The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Is this something new, having people stomp on you? Is it what I need to do for your pleasure? — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
The only defense against evil, violent people is good people who are more skilled at violence. — Rory Miller Copy Share Image
Football is controlled violence, but it is violence, which people have loved to watch since the gladiatorial contests in ancient Rome. — Michael Mandelbaum Copy Share Image
Protection of children from violence and abuse has always been my main activity or campaign. — Sinead O'Connor Copy Share Image
“I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out of me with steel pipes.” — Patton Oswalt Copy Share Image
“Wild with laughter, Twelfth Night is nevertheless almost always on the edge of violence.” — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
Nothing will ever bring back George Floyd, or any of the thousands of others we have lost to racist police violence. — Jamaal Bowman Copy Share Image
I know that in embarking on non-violence I shall be running what might be termed a mad risk. But the victories of… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Random violence makes the news precisely because it is so rare, routine kindness does not make the news precisely because it is… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
We are fighting hard against radical Islamic terrorism, and we will prevail. We cannot accept those who reject our values and who… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
“Everyone knows the great energies running amok cast terrible shadows, that each of the so-called senseless acts has its thread looping back… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“Violence was just another function of the body, no less unusual than sweating or vomiting. It sat on the same shelf as… — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
Intolerance is a thing that causes war, pogroms, crucifixions, lynchings, and makes people cruel to little children and each other. It is… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
Unfortunately part of pulp is that there is sex, there is violence. It's not a kids' show. It's an 18-and-over audience -… — Antony Starr Copy Share Image
People always use power, that's the unsurprising thing. They use it to try to sleep with who they want to sleep with… — Roger Allam Copy Share Image
“Republicans, white and black, heaped scorn upon “respectables” who did not participate directly in the violence but “could not stop their sons… — Eric Foner Copy Share Image
The US stole Texas from Mexico by violence, then invaded Mexico on ludicrous pretexts and conquered half of it, what is now… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
To have one's race brutally treated for so many years, even after the end of slavery and segregation, people are going to… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
“We offhandedly devised many imaginary scenarios during the course of any given day, a habit that began as acerbic banter between two… — David Cronenberg Copy Share Image
There are many innovators hard at work seeking to perfect alternatives to meat, milk, and eggs. These food products will, like computer-generated… — Wayne Pacelle Copy Share Image
We are going to see a great number of articles in the future from so-called experts and public officials. They will warn… — Mae Brussell Copy Share Image
No corner of our society has been left unscathed by the horrors of gun violence. To end it, we'll need to bring… — Kevin de Leon Copy Share Image
“And you?" asked Kate. "Your brother is righteous, your sister is scattered. What does that make you?" When August answered, the word… — Victoria Schwab Copy Share Image
All forms of violence are quests for identity. When you live on the frontier, you have no identity. You're a nobody. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Wherever arms flow, violence follows. Bullets replace ballots as the solution to political disputes. — Michael Douglas Copy Share Image
“Turns out if you write about police violence and atrocities, if you wait a month, it'll happen again, so... That's America.” — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
“A culture of vultures steeped and born of violence shall choke on the blood of its offspring.” — T.F. Hodge Copy Share Image
Peace through superior violence inevitably leads to the atom bomb and all that it stands for. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Whenever evil is destroyed people are happy. Then what's wrong in depicting positive violence? — Suniel Shetty Copy Share Image
My people have been sucked into the violence because some feel they have to retaliate, and some feel they have to protect… — Mangosuthu Buthelezi Copy Share Image
“Man kept control over the machines he created, I wish God would have done the same with the man he created.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“Oh, they don't allow the Bible in Heaven, Miss Mary...It contains far too much sex and violence.” — Bryan Talbot Copy Share Image
Gun violence should have no home in the richest country in the history of the world. — Jasmine Crockett Copy Share Image
“America isn’t perfect but there’s not a better place in the world for people of any faith.” — Tucker Elliot Copy Share Image
In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
No other form of violence is legitimate. It is never acceptable to use violence to solve a problem. Whether personal or political. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Any man who has once acclaimed violence as his method must inexorably choose falsehood as his principle. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Lots of people think the violence in the films I make is overwhelming, but they think they're seeing something that they aren't… — Park Chan-wook Copy Share Image
“Where a person has no control, he will turn to violence; either to attain control, or as an alternative to it.” — Charlie Herrick Copy Share Image
