Violence Quotes · Page 62

I am committed to advancing common sense solutions to address our nation's gun violence epidemic.

— Dean Phillips

I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.

— Malcolm X

I would do a sort of violence to myself if I didn't express myself in the directly creative ways of writing, both…

— Stephen Hough

Lord, with so much violence in Iraq, may we persevere in our prayer and generosity.

— Pope Francis

Violence is violence. Trauma is trauma. And we are taught to downplay it, even think about it as child's play.

— Tarana Burke

'Honour'-based violence is a form of domestic violence. Domestic violence is a broad category.

— Deeyah Khan

I'm especially interested in helping to give visibility to the pandemic of violence against women

— Nicole Kidman

“Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined, Viking, Nueva York, 2011; posiciones 3279-3282 (Kindle).”

— Anonymous

What will it profit this country if we... put our man on the Moon by 1970 and at the same time you…

— Jerome Cavanagh

Though defensive violence will always be 'a sad necessity' in the eyes of men of principle, it would be still more unfortunate…

— Anonymous

“The violence of a lower-class man may indeed express rage, but it is aimed not at society but at the asshole who…

— Steven Pinker

Man was born into barbarism when killing his fellow man was a normal condition of existence. He became endowed with a conscience.…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Back in the Clinton White House, I was a middling staffer on the Domestic Policy Council, working on issues ranging from the…

— Neera Tanden

We have to stop this violence. We have to make the political nature of the violence clear, that the violence we experience…

— Patricia Ireland

“Generally speaking, by the way, that is the moral of the opponents of violence in politics: they renounce violence when it comes…

— Leon Trotsky

Citizens who live or work near protest sites or marches have every right to be free of violence from protesters, and they…

— Naomi Wolf

During two decades, on and off, reporting in Russia and the post-Soviet states - in the turbulent '90s, the wealthy but depressing…

— Keith Gessen

If we divide into two camps--even into violent and the nonviolent--and stand in one camp while attacking the other, the world will…

— Ayya Khema

When asylum seekers began arriving at the southern border in 2018, New Mexico's communities answered the call to provide humanitarian care. Churches,…

— Ben Ray Lujan

What I like about Layer Cake is its intelligent through-line. First of all, I think it's very close to the truth; I…

— Daniel Craig

I can think about what [Mahatma] Gandhi said or [Martin Luther] King said about violence begetting violence, and still be true to…

— Barack Obama

If you go to Jamaica, you're going to these all-inclusive resorts where they're playing calypso and a bit of reggae or whatever.…

— Shane Smith

A teacher of fear can't bring peace on earth. We have been trying to do it that way for thousands of years.…

— Byron Katie

“As far as i was concerned, the police in the Black communities were nothing but a foreign, occupying army, beating, torturing, and…

— Assata Shakur

Our glorification of violence is ripping society apart. I don't want my children exposed to it.

— William H. Macy

“Sure, the story kicks off with the deaths of thousands of people, but god forbid there be cussing in it, right?”

— Amie Kaufman

Two days overdue, THE WORLD'S WORK has not reached me. Pray make a note of this. I would rather not have to…

— Mark Twain

To imitate the hatred and violence of tyrants and murderers is the best way to take their place.

— Pope Francis

Violence is a dark contrast to what so many of us still believe in -- love.

— Robi Ludwig

I never want anyone to be sitting where I'm sitting and to have lost their son, because I can never get Luke…

— Rosie Batty

It doesn't matter if gun violence is down. We need to get guns and bullets and automatic weapons off the streets.

— Don Lemon

I'm ready to fight, I've been looking for my baby all night. If I get her in my sight, boom, boom, out…

— Little Walter

“We are flawed creatures with explosive feelings that subconsciously aspire to be non-violent sociopaths.”

— Jayme K

Who can sit back as our towns and cities are torn apart by violence and be content with the status quo?

— Martin O'Malley

I loved my parents... but that can never change the fact that my father's violence ruined my childhood.

— Pat Conroy

While violence is part of what it means to be part of the black diaspora in the United States, that is not…

— Clint Smith

Caroline says as she gets up from the floor, you can hit me all you want to, but I don't love you…

— Lou Reed

The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of nonviolence has been the organization of violence.

— Joan Baez

“I was not frightened as they were, for the very violence of his threats showed how weak he was.”

— Erik Christian Haugaard

We stand for law and order, so we will not allow the scourge of violence to infect our communities.

— Amber Rudd