Violence Quotes · Page 56

As women, we have to deal with constant threats of violence. And it's in our media and fiction, too. So we internalize…

— Marjorie Liu

Even in a healthy society, violence, lawlessness, and predation lie just below the surface.

— William Barr

But the myth of violent solutions as the ultimate solutions maintains itself in much of popular media.

— Stanley Crouch

“Unjust systems perpetuate themselves by means of institutionalized violence.”

— Walter Wink

The bomb-throwers have discredited the cause of freedom, in whose name they threw the bombs.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Tensions and violence in cities across America are reminders of how quickly communities can erupt with an absence of social trust.

— Stanley A. McChrystal

Nowadays, everything is so gratuitous. The violence is suggested, and it's much more impactful than showing everything.

— Oliver Jackson-Cohen

“Violence is the result of hatred & greed conquering the heart of lesser souls.”

— Rehan Waris

Counter-violence against the colonial regime is liberatory because it is an act, and by acting, the absolute power of colonialism, internalized by…

— Nigel Gibson

I put on the page a third look at what I've seen in life - the reinvented experience of a cross-eyed working-class…

— Dorothy Allison

Human nature at times is unfortunately very ugly and I learned the world can be a very ugly place. For as much…

— Gerard Way

We must all take care to resist the tendency to focus too much attention on the role that criminals and prior offenders…

— James Florio

Until we all start to take responsibility, until we do all we can to improve the character of our communities, we'll never…

— Carrie P. Meek

Violence can behave like a disease. That insight gives a different frame of reference that is designed to take the judgment out…

— Steven James

More people died as a result of the tiny abortive Easter Uprising against British rule in Ireland (1916) than died as a…

— Adolf Hitler

Jealousy is a painful passion; yet without some share of it, the agreeable affection of love has difficulty to subsist in its…

— David Hume

Every divorce is the result of selfishness on the part of one or the other or both parties to a marriage contract.…

— Spencer W. Kimball

At this crucial crossroads of history, we join to call on the world to recognize that violence begets violence; that nuclear proliferation…

— David Saperstein

And when human rights are being thrown aside, ignored, well, there's no game in progress, that's all -- in spite of the…

— L Ron Hubbard

We have become the new american slaves: but there is a revolution coming. It is a revolution of individual liberty. It will…

— Gerry Spence

It's too easy only to blame the militarists, racists, sexists and other pushers of violence for the mess we're in. What is…

— Colman McCarthy

Culture is the suggestion, from certain best thoughts, that a man has a range of affinities through which he can modulate the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The real damage from terrorist attacks doesn't come from the explosion. The real damage is done after the explosion, by the victims,…

— Cory Doctorow

If the film isn't suspenseful, i.e. the pressure cooker situation of what's going on in the movie, if that's not part of…

— Quentin Tarantino

Heaven, the seat of bliss, Brooks not the works of violence and war.

— John Milton

As a woman, you accept the situation, adapt to it, and do your best, whereas men would choose violence.

— Asne Seierstad

The sight of blood to crowds begets the thirst of more, As the first wine-cup leads to the long revel.

— Lord Byron

Hopefully we'll get to a point where people realize movies don't cause violence. It just reflects the violence going on in the…

— Eli Roth

I loved Batman, don't get me wrong, but that kind of mindless violence is not good for young children.

— William H. Macy

Politicians need to stop the violence because it has become a way of life in Jamaica. It's the thing to do -…

— Damian Marley

Gun violence has cost us too many political leaders, and hardly ever the worst ones.

— P. J. O'Rourke

“He thought it disproportionate in its violence considering the fragility of us.”

— David Jones

We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.

— R. D. Laing

I got reckless baby, put you in your place. Next time, maybe rearrange your face.

— Bryan Adams

“maximum violence instantly. That’s how most fights are won. The dirty way. The”

— Glynn James

The threat or fear of violence should not become an excuse or justification for restricting freedom of speech.

— Alan Dershowitz

You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.

— James Joyce

“The greatest violence (hinsa) in this world is that of anger-pride-deceit-greed (kashays – the ones that gives pain to soul).”

— Dada Bhagwan

Violence has always been unfortunately embedded in masculinity, this alpha thing.

— Sebastian Stan

Violence against women is still treated as a lesser crime. Armed groups turn it into a weapon of choice because of near…

— Angelina Jolie