Violence Quotes · Page 55

Stassi is always so hurtful with her words she doesn't need to use physical violence.

— Scheana Shay

The decline of violence is a fractal phenomenon. You can see it over millennia, over centuries, over decades and over years.

— Steven Pinker

“Even truth becomes just another weapon of division and violence, when shared with impure motives and a defiled heart.”

— Hope D. Blackwell

Violence against the other, and the way we otherize people out of fear, has to be examined across the board.

— Yance Ford

I've been on the wrong end of violence, and I've done violence myself... I refuse to glorify violence in my movie and…

— James Garner

Being offended by freedom of speech should never be regarded as a justification for violence.

— Alan Dershowitz

In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence.

— Adrienne Rich

In the absence of a Congress ready to act to reduce gun violence, we will keep working to create a different Congress.

— Gabrielle Giffords

Let's start calling family violence 'terrorism' and then maybe we will start to see that investment of funding applied to where it…

— Rosie Batty

It's one of those things, when you look back on it, you'd go, "Oh, I could've done without that. If I could…

— Ti West

In general, the mass media tell us that black people are not loving, that our lives are so fraught with violence and…

— bell hooks

In a way, a stage can be the safest place to be visibly queer and non-gender conforming because you're literally surrounded by…

— Liv Bruce

Within the existing neoliberal historical conjuncture, there is a merging of violence and governance and the systemic disinvestment in and breakdown of…

— Henry Giroux

Thwart," I said. "To prevent someone from accomplishing something by means of visiting gratuitous violence upon his smarmy person." "I'm pretty sure…

— Jim Butcher

Religious fanaticism has clearly produced, and in all probability will continue to produce, enormous amounts of bickering, fighting, violence, bloodshed, homicide, feuds,…

— Albert Ellis

The vision I see is not only a movement of direct democracy, of self- and co-determination and non-violence, but a movement in…

— Petra Kelly

As a thinker I keep discovering that beauty itself is as much a fact, and a mystery...I consider nature's facts -- its…

— Annie Dillard

Faced with today's problems and disappointments , many people will try to escape from their responsibility. Escape in selfishness, escape in sexual…

— Anonymous

Exaggeration is in the course of things. Nature sends no creature, no man into the world, without adding a small excess of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The capacity to accept suffering for the sake of goodness, truth and justice is an essential criterion of humanity, because if my…

— Pope Benedict XVI

All my life I've been involved with racial politics. I was a Freedom Rider in the South. I was the author of…

— Tom Hayden

“War is not violence and killing, pure and simple; war is controlled violence, for a purpose. The purpose of war is to…

— Robert A. Heinlein

Children, presenting at our border, who are fleeing violence, who are fleeing prosecution, who are fleeing terrible situations is not a crisis.…

— Jen Psaki

The most exquisite words and finest strokes of an author are those which very often appear the most doubtful and exceptionable to…

— Joseph Addison

“There is more than one way to lose your life; quickly through violence, or fettered-away and wasted around dreadful, toxic people.”

— Bryant McGill

The sexual energies returned, when they're not evolved, are still linked with violence and the fear of power - the fear of…

— Frederick Lenz

We need a tough approach to make justice prevail and, also, because sports should not be damaged by the violence of hooligans.

— Frans Timmermans

I think we have too much violence in wrestling, on TV in general, and society as a whole.

— Terry Funk

It is better to be violence, if thare is violence in our hearts , than to put on the clock of nonviolence…

— Drparth

“Violence?"Skulduggery said. "Violence is never the answer, until it's the only answer.”

— Derek Landy

Life etches itself onto our faces as we grow older, showing our violence, excesses or kindnesses.

— Anonymous

Generally speaking, violence always arises out of impotence. It is the hope of those who have no power.

— Hannah Arendt

We can all agree that violence against any community should never be tolerated.

— Michelle Steel

When there is no desire for fruit, there is also no temptation for untruth or himsa.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.

— Jesse Jackson

There is a direct connection between violence against the Earth and violence against women.

— Lee Maracle

“But strength doesn’t always mean brute force. You don’t have to kick ass to be a fighter. Violence doesn’t equal strength.”

— Becca Fitzpatrick

The problem of gun violence goes beyond the countless demographic differences between people.

— Emma Gonzalez

I think movies glamorize violence, in the sense that they make it in a way that it's either cool or funny.

— Matthew Vaughn

Everyone knows what a hypocrite is. That's the guy who gripes about the sex, violence and nudity on his VCR.

— Zig Ziglar