Violence Quotes · Page 63

The Background Check Expansion Act will help prevent guns from falling into the wrong hands, and combat senseless gun violence.

— Alex Padilla

It's the way that I think about the world, and the way that I like to tell stories - I don't think…

— Martin McDonagh

The term 'Muslim Brotherhood'... is an umbrella term for a variety of movements: in the case of Egypt, a very heterogeneous group,…

— James Clapper

“Not surprisingly, the all-powerful evocation of terrorism is reserved only for those acts that threaten the government-sponsored status quo, but not that…

— Henry A. Giroux

For what are the triumphs of war, planned by ambition, executed by violence, and consummated by devastation? The means are the sacrifice…

— Charles Caleb Colton

The most important rule of the new Europe is: There must never again be violence in Europe.

— Helmut Kohl

“I would rather not speak with history but history came to me. It was dark before daybreak when the fire sparked. The…

— Joy Harjo

The foundations of liberty are private property and the rule of law; this system guarantees the fewest possible forms of injustice, produces…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

Very few police officers are ever held accountable for even the most egregious shootings and acts of violence.

— Shaun King

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

— John Malkovich

We have to start from the fact that there are always alternatives to violence.

— Mairead Corrigan

The truth is what facts are. I like facts. I like things to line up and be clear, and when we are…

— Amanda Seales

We are fighting hard against radical Islamic terrorism, and we will prevail. We cannot accept those who reject our values and who…

— Donald Trump

I don't know specifically what scenes I'd like to see violence in - I crave violence when I'm watching a John Hughes…

— Ryan Gosling

There was a hateful video that was disseminated on the Internet. It had nothing to do with the United States government, and…

— Susan Rice

I tell young actresses today who are looking to get into films, "First of all, you are marginalized by the color of…

— Pam Grier

“I understand more that pain is evidence to our awakening to truth and also a measure of closeness to truth.”

— Adam Scott Huerta

The only way to address terrorism is to deal with the issues that create terrorism, to resolve them where possible, and where…

— Cofer Black

I'm very fortunate. I loved school and, when I went there, race, gangs and violence were not issues. There was a feeling,…

— David Harewood

Deportation is a decision taken by the home secretary under statute, The new grounds will include fostering hatred, advocating violence to further…

— Tony Blair

I started to think more about becoming peace rather than fighting for peace, and the contradiction in terms, and the anger and…

— Surya Das

Race was a word that bred arrogance, danger and violence. When had incitement to race served a peaceful purpose? Race was a…

— Nayantara Sahgal

Everyone knows what a hypocrite is. That's the guy who gripes about the sex, violence and nudity on his VCR.

— Zig Ziglar

Violent video games played in public places are a tiny fraction of the media violence to which modern American children are exposed.…

— Richard Posner

If there are sound reasons or bases for the points you demand, then there is no need for violence. On the other…

— Dalai Lama

Vehemence without feeling is but rant.

— George Henry Lewes

We don't condone violence. And I say it.

— Donald Trump

Children will watch anything, and when a broadcaster uses crime and violence and other shoddy devices to monopolize a child's attention, it's…

— Newton N. Minow

The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I never felt any attraction towards violence. I never tried to express myself through violence. Violence is a language.

— Elie Wiesel

“When my trust was suspended from the fragile thread of justice and in the whole city they were chopping up my heart's…

— Forough Farrokhzad

I support peaceful protests and the rule of law, and denounce all acts of violence.

— Lauren Boebert

I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have from…

— Ernest Gaines

The Mexico - United States border was always porous. People have been going and coming back since before the Spaniards arrived. Now…

— Sandra Cisneros

Personally, I can't stand violence. In any standard American mainstream movie, there's 20 times more violence than in any one of my…

— Michael Haneke

Today, together, let us repeat as our slogan that all trace of violence must disappear from this earth, then the sun will…

— Monique Wittig

I've never laid a cane on the back of a lord before, but if you force me to I shall speedily become…

— Stanley Kubrick

There are many world leaders who are worse than [Donald] Trump.They don't just talk about violence, they practice it on an extreme…

— Edward Leigh

Looting is a natural response to the unnatural and inhuman society of commodity abundance. It instantly undermines the commodity as such, and…

— Guy Debord

You can be a rapper born and raised in go-go music, violence, drugs, crack, Reagonomics, and still, if you hear 'Wake Me…

— Wale