Violence Quotes · Page 85

Violence comes from the belief that other people cause our pain and therefore deserve punishment.

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

“A president who has incited violence inspires citizens towards hate and violence.”

— DaShanne Stokes

It's sad, but a relief as well, to know that two things so closely bound together can separate with so little violence.

— Julie Powell

I don't buy that there's nothing we can do to stop criminals and the mentally ill from killing if they want to.

— Mike Quigley

I would say that reproductive freedom comes first, then violence and economics.

— Gloria Steinem

As women are empowered, violence can come down, for a number of reasons. By all measures, men are the more violent gender.

— Steven Pinker

I come from a community plagued with so much poverty and violence and homophobia.

— Big Freedia

I only included things that everybody likes, like violence, flowers, children, women, friendship and death.

— Tomonobu Itagaki

I don't want unnecessary violence, sergeant," said Blouse. "Right you are, sir!" said the sergeant. "Carborundum! First man comes through that door…

— Terry Pratchett

Disgust is a very powerful tool for bringing about crowd violence. If a group can be dehumanized and made into the Other,…

— Robert Sapolsky

All of my life I have stayed away from violence and the instruments of violence, and have seen a legal, democratic struggle…

— Osman Baydemir

It is only with the passage of the Violence Against Women Act in 1994 that we have been able to put a…

— Gwen Moore

Government and state can never be perfect because they owe their raison d'être to the imperfection of man and can attain their…

— Ludwig von Mises

People kill and are killed because they cling too tightly to their own beliefs and ideologies. When we believe that ours is…

— Nhat Hanh

I don't like to go to the movies to see violence or some kind of spy thing with all kinds of information…

— Pia Zadora

With the police thriller genre, people come to it with an expectation. It allows you to get away with a bit of…

— Jed Mercurio

Now, 'high-intensity conflict' is a fancy word for saying tanks on tanks, aircraft shooting each other out of the sky, a great…

— Mark Esper

We don't need no more danger, we don't need no more difficulties, we don't need no more misunderstanding, and we don't need…

— Burning Spear

How pitiable is it to reflect, that although you were so fully convinced of the benevolence of the Father of Mankind, and…

— Benjamin Banneker

It is easier for an artful Man, who is not in Love, to persuade his Mistress he has a Passion for her,…

— Joseph Addison

Only when peace lives within each of us, will it live outside of us. We must be the wombs for a new…

— Ming-Dao Deng

When you look at police violence, over the last three or four years, whether you call it a social, economic or racial…

— Edwin Hodge

There was a hateful video that was disseminated on the Internet. It had nothing to do with the United States government, and…

— Susan Rice

If you live in a society where those who govern society and determine its path do not respect freedom of speech and…

— Pierre Trudeau

It is the RSS and the BJP that have always initiated political violence in our midst; not just in Kerala, but in…

— Pinarayi Vijayan

I have a message for all of you. The crime and violence that today afflicts America will soon - and I mean…

— Donald Trump

The more I tour the world, the more I see that people are just like me. They love violence.

— Jorge Masvidal

It is high time our government take action and do everything in its power to help reduce gun violence in America and…

— Lucy McBath

There are some people that just attract violence to them. No matter where they go, they'll find a fight.

— Antony Starr

Disorder and violence are, in fact, things that might check the pace of India's progress.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Violence against women and children resembles an epidemic. It has spread through society, sparing no social group or class.

— Cyril Ramaphosa

I see contemporary violence as a kind of sardonic response to the promise of consumer fulfilment in America.

— Don DeLillo

If you disapprove of violence, then you can't think there is any age when violence is appropriate.

— Jane Goldman

Any time you do physical stuff, violence, it is controlled. It's a little bit like you block the move.

— Ron Livingston

Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, are both uncivilized and undemocratic

— Mahatma Gandhi

I hate violence, and I didn't plan to write horror; it just poured out of me.

— James Herbert

“For every fatal shooting, there were roughly three non-fatal shootings. And, folks, this is unacceptable in America.”

— George W. Bush

Legitimate use of violence can only be that which is required in self-defense.

— Ron Paul

Spaghetti Westerns are really brutal and operatic with a surreal quality to the violence.

— Quentin Tarantino

The struggle with evil by means of violence is the same as an attempt to stop a cloud, in order that there…

— Leo Tolstoy