Violence Quotes · Page 90

We like to think of women as peacemakers, not purveyors of violence.

— Nina Easton

Leftist law breaking, rule breaking, violence, and disruption have already marred the public Kavanaugh confirmation hearings.

— Tom Fitton

Life is beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression, and violence, and enjoy it to the full.

— Leon Trotsky

I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man's problem just to avoid violence.

— Malcolm X

The violence betwen women is unbelievable. Women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding.

— Tori Amos

I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.

— Mandy Patinkin

Attention is powerful and can dampen violence even in seemingly worst conditions.

— Zeynep Tufekci

There are things we can do [with violence], and we ought to do it in a bipartisan way.

— Hillary Clinton

There is no one in al-Nahda that is 'violence is a means of change or to keep power.' Everyone in al-Nahda believes…

— Rashid al-Ghannushi

I think you will see a lot of strains develop in the political process that will result in violence everywhere in the…

— John Abizaid

I was the victim of physical and psychological violence, so in order to preserve my personal and professional dignity, I wish to…

— Rui Patricio

The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the…

— Ron Paul

Obviously, there's a part of me that takes the world of violence and death very seriously. However, when it comes to protection,…

— Angelina Jolie

My own concern is primarily the terror and violence carried out by my own state... It is very easy to denounce the…

— Noam Chomsky

Sanitised violence in movies has been accepted for years. What seems to upset everybody now is the showing of the consequences of…

— Stanley Kubrick

Ambition, like a torrent, ne'er looks back; And is a swelling, and the last affection A high mind can put off; being…

— Ben Jonson

“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

Trees and flowers were often more meaningful to me than people. They always helped me, consoled me, giving the soul a chance…

— Svetlana Alliluyeva

Through TV and moving pictures a child may see more violence in thirty minutes than the average adult experiences in a lifetime.…

— Fredric Wertham

As parents, can we counter the effect of television violence? One worrying feature in Britain is that so many TV sets are…

— Robert Winston

As an adult, I really don't watch much horror, to be honest. I mean, I like a good thrill. Thrillers are my…

— Corey Feldman

I am willing to accept that there are women out there who say they have chosen to sell sex. But they are…

— Jacqui Smith

Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

— Norman O. Brown

Ideally, peace means the absence of violence. It is an ethical value.

— Mikhail Gorbachev

Seeing the similarity to oneself, one should not use violence or have it used.

— Gautama Buddha

“This table felt extremely dangerous. He understood now that what held his family together was violence.”

— David Vann

History has not looked kindly on us when we've prevented people fleeing violence from seeking refuge in this country.

— Bill Foster

“Saying both sides participated in violence doesn't mean both sides are equally ideologically wrong, you know.”

— T.J. Kirk

The whole army is burning with an insatiable desire to wreak violence upon South Carolina. I almost tremble for her fate.

— William Tecumseh Sherman

The same way that racism is a white person's problem, violence against women is a men's problem.

— Gloria Steinem

Disarmed citizens encourage crime and violence. Armed citizens encourage criminals to find a safer line of work.

— Harry Browne

The greatest dramas in the world are all about sex, violence and death.

— Ray Winstone

the fateful equating of power with violence, of the political with government, and of government with a necessary evil has begun.

— Hannah Arendt

All tremble at violence; all fear death. Putting oneself in the place of another, one should not kill nor cause another to…

— Gautama Buddha

[Domestic violence is] a carefully laid physical, financial and psychological trap.

— Anonymous

I don't think violence on film breeds violence in life. Violence in life breeds violence in films.

— Robert Aldrich

What I've tried to do is bring the madness out in the open. Keep it under wraps, and it erupts into wars…

— Dory Previn

There is no one single solution to the gun violence issue, nor are there any easy answers.

— Brad Schneider