Violence Quotes · Page 39

Be it caste or communal violence, they stall the growth of the nation. Let us affirm that we will be free from…

— Narendra Modi

“We get into fights or lust for imperial dominion over another nation for reasons of pride.”

— Richard W. Wrangham

Television is full of fictional and real violence that's turned into entertainment.

— Bill James

“the peace’ is normally created through the willingness of a few to do great violence in its name.”

— Ken Lange

Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them.

— Louise Bogan

Don't stand back with your arms folded; step forward... There is hope and light to resist injustice and promote peace without violence.

— Adolfo Perez Esquivel

The world is in such a place of social unrest and there's so much violence.

— Walt Dohrn

The abuse of women and girls is the most pervasive and unaddressed human right violation on earth.

— Jimmy Carter

“Many of the bishops had purchased their sees, and most of these naturally preferred doing violence to their opinions rather than lose…

— George Finlay

The human moral sense can excuse any atrocity in the minds of those who commit it, and it furnishes them with motives…

— Steven Pinker

“A sensibility that wails almost exclusively over the enemies of liberty seems suspect to me. Stop shaking the tyrant's bloody robe in…

— Maximilien Robespierre

A majority of Americans oppose partial-birth abortion, and Judge Hamilton's decision flies in the face of Congress passing and President Bush signing…

— Marc Racicot

In the Middle Ages, psychosis may have involved visions of the devil, snakes, or witches. In the 21st century, it can involve…

— Zeynep Tufekci

Health systems usually deal with the consequences of violence. We normally, in the health system, don't have the tools to prevent it,…

— Julio Frenk

Describing passive violence in this culture is kinda like someone who is drowning in the middle of the ocean giving you the…

— Inga Muscio

Later I would come to believe that erotic ties were all a spell, a temporary psychosis, even a kind of violence, or…

— Lorrie Moore

This is the beginning of a social movement in fact and not in pronouncements. We seek our basic, God - given rights…

— Cesar Chavez

In our current society, it is considered a weakness to be female and a treason to protest this. Highlighting inequality results in…

— Clementine Ford

The book I am best known for, or only known for, is a novel I am prepared to repudiate: written a quarter…

— Anthony Burgess

I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have from…

— Ernest Gaines

Those who take to guns could do so due to deprivation, suppression, or historical legacy. The Afghans have lived through violence for…

— Asghar Ali Engineer

“Isn't it amazing that, historically, the "Prince of Peace" has most often been introduced to new cultures through extreme violence? European and…

— David G. McAfee

If someone can produce the law that keeps guns out of the hands of criminals but protects the right of law-abiding citizens…

— Marco Rubio

If the first casualty of war is innocence, then perhaps with each bullet fired, bomb detonated, leader overthrown, wall built, economy destroyed…

— Michael Franti

Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.

— Emile M. Cioran

“Never since that time has this house got itself clear of rawblood butchery.”

— Sophocles

Trust your intuition, rather than technology, to protect you from violence.

— Tom Butler-Bowdon

In 'Gangs of Wasseypur,' I wanted to take violence forward and play it up.

— Anurag Kashyap

Francesco Damiani punches with all the violence and bad intentions of Mahatma Gandhi.

— Jerry Izenberg

But transitions from the politics of violence to democratic compromise are always messy.

— Timothy Garton Ash

A lot of guys don't want to admit that they have a propensity for generosity and for violence.

— Sylvester Stallone

America's addiction to violence is partly evident in the heroes it chooses to glorify.

— Henry Giroux

Those who use the term 'alt-left' consistently point to violence from the left, often by anti-fascists - both perceived and real.

— Elizabeth Flock

I do not like violence, but ours is a violent time, and there are some men who understand nothing else.

— Louis L'Amour

I would never ever condone any violence of any kind. But in the theater of fiction, blood is delightful.

— Jonathan Raymond

We must choose between the violence of adults and the smiles of children

— Elie Wiesel

I have consistently preached that nonviolence demands that the means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“There is no document of civilization that is not also a document of barbarism.”

— Walter Benjamin

A government is an institution that holds a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence.

— Max Weber

Far more violence has been done in obeying the law than in breaking the law.

— Robert Frost