Violence Quotes · Page 54

“There's nowhere in existence you could go that I wouldn't find you, Violence.”

— Rebecca Yarros

Pornography does not inspire violence, but you can break a leg trying to imitate it.

— Mason Cooley

“It's an unwritten and widely unacknowledged fact, that land always ends up belonging to the most violent.”

— Mango Wodzak

“Violence send deep roots into the heart, it has no seasons, it is always ripe, evergreen.”

— Pat Conroy

I was born in West Baltimore, lived in a situation in which violence was everywhere.

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

The Background Check Expansion Act will help prevent guns from falling into the wrong hands, and combat senseless gun violence.

— Alex Padilla

He who trifles with truth cuts at the root of Ahimsa [non-violence]. He who is angry is guilty of Himsa.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I think if we could raise one generation of kids without violence and shaming, we don't know what might be possible.

— Gloria Steinem

The Reform Bill has destroyed the ancient conduits and strainers, and brings Public Opinion to act upon the government with the rapid,…

— Robert Peel

“The keel-mounted rail gun pushed the whole ship backward in a solid mathematical relationship to the mass of the two-kilo tungsten round…

— James S.A. Corey

My ethics are basically around animals. I cannot do animals in distress. I was able to shut myself off with humans, and…

— Harry Benson

Children need to get a high-quality education, avoid violence and the criminal-justice system, and gain jobs. But they deserve more. We want…

— Colin Powell

Domestic violence was a way of life in my home growing up, my brother and I watched helplessly numerous times as my…

— Troy Vincent

I think that when we're talking about youth violence, we're talking about kids who don't have opportunities, so they're engaged in a…

— Matt Gonzalez

Love and violence-not to conquer one with the other but to live with both, that's what I've learned. Each pulling me a…

— Denis Johnson

Even before the election I was saying that the rhetoric used by Trump was going to cause violence before and after the…

— Chip Berlet

How pitiable is it to reflect, that although you were so fully convinced of the benevolence of the Father of Mankind, and…

— Benjamin Banneker

It is easier for an artful Man, who is not in Love, to persuade his Mistress he has a Passion for her,…

— Joseph Addison

Only when peace lives within each of us, will it live outside of us. We must be the wombs for a new…

— Ming-Dao Deng

Violence ever defeats its own ends. Where you cannot drive you can always persuade. A gentle word, a kind look, a god-natured…

— William Hazlitt

Along with everything else, I know that there is a beauty in mankind. It is a beauty that no ugliness, no violence,…

— Don Pendleton

Now, 'high-intensity conflict' is a fancy word for saying tanks on tanks, aircraft shooting each other out of the sky, a great…

— Mark Esper

You've gotta be careful. People don't want to be reminded of Vietnam and Korea. We lost thousands of fine young men and…

— Hal Needham

Examine the life of the best and most productive men and nations, and ask yourselves whether a tree which is to grow…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The world suffers a lot. Not because of the violence people. But because of the silence of good people.

— Xiang16

“The time, the mosquito will land on your testicles, the way you'll kill it, will help you to resolve world issues without…

— Ntambara Sylvestre Owen Berbason

“Maxim 37: There is no "overkill." There is only "open fire" and "reload." -The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries”

— Howard Tayler

When people say there is too much violence in my books, what they are saying is there is too much reality in…

— Joyce Carol Oates

A lot of violence, a lot of gore in it, and I just didn't want to do that kind of thing.

— Dick Van Dyke

War is an attempt of one group to impose its will upon another group by armed violence.

— Anonymous

I want to speak on behalf of the American people because the American people have been the one that have endured violence.

— Marjorie Taylor Greene

Movies and television don't make you violent; all they do is channel the violence more creatively.

— George Carlin

We will export death and violence to the four corners of the earth in defense of our great nation.

— George W. Bush

Crime and violence is an attack on the poor and will never be accepted in a Trump administration.

— Donald Trump

We had good years, with no violence, in a sense we were victims of our success.

— Ari Shavit

Lawyers will always buckle under to something, whether its bribes, violence, court orders, or the weight of their own bullshit.

— James Alan Gardner

“Guns are like thermometers, only instead of measuring body temperatures they measure our fear.”

— Jean Zimmerman

Armed conspiracies against something satanic is like matching Satans against Satan.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Thunder without sound jolted the air around her. The violence of it was magnificent, immaculate, glorious.”

— Terry Goodkind

The violence we do to ourselves in order to remain faithful to the one we love is hardly better than an act…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld