Violence Quotes · Page 45

“Violence, especially if you are a woman, is not something spoken about with ease.”

— Kay Redfield Jamison

“The ability to offer empathy to people in stressful situations can defuse potential violence.”

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

Courtesy towards opponents and eagerness to understand their view-point is the ABC of non-violence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to…

— Mahatma Gandhi

So I think we're kind of an alternate choice for people who have had it with sex and violence.

— Dick Van Dyke

The more weapons of violence, the more misery to mankind. The triumph of violence ends in a festival of mourning.

— Laozi

Violence [in Palestina] is part of the resistance to occupation. The basic fact is not the violence; the basic fact is the…

— Uri Avnery

“Every gesture was one of disorder and violence, as if a lioness had come into the room.”

— Anaïs Nin

The only struggle which religions can justify, the only struggle worthy of humans, is the moral struggle against humanity's own disordered passions,…

— Pope John Paul II

Of course, we talked about Westerns we like with [James Ransone in Valley of Violence] , but it was always thematically in…

— Ti West

Art should be appreciated with passion and violence, not with a tepid, depreciating elegance that fears the censoriousness of a common room.

— W. Somerset Maugham

The use of violence is justified only under a tyranny which makes reforms without violence impossible, and should have only one aim,…

— Karl Popper

I wanted a good humored kind of show, a show without violence. I liked the idea behind 'My Three Sons,' and I…

— Fred MacMurray

One effect of an individualistic culture that's poor at instilling mutual respect is that people jump more quickly to anger or violence.

— Geoff Mulgan

A society permissive of rhetorical dehumanization is necessarily more vulnerable to actual dehumanization. Allow racial contempt to spread unchallenged, and racist violence…

— Jamelle Bouie

I think that it's easy to target a heavy metal band for inciting violence or making kids turn to a cult than…

— Sam Dunn

To live in any true sense of the word is to reject others; to accept them, one must be able to renounce,…

— Anonymous

Islamophobia has become so mainstream in this country that Americans have been trained to expect violence against Muslims - not excuse it,…

— Reza Aslan

Greed, desire, ambition, jealousy, possessiveness, domination - you have to watch everything. And they are all interconnected, remember. If greed disappears, then…

— Rajneesh

“The state is a voluntary association of individuals designed to serve their individual interests. The state is not a faceless villain. The…

— Robert Peate

I still remain convinced that truth, love, peaceableness, meekness, and kindness are the violence which can master all other violence. The world…

— Albert Schweitzer

Fixing a broken immigration system. Protecting our kids from gun violence. Equal pay for equal work, paid leave, raising the minimum wage.…

— Barack Obama

The amount of force and violence necessary to board the train, for example was no less and no more than the amoount…

— Gregory David Roberts

Donald Trump has brought into his cabinet James "Mad Dog" Mattis, who is Secretary of Defense. A "mad dog" is a dangerous…

— Louis Farrakhan

Indeed the very word, nonviolence, a negative word, means that it is an effort to abandon the violence that is inevitable in…

— Mahatma Gandhi

The rules of sexism do not free men from the terror of violence; they only keep men from complaining about it.

— Warren Farrell

“An act of violence, no matter how small, can never be justified if it can be avoided.”

— Kamand Kojouri

Violence begets violence by whomever used. War is a dirty business and entails the use of degrading means, whoever wages it.

— A. J. Muste

Sometimes we equate anger to destructive physical violence, but anger need not be martial.

— Kamal Haasan

“They were brutes, no doubt, but brutes who could not read, and who were dying of hunger.”

— Émile Zola

The architecture of war and violence is now matched by a barrage of goods parading as fashion.

— Henry Giroux

If you hate what you're seeing, you call it sex and violence. If you like it, you call it "romance and adventure."

— Joe Bob Briggs

“Kinetic meant violent; a gunfight was kinetic, a tea party was nonkinetic.”

— Peter Van Buren

While representing violence on screen, some directors tend to gloss over it while others glamorize it.

— Victor Banerjee

“What had this woman and the other victims done which could merit such violence being done to them?”

— Mark Sennen

For thugs from the ghetto, violence is a way of life - it's what helps you survive.

— Suge Knight

When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her.

— Oscar Wilde

I was concerned that if I came out of the closet, that at best, I would face ostracism, and at worst, face…

— Ritchie Torres

Mix me with violence, blend me with peace, Combine me with hate, and I can't face defeat.

— Puff Daddy

My experience teaches me that truth can never be propagated by doing violence.

— Mahatma Gandhi