Violence Quotes · Page 64

Till the sun of knowledge shines on the ignorant masses and till all the men start hating violence, the world shall find…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Odisha is a peaceful state; the people will not stand for violence in a democracy.

— Naveen Patnaik

I think in a country like mine, violence is at the root of all human relations.

— Mario Vargas Llosa

Gender based violence anywhere is a threat to peace and security everywhere.

— John F. Kerry

Violent means will give violent swaraj. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.

— Mahatma Gandhi

You cannot commit an act of violence against a non-sentient object, only against a living thing.

— Paul Watson

If there is one clear lesson of our century, it is this: where aggression is tolerated, it multiplies.

— Bob Dole

Working in sports for nearly the past twenty years, I have seen first-hand how gun violence affects athletes and their families.

— Suzy Shuster

We also can't be naïve when it comes to the refugees. Men who commit violence should of course be deported to their…

— Alice Schwarzer

Instructed by history and reflection, Julian was persuaded that, if the diseases of the body may sometimes be cured by salutary violence,…

— Edward Gibbon

As a Jew, I was taught that it was ethically imperative to speak up and to speak out against arbitrary state violence.…

— Judith Butler

If I have to beat you up to keep you safe, thats just what Ill do. Its this kind of regard for…

— Jarod Kintz

I think I tend to feel discomfort more when I anticipate or arrive upon moments in which I need to be careful.…

— Ira Sachs

People have a right to violence, to rebel, to fight back. And given what the United States Government and Western powers have…

— Yuri Kochiyama

I think if we wish to live in any kind of a moral universe, we must hold the perpetrators of violence responsible…

— Salman Rushdie

“Often I look at the world And I am dumbfounded that anyone can function at all Given the kinds of violence that…

— Hera Lindsay Bird

Covering the civil-rights movement was a mind- and eye-opener for me. Houston was a segregated society, as was Texas as a whole…

— Dan Rather

Any evaluation which implies rightness or wrongness is a tragic, suicidal expression of an unmet need. Tragic, first because it decreases our…

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit…

— John Adams

The truth is that no one who hasn't actually experienced the senseless chaos and violence of combat can possibly understand it, but…

— Khaled Hosseini

Ethan [Hawke] just - they got along great. He got to act with a dog, for real, and it felt like Jumpy…

— Ti West

The ordinary, utterly mundane reason behind the massacre makes it somehow more terrible, and far more depressing. The word 'senseless' springs to…

— Khaled Hosseini

“Paradoxically, that large screen in the cavernous, crowded room creates intimacy. And violence is an intimate act. If you are punching someone,…

— D.K. Holm

There’s faith that knows itself as faith, Proyas, and there’s faith that confuses itself for knowledge. The first embraces uncertainty, acknowledges the…

— R. Scott Bakker

For too many women pregnancy is just the start of loneliness and abuse. It is a cruel reality.

— Fay Ripley

Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.

— Malcolm X

When you live in a city, as I do, where violence is really in the streets, and people die every day, there's…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

There are moments in 'The Raid 2' where I wanted to use the camera to question screen violence.

— Gareth Evans

Men often prove the violence of their own prejudices, even by the violence with which they attack the prejudices of other people.

— Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

No, General. I'm not your subordinate. And what I'm coming dangerously close to is violence. -General Wedge Antilles

— Aaron Allston

Preventing radicalization that leads to violence here in America is part of our larger strategy to decisively defeat al Qaeda.

— Denis McDonough

Freddie Gray's life was poverty and violence. Trauma and hopelessness. His death was an exclamation point on an unspoken story.

— Wes Moore

There are many causes I would die for. There is not a single cause I would kill for.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“The tank, the submarine, the torpedo, the machine-gun, even the rifle and the hand grenade are still in use.”

— George Orwell

I write against violence. I write against fascism. I write against one person dominating another.

— Timothy Findley

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I've written films that are violent. I'm not big on sitting and watching violence.

— John Ridley

I don't know any religion that promotes violence. It is the adherents of whatever religion.

— Desmond Tutu

Real suffering bravely borne, melts even a heart of stone. Such is the potency of suffering. And there lies the key to…

— Mahatma Gandhi

“the flames are silent, Peace is violent, Tears are frozen ’cause massacre was chosen. ~~ 26/11– Mumbai terror attack memories”

— Ankita Singhal