Violence Quotes · Page 90

Nonviolence becomes meaningless if violence is permitted for self-defence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“What deep violence does the mind invent / As polar opposite to love. (In 'Hat Love').”

— Tony Williams

“Blood spilled by violence leaves a stain far different from blood which is shed any other way.”

— R.A. Evans

When our communication supports compassionate giving and receiving, happiness replaces violence and grieving.

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

“Through TV people turn their family living rooms into meditative dens of death and violence worship.”

— Bryant McGill

Violence is an admission that one's ideas and goals cannot prevail on their own merits.

— Edward Kennedy

If we're going to address trafficking in our country we have to address poverty, racism & gender based violence.

— Rachel Lloyd

There is a capacity for violence we all harbour, and under certain circumstances, it comes out.

— John Hillcoat

“It was once said that violence is the language of the incompetent. This is something to ponder while remembering that little acts…

— Sean Azimov

It is the quietest and meekest people who are often capable of the most sudden and unexpected violences for the reason that…

— Agatha Christie

We were all involved in the death of John Kennedy. We tolerated hate; we tolerated the sick stimulation of violence in all…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

So, these political activities will create friction in and of themselves, and in this environment of friction there'll be additional violence.

— John Abizaid

I actually don't think we should ban Jihadi videos because I don't think that is what causes the issue of Islamist violence.…

— Claire Fox

The American dream is, in part, responsible for a great deal of crime and violence because people feel that the country owes…

— Anonymous

This much is clear: violence breeds violence, repression brings retaliation, and only a cleansing of our whole society can remove this sickness…

— Robert Kennedy

First of all, we need to condemn violence and terror without prejudice towards caste, creed or community. All citizens of all religions…

— Victor Banerjee

Woman, I hold, is the personification of self-sacrifice, but unfortunately today she does not realize what a tremendous advantage she has over…

— Mahatma Gandhi

The phrase "It's absolutely the same with me, I..." seems to be an approving echo, a way of continuing the other's thought,…

— Milan Kundera

Civilized people are taught by logic, barbarians, by necessity, communities by tradition; and the lesson inculcated even in wild beasts by nature…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Dance with all the might of your body, and all the fire of your soul, in order that you may shake all…

— Lola Montez

War stirs in men's hearts the mud of their worst instincts. It puts a premium on violence, nourishes hatred, and gives free…

— Charles de Gaulle

As much as they deny it, I think people want to be scared. It's a phenomenon, why people want to be scared…

— Dylan McDermott

“When I was young, I thought it was thunder that kills people. But when I learnt physics in St. Paul's High School,…

— Israelmore Ayivor

Peace is not so much a political mandate as it is a shared state of consciousness that remains elevated and intact only…

— Aberjhani

Bob, it's the second night of violence in this normally quiet, yet generally swinging, Casino Capital of the East.

— John Guare

I eat innocent meat, the house wife I will beat, the prolife I will kill. What you won't do, I will.

— Marilyn Manson

All of the violence that doesn't occur doesn't get reported on the news.

— Steven Pinker

It's not enough just to treat women well. We have to work to make sure all men treat women well.

— Jeff Bridges

Refrain at all times from such Foods as cannot be procured without violence and oppression.

— Thomas Tryon

Humanity happy, I get benefit. Humanity in state of trouble, or violence, I cannot escape from that.

— Dalai Lama

“Once again, he wondered why all his talents involved violence and death. He”

— Ethan Cross

“With tybo men there isn't much difference between fucking and killing.”

— Tom Spanbauer

Success will come when the societal attitude changes and not a single woman in America asks herself the question 'What did I…

— Joe Biden

“Maxim 27: Don't be afraid to be the first to resort to violence. -The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries”

— Howard Tayler

I assume, like most people, I don't enjoy watching violence against women. I'd rather not.

— Katy O'Brian

Alcohol removes inhibitions. It doesn't trigger criminal violence where there was none before.

— Tammara Webber

People who say that violence doesn't accomplish anything have not read history. I don't celebrate that reality, but there you have it.

— Cleve Jones

The ego is exploitation; love is service. And the service that flows from love, freely and spontaneously, is non-violence.

— Rajneesh

If it is by force that we wish to achieve Swaraj, let us drop nonviolence and offer such violence as we may.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Turning a human being into a thing is almost always the first step towards justifying violence against that person.

— Jean Kilbourne