Violence Quotes · Page 38

My people have been sucked into the violence because some feel they have to retaliate, and some feel they have to protect…

— Mangosuthu Buthelezi

“Man kept control over the machines he created, I wish God would have done the same with the man he created.”

— Amit Kalantri

“America isn’t perfect but there’s not a better place in the world for people of any faith.”

— Tucker Elliot

Gun violence should have no home in the richest country in the history of the world.

— Jasmine Crockett

Peace through superior violence inevitably leads to the atom bomb and all that it stands for.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Whenever evil is destroyed people are happy. Then what's wrong in depicting positive violence?

— Suniel Shetty

“A culture of vultures steeped and born of violence shall choke on the blood of its offspring.”

— T.F. Hodge

“Turns out if you write about police violence and atrocities, if you wait a month, it'll happen again, so... That's America.”

— Colson Whitehead

“It was like the violence of the world he’d grown up in had embedded itself in him, taken root, and could never…

— S.E. Jakes

Corruption is... the result of a decadent political regime. We are absolutely convinced that this evil is the main cause of social…

— Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador

Non-violence is not a quality to be evolved or expressed to order. It is an inward growth depending for sustenance upon intense…

— Mahatma Gandhi

That's my life. But I don't glorify violence, and I hate jail. The rap game saved me, man: I've got three children,…

— Black Rob

The plight of the terrified Central American children who have flooded across the U.S. border to escape violence and poverty in their…

— Óscar Arias

If you want to be a civilised man, first you have to be a non-violent man! If you want to be a…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Islam doesn't promote violence or peace. Islam is just a religion, and like every religion in the world, it depends on what…

— Reza Aslan

There is so much history of this racist violence that simply to bring one person to justice is not going to disturb…

— Angela Davis

Hamas must agree to first recognize Israel, second to end all violence, third to accept past agreements. Try to find a mention…

— Noam Chomsky

I think we're creating a situation that's incredibly dangerous. There's a lot of chat at the moment about the war on terror…

— Emma Thompson

“What is considered as a vow (vrat)? For this Dada [Gnani Purush], the five mahavrats (great vows of truth, non-possessiveness, non-violence, non-stealing,…

— Dada Bhagwan

“Hobbes's analysis of the causes of violence, borne out by modern data on crime and war, shows that violence is not a…

— Steven Pinker

And if I'm guilty of having gratuitous sex, then I'm also guilty of having gratuitous violence, and gratuitous feasting, and gratuitous description…

— George R. R. Martin

No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause . . . . With equal, nay with greater reason,…

— James Madison

I think my way of showing violence is unique from that of other filmmakers, in that when I show it, it hurts.…

— Takeshi Kitano

How I wish that all men and women of good will would look to the Cross if only for a moment! There,…

— Pope Francis

Wherever arms flow, violence follows. Bullets replace ballots as the solution to political disputes.

— Michael Douglas

“Where a person has no control, he will turn to violence; either to attain control, or as an alternative to it.”

— Charlie Herrick

Under Trump, black lives will become even more vulnerable to state violence.

— Patrisse Cullors

Any man who has once acclaimed violence as his method must inexorably choose falsehood as his principle.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Lots of people think the violence in the films I make is overwhelming, but they think they're seeing something that they aren't…

— Park Chan-wook

No other form of violence is legitimate. It is never acceptable to use violence to solve a problem. Whether personal or political.

— Gloria Steinem

In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing…

— Seamus Heaney

“I finally understood what could drive kids to show up with guns and shoot up their schools.”

— Nenia Campbell

Eradicating violence of every kind in this country is a fight that requires a commitment from every single person.

— Cori Bush

My door will always be open to those who genuinely renounce violence and seek peaceful accommodation into our nascent democracy.

— Jalal Talabani

We all have violence inside of us, but we try to channel it into what we do.

— Max Cavalera

Let us pray for the many Christians in the world who still suffer persecution and violence. May God grant them the courage…

— Pope Francis

From the director's point of view, it's infinitely easier to do violence than to do a good dramatic scene.

— George Cukor

We see violence to forcibly seize land, at any price, murders and corruption.

— Claudio Hummes

Very few police officers are ever held accountable for even the most egregious shootings and acts of violence.

— Shaun King

I can't remember any text of mine where I said that one should fight Hitler without violence; I'm not an idiot.

— Adam Michnik