Violence Quotes · Page 74

“The ability to offer empathy to people in stressful situations can defuse potential violence.”

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

The more weapons of violence, the more misery to mankind. The triumph of violence ends in a festival of mourning.

— Laozi

So I think we're kind of an alternate choice for people who have had it with sex and violence.

— Dick Van Dyke

Lord, with so much violence in Iraq, may we persevere in our prayer and generosity.

— Pope Francis

I would do a sort of violence to myself if I didn't express myself in the directly creative ways of writing, both…

— Stephen Hough

I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.

— Malcolm X

'Honour'-based violence is a form of domestic violence. Domestic violence is a broad category.

— Deeyah Khan

Violence is violence. Trauma is trauma. And we are taught to downplay it, even think about it as child's play.

— Tarana Burke

I don't think you want to preach to people. I don't think In A Valley Of Violence, and the same with The…

— Ti West

Ambition fortifies the will of man to become ruler over other men: it operates with deception, cajolery, and violence, it is the…

— T. S. Eliot

As to Taxes, they are evidently inseparable from Government. It is impossible without them to pay the debts of the nation, to…

— Alexander Hamilton

As a prosecutor and a senator, one of my main criminal justice priorities has been enforcing and reauthorizing the Violence Against Women…

— Amy Klobuchar

In all places, and in all times, those religionists who have believed too much have been more inclined to violence and persecution…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Experience convinces me that permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth & violence. Even if my belief is a fond…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Laws are rules established by men who are in control of organized violence for the non fulfillment of which those who do…

— Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

However, the combination of civil resistance, of large-scale mass activities and strikes, with a certain degree of revolutionary violence, could provoke a…

— Joe Slovo

The whole underside of our society has always been violence and still is. Churches, laws - everybody seems to think that man…

— Sam Peckinpah

The term anarchism has become associated with two phenomena with which real anarchist don't want to associate themselves with. One is violence,…

— Howard Zinn

Facts tell us that criminalizing private transfers of firearms among family members and friends under a universal background check system would do…

— Wayne LaPierre

Non-violence can truly flourish when the world is free of poverty, hunger, discrimination, exclusion, intolerance and hatred - when women and men…

— Anwarul Karim Chowdhury

I didn't want to be a victim of my own message [in Trust film]. I didn't want to take advantage of a…

— David Schwimmer

One thing, however, is sure: unless Christians fulfill their prophetic role, unless they become the advocates and defenders of the truly poor,…

— Jacques Ellul

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

— Gary Zukav

Of course I am frustrated with regard to extreme poverty, to violence that never seems to cease. Greed is the key. It's…

— Roger Moore

I'm especially interested in helping to give visibility to the pandemic of violence against women

— Nicole Kidman

“Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined, Viking, Nueva York, 2011; posiciones 3279-3282 (Kindle).”

— Anonymous

Our glorification of violence is ripping society apart. I don't want my children exposed to it.

— William H. Macy

“Sure, the story kicks off with the deaths of thousands of people, but god forbid there be cussing in it, right?”

— Amie Kaufman

Two days overdue, THE WORLD'S WORK has not reached me. Pray make a note of this. I would rather not have to…

— Mark Twain

To imitate the hatred and violence of tyrants and murderers is the best way to take their place.

— Pope Francis

Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political moral questions of our time.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The values a man must cherish as his life-breath are, Truth, Righteousness, Peace, Love and Non violence.

— Anonymous

The Koran is a fascist book which incites violence. That is why this book, just like [Adolf Hitler's] Mein Kampf, must be…

— Geert Wilders

The use of violence by individuals... is not a position that I support or would ever want to be in again.

— Susan Rosenberg

No problems are ever resolved by violence. It only aggravates the pain and the hurt on every side.

— Pranab Mukherjee

“All this miraculous hatred. Christ, a man can't eat his breakfast for filling his belly full of it.”

— Colum McCann

“I always forget that you have seen far more violence than we have,” Zoe says,”

— Veronica Roth

“Unfortunately, violence has a way of overpowering even the strongest of wills”

— Kenneth Eade

We're seeing that women continue to make less money, they continue to face violence.

— Niki Ashton

I do not regard killing or assassination or terrorism as good in any circumstances whatsoever.

— Mahatma Gandhi