Violence Quotes · Page 73

“The violence of power is unacceptable only when we see it in action.”

— Olivier Razac

Young people across the country have grown up traumatized by the gun violence epidemic.

— Wayne Messam

When faced with a choice between violence and cowardice, always choose violence

— Mahatma Gandhi

My opposition to the socialist and the other consists in attacking violence as a means of effecting any lasting reform.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I'm just hoping that people understand that Islam is peace and not violence.

— Muhammad Ali

It takes a touch of genius-and a lot of Courage-to move in the opposite direction.

— Albert Einstein

The pornography of violence of course far exceeds, in volume and general acceptance, sexual pornography, in this Puritan land of ours.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.

— Hunter S Thompson

All gentle cant and philosophizing to the contrary notwithstanding, no people in this world ever did achieve their freedom by goody-goody talk…

— Mark Twain

If you want to cut crime, if you want to end homelessness, you have to deal with sexual violence, sexual harassment, and…

— Eric Garcetti

Taking away the peace of a people, committing every act of violence, or consenting to such acts, especially when directed against the…

— Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople

“For most of history, life has been hierarchical. A few have enjoyed the privileges that come from monopolizing violence. Everyone else has…

— Niall Ferguson

I remember watching 'Fargo.' I thought that was cruel. 'GoodFellas,' lots of Scorsese stuff, I think is unnecessarily violent and almost a…

— Jonathan Pryce

I don't view myself as a victim of gun violence. I view myself as a victim of a maniac who happened to…

— Suzanna Hupp

“Faced with so much ignorance and prejudice currently I can only comment that Facebook is a breeding ground for the worst fruits…

— Juliano Alves

Helplessness is the new danger the olds are facing, violence is the new conduct in which the adults are behaving and lust…

— 5h45hvut

'Fargo' is a tragedy with a happy ending. So you need to have that tragic underpinning, that all of this could be…

— Noah Hawley

What's really hurting me, the name Islam is involved, and Muslim is involved and causing trouble and starting hate and violence. ...…

— Muhammad Ali

Indeed, it may be laid down as a general principle, that the more extended the ancestry, the greater the amount of violence…

— Charles Dickens

Non-violence confronts systematic injustice with active love, but refuses to retaliate with further violence under any circumstances. In order to halt the…

— John Dear

I've been in a few movies that really have the tendency to polarize people, and I kind of like that. I kind…

— Ellen Page

You do not want a war. You have known violence, you have suffered loss, but you have seen nothing of war. War…

— Joss Whedon

Evil does exist in the world. A non-violent movement could not have halted Hitler's armies. Negotiations cannot convince al Qaeda's leaders to…

— Barack Obama

We have gone a long way toward civilization and religious tolerance, and we have a good example in this country. Here the…

— Harry S. Truman

Palestinian violence is not a response to the capture of the West Bank and Gaza. Palestinian nationalism's roots are not so shallow.

— Ehud Olmert

It's not that the film is violent, it's that people have an issue with violence right now.

— Thomas Jane

On the field is a place where you can just let it loose and react to everything with violence.

— Troy Polamalu

“We need to teach our nation to detest any form of plots, insinuations, evil intrigues and violence.”

— Sunday Adelaja

In my lifetime, we have lost a President, a Civil Rights leader and a Presidential candidate - all to gun violence.

— Marianne Williamson

“Perhaps it's simply the dual nature of marriage, the proximity of violence and love.”

— Adam Ross

My nonviolence does recognize different species of violence, defensive and offensive.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Philosophical thinking that doesn't do violence to one's settled mind is no philosophical thinking at all.

— Rebecca Goldstein

Any act of injury done from self-interest, whether amounting to killing or not, is doubtless himsa.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Violence, especially if you are a woman, is not something spoken about with ease.”

— Kay Redfield Jamison

Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by committee meetings.

— Anonymous

Violence [in Palestina] is part of the resistance to occupation. The basic fact is not the violence; the basic fact is the…

— Uri Avnery

Indeed the very word, nonviolence, a negative word, means that it is an effort to abandon the violence that is inevitable in…

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Every gesture was one of disorder and violence, as if a lioness had come into the room.”

— Anaïs Nin

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Courtesy towards opponents and eagerness to understand their view-point is the ABC of non-violence.

— Mahatma Gandhi