Violence Quote by George Orwell

Those who 'abjure' violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf.

— George Orwell

The critics never see my role as it is - as a man protecting his garden killing poisonous snakes. Instead, they say it's just…

— Charles Bronson

Attacks by extremist settlers against Palestinians in the West Bank must stop. And those committing the violence must be held accountable.

— Lloyd Austin

When you treat your time as though you are a machine; a doing machine; you are committing violence against the sacredness of life itself.

— Phillip Moffitt

When you stop people from doing certain things, there is a good chance that they will do exactly what they have been told to…

— Jaggi Vasudev

Nobody can ask us to abjure our fascist roots.

— Gianfranco Fini

To abjure the notion of the truly human is to abjure the attempt to divinize the self as a replacement for a divinized world.

— Richard Rorty

This rough magic I here abjure and when I have required some heavenly music, which even now I do, to work mine end upon…

— William Shakespeare

“The dark-haired girl behind Winston had begun crying out: 'Swine! Swine! Swine!', and suddenly she picked up a heavy Newspeak dictionary and flung it…

— George Orwell

“Sports have nothing to do with fair play. They are bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in…

— George Orwell

“Here, need blurs the line between good and bad, and a constant promise of random violence sticks like humidity down your back.”

— Miguel Syjuco

Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies from indifference toward the unique values which created it.

— Nicolas Gomez Davila