Violence Quotes · Page 55

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

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

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

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

In my state, two women who came to the U.S. as 'mail-order brides' were killed by abusive husbands. They had risked everything…

— Maria Cantwell

What I hope to do is create a play that investigates the ongoing violence toward women and children in the world, and…

— Marsha Norman

An understanding of what food is and how cooking works does no violence to the art of cuisine, destroys no delightful mystery.…

— Harold McGee

I am a Christian. He who answers thus has declared everything at once-his country, profession, family; the believer belongs to no city…

— Saint John Chrysostom

Violence is the easy way out and it only leads to more violence. We need people in this world who are willing…

— Demi Lovato

In a much larger sense, the problem of Sabah is directly influenced by the duplicity of imperial Britain. For whatever devious reason,…

— F. Sionil Jose

In Western Civilization - America and Britain - if you see people talking and it becomes an argument and voices are raised,…

— John Gimlette

I find it difficult to believe that I belong to such an idiotic, rotten species - the species that actually boasts of…

— Albert Einstein

Many people today agree that we need to reduce violence in our society. If we are truly serious about this, we must…

— Anonymous

At the movies, we are gradually being conditioned to accept violence as a sensual pleasure. The directors used to say they were…

— Pauline Kael

It isn't very nice to admit, but domestic violence has its uses. So raw and unleashed, it tears away the veil of…

— Lionel Shriver

Imagine a world, if you will, where crime does not exist. A startling proposition that seems outlandish, but our imaginations, of course,…

— Sarah Weinman

I and some colleagues came to the conclusion that as violence in this country was inevitable, it would be wrong and unrealistic…

— Nelson Mandela

Like with all other crime, we must, of course, treat the perpetrators of these actions as the criminals they are. But unlike…

— Letitia James

When I see the mostly young people of Occupy Wall Street - a mixture of the bored, the nihilistic, the seekers of…

— Dennis Prager

I abhor unjust war. I abhor injustice and bullying by the strong at the expense of the weak, whether among nations or…

— Theodore Roosevelt

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

— Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild

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

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

— Edward Gibbon

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

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

— Charles Bukowski

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

“Police routinely shooting mentally challenged people is a very disturbing trend.”

— Steven Magee

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

“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

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