Violence Quotes · Page 68

“Violence, once committed, lingered behind and subtly worked on those sensitive to its ugliness.”

— Christine Feehan

Violence is a choice a man makes and he alone is responsible for it.

— Patrick Stewart

Only thought which does violence to itself is hard enough to shatter myth.

— Anonymous

To what extent has each one of us contributed to the rise in violence and hatred?

— Laura Esquivel

“Great God! hast Thou given men Thine own image that it should be thus cruelly defaced by the hands of their brethren!”

— Walter Scott

Far more violence has been done in obeying the law than in breaking the law.

— Robert Frost

We must not believe the Evil One when he tells us that there is nothing we can do in the face of…

— Pope Francis

A government is an institution that holds a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence.

— Max Weber

It fills me with dismay sometimes when you look at the scripts that do come to you that are primarily focused on…

— Richard Armitage

I'm so sick and tired of all this violence, this gun violence. And how could I speak on it - you know…

— Snoop Dogg

The universe may be tenderly indifferent to our fate, but we shouldn’t be. We are our brothers’ keepers. There is right, and…

— John Dufresne

The survival of democracy depends on the renunciation of violence and the development of nonviolent means to combat evil and advance the…

— A. J. Muste

As a kid, there was not much I could do to stop the violence in our home. When I got older, as…

— Darryl Glenn

In experimental art, men are given the exact specifications of coming violence to their own psyches from their own counter-irritant or technology...…

— Marshall McLuhan

“Feet away, Professor Dema stood, carrying a large gunlike weapon with both her hands and a snarl on her lips. This was…

— Nnedi Okorafor

I represent an affluent district, but when I worked to form my county's first battered-women's shelter, some nights there were no beds…

— Lynn Woolsey

The sneer is gone from Casey's lip, his teeth are clenched in hate; He pounds with cruel violence his bat upon the…

— Ernest Thayer

Piracy is robbery with violence, often segueing into murder, rape and kidnapping. It is one of the most frightening crimes in the…

— Nick Harkaway

“It's despair at the lack of (I'm cheating, I didn't say all these things - but I'm going to write what I…

— John Fowles

People who oppose violence often defend strikes, forgetting that strikes are historically every bit as violent as riots. They recast history so…

— Joshua Clover

Non-violence and cowardice are contradictory terms. Non-violence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice. Non-violence springs from love, cowardice from hate.…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Justice consists in seeing that no harm is done to men. Whenever a man cries inwardly: 'Why am I being hurt?' harm…

— Simone Weil

“...in an area such as this the possibility of violence for the sake of robbery or even mere amusement is always something…

— K.W. Jeter

Military weapons are the means used by the Sage to punish violence and cruelty, to give peace to troublous times, to remove…

— Sima Qian

“There is no document of civilization that is not also a document of barbarism.”

— Walter Benjamin

I always thought the real violence in Hollywood isn't what's on the screen. It's what you have to do to raise the…

— David Mamet

It is no non-violence if we merely love those that love us. It is non-violence only when we love those that hate…

— Mahatma Gandhi

It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

I think violence has always been popular, way before movies started being made.

— Norman Reedus

Not all cultural borrowing is a form of social violence: some of it is just cringe.

— Ash Sarkar

If [George] Zimmerman had been arrested for domestic violence, Trayvon Martin might still be alive.

— Gloria Steinem

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

Violence in drama is an external contextualization of internal conflicts.

— Laeta Kalogridis

In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.

— Park Chan-wook

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

— Joan Baez

“From the violence on TV to the over-stimulation from our phones, we are constantly fueled by fight-or-flight energy.”

— Shawn Wells

The big thrillers may make people aware of the violence in the society, and I guess that serves a purpose.

— Diane Ladd

Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.

— Anonymous

There is no shame in being a survivor of sexual violence. The shame is on the aggressor.

— Angelina Jolie

I think that the effort to continue to look for some law to somehow make violence go away is missing the point.

— Mitt Romney