Violence Quotes · Page 71

I suffer snakes to be killed in the ashram when it is impossible to catch them and put them out of harm's…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Jane! will you hear reason?' (he stooped and approached his lips to my ear) 'because, if you won't, I'll try violence.

— Charlotte Bronte

There's more violence in one football game than there is in an entire hockey season, and nobody ever talks about that.

— Keith Allen

The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Horror and panic themselves are forms of violence, and diminishing them, restricting their dimensions, is itself a civilizing act.

— Walter Kirn

He [John Hampden] knew that the essence of war is violence, and that moderation in war is imbecility.

— Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild

“Violence cannot remove violence... Violence breeds more violence and hate.”

— Jeffrey A. White

“For their most innocent words were acts of violence to which we of the campus were hypersensitive though we endured them not.”

— Ralph Ellison

Can a man who lies, cheats, steals, and sometimes does violence to other people be a man of honor? Kolabati looked into…

— F. Paul Wilson

Some believe that the only way to remove the authoritarian regime and replace it with a democratic one is through violent means.…

— Aung San Suu Kyi

“Instead of drawing attention to problems with the Islamic way of life, our leaders seek to present the increasing violence of the…

— Milo Yiannopoulos

In TV and film, a little goes a long way. I see the show as horror so a lot of the [violence]…

— Glen Mazzara

As legislators and as Members of Congress, it is our obligation to speak up for those who are being ignored in our…

— Gwen Moore

Anne Marie Schubert is one of the most horrible district attorneys in the state of California. She represents Donald Trump and Jeff…

— Shaun King

I argue that legal equality has failed resistance movements aimed at transforming material conditions of violence, and that trans activists should take…

— Dean Spade

There are certain values that, in my opinion, television has lost - various moral lines. How far you go in, say, revealing…

— David Jason

Not only did we survive AIDS, Reaganomics, poverty, racism, gang violence, police brutality, substance abuse - not only did we survive that,…

— Sofia Quintero

The convoluted wording of legalisms grew up around the necessity to hide from ourselves the violence we intend toward each other. Between…

— Frank Herbert

New York City must divest the hundreds of millions of dollars we have invested in Walmart for far too long, dollars that…

— Letitia James

“Gun violence touches every class, color, and community, with thirty-three thousand people dying from guns each year—an average of ninety a day.…

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

If history shows anything, it is that there's no better way to justify relations founded on violence, to make such relations seem…

— David Graeber

To us, it is incomprehensible that millions of Christian men killed and tortured each other because Napoleon was ambitious or Alexander was…

— Leo Tolstoy

I think any time you have any kind of social ill, not just domestic violence...as much as it's about the act, the…

— Malik Yoba

Me? I see an old, broke-ass black guy taking care of a bunch of kids, living life, taking them to school, and…

— Mike Tyson

HIV-positive people can lose custody of their children, lose their housing, and face intimate partner violence.

— Sean Strub

We cannot allow those with mental illness or record of hate or violence access guns and terrorize this country.

— Wayne Messam

In a functioning liberal democracy, we cannot normalize political violence.

— Andy Ngo

Since the primitive times, the wealth of the popes was exposed to envy, their powers to opposition, and their persons to violence.

— Edward Gibbon

The architecture of war and violence is now matched by a barrage of goods parading as fashion.

— Henry Giroux

Violence begets violence by whomever used. War is a dirty business and entails the use of degrading means, whoever wages it.

— A. J. Muste

“An act of violence, no matter how small, can never be justified if it can be avoided.”

— Kamand Kojouri

The rules of sexism do not free men from the terror of violence; they only keep men from complaining about it.

— Warren Farrell

“They were brutes, no doubt, but brutes who could not read, and who were dying of hunger.”

— Émile Zola

Sometimes we equate anger to destructive physical violence, but anger need not be martial.

— Kamal Haasan

While representing violence on screen, some directors tend to gloss over it while others glamorize it.

— Victor Banerjee

“Kinetic meant violent; a gunfight was kinetic, a tea party was nonkinetic.”

— Peter Van Buren

“What had this woman and the other victims done which could merit such violence being done to them?”

— Mark Sennen

If you hate what you're seeing, you call it sex and violence. If you like it, you call it "romance and adventure."

— Joe Bob Briggs

My experience teaches me that truth can never be propagated by doing violence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Mix me with violence, blend me with peace, Combine me with hate, and I can't face defeat.

— Puff Daddy