Violence Quotes · Page 65

We seem okay with violence, but nudity we race to criticize and censor.

— Eva Mendes

Conflicts are fueled by the tendency of the powerful to exploit the power and the anger and frustration of the powerless, which…

— Ghassan Andoni

A new understanding of power is replacing our old understanding of power as the ability to manipulate and control. The old understanding…

— Gary Zukav

People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence…

— Nick Hornby

Any act of violence creates resentment and resistance, because humans were meant to be free.

— Anonymous

Videos of Antifa violence, some of them doctored, are regularly shared on conservative, pro-Trump and conspiracy theory-pushing websites, often with commentary that…

— Elizabeth Flock

I think it's necessary when you're dealing with a dark show that has explosion and violence to have defined moments of lightness…

— Wentworth Miller

Violence, less and less embarrassed by the limits imposed by centuries of lawfulness, is brazenly and victoriously striding across the whole world,…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“We have never preached violence, except the violence of love, which left Christ nailed to a cross, the violence that we must…

— Oscar A. Romero

One who uses coercion is guilty of deliberate violence. Coercion is inhuman.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“You don't spill your lies on the pages that I write on.”

— Laura Gentile

“I finally understood what could drive kids to show up with guns and shoot up their schools.”

— Nenia Campbell

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

— Don Lemon

In the global push to stop gender-based violence, men in the entertainment industry need to join forces with women to end violence…

— John Kani

Those of us who have the eyes and ears of the media have a responsibility to amplify the voices of the voiceless.

— Peter Gabriel

I think some people at Doubleday worried about that a bit when Knockemstiff came out, but, with the exception of one or…

— Donald Ray Pollock

The praise of a civilized world is justly due to Christianity;—war, by the influence of the humane principles of that religion, has…

— Alexander Hamilton

Guns were made to be used in war; not to be used against the innocent.

— Wazim Shaw

When the days become longer and there is more sunshine, the grass becomes fresh and, consequently, we feel very happy. On the…

— Dalai Lama

Counter-violence against the colonial regime is liberatory because it is an act, and by acting, the absolute power of colonialism, internalized by…

— Nigel Gibson

To fight the violence we must be brave, hold on strong to the love God gave.

— Elton John

We must all come together to condemn political violence, most of all the national news media, and refuse to promote the dehumanizing…

— Lara Trump

If you don't understand that calling for violence against your political opponents is unacceptable in a democracy, then you should not be…

— Jake Auchincloss

The US is indeed a terrorist nation. ...It's also the greatest purveyor of violence on earth over the past half century, and…

— Bill Ayers

And in the wake of Trump's elections, there have been reports across the country of intimidation, harassment and violence against those very…

— Newt Gingrich

In stark contrast with the views of the Greek philosophers and with those of the rest of western intellectuals to the present…

— Anonymous

As an actor you're only as good as the things you're offered. And there just weren't any female directors offering me things.…

— Nicole Kidman

There is no question that abuse, drugs and exposure to violence at home can exacerbate someone's criminal tendencies enormously. But there are…

— Andrew Solomon

Fixing a broken immigration system. Protecting our kids from gun violence. Equal pay for equal work, paid leave, raising the minimum wage.…

— Barack Obama

I think I've always had these two currents, equally strong, of wanting to change the world and make the world better and…

— Eve Ensler

Violence in real life is terrible; violence in movies can be cool. It's just another colour to work with.

— Quentin Tarantino

I find along with many virtues in my countrymen there is a jealousy, a soreness, and readiness to take offence, as if…

— Edmund Burke

It is unfortunate that the efforts of mankind to recover the freedom of which they have been so long deprived, will be…

— Thomas Jefferson

I don't care what the reason is, or who started what. It doesn't matter. Physical violence should never be the answer.

— Cynthia Bailey

Needless to say, if the Arab-Israeli conflict is about interstate disputes and the need to resolve the future of the West Bank…

— Elliott Abrams

In fact, violence as a symbol of our growing irrationality has had an increasing role in activity for its own sake, when…

— Carroll Quigley

I will not tire of declaring that if we really want an effective end to violence we must remove the violence that…

— Oscar Romero

To be reserved, secretive, with a passionate violence that causes suffering.

— Gwen John

Actual plans for how we help the economy, how we help the environment, how we help [deal with] violence in our cities.…

— Natalie Portman

Fortune blinds men when she does not wish them to withstand the violence of her onslaughts.

— Livy