Violence Quotes · Page 76

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

— Veronica Roth

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

— Dean Phillips

People are sort of numb to watching violence, but sexual activity is still as strong as it ever was in terms of…

— Steven Soderbergh

I think people's relationship with the concept of violence changes, and that to me might be a little more interesting.

— Chuck Klosterman

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

— Martin Luther King

I do not regard killing or assassination or terrorism as good in any circumstances whatsoever.

— Mahatma Gandhi

We're seeing that women continue to make less money, they continue to face violence.

— Niki Ashton

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

— Robert Kennedy

I think Scotland's got its own issues, in some ways similar to Northern Ireland with sectarianism, which has been a long-running sore.…

— Irvine Welsh

If ambitious fantasies make people blush, and sexual fantasies make people blush and feel guilty, fantasies of violence and death may make…

— Judith Viorst

“It screamed downward, splitting air and sky without effort. A target expanded in size, brought into focus by time and velocity. There…

— Steven Galloway

Malaysia is particularly sensitive: we have three races here and 29 different tribes. If you allow people to say what they like,…

— Mahathir Mohamad

I know people watch our movies and they'll see a lot of images - they call it gross-out - that they don't…

— Bobby Farrelly

From an athlete's perspective, to cancel the Olympics in regards to the threats would be absolutely devastating - especially since the Olympics…

— Brian Boitano

There was no violence, no speed. It moved to the rhythm of an elder dance, putting all the rituals of the world…

— Tanith Lee

Children get acquainted with each other in a special way, they do not make contracts as adults, they believe each other or…

— Henning Mankell

More than poverty, more than degree of education, religion, access to natural resources, even degree of democracy - violence against females is…

— Gloria Steinem

In Macbeth a lady is restrained from the murder of a king by his resemblance of her father as he slept. Should…

— Benjamin Rush

At first I protested and rebelled against poetry. I was about to deny my poetic worlds. I was doing violence to my…

— Anais Nin

I'm not a big fan of violent movies, it's not something I like to watch. And it's not my aim or goal…

— Takashi Miike

“I believe order is better than chaos, creation better than destruction. I prefer gentleness to violence, forgiveness to vendetta. On the whole…

— Kenneth Clark

'Fargo' is a tragedy with a happy ending. So you need to have that tragic underpinning, that all of this could be…

— Noah Hawley

“And it is clear that in the colonial countries the peasants alone are revolutionary, for they have nothing to lose and everything…

— Frantz Fanon

Indeed, it may be laid down as a general principle, that the more extended the ancestry, the greater the amount of violence…

— Charles Dickens

“This tended to increase the size of societies because contests of violence more often than not were won by the larger group.”

— James Dale Davidson

The dictatorship of the Communist Party is maintained by recourse to every form of violence.

— Leon Trotsky

The world's a poor standard. any society which is free of hunger and violence looks bright against that background.

— Anonymous

“Dammit woman, stop trying to beat me. I'll sue you for domestic violence.”

— Karen Mahoney

Victory Over Violence is an organization that was created to help fund shelters for women and children.

— Victoria Principal

“Thou shalt not be a victim, thou shalt not be a perpetrator, but, above all, thou shalt not be a bystander.”

— Yehuda Bauer

Glorifying violence is terrible. Simulating sex is nothing - it's something so impersonal really.

— Bo Derek

Non-violence should never be used as a shield for cowardice. It is a weapon for the brave.

— Mahatma Gandhi

We don't have any rules about how we depict violence, or how much violence is in a movie. It's a calibration on…

— Joel Coen

The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked (Proverbs 10:11).

— Bible

In the city, a lot of crime happens, a lot of violence happens from time to time,

— Victor Cruz

Political violence has no place in Pennsylvania - the birthplace of American democracy - nor anywhere else across this country.

— Josh Shapiro

I try to write lyrics so that they won't age, which sort of leaves you with the big subjects like death and…

— Florence Welch

Violence and nonviolence are, after all, two different forms of theater. They both depend and thrive on the response of an audience.

— Julia Bacha

There is nothing in anything that I have ever written that could be reasonably construed as an incitement to violence against anyone.

— Robert Spencer

I suggested that sex was not the enemy, that violence was the enemy, that nice girls like sex.

— Hugh Hefner