Violence Quotes · Page 58

The real destroyer of inner peace is fear and distrust. Fear develops frustration, frustration develops anger, anger develops violence.

— Dalai Lama

I'm more alarmed by people reacting violently to the violence in my films than I am by the violence in films.

— George A. Romero

Children of domestic violence, of course, suffer terrible consequences.

— Letitia James

You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.

— Noam Chomsky

Having been raised during the war, I know very well how childhood hampered by displacement, poverty, violence, and fear looks like.

— Edin Dzeko

The difficulty one experiences in meeting himsa arises from weakness of mind.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The more that we choose not to talk about domestic violence, the more we shy away from the issue, the more we…

— Russell Wilson

Rather than bring peace and harmony, the EU will cause insurgency and violence.

— Nigel Farage

Gaming is our cultural bogeyman - we blame it for everything from child obesity to violence to short attention spans. But any…

— Naomi Alderman

A theme that has always interested me is how women express anger, how women express violence. That is very much part of…

— Gillian Flynn

“But my father could be dark too. He was attracted to violence, to the basic beauty of fighting, the way it turned…

— Jesmyn Ward

Deeds of violence in our society are performed largely by those trying to establish their self-esteem, to defend their self-image, and to…

— Rollo May

The violence in the Old Testament and New Testament is descriptive. The violence in the Koran is for all time and it…

— Pamela Geller

“when civic engagement was not enough, when government failed, when private banks could no longer hold the line, Chicago turned to an…

— Anonymous

If you put together all the ingredients that naturally attract children - sex, violence, revenge, spectacle and vigorous noise - what you…

— Judith Martin

It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and…

— Elijah Cummings

The idea of cultural relativism is nothing but an excuse to violate human rights. Human rights is the fruit of various civilizations.…

— Shirin Ebadi

It is a world completely rotten with wealth, power, senility, indifference, puritanism and mental hygiene, poverty and waste, technological futility and aimless…

— Jean Baudrillard

In Quebec, in spite of police violence and threats, thousands of students demonstrated for months against a former right-wing government that wanted…

— Henry Giroux

A diet of violence or pornography dulls the senses, and future exposures need to be rougher and more extreme. Soon the person…

— Marvin J. Ashton

Looked at objectively, it is clear that the overwhelming majority of civilian deaths resulting from political violence are produced by what should…

— Richard A. Falk

The child who is permitted to torment, or destroy, the minutest object in creation, who will wantonly tread upon a worm, or…

— Laetitia Pilkington

When I am abused online I take snapshots for evidence, I report it to the social media platform and I ban the…

— Tara Moss

You see a briefcase for business, a bookbag for education, a knife and gun for violence. Then there's government, law, media overall,…

— Mr. Lif

I appeal to the youth to maintain peace and not indulge in violence.

— Sayaji Shinde

Violence cannot destroy the body of the Goddess, for Her body is the world itself.

— Rachel Pollack

“We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do…

— Winston Churchill

Violence was just as much about WHAT was happening as it was how it happened.

— Walter Dean Myers

The world is ruled by violence, or at least the imminent threat of violence. It always has been.

— John Malkovich

I'm very careful about violence in games. I'm not interested in creating violent effects.

— Satoshi Tajiri

My father made me swear that I would never resort to violence in life.

— Manoj Kumar

The longer it takes to respond to a major development or crisis, the higher the chance of violence being seen as the…

— Miroslav Lajcak

I'll be introducing a resolution to expel Rep. Maxine Waters from Congress for her continual incitement of violence.

— Marjorie Taylor Greene

Is truth about domestic violence and those who enable it more important than a company's corporate partnerships? I think so.

— Letitia James

And we have very little violence, very, very little violence at the rallies.

— Donald Trump

“violence is as thick as smog, alliances as fluid as water, quarrels as big as the Internet.”

— Anonymous

My experience teaches me that truth can never be propagated by doing violence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Mix me with violence, blend me with peace, Combine me with hate, and I can't face defeat.

— Puff Daddy

“What does our commitment to nonviolence mean as citizens of one of the most powerful and oppressive nations in recorded history?”

— Mary Jo Bowman

How can I make a movie about the violence of the police if the police aren't going to let me film it?

— Jose Padilha