Violence Quotes · Page 72

“What does our commitment to nonviolence mean as citizens of one of the most powerful and oppressive nations in recorded history?”

— Mary Jo Bowman

How can I make a movie about the violence of the police if the police aren't going to let me film it?

— Jose Padilha

For thugs from the ghetto, violence is a way of life - it's what helps you survive.

— Suge Knight

I was concerned that if I came out of the closet, that at best, I would face ostracism, and at worst, face…

— Ritchie Torres

When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her.

— Oscar Wilde

Violence against women is the single greatest human rights violation of our generation,

— Patrick Stewart

No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence in the end…

— Margaret Mead

Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor.

— Robert A. Heinlein

The 2 extremes, neither one worse than the other: the result of bad religion is self-loathing and violence; the result of bad…

— Criss Jami

Today [people] are ready to take emergency cures, whatever they are, if it's violence, if it's a fascination with serial killing or…

— Leonard Cohen

Something is wrong here, and it's more than easy access to guns or violence on TV. It's about lack of love and…

— Rob Reiner

We should protect free speech by repealing offences that stifle legitimate debate - like 'glorification' of terrorism and religious hatred - but…

— Dominic Raab

Like so many of you, I am deeply distressed both by the hateful violence in Charlottesville and by President Trump's refusal to…

— Eva Moskowitz

Ethiopia is a major contributor to peace and security in Africa, the U.S.'s ally in the fight against violent extremists, and has…

— Tom Malinowski

Again, when it comes to enforcement of our community standards, we support people's rights to demonstrate, but we don't care about who…

— Ted Wheeler

At an Antifa event meant to resist 'fascist violence,' I - a gay journalist of color - was beaten so badly that…

— Andy Ngo

“In a world dominated by violent and passive-aggressive men, and by male institutions dispensing violence, it is extraordinary to note how often…

— Adrienne Rich

Revolutionaries who come to power by force of arms usually have great crimes in their background. Leaders who survive campaigns by great…

— Stephen Kinzer

I'm not a big fan of violent movies, it's not something I like to watch. And it's not my aim or goal…

— Takashi Miike

At first I protested and rebelled against poetry. I was about to deny my poetic worlds. I was doing violence to my…

— Anais Nin

More than poverty, more than degree of education, religion, access to natural resources, even degree of democracy - violence against females is…

— Gloria Steinem

In Macbeth a lady is restrained from the murder of a king by his resemblance of her father as he slept. Should…

— Benjamin Rush

“I believe order is better than chaos, creation better than destruction. I prefer gentleness to violence, forgiveness to vendetta. On the whole…

— Kenneth Clark

“And it is clear that in the colonial countries the peasants alone are revolutionary, for they have nothing to lose and everything…

— Frantz Fanon

The sex was so passionate it bordered on violence. It was not vanilla. It was passion as suffering

— Elise Valmorbida

Our party never tolerated those who use violence for political ends. Our leaders lost their lives standing against terrorism.

— Kapil Sibal

As the State is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Football combines two of the worst things in American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings.”

— George Will

We tried to make a movie that had sex and violence because we like sex and violence.

— Anonymous

“They fight with a bloodthirstiness I wouldn't expect outside a maximum-security prison or suburban PTA meeting.”

— Eliza Crewe

In my political philosophy I think that there sometimes is room for violence.

— Pierre Trudeau

“I do believe that, where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

I didn't meddle. If I did meddle there wouldn't be all this violence. All this horrible sexism in games.

— Lincoln Chafee

When I was a kid, my mother's parenting style teetered between benign neglect and intense bouts of violence.

— Ariel Gore

All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Violence has been a part of films since the beginning of time. It's been a form of entertainment.

— Vanessa Hudgens

We owe our children – the most vulnerable citizens in any society – a life free from violence and fear.

— Nelson Mandela

Violence up close has a smell. Like copper blood and charcoal burning.

— Anonymous

“Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat for it is momentary." ( Satyagraha Leaflet No. 13 , 3 May 1919)”

— Mahatma Gandhi

“The threatening to, harsh aggression, made her submissive. (Across Time And Space)”

— Mala Naidoo