Violence Quotes · Page 62

“Nonviolence cannot be used successfully to protect special privileges that have been won by violence.”

— David T. Dellinger

“Those who abjure violence can only do so by others committing violence on their behalf.”

— George Orwell

“Orgy-porgy, round and round and round, beating one another in six-eight time.”

— Aldous Huxley

Donald Trump is correct when he suggests that African-Americans are outraged by gun violence.

— Lucy McBath

“I have witnessed enough violence in my lifetime to invite a thousand nightmares.”

— James Flerlage

The world soffers a lot. Not because the violence of bad people. But because of the silence of the good people.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Of course, I write crime stories, and I have to describe violence and the aftermath of violence.

— Jeffery Deaver

“Your law always does more harm than crime, and your morality is a form of violence.”

— Edward Bond

“Every time our government chooses to use military force to bring about change in the world, it once again teaches our children…

— Shane Claiborne

I have always been vitally interested in physical conditioning. I have long believed that athletic competition among people and nations should replace…

— Johnny Weissmuller

Jealousy is a painful passion; yet without some share of it, the agreeable affection of love has difficulty to subsist in its…

— David Hume

More people died as a result of the tiny abortive Easter Uprising against British rule in Ireland (1916) than died as a…

— Adolf Hitler

Violence can behave like a disease. That insight gives a different frame of reference that is designed to take the judgment out…

— Steven James

Until we all start to take responsibility, until we do all we can to improve the character of our communities, we'll never…

— Carrie P. Meek

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." [ Remarks on the first anniversary of the Alliance for Progress , 13 March 1962]”

— John F. Kennedy

“It's so heartbreaking, violence, when it's in a house-like seeing the clothes in a tree after an explosion. You may be prepared…

— Philip Roth

Senseless violence is, almost by definition, hard to understand. Not that I can understand terrorists who kill from hate, but at least…

— Susan Estrich

If drugs were legalized in the US, the Mexican economy would collapse since the earnings from drugs bring in more hard currency…

— Charles Bowden

It is a world completely rotten with wealth, power, senility, indifference, puritanism and mental hygiene, poverty and waste, technological futility and aimless…

— Jean Baudrillard

In Quebec, in spite of police violence and threats, thousands of students demonstrated for months against a former right-wing government that wanted…

— Henry Giroux

The idea of cultural relativism is nothing but an excuse to violate human rights. Human rights is the fruit of various civilizations.…

— Shirin Ebadi

Today I am so at home in Dublin, more than in any other city, that I feel it has always been familiar…

— Louis MacNeice

What gets called 'the sixties' left a mixed legacy and a lot of divides. But it opened everything to question, and what…

— Rebecca Solnit

You see a briefcase for business, a bookbag for education, a knife and gun for violence. Then there's government, law, media overall,…

— Mr. Lif

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

Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political moral questions of our time.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The use of violence by individuals... is not a position that I support or would ever want to be in again.

— Susan Rosenberg

The Koran is a fascist book which incites violence. That is why this book, just like [Adolf Hitler's] Mein Kampf, must be…

— Geert Wilders

The values a man must cherish as his life-breath are, Truth, Righteousness, Peace, Love and Non violence.

— Anonymous

“Unfortunately, violence has a way of overpowering even the strongest of wills”

— Kenneth Eade

“I always forget that you have seen far more violence than we have,” Zoe says,”

— Veronica Roth

“All this miraculous hatred. Christ, a man can't eat his breakfast for filling his belly full of it.”

— Colum McCann

No problems are ever resolved by violence. It only aggravates the pain and the hurt on every side.

— Pranab Mukherjee

I am committed to advancing common sense solutions to address our nation's gun violence epidemic.

— Dean Phillips

The greatest purveyor of violence in the world today -- my own government.

— Martin Luther King