Violence Quotes · Page 41

1819 was a year of hunger, mass unemployment, political repression and murderous, state-sanctioned violence.

— David Olusoga

In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival.

— Andrew Young

Our society has gotten to the point where we might soon become less and less shocked by any kind of violence.

— Stanley Crouch

Look past the violence. There is a wonderful brimming spirit of innocence and fun.

— Don DeLillo

there is enough treachery , hatred violence absurdity in the average human being to supply any given army on any given day

— Charles Bukowski

I don't advocate senseless violence of any human being. I'm the one who's been beat down. But I will not be a…

— Tupac Shakur

Acts of violence against one's own countrymen that are legitimated by religion are not new. Nor have such acts been unique to…

— Linda Colley

My view is when you use violence on your people, that never ends well.

— Anonymous

The truest comparison we can make of love is to liken it to a fever; we have no more power over the…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Those most likely to be raped or sexually assaulted are young women between the ages of 16 and 24, women with their…

— Rosa DeLauro

Racism is worse than ever. Violence is worse than ever. The economy's worse than ever. Unemployment's worse than ever. And it's Democrats…

— Rush Limbaugh

We are not going to deal with the violence in our communities, our homes, and our nation, until we learn to deal…

— Marian Wright Edelman

Female violence is a specific brand of ferocity. It's invasive. A girlfight is all teeth and hair, spit and nails - a…

— Gillian Flynn

Fight back! Whenever you are offered violence, fight back! The aggressor does not fear the law, so he must be taught to…

— Jeff Cooper

There are certain things that they say you can't do, there are all these secret people behind the scenes who make things…

— Afrika Bambaataa

American energy. . . is the energy of violence, of free-floating resentment and anxiety unleashed by chronic cultural dislocations which must be,…

— Susan Sontag

“And there’s one other matter I must raise. The epidemic of domestic sexual violence that lacerates the soul of South Africa is…

— Stephen Lewis

I wish you would stop and seriously consider, as a broad and long-term feminist political strategy, the conversion of women to a…

— Marilyn Frye

I don't think there is anything wrong with watching violence but I just think you have to present it in the appropriate…

— Rob Zombie

“During the second half of the twentieth century this Law of the Jungle has finally been broken, if not rescinded. In most…

— Yuval Noah Harari

The world in which we live would benefit greatly if men and women everywhere would exercise the pure love of Christ, which…

— Howard W. Hunter

Peace is the absence of war, but beyond that peace is a commodity unlike any other. Peace is security. Peace is a…

— Noeleen Heyzer

Civilization is based on a clearly defined and widely accepted yet often unarticulated hierarchy. Violence done by those higher on the hierarchy…

— Derrick Jensen

The whole Hollywood conception of Tibet as this peace-loving country denies the complex humanity of the Tibetan people. Their ideas exist in…

— Pankaj Mishra

“Violence, once committed, lingered behind and subtly worked on those sensitive to its ugliness.”

— Christine Feehan

Once ignorance is weaponized, violence seems to be a tragic inevitability.

— Henry Giroux

To what extent has each one of us contributed to the rise in violence and hatred?

— Laura Esquivel

“Great God! hast Thou given men Thine own image that it should be thus cruelly defaced by the hands of their brethren!”

— Walter Scott

Only thought which does violence to itself is hard enough to shatter myth.

— Anonymous

Violence is a choice a man makes and he alone is responsible for it.

— Patrick Stewart

“The body is not the only target of rape. Violence does not always take visible form, and not all wounds gush blood.”

— Haruki Murakami

Young men need to show women the respect they deserve and recognize sexual assault and to do their part to stop it.

— Barack Obama

Means are not to be distinguished from ends. If violent means are used, there will be bad results.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Violence can be understood as a public health issue: It spreads from person to person and it can be prevented and treated.

— Leana S. Wen

I couldn't think of one clever way to stop this guy, so I just trusted to mindless violence.

— Grant Morrison

Above all Christians are not allowed to correct by violence sinful wrongdoings.

— Clement of Alexandria

Preaching nonviolence on principle reproduces the existing institutionalized violence.

— Herbert Marcuse

I suffer snakes to be killed in the ashram when it is impossible to catch them and put them out of harm's…

— Mahatma Gandhi

My position does not give me the liberty to exclude anything, but my mood tells me there will not be violence.

— Vano Merabishvili

Jane! will you hear reason?' (he stooped and approached his lips to my ear) 'because, if you won't, I'll try violence.

— Charlotte Bronte