Violence Quotes · Page 60

Instead of a man of peace and love, I have become a man of violence and revenge.

— Hiawatha

None of us like violence in the real world, but we're fascinated with it onscreen.

— Jonathan Nolan

Local businesses and communities must be included from the very start in developing solutions to fragility, violence, and conflict.

— Peter Maurer

History doesn't give credence for resorting to violence to have your voice heard.

— Lecrae

“Modern consumer life is a form of extreme passive violence against all people.”

— Bryant McGill

The fully engaged heart is the antibody for the infection of violence.

— Mark Nepo

Some of my films are known for the depiction of violence. I don't have anything to prove with that any more.

— Martin Scorsese

Violence is a concession to human weakness, satyagraha is an obligation.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I think I am more of a coward than anybody. It's a very weird feeling. The more I fear violence, the more…

— Takeshi Kitano

As I grew older and more mature, I've been able to move beyond the immediate response of violence to a projection of…

— Wole Soyinka

It's something that I am going over in my head about the whole video game thing, and whether you support violence by…

— Rosamund Pike

“In the world of so-called villains, what we need is not another hero. What we need is to stop the influx of…

— Vironika Tugaleva

“Violence isn't only bombs and bullets, it can be speaking words that dehumanize and looking away when someone needs you to lean…

— Diana Oestreich

Do not conquer the world with force, for force only causes resistance. Thorns spring up when an army passes. Years of misery…

— Anonymous

If America's tv and movie producers are unwilling to clean up their act... when it comes to sex, bloodshed and violence in…

— Janet Reno

The kind of violence, looting, destruction that we saw from a handful of individuals in Baltimore, there's no excuse for that. That's…

— Barack Obama

'Game of Thrones' cares about children. Children are heirs. There's no hemming and hawing about how they're desensitized to violence or they…

— Ned Vizzini

Sadly, the same leaders who call on Palestinians to abandon violence have been silent in the face of Israeli repression. By condemning…

— Yousef Munayyer

Because gay people were so much more visible, violence against gays was more common and reported on. But they were definitely related…

— Dale Peck

One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible. It may or may not be possible…

— Daniel Berrigan

People don't know where they stand and what they're going to lose, and that makes things uncertain. The political parties try to…

— Steve Inskeep

Christians, indeed, have a special obligation not to forget how great and how inextinguishable the human proclivity for violence is, or how…

— David Bentley Hart

Confronting the intolerable should be challenging and upsetting. Who could read the testimonies of Primo Levi and not feel intellectually and emotionally…

— Henry Giroux

Property rights can improve a woman's ability to stand up to violence in the home. You might think education and employment are…

— Martha C. Nussbaum

Don't you wanna grow up to be just like me, I slap women and eat mushrooms then OD.

— Eminem

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

— George Orwell

I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.

— Jean Genet

“The passive and overt violence waged against the women and children of the world must end.”

— Bryant McGill

In 1994, the bipartisan Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) was signed into law to prevent and combat domestic violence.

— Conner Eldridge

The world suffers a lot. Not always because of the violence of bad people, But sometimes because of the silence of good…

— Anonymous

When a man carries an instrument of violence, he'll always find the justification to use it.

— Brian K. Vaughan

Non-violence is a piece of theatre. You need an audience. What can you do when you have no audience?

— Arundhati Roy

“The lesson Holmes took from the war can be put in a sentence. It is that certitude leads to violence.”

— Louis Menand

I hate superficial violence. It's shallow and stupid, and the impact on the audience is really bad.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

“Microprocessing reduces the size that groups must stain in order to be effective in the use and control of violence.”

— James Dale Davidson

Destruction, violence, ravages, murder, are perpetrated by statute law.

— Elbert Hubbard

Women don't like violence, But when their husbands desert them, that is different.

— Euripides

There shouldn't be any violence in hip-hop. You're getting free clothes. Basically, it's free money.

— DMX

If you love with violence and you hate with violence there is nothing that can be questioned.

— Charlie Sheen

The path of violence has not yielded anything. Shed guns and adopt the path of peace, unity, goodwill and brotherhood.

— Narendra Modi