Violence Quotes · Page 65

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

— Steven Magee

In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival.

— Andrew Young

1819 was a year of hunger, mass unemployment, political repression and murderous, state-sanctioned violence.

— David Olusoga

“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

I don't advocate senseless violence of any human being. I'm the one who's been beat down. But I will not be a…

— Tupac Shakur

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

My view is when you use violence on your people, that never ends well.

— Anonymous

In reality, we can prove that the incidents of drug, alcohol abuse and violence have dropped dramatically among professional athletes - but…

— Leigh Steinberg

Somehow, we have to realize that what we watch and what we listen to not only often reflects our most violent tendencies…

— Bernice King

An opponent is entitled to the same regard for his principles as we would expect others to have for ours. Non-violence demands…

— Mahatma Gandhi

“One of these days I'm gonna beat him in the face with the butt of my service revolver until an eyeball pops…

— John Layman

Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor…

— Joseph Addison

Until mankind is peaceful enough not to have violence on the news, there's no point in taking it out of shows that…

— Cher

However, don't let these statistics mislead you, gang violence is not limited to California and or big urban areas - that might…

— Bob Filner

I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As…

— Caleb Carr

Members of organized crime continue to exploit their victims the old-fashioned way - through violence, threats and intimidation. As law enforcement has…

— Loretta Lynch

At the meeting I argued that the state had given us no alternative to violence. I said it was wrong and immoral…

— Nelson Mandela

Given the racist and patriarchal patterns of the state, it is difficult to envision the state as the holder of solutions to…

— Anonymous

Our hearts are being stretched to span the violence and the suffering in our lives and world, and at the same time…

— Marianne Williamson

“Critics of soccer contend that the game inherently culminates in death and destruction. They argue that the game gives life to tribal…

— Franklin Foer

The more children see of violence, the more numb they are to the deadly consequences of violence. Now, video games like 'Mortal…

— William J. Clinton

What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? No martyr's cause has ever been stilled by an assassin's bullet. No…

— Robert Kennedy

...instead of giving a rifle to somebody, build a school; instead of giving a rifle, build a community with adequate services. Instead…

— Rigoberta Menchu

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

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

Means are not to be distinguished from ends. If violent means are used, there will be bad results.

— Mahatma Gandhi