Violence Quotes · Page 75

While violence is part of what it means to be part of the black diaspora in the United States, that is not…

— Clint Smith

I loved my parents... but that can never change the fact that my father's violence ruined my childhood.

— Pat Conroy

You know what I think about violence. For me it is profoundly moral -more moral than compromises and transactions.

— Benito Mussolini

We stand for law and order, so we will not allow the scourge of violence to infect our communities.

— Amber Rudd

“I was not frightened as they were, for the very violence of his threats showed how weak he was.”

— Erik Christian Haugaard

The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of nonviolence has been the organization of violence.

— Joan Baez

Lord, with so much violence in Iraq, may we persevere in our prayer and generosity.

— Pope Francis

I would do a sort of violence to myself if I didn't express myself in the directly creative ways of writing, both…

— Stephen Hough

Really, I wanted to make a movie [Valley Of Violence] about: How does violence affect people? This is a take from me…

— Ti West

The 20th century gave rise to one of the greatest and most distressing paradoxes of human history: that the greatest intolerance and…

— Alister E. McGrath

Most violence is intra-racial, and much of the violence in African-American communities is a function of drug availability, joblessness and poverty.

— Julianne Malveaux

We are evolving as one species - not only as Americans, Syrians, Russians, Chinese, and jihadists. We cannot attack one without inflicting…

— Gary Zukav

Violence against judges and threats of violence against Judges is on the rise and it is no laughing matter. When leaders attempt…

— John Conyers

My entire life is violence. If I don't ever leave work at work, then I never leave violence. And I can't be…

— Matt Mitrione

The learned and the studious of thought have no monopoly of wisdom. Their violence of direction in some degree disqualifies them to…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think the self-burning itself on practice of non-violence. These people, you see, they easily use bomb explosive, more casualty people. But…

— Dalai Lama

To us, it is incomprehensible that millions of Christian men killed and tortured each other because Napoleon was ambitious or Alexander was…

— Leo Tolstoy

New York City must divest the hundreds of millions of dollars we have invested in Walmart for far too long, dollars that…

— Letitia James

Not only did we survive AIDS, Reaganomics, poverty, racism, gang violence, police brutality, substance abuse - not only did we survive that,…

— Sofia Quintero

I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those…

— James Madison

The convoluted wording of legalisms grew up around the necessity to hide from ourselves the violence we intend toward each other. Between…

— Frank Herbert

Revolutionaries who come to power by force of arms usually have great crimes in their background. Leaders who survive campaigns by great…

— Stephen Kinzer

“In a world dominated by violent and passive-aggressive men, and by male institutions dispensing violence, it is extraordinary to note how often…

— Adrienne Rich

Me? I see an old, broke-ass black guy taking care of a bunch of kids, living life, taking them to school, and…

— Mike Tyson

I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.

— Malcolm X

Our glorification of violence is ripping society apart. I don't want my children exposed to it.

— William H. Macy

“Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined, Viking, Nueva York, 2011; posiciones 3279-3282 (Kindle).”

— Anonymous

I'm especially interested in helping to give visibility to the pandemic of violence against women

— Nicole Kidman

'Honour'-based violence is a form of domestic violence. Domestic violence is a broad category.

— Deeyah Khan

Violence is violence. Trauma is trauma. And we are taught to downplay it, even think about it as child's play.

— Tarana Burke

To imitate the hatred and violence of tyrants and murderers is the best way to take their place.

— Pope Francis

Two days overdue, THE WORLD'S WORK has not reached me. Pray make a note of this. I would rather not have to…

— Mark Twain

“Sure, the story kicks off with the deaths of thousands of people, but god forbid there be cussing in it, right?”

— Amie Kaufman

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

“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