Violence Quotes · Page 42

Those who do nothing are inviting shame as well as violence. Those who act boldly are recognizing right as well as reality.

— John F. Kennedy

I am committed to the principle that violence is never justified as a means of ameliorating a grievance.

— Justin Sane

In a functioning liberal democracy, we cannot normalize political violence.

— Andy Ngo

We cannot allow those with mental illness or record of hate or violence access guns and terrorize this country.

— Wayne Messam

Since the primitive times, the wealth of the popes was exposed to envy, their powers to opposition, and their persons to violence.

— Edward Gibbon

Horror and panic themselves are forms of violence, and diminishing them, restricting their dimensions, is itself a civilizing act.

— Walter Kirn

The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

There's more violence in one football game than there is in an entire hockey season, and nobody ever talks about that.

— Keith Allen

What's wrong with our children? Adults telling children to be honest while lying and cheating. Adults telling children to not be violent…

— Marian Wright Edelman

I won't go to movies with permissiveness, four-letter words, or violence. Show me 'E.T.' and 'Chariots of Fire' instead. That's entertainment, not…

— Ginger Rogers

Women initiate most domestic violence, yet out of a thousand cases of domestic violence, maybe one is involving a man. And this…

— Dov Charney

The one thing that frustrates me more than anything else is that no studio has ever told me to tone down violence.…

— Christopher McQuarrie

What postmodernism gives us instead is a multicultural defense for male violence - a defense for it wherever it is, which in…

— Catharine MacKinnon

American violence is public life, it's a public way of life, it became a form, a detective story form. So I should…

— Chester Himes

'This Is Not That Dawn' is remarkable in part for its careful and sensitive attention to women's lives - and also for…

— Karan Mahajan

A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to violence…

— Anonymous

Hopefully we'll get to a point where there are absolutely no restrictions on any kind of violence in movies. I'd love to…

— Eli Roth

You have to understand the Newark Riots - a lot of people understand that the pain was the initial explosion of anger…

— Cory Booker

“The Soul is indeed such that the mahavrats (five great vows of truth, non-possessiveness, non-violence, non-stealing, and celibacy as expounded by Lord…

— Dada Bhagwan

Since 'the kingdom of heaven suffers violence and the violent take it by force' (Mt. 11:12), and it is impossible for the…

— Symeon the New Theologian

Once we accept violence as an adaptation, it makes sense that its expression is calibrated to the environment. The same individual will…

— Paul Bloom

“I rely on images of violence, which bring the shock of pain, to penetrate the barriers people erect and defend, not simple…

— Jim Morrison

“Wars will never cease while men still kill other animals for food, for to turn any living creature into a roast, a…

— Agnes Ryan

“Many public officials are using the power of their offices to defy the law of the land. Through their irresponsible actions, their…

— Martin Luther King Jr

HIV-positive people can lose custody of their children, lose their housing, and face intimate partner violence.

— Sean Strub

“For their most innocent words were acts of violence to which we of the campus were hypersensitive though we endured them not.”

— Ralph Ellison

“Violence cannot remove violence... Violence breeds more violence and hate.”

— Jeffrey A. White

He [John Hampden] knew that the essence of war is violence, and that moderation in war is imbecility.

— Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild

Deporting asylum seekers back to violence does not reflect the values of our country.

— Diane Guerrero

In the world today, only a philosophy of eternity could justify non-violence.

— Albert Camus

The violence and burnings in Lebanon were the work of Syrian soldiers and workers dressed in civilian clothes.

— Walid Jumblatt

If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?

— Joan Baez

The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for…

— Edward Coke

Violence - look, we live in a violent world, man. This country was founded on violence. Who's kidding who?

— Bruce Willis

War is not the answer. Violence is not the solution. A more peaceful world is possible.

— Ron Kovic

I try to understand people who do violence. I try to understand what they are feeling and experiencing.

— Yolanda King

If you push me, I'll shove, I'm masculine. When she wants to play rough, I'm masculine.

— Meat Loaf

I express preference for a chronological sequence of events which precludes a violence.

— Terry Pratchett

The Israeli people deserve better than a life in between rounds of violence.

— Tzipi Livni

One of my favorite scenes of the movie [Valley of Violence] is when Ethan Hawke is sitting at the campfire with the…

— Ti West