Violence Quotes · Page 85

It is difficult to judge, when both sides are employing weapons of violence, which side 'deserves' to succeed.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I don't like violence. I get sick from violence. Do you think people are excited by violence?

— Bette Midler

We need to get serious about combating gang violence on Long Island, and the entire nation.

— Tim Bishop

“Covetousness gives birth to violence, while violence gives birth to oppression.”

— Sunday Adelaja

We, the FBI, don't investigate ideology, no matter how repugnant. When it turns to violence, we're all over it.

— Christopher A. Wray

Violence arises not out of superfluity of power but out of powerlessness.

— Rollo May

“Come see the violence inherit in the system!! Help Help I'm being oppressed!!”

— Monty Python and the Holy Grail

I would never condone violence against women in any form, and for all of those I offended, I am sincerely sorry.

— Russell Simmons

We're getting rid of the D [in PTSD]. PTS is an injury; it's not a disorder. The problem is when you call…

— George W. Bush

Those are the movies that we [with Evan Goldberg] always wanted to make. Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, the kind of movies where…

— Seth Rogen

I was raised in Washington, DC, very violent place. I grew up with violence. My introduction to music was violent. The years…

— Henry Rollins

We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

In a world of deep injustice and violence, a people exists that thinks some can be given time to study. We need…

— Stanley Hauerwas

Take a ride through the city man tell me what you witness. Poverty, richness, crooked cops and misfits, violence, hatred, real devastation,…

— JCole

Creole women take after Europe in their intelligence, after the Tropics in the illogical violence of their passions, and after the Indies…

— Honore de Balzac

I'm sure my father would applaud the explosion of youth activism that has emerged in response to the gun violence pandemic. I'm…

— Martin Luther King III

First and foremost, I would like to extend my deepest sympathies to the family of Michael Brown. As I have said in…

— Robert P. McCulloch

Realism; fatalism; phlegm. To live in the Fens is to receive strong doses of reality. The great flat monotony of reality; the…

— Graham Swift

How do you deal with a criminal that will not listen to what you have to say and who continues his policy…

— Oliver Tambo

And yet the world we live in-its divisions and conflicts, its widening gap between rich and poor, its seemingly inexplicable outbursts of…

— Adam Hochschild

“The Women in Black are Israeli Jews who meet wall in Jerusalem. They meet every Friday, the Sabbath evening, and pray. They…

— Megan McKenna

The idea for me is that if the movie connects with you the way I want it to connect with you, you…

— Guillermo del Toro

Toby [Huss] gets shot, or that part when [John] Travolta says this, or the part where Ethan [Hawke] says that cool thing…

— Ti West

One of the paradoxes of our time is that the War on Terror has served mainly to reinforce a collective belief that…

— Eula Biss

Returning violence for violence multiplies violence... Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The question is no longer between violence and non-violence it is between non-violence and non-existence.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Freedom of expression is not an absolute, it comes with responsibility. But violence is not the answer.

— Anonymous

My focus is first of all, to remove every thought of violence from my own consciousness.

— Deepak Chopra

Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.

— Leo Tolstoy

“Being made up of distinctions, language finds it almost impossible to express undifferentiation.”

— René Girard

“in the antagonistic society, the relationship of the generations is also one of competition, behind which stands naked violence.”

— Theodor W. Adorno

“There just seems to be too much violence everywhere, even the news can't help break now and then on TV”

— Nikhil Sharda

No one deserves to be beaten, talked down to and controlled... Stop the Violence!

— YaPrecia

Even extreme grief may ultimately vent itself in violence--but more generally takes the form of apathy

— Joseph Conrad

Ultimately, in the battle against lies and violence, truth and love have no other weapon than the witness of suffering.

— Pope Benedict XVI

It's Ethan Hawke and John Travolta [in Valley of Violence]. It's awesome. They're awesome.

— Ti West

CARE is participating in a groundbreaking summit to end sexual violence in conflict.

— Anonymous

Extreme violence has a way of preventing us from seeing the interests it serves.

— Naomi Klein

Attica. The name itself has long signified resistance to prison abuse and state violence.

— James Forman, Jr

It was his eyes. When you looked into them, you saw chained violence baring teeth and claws back at you.

— Ilona Andrews