Violence Quotes · Page 50

We can all take responsibility for helping to bring about change, and keeping our friends and colleagues safe from domestic violence

— Charles Clarke

Chicago is highly segregated, a fact that both causes and compounds the problems we face in bringing an end to violence.

— Blase J. Cupich

If I stop or moderate my voice, people who use or threaten violence against democracies would win. I will never let them…

— Geert Wilders

“All violence demands reform, and all violence desperately begs to be healed.”

— Bryant McGillns

I want the men of our nation to stand and take a stand against gender based violence.

— Zozibini Tunzi

You can't get away from violence in drama. If you do not have conflict, you do not have drama.

— Cornel Wilde

I never want anyone to be sitting where I'm sitting and to have lost their son, because I can never get Luke…

— Rosie Batty

Violence is a dark contrast to what so many of us still believe in -- love.

— Robi Ludwig

“You look at the history of any sentient species and what do you find but tableaux of violence and slaughter. It’s finger-painted…

— James Luceno

The dream of Europe is a region of freedom and peace, of security, law, democracy, tolerance and mutual respect. If you look…

— Martin Schulz

When people don't have a hopeful vision before them or the possible resolution of their difficulties by peaceful means, then they can…

— Condoleezza Rice

I don't ever want anyone to hear my music and look at it as just gratuitous violence, or hustling and money-getting -…

— Pusha T

“Eastward and westward storms are breaking,--great, ugly whirlwinds of hatred and blood and cruelty. I will not believe them inevitable.”

— W.E.B. Du Bois

There has, indeed, been very substantial progress in Iraq over the past year - violence is down by 80 percent, civilian deaths…

— David Petraeus

Of what violences, murders, depredations, have not the epic poets, from all antiquity, been the occasion, by propagating false honor, false glory,…

— Samuel Richardson

There is an alarming increase of violence and harassment against gay people, something that is being legitimized by the regime as they…

— Cecilia Malmstrom

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. Now the law of nonviolence says…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Because war and preparations for war have acquired legitimacy, and because of the tremendous proliferation of arms through production and export, so…

— Alva Myrdal

In the reading and writing life, delight, for me, is where the mystery lies. Easy enough to figure out how scenes of…

— Alice McDermott

Part of what my work has always been about is to show that the apocalyptic character of the gospel makes the everyday…

— Stanley Hauerwas

The violence in the Executioner books is merely stage-dressing for dramatizing the commitment and dedication Bolan has to his ideals and the…

— Don Pendleton

“It’s the process of being minimized, invalidated, silenced. It’s the process of being subjected to whatever someone else thinks I owe them.…

— Agnostic Zetetic

Had we adopted non-violence as the weapon of the strong, because we realised that it was more effective than any other weapon,…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Let me just say you could end this violence within a very short period of time, have a complete ceasefire - which…

— John F. Kerry

Who can sit back as our towns and cities are torn apart by violence and be content with the status quo?

— Martin O'Malley

“We are flawed creatures with explosive feelings that subconsciously aspire to be non-violent sociopaths.”

— Jayme K

It doesn't matter if gun violence is down. We need to get guns and bullets and automatic weapons off the streets.

— Don Lemon

I'm ready to fight, I've been looking for my baby all night. If I get her in my sight, boom, boom, out…

— Little Walter

While violence is part of what it means to be part of the black diaspora in the United States, that is not…

— Clint Smith

Caroline says as she gets up from the floor, you can hit me all you want to, but I don't love you…

— Lou Reed

I loved my parents... but that can never change the fact that my father's violence ruined my childhood.

— Pat Conroy

You know what I think about violence. For me it is profoundly moral -more moral than compromises and transactions.

— Benito Mussolini

“I was not frightened as they were, for the very violence of his threats showed how weak he was.”

— Erik Christian Haugaard

We stand for law and order, so we will not allow the scourge of violence to infect our communities.

— Amber Rudd

The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of nonviolence has been the organization of violence.

— Joan Baez

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

— Henry Giroux

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

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

— Kamand Kojouri

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

— Warren Farrell