Violence Quotes · Page 49

“What was sport but a thin veneer over the factional fighting it had replaced—ritualized violence, bloody entertainment?”

— Erin Hart

I do not believe it is right to identify Islam with violence. This is not right or true.

— Pope Francis

Gender-based violence is one of the most pervasive and yet least-recognized human rights abuses in the world.

— Anonymous

“Whenever you deny the hand of Justice, Violence almost always steps in.”

— Suzy Kassem

Peace is not just the absence of violence,peace is when the flowers bloom.

— Amrita Pritam

“...we have entertained ourselves with the pornography of violence and inflamed passions that might otherwise have slumbered...”

— John Geddes

If more people were stoned there would be less violence in the world.

— Tommy Chong

I've had horror movies thrown at me and I just don't want to do any because violence isn't really good for society.

— Luke Ford

So, these political activities will create friction in and of themselves, and in this environment of friction there'll be additional violence.

— John Abizaid

I actually don't think we should ban Jihadi videos because I don't think that is what causes the issue of Islamist violence.…

— Claire Fox

The American dream is, in part, responsible for a great deal of crime and violence because people feel that the country owes…

— Anonymous

It is the quietest and meekest people who are often capable of the most sudden and unexpected violences for the reason that…

— Agatha Christie

It seems that the only gun violence some leftists approve of is gun violence aimed at cops and other groups they see…

— Gary Bauer

I do feel that movies and music do have the power to slightly influence a person's decision. I believe that if violence…

— Morris Chestnut

I am not only overwhelmed with excitement to be back in the seat but also to show my support to help raise…

— Amber Cope

You can make your superhero a psychopath, you can draw gut-splattering violence, and you can call it a "graphic novel," but comic…

— Bill Watterson

In South America euphemism appears to be the grisly preserve of violent power. 'Liberty' was the name of the biggest prison in…

— Isabel Fonseca

Goodness has no opposite. Most of us consider goodness as the opposite of the bad or evil and so throughout history in…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Air traffic control is going to have a steamy old fit on your dime, boy. They can get in line behind the…

— Howard Tayler

I do believe that where there is a choice between cowardice and non-violence I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son…

— Mahatma Gandhi

If we have a president who asked for a mandate on combating gun violence, as Hillary Clinton is requesting, that's going to…

— Chris Murphy

When I say 'I will be true to you' I am drawing a quiet space beyond the reach of other desires. No…

— Jeanette Winterson

In stark contrast with the views of the Greek philosophers and with those of the rest of western intellectuals to the present…

— Anonymous

We New Yorkers see more death and violence than most soldiers do, grow a thick chitin on our backs, grimace like a…

— Edward Hoagland

For me popular violence is as much an obstruction in our path as the Government violence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Non-violence is not glamorous, and you don't see the effects right away.

— Julia Bacha

I argued constantly with my father [Pablo Escobar] because I never liked all the violence that he created.

— Juan Pablo Escobar

“Where words prevail not, violence prevails; But gold doth more than either of them both.”

— Thomas Kyd

“What do you think? Overkill?" "I don't believe there is any such thing. But in this case, 'yes, overkill.”

— Howard Tayler

A lot of people are scared to come visit my hometown, but to me, violence is everywhere, man.

— Jeremih

“Against the tide of violence something spoken from the silence like an arrow parting air with the sharpened point of love.”

— Don Hynes

Harmless and innocent until they're taught to be violent and militant.

— LL Cool J

We try to show that violence has a consequence - when you create violence, it turns against you.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

It's not the violence of the few that scares me, it's the silence of the many

— Martin Luther King, Jr

She knew that she could not have reached this white serenity except as the sum of all the colors, of all the…

— Ayn Rand

Wanting anything too desperately is a form of aggression and violence, which will always be met with resistance.

— Bryant H. McGill

Ultimately, in the battle against lies and violence, truth and love have no other weapon than the witness of suffering.

— Pope Benedict XVI

It's Ethan Hawke and John Travolta [in Valley of Violence]. It's awesome. They're awesome.

— Ti West

CARE is participating in a groundbreaking summit to end sexual violence in conflict.

— Anonymous

Even extreme grief may ultimately vent itself in violence--but more generally takes the form of apathy

— Joseph Conrad