Violence Quotes · Page 67

Domestic violence is an epidemic, and yet we don't address it. Until it happens to celebrities.

— Nelsan Ellis

We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.

— Toni Morrison

Tyranny is abhorrent, freedom benefits all, whereas violence benefits no one for long.

— Mark Kingwell

. . . first in myth, later in reality, passion and violence watered my root soil.

— Roy Wilkins

“Nihilism is…not only the belief that everything deserves to perish; but one actually puts one shoulder to the plough; one destroys.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I express preference for a chronological sequence of events which precludes a violence.

— Terry Pratchett

One of my favorite scenes of the movie [Valley of Violence] is when Ethan Hawke is sitting at the campfire with the…

— Ti West

The Israeli people deserve better than a life in between rounds of violence.

— Tzipi Livni

However much I may sympathise with and admire worthy motives, I am an uncompromising opponent of violent methods even to serve the…

— Mahatma Gandhi

America seems to celebrate its more violent past, but Canada doesn't like to recognize those things. The willingness to accept the existence…

— Joseph Boyden

I've got two little girls, I'm not scared about sex. I'll teach them, it's not going to kill them. But what could…

— William H. Macy

America may be the only society on earth to have experienced what has been called an 'epidemic of children killing children,' which…

— Sissela Bok

“Violence is a primitive but still very widespread way in which the ego attempts to assert itself, to prove itself right and…

— Eckhart Tolle

A lot of things sound neutral, but they're not. A typical example would involve police violence. It's usually forbidden to call police…

— Molly Crabapple

For me, what Macbeth is about is people who cannot face their fears and pain and instead of facing them and going…

— Marion Cotillard

Soup puts the heart at ease, calms down the violence of hunger, eliminates the tension of the day, and awakens and refines…

— Auguste Escoffier

And whatsoever is repressed has to be repressed again because victory is never complete. There is no way to destroy sex by…

— Rajneesh

“As the boys screamed and hauled off handfuls of mulch, Olivier had slowly, deliberately, gently taken Gabri’s hand and held it before…

— Louise Penny

Students being miseducated, criminalized and arrested through a form of penal pedagogy in prison-type schools provide a grim reminder of the degree…

— Henry Giroux

I'm going to be specific so you can render your verdict. Let's go to North Africa, she was the chief engineer of…

— Chris Christie

As artists, are we quasi psychiatrists who mend the soul? Do we provide the consolations, escapes, and reassurances which enable us to…

— Russell Sherman

When I wrote 'The Giver,' it contained no so-called 'bad words.' It was set, after all, in a mythical, futuristic, and Utopian…

— Lois Lowry

As a former District Attorney and Attorney General, I know the urgency of providing safe homes, schools and neighborhoods for all. This…

— Scott Harshbarger

“He thought how easy it would be to write an entire book on Johannesburg violence. The strike leader Pickaxe Mary, after whom…

— Harry Kalmer

We seem okay with violence, but nudity we race to criticize and censor.

— Eva Mendes

At the end of the day, violence never really solves any problem...it just creates new ones.

— Anonymous

I try to understand people who do violence. I try to understand what they are feeling and experiencing.

— Yolanda King

War is not the answer. Violence is not the solution. A more peaceful world is possible.

— Ron Kovic

If you push me, I'll shove, I'm masculine. When she wants to play rough, I'm masculine.

— Meat Loaf

Non-violence ... is the only thing that the atom bomb cannot destroy.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Refraining from harm, not out of fear, but out of concern for others, their well-being and out of respect is non-violence.

— Dalai Lama

The private terror of the liberal spirit is invariably suicide, not murder.

— Norman Mailer

People who directly incite political violence are leaving the guardrails of constitutional democracy.

— Jake Auchincloss

For violence, like Achilles' lance, can heal the wounds it has inflicted

— Anonymous

We have to continue to do the work, because we can't see people lose their lives over senseless gun violence.

— Karamo Brown

Birth is violent, and out of that violence is our only chance of rebirth.

— Nick Nolte

The more killing and homicides you have, the more havoc it prevents.

— Richard M. Daley

No matter your religion, philosophy, or political beliefs, violence is not the way to achieve peace.

— Nancy Mace

There is violence in real life but I would never impose violence in a film just to attract the audience.

— Abbas Kiarostami

Enough with the slaughters. Enough with the violence. Enough with the hatred in Iraq!

— Pope Benedict XVI