hodge

All forms of violence are quests for identity. When you live on the frontier, you have no identity. You're a nobody.

— Marshall McLuhan

Eradicating violence of every kind in this country is a fight that requires a commitment from every single person.

— Cori Bush

“I finally understood what could drive kids to show up with guns and shoot up their schools.”

— Nenia Campbell

My door will always be open to those who genuinely renounce violence and seek peaceful accommodation into our nascent democracy.

— Jalal Talabani

Lots of people think the violence in the films I make is overwhelming, but they think they're seeing something that they aren't…

— Park Chan-wook

Any man who has once acclaimed violence as his method must inexorably choose falsehood as his principle.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Under Trump, black lives will become even more vulnerable to state violence.

— Patrisse Cullors

“Where a person has no control, he will turn to violence; either to attain control, or as an alternative to it.”

— Charlie Herrick

In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing…

— Seamus Heaney

No other form of violence is legitimate. It is never acceptable to use violence to solve a problem. Whether personal or political.

— Gloria Steinem

If I've made it a little easier for artists to work in violence, great! I've accomplished something.

— Quentin Tarantino