Violence Quotes · Page 44

Violence has been a part of films since the beginning of time. It's been a form of entertainment.

— Vanessa Hudgens

When faced with a choice between violence and cowardice, always choose violence

— Mahatma Gandhi

Young people across the country have grown up traumatized by the gun violence epidemic.

— Wayne Messam

“I do believe that, where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

In my political philosophy I think that there sometimes is room for violence.

— Pierre Trudeau

“They fight with a bloodthirstiness I wouldn't expect outside a maximum-security prison or suburban PTA meeting.”

— Eliza Crewe

All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

When I was a kid, my mother's parenting style teetered between benign neglect and intense bouts of violence.

— Ariel Gore

The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not…

— Ezra Pound

People respond in accordance to how you relate to them. If you approach them on the basis of violence, that's how they'll…

— Nelson Mandela

May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to…

— Marianne Williamson

“Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only…

— Martin Luther King Jr

Absolute hospitality would in no way amount to the absence of violence. To the contrary, it would enthrone violence precisely under the…

— Miroslav Volf

“But I had made contact with a different planet from the one my parents or sister lived on. It was a planet…

— Lucky Alice Sebold

I grew up a squatter on the Lower East Side, so it's kind of a given that I'd have very strong opinions…

— Rosario Dawson

Why is one view permissible and the other criminally barred-other than because the force of law is being used to control political…

— Glenn Greenwald

I remember the '70s constantly being winter in Manchester and the Irish community in Manchester closing ranks because of the IRA bombings…

— Noel Gallagher

There's no violence worse than the violence of Iraq. For the last fifty years Iraq has been living a nightmare of violence…

— Hassan Blasim

Non-violence is very weak in the theoretical sense; it cannot defend itself. But it is most powerful in the action situation where…

— Cesar Chavez

One even tries to figure out why Donald Trump is so admiring of a leader who has cracked down on journalists and…

— Philip Gordon

Neoliberal violence produced in part through a massive shift in wealth to the upper 1%, growing inequality, the reign of the financial…

— Henry Giroux

To me, one of the big silver linings of the Simpson trial is the advances we've made in understanding domestic violence as…

— Marcia Clark

We must not descend to the level of those who perpetrated Tuesday's violence by targeting individuals based on their race, their religion,…

— John Ashcroft

If peace activists really want to make changes, they have to start putting intense pressure on their elected officials. Of course, everything…

— Cindy Sheehan

I didn't meddle. If I did meddle there wouldn't be all this violence. All this horrible sexism in games.

— Lincoln Chafee

On the field is a place where you can just let it loose and react to everything with violence.

— Troy Polamalu

My nonviolence does recognize different species of violence, defensive and offensive.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Perhaps it's simply the dual nature of marriage, the proximity of violence and love.”

— Adam Ross

“We need to teach our nation to detest any form of plots, insinuations, evil intrigues and violence.”

— Sunday Adelaja

In my lifetime, we have lost a President, a Civil Rights leader and a Presidential candidate - all to gun violence.

— Marianne Williamson

The pornography of violence of course far exceeds, in volume and general acceptance, sexual pornography, in this Puritan land of ours.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

It takes a touch of genius-and a lot of Courage-to move in the opposite direction.

— Albert Einstein

My opposition to the socialist and the other consists in attacking violence as a means of effecting any lasting reform.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I'm just hoping that people understand that Islam is peace and not violence.

— Muhammad Ali

It's not that the film is violent, it's that people have an issue with violence right now.

— Thomas Jane

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.

— Hunter S Thompson

Palestinian violence is not a response to the capture of the West Bank and Gaza. Palestinian nationalism's roots are not so shallow.

— Ehud Olmert

Any act of injury done from self-interest, whether amounting to killing or not, is doubtless himsa.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Philosophical thinking that doesn't do violence to one's settled mind is no philosophical thinking at all.

— Rebecca Goldstein

Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by committee meetings.

— Anonymous