Violence Quotes · Page 57

For the sake of peace, religious beliefs must never be allowed to be abused in the cause of violence and war.

— Pope Francis

Hillary Clinton has a strong and powerful voice regarding ending violence against women and girls.

— Amanda Lindhout

“Which do you prefer, she says. Sex or Violence? I try to smile. What's the difference, really.”

— Will Christopher Baer

You may gain temporary appeasement by a policy of concession to violence, but you do not gain lasting peace that way.

— Anthony Eden

I don't advocate violence; but if a man steps on my toes, I'll step on his...

— Malcolm X

You can justify, from a political standpoint, any type of violence you want to use.

— Jerry Vlasak

You cannot live a nonviolent life as long as you are consuming violence. Please consider going vegan.

— Anonymous

I think that the effort to continue to look for some law to somehow make violence go away is missing the point.

— Mitt Romney

There is one universal truth, applicable to all countries, cultures and communities: violence against women is never acceptable, never excusable, never tolerable.

— Ban Ki-moon

The man whose silent daysIn harmless joys are spent,Whom hopes cannot delude,Nor sorrow discontent:That man needs neither towersNor armour for defence,Nor secret…

— Thomas Campion

Women and girls, men and boys all share the right to live free of violence, which is, unfortunately, experienced by both men…

— Nazanin Boniadi

Violence is a very ugly thing. Violence is often so casual on film, and made to look so cool and so sexy,…

— James Purefoy

The Palestinian Authority cannot hold the stick at both ends: to incite violence, to participate in it, and to tell the world…

— Ehud Barak

Birth is of course violent. Menstruation is violent. Trust me, if men's penises opened up once a month and shot blood, we'd…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

We need to work with the other countries in the hemisphere so that they also have refugee policies in place so that…

— Michael Bennet

'American Sniper' is a film that erases history, spectacularizes violence, and reduces war and its aftermath to cheap entertainment, with an underexplained…

— Henry Giroux

There are times when I wouldn't rule violence out. I personally don't like violence at all. But it wasn't until we had…

— Alice Nutter

“Living in this city, you developed a certain relationship with violence and news of violence: you expected it, dreaded it, and then…

— Bilal Tanweer

When people are oppressed, and human rights are denied - particularly along sectarian lines or ethnic lines - when dissent is silenced,…

— Barack Obama

Let's create a regime that makes sale of bullets to anybody not licensed to carry a gun illegal, makes resale illegal, micro-stamps…

— Eliot Spitzer

I think fundamentally the bigger question is, what are we expecting peacekeepers to do? Are they actually, as the traditional conception would…

— Rebecca Hamilton

My world, my Earth is a ruin. A planet spoiled by the human species. We multiplied and fought and gobbled until there…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

As long as I breathe I hope. As long as I breathe I shall fight for the future, that radiant future, in…

— Leon Trotsky

We lose eight children and teenagers to gun violence every day. If a mysterious virus suddenly started killing eight of our children…

— Elizabeth Warren

“Violence or Peace...it's up to humanity to pick the road it wants to walk down. The choice is completely ours!”

— Timothy Pina

When a rap song glorifies violence, death and sadness and loss is inflicted because of the violence.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.

— Jim Morrison

We're all living under the threat of violence and terror these days.

— Chuck Todd

If intellect plays a large part in the field of violence, I hold that it plays a larger part in the field…

— Mahatma Gandhi

If there isn't at least the threat of violence in art, it tends to be kind of tiresome.

— Teller

Even though you may think someone is a douche, you shouldn't mock a victim of violence because that victimizes them again.

— Perez Hilton

You are free to protest peacefully, but the minute you use violence and attack police, all bets are off.

— Miranda Devine

Let no one consider themselves to be the 'armour' of God while planning and carrying out acts of violence and oppression!

— Pope Francis

From the heart, there is no place in America for hatred or acts of prejudice or violence or anti-Semitism.

— Mike Pence

Poverty does not cause violence and terrorism. Lack of education does not cause terrorism.

— John O. Brennan

I felt the violence in 'Upgrade' was necessary because I wanted to show what a computer was capable of.

— Leigh Whannell

“This violence, as a process, is perpetuated from generation to generation of oppressors, who become its heirs and are shaped by it.”

— Paulo Freire

I think loathing begets fanaticism, and in the end, loathing begets hatred and violence.

— Amos Oz

The shackles and the chains, the violence and aggression, the pettiness and scorn, the jealousy and hatred, the tempest and discord.

— Joe Walsh

Violence becomes imperative when an attempt is made to assert rights without any reference to duties.

— Mahatma Gandhi