Violence Quotes · Page 60

Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by committee meetings.

— Anonymous

Violence [in Palestina] is part of the resistance to occupation. The basic fact is not the violence; the basic fact is the…

— Uri Avnery

Indeed the very word, nonviolence, a negative word, means that it is an effort to abandon the violence that is inevitable in…

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Every gesture was one of disorder and violence, as if a lioness had come into the room.”

— Anaïs Nin

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Courtesy towards opponents and eagerness to understand their view-point is the ABC of non-violence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“The ability to offer empathy to people in stressful situations can defuse potential violence.”

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

The more weapons of violence, the more misery to mankind. The triumph of violence ends in a festival of mourning.

— Laozi

With two women every week in England and Wales being killed by their partner or ex-partner, we need to act now to…

— Tom Aikens

The golden beams of truth and the silken cords of love, twisted together, will draw men on with a sweet violence, whether…

— Ralph Cudworth

There will be no more protest. No more dissension. No more violence. There will be only one voice. The voice of Ravinia.…

— Anonymous

“A cop's JOB is to violently enforce upon the rest of us whatever arbitrary bullshit the political parasites declare to be "law."…

— Larken Rose

It is possible, I suppose, that we are returning to a Dark Age. What is frightening is that violence is not only…

— May Sarton

Use truth as your anvil, nonviolence as your hammer and anything that does not stand the test when it is brought to…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Agitation prevents rebellion, keeps the peace, and secures progress. Every step she gains is gained forever. Muskets are the weapons of animals.…

— Wendell Phillips

I am not an absolute pacifist, because I can't rule out the possibility that under some, carefully defined circumstances, some degree of…

— Howard Zinn

We have reached a crossroads in human evolution where the only road which leads forward is towards a common passion. . .…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Kant argued that, where nature could be considered beautiful in her acts of destruction, human violence appeared instead as monstrous. However, a…

— Richard Marshall

In any conflict area, it is always the women who are the first point of attack. But I think the more they…

— Fatima Bhutto

According to the CDC, more than one in three women and one in four men in the United States have been victims…

— Melissa Harris-Perry

“We lose eight children and teenagers to gun violence every day. If a mysterious virus suddenly started killing eight of our children…

— Anonymous

We emphasize negativity and violence in the media because that's what grabs everybody's attention, but in the real world, it's mostly people…

— Richard Linklater

The conclusion I have reached is that, above all, dogs are witnesses. They are allowed access to our most private moments. They…

— Carolyn Parkhurst

[Thich Nhat Hanh] the one that revolutionized Buddhism. Instead of being monks just engaged in meditation, it was active Buddhism. You went…

— Sandra Cisneros

So I think we're kind of an alternate choice for people who have had it with sex and violence.

— Dick Van Dyke

“They fight with a bloodthirstiness I wouldn't expect outside a maximum-security prison or suburban PTA meeting.”

— Eliza Crewe

In my political philosophy I think that there sometimes is room for violence.

— Pierre Trudeau

“I do believe that, where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

When I was a kid, my mother's parenting style teetered between benign neglect and intense bouts of violence.

— Ariel Gore

I didn't meddle. If I did meddle there wouldn't be all this violence. All this horrible sexism in games.

— Lincoln Chafee

All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Violence has been a part of films since the beginning of time. It's been a form of entertainment.

— Vanessa Hudgens

“The threatening to, harsh aggression, made her submissive. (Across Time And Space)”

— Mala Naidoo

Violence up close has a smell. Like copper blood and charcoal burning.

— Anonymous

“Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat for it is momentary." ( Satyagraha Leaflet No. 13 , 3 May 1919)”

— Mahatma Gandhi

“The violence of power is unacceptable only when we see it in action.”

— Olivier Razac

We owe our children – the most vulnerable citizens in any society – a life free from violence and fear.

— Nelson Mandela

Young people across the country have grown up traumatized by the gun violence epidemic.

— Wayne Messam

When faced with a choice between violence and cowardice, always choose violence

— Mahatma Gandhi

I'm just hoping that people understand that Islam is peace and not violence.

— Muhammad Ali