Violence Quotes · Page 89

We no longer have a choice between violence and non-violence. The choice of today stands between nonviolence or non-existence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Beware of those who would use violence, too often it is violence they want and neither truth nor freedom.

— Louis L'Amour

A peaceful world is a world in which differences are tolerated, and are not eliminated by violence.

— John Foster Dulles

“It seems I've dared to cross a line in a world where people accept violence over passion.”

— D.M. Pratt

I was 14 when the Democratic convention in my hometown of Chicago erupted into violence. It was a tough year.

— Richard Edelman

Through violence, you may murder the hater, but you do not murder the hate.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Well I don't think sex and violence have ever stopped a movie from being mainstream.

— David Cronenberg

As the ANC, we have got to condemn violence as a method of addressing our differences and disputes amongst us.

— Cyril Ramaphosa

They are always very lax about putting restrictions on violence for children's movies, which I think is much more harrowing than sexuality…

— Philip Kaufman

We had violence directed at us by the growers themselves, trying to run us down by cars, pointing rifles at us, spraying…

— Dolores Huerta

I've always wanted my own fragrance; Avon pairs with the way I think: what they do and represent, what they do for…

— Kate del Castillo

Gay culture is surviving and thriving. Some activists believe the recent rise in homophobic violence might be a gauge of the success…

— Lance Loud

The liberation of Iraq, which is already hard to justify from the perspective of American interests, at least had the virtue of…

— Timothy Noah

Joyfully celebrating the killing of a killer who joyfully celebrated killing carries an irony that I hope will not be lost on…

— Brian D. McLaren

Torture is senseless violence, born in fear... torture costs human lives but does not save them. We would almost be too lucky…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

I met soldiers coming back from war and I was impressed by their description of PTSD, all the symptoms: the outburst of…

— Alice Winocour

Critical Race Theory offers a critique of how law and certain law reform strategies misunderstand the actual operation of life-shortening state violence,…

— Dean Spade

Fragility, violence, and conflict are complex. Fragility is influenced by a wide set of factors, many of which are deeply entrenched, such…

— Peter Maurer

“Modern society, the political body, the legal and judiciary system, the state of governance, capitalism and the very fabric of the society…

— Bryant McGill

“The central question is not: what is force and what is freedom? That is a good question, but in the realm of…

— Andrea Dworkin

Once in a Cabinet we had to deal with the fact that there had been an outbreak of assaults on women at…

— Golda Meir

I think that there's something in the American psyche, it's almost this kind of right or privilege, this sense of entitlement, to…

— Michael Moore

By the age of 18, the average child has witnessed 200,000 acts of violence, including 18,000 simulated murders, on television. It is…

— Jean Illsley Clarke

We can learn a great deal from whales. It is the same lesson we can learn from our close genetic relatives, the…

— Riane Eisler

Where men come to and women come together most intimately in sexuality in the home has become suffused with violence.

— Gloria Steinem

Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

We are a country of excess. So it's not the violence, per se, but the exacerbation and constant repetition.

— Norman Lear

I would say that no one in this world can say that they've never been bullied or have violence against them.

— Daniela Vega

Violence is a big problem. Too many children are dying. Too many children. We must do something.

— Gabrielle Giffords

Whatever has been achieved through pressure and violence is unstable, unreliable and incorrect.

— Janusz Korczak

The extreme form of power is All against One, the extreme form of violence is One against All.

— Hannah Arendt

The democracy process provides for political and social change without violence.

— Aung San Suu Kyi

Unplanned urbanisation can create urban chaos and trigger urban violence.

— Sanjaya Baru

Technology, ideology, and social and cultural changes periodically throw out new forms of violence for humanity to contend with.

— Steven Pinker

If I look murderous, don't mess with me or I swear a death will occur in your house.

— Amber Hope

My opinion is that protesting, there's no problem with it, as long as it is peaceful without violence, without vandalism.

— Neymar

Government is violence masquerading as answers to strangers' problems using other peoples' money.

— Dan McCall

If we are to overcome terrorism and violence, we need education. That is the only way we can win.

— Sakena Yacoobi

Conflicts and factions, violence and upheavals are caused by the neglect of human values in daily life.

— Sathya Sai Baba

Non-violence is not a passive idea. It is ethical activism at its political best

— Ela Bhatt