Violence Quotes · Page 57

Violence ends up defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Violence is the quest for identity. When identity disappears with technological innovation, violence is the natural recourse.

— Marshall McLuhan

Revenge and retaliation always perpetuate the cycle of anger, fear and violence.

— Coretta Scott King

We live, I am trying to say, in an epidemic of male violence against women.

— Katha Pollitt

My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.

— Samantha Morton

What senseless violence does is to prolong the lease of life of the British or foreign rule.

— Mahatma Gandhi

There's just so much lazy violence directed at women. But beyond that, lazy violence directed at humans generally. Just lazy violence.

— Karyn Kusama

Nothing is so dangerous as that of violence employed by well-meaning people for beneficial objects.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

I have always been vitally interested in physical conditioning. I have long believed that athletic competition among people and nations should replace…

— Johnny Weissmuller

I'm trying not to let the anger and the violence that erupt take over my life. I guess it comes with the…

— Martin Scorsese

“It's so heartbreaking, violence, when it's in a house-like seeing the clothes in a tree after an explosion. You may be prepared…

— Philip Roth

I think the last one would have to be The Godfather because it was such a powerful story. There was lots of…

— Bobby Farrelly

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." [ Remarks on the first anniversary of the Alliance for Progress , 13 March 1962]”

— John F. Kennedy

Perhaps all our troubles - all the violence, obesity, illness, depression, and greed we can't overcome - began when we stopped living…

— Christopher McDougall

Ramadan typically brings a spike in violence in Middle East. I get grumpy when I don't eat - but I don't blow…

— Katie Hopkins

All forms of violence, especially war, are totally unacceptable as means to settle disputes between and among nations, groups and persons.

— Dalai Lama

Children are coming to school with trauma, everyday trauma, that they live under: violence in the homes, alcoholism in the community, unemployment…

— Denise Juneau

Realism gives me the impression of a mistake. Violence alone escapes the feeling of poverty of those realistic experiences. Only death and…

— Georges Bataille

[T]he enshrinement of constitutional rights necessarily takes certain policy choices off the table… Undoubtedly some think that the Second Amendment is outmoded…

— Antonin Scalia

Senseless violence is, almost by definition, hard to understand. Not that I can understand terrorists who kill from hate, but at least…

— Susan Estrich

One of the unspoken themes that I'm grappling with in Day of Honey is the relationship between violence and cosmopolitanism. It's one…

— Annia Ciezadlo

When I was going through the stuff with my dad and thinking about terms like restraining order and domestic violence, I was…

— Chelsea Martin

If drugs were legalized in the US, the Mexican economy would collapse since the earnings from drugs bring in more hard currency…

— Charles Bowden

Today I am so at home in Dublin, more than in any other city, that I feel it has always been familiar…

— Louis MacNeice

Our young people live in a world in which there's violence wherever you turn.

— Nina Jacobson

“Happiness is a series of grains of sand spread out in a desert of violence and anguish.”

— Sebastien de Castell

Ukraine is a tinderbox, and the fuse is lit. There is no solution through violence in Ukraine.

— Frank-Walter Steinmeier

The threat and use of violence is stimulating nuclear proliferation along with jihadi terrorism.

— Noam Chomsky

No kids should see that kind of violence where Batman is killing as many people as the bad guys.

— Burt Ward

Our Lord God doesn't do great things except by violence, as they say

— Martin Luther

“We have been trained by a culture of violence and we are all agents of passive violence.”

— Bryant McGill

I compose the music according to the nature of the show. 'Peter Gunn's' focus was violence so that was my key.

— Henry Mancini

There is nothing to be gained by being unnecessarily nasty. Violence begets violence.

— Aung San Suu Kyi

“Those who kill snakes get killed by snakes, said Chuchundra, more sorrowfully than ever.”

— Rudyard Kipling

We say it all the time: the leftist media is inciting violence and hate by calling everybody a racist and a white…

— Candace Owens

Violence won't solve a thing. It makes it more challenging to solve, though.

— Bill Cosby

Violence ravaged my life. I was a victim of hatred, and I have dedicated my life to reversing that hatred.

— Michelle Bachelet

If we want to build communities that are safe, we have to address the root causes of violence.

— Cori Bush

Violence isn't the answer. Violence is the question and the answer is yes.

— Anonymous

There is far too much aggression and violence in society and people should be kinder to one another.

— Tony Hadley