Violence Quotes
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Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted. (Quote by - Ellen Glasgow)
Yasser Arafat left a terrible legacy of violence behind him where people are always acting outside the law. Now, with him gone, everyone is fighting for his power. (Quote by - Eyad Sarraj)
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. (Quote by - George Orwell)
Violence is unnecessary and costly. Peace is the only way. (Quote by - Julius K Nyerere)
Conflicts and factions, violence and upheavals are caused by the neglect of human values in daily life. (Quote by - Sri Sathya Sai Baba)
From pacifist to terrorist, each person condemns violence - and then adds one cherished case in which it may be justified. (Quote by - Gloria Steinem)
The doll provoked rejection, hatred and violence. (Quote by - Agnes Nairn)
Under all conditions well-organized violence seems to him the shortest distance between two points. (Quote by - Leon Trotsky)
Football, wherein is nothing but beastly fury and extreme violence, whereoth proceedeth hurt, and consequently rancour and malice do remain with them that be wounded. (Quote by - Phillip Stubbes)
Lawlessness is lawlessness. Anarchy is anarchy is anarchy. Neither race nor color nor frustration is an excuse for either lawlessness or anarchy. (Quote by - Thurgood Marshall)
The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility. (Quote by - John Arbuthnot Fisher)
In a war of ideas it is people who get killed. (Quote by - Stanislaw J. Lee)
A revolution is an act of violence whereby one class shatters the authority of another. (Quote by - James MacGregor Burns)
You know what I think about violence. For me it is profoundly moral -more moral than compromises and transactions. (Quote by - Benito Mussolini)
The private terror of the liberal spirit is invariably suicide, not murder. (Quote by - Norman Mailer)
You have to show violence the way it is. If you don't show it realistically, then that's immoral and harmful. If you don't upset people, then that's obscenity. (Quote by - Roman Polanski)
We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm. (Quote by - George Orwell)
Violence is my last option. (Quote by - Chuck Norris)
Propaganda is to a democracy what violence is to a dictatorship. (Quote by - William Blum)
Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest of violence. (Quote by - Francis Jeffrey)
The home of everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose. (Quote by - Edward Coke)
To live... in any sense of the word... is to reject others; to accept them, one must renounce, do oneself violence. (Quote by - Emile M. Cioran)
Football combines the two worst features of American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings. (Quote by - George F. Will)
We are meeting here to put an end to this cycle [of violence], to put things back in order and to put the wheel of peace on the right track. The task is very great, but our hopes are greater. (Quote by - Hosni Mubarak)
Violence is essentially wordless, and it can begin only where thought and rational communication have broken down. (Quote by - Thomas Merton)
An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. (Quote by - Mahatma Gandhi)
Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies from indifference to the unique values which created it. (Quote by - Nicolas Gomez Davila)
The FA have given me a pat on the back. I've taken violence off the terracing and onto the pitch. (Quote by - Vinny Jones)
The imposition of stigma is the commonest form of violence used in democratic societies. (Quote by - R. A. Pinker)
The violence in the world comes about because we human beings are forever creating barriers between men who are like us and men who are not like us. (Quote by - Edmund Leach)
It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it. Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence. Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle. (Quote by - Alexander Solzhenitsyn)
Non-violence is the policy of the vegetable kingdom. (Quote by - H G Wells)
Who overcomes by force hath overcome but half his foe. (Quote by - John Milton)
I did not enjoy the violence of boxing so much as the science of it. (Quote by - Nelson Mandela)
The use of violence as an instrument of persuasion is therefore inviting and seems to the discontented to be the only effective protest. (Quote by - William O. Douglas )
Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence. (Quote by - Norman O. Brown)
Oh! Come and see the violence inherent in the system! Help, help! I'm being repressed! (Quote by - Monty Python)
Our Lord God doesn't do great things except by violence, as they say (Quote by - Martin Luther)
Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another. (Quote by - Mahatma Gandhi)
If you strike a child, take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk of maiming it for life. A blow in cold blood neither can nor should be forgiven. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
Non-violence is the article of faith. (Quote by - Mahatma Gandhi)
There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors. (Quote by - Frank Herbert)
A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the football field, or in the conduct of its business, cannot help making celebrities of the people who would destroy it. (Quote by - Lewis H. Lapham)
To me, this would be out of character for him. Even though he had a past record, it had nothing, no type of violence or anything in it that I know toward women. (Quote by - Addie Harris)
Today violence is the rhetoric of the period. (Quote by - Josi Ortega y Gasset)
Public opinion is now overwhelmingly on our side as it becomes clearer every day that this occupation itself is the source of the violence in Iraq. (Quote by - Dustin Langley)
Or will it take some cataclysmic act of violence on U.S. soil to finally awaken our gamesmen to the costs of global hegemony? (Quote by - Pat Buchanan)
Perhaps violence, like pornography, is some kind of an evolutionary standby system, a last-resort device for throwing a wild joker into the game? (Quote by - J. G. Ballard)
Violence is the first refuge of the incompetent. (Quote by - Issac Asimov)
Violence has no constitutional sanction; and every government from the beginning has moved against it. But where grievances pile high and most of the elected spokesmen represent the Establishment, violence may be the only effective response. (Quote by - William O. Douglas)
I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent. (Quote by - Mahatma Gandhi)
Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself. (Quote by - Lao Tzu)
Francesco Damiani punches with all the violence and bad intentions of Mahatma Gandhi. (Quote by - Jerry Izenberg)
Non violence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. (Quote by - Anonymous)
Love is stronger than violence. (Quote by - Hermann Hesse)
You might expect little girls to love their Barbie and expect an imaginary love in return. Instead girls feel violence and hatred towards their Barbie. (Quote by - Agnes Nairn)
Governments should not possess instruments of coercion and violence denied to their citizens. (Quote by - Edgar A. Suter)
It is organized violence on top which creates individual violence at the bottom. It is the accumulated indignation against organized wrong, organized crime, organized injustice, which drives the political offender to act. (Quote by - Emma Goldman)
American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc. (Quote by - Katherine Dunn)
Wars such as those which have occurred in Iraq only allow hatred, violence and terror to proliferate (Quote by - Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero)
The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out. (Quote by - Chinese Proverb)
Violence is, essentially, a confession of ultimate inarticulateness. (Quote by - Time Magazine)
Violence in any form is evil and to kill innocent animals in tantamount to blatant savagery. (Quote by - Sri Sathya Sai Baba)
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. (Quote by - John F. Kennedy)
There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people. (Quote by - Muhammad Ali)
There's less violence in the world when people are using Hula-Hoops. (Quote by - Mikey Way)
Nothing good ever comes of violence. (Quote by - Martin Luther)
Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)
Violence does even justice unjustly. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another. (Quote by - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent. (Quote by - Mahatma Gandhi)
I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if we do not stop being violent we have no future. (Quote by - Edward Bond)
Violence of the tongue is very real sharper than any knife. (Quote by - Mother Teresa)
Poverty is the worst form of violence. (Quote by - Mahatma Gandhi)
Answer violence with violence. If one of us falls today, five of them must fall tomorrow. (Quote by - Evita Peron)
There are situations in life to which the only satisfactory response is a physically violent one. If you don't make that response, you continually relive the unresolved situation over and over in your life. (Quote by - Russell Hoban)
The very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence (Quote by - Adolf Hitler)
It is clear that no one will achieve any kind of objective through the force of violence, and that no one will make Spaniards yield to threats of guns, whoever may be holding them, (Quote by - Jose Maria Aznar)
We're calling for an immediate, complete and unconditional withdrawal from Iraq. It's the occupation itself that's causing the chaos and violence. (Quote by - Dustin Langley)
The question is no longer between violence and non-violence; it is between non-violence and non-existence. (Quote by - Martin Luther King, Jr.)
But our security forces have prevented the incidents from becoming bigger by behaving sensibly. Nothing can be gained by violence. The rioters' actions will also prevent democratization in the region. (Quote by - Ismail Caliskan)
The stock market may fall on Monday partly because of a surge yesterday and because of investors' concerns about violence after the sharp increase in fuel prices. (Quote by - Arfan Karniody)
Liberty is to be free from restraint and violence from others (Quote by - John Locke)
It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning. (Quote by - Rainer Maria Rilke)
Violence is just, where kindness is vain. (Quote by - Corneille)
If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying. (Quote by - Indira Gandhi)
Frustration is the wet nurse of violence. (Quote by - David Abrahansen)
People are disturbed enough by serial killers, but the whole notion of female violence, particularly maternal violence - the idea of mothers who kill - really unnerves people. (Quote by - Caleb Carr)
Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know how to use their energy creatively so they do the opposite and destroy. (Quote by - Anthony Burgess)
Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime. (Quote by - Max Stirner)
They are not following dharma who resort to violence to achieve their purpose. But those who lead others through nonviolent means, knowing right and wrong, may be called guardians of the dharma. (Quote by - Buddha)
I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could. (Quote by - Mahatma Gandhi)
Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body? (Quote by - Virginia Woolf)
It is by no means self-evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited; violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate men from each other, but rather tend to reduce them to the same state. (Quote by - Thomas Elliot)
All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do. (Quote by - Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy)
The most powerful State in the world, which up to now was relatively protected from terrorist violence, is no longer an inviolable sanctuary. (Quote by - Omar Bongo)
These violent delights have violent ends. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Nonviolence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being. (Quote by - Mahatma Ghandi)
You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it. (Quote by - Noam Chomsky)
There is a great streak of violence in every human being. If it is not channeled and understood, it will break out in war or in madness. (Quote by - Sam Peckinpah)
Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared. (Quote by - Henri Nouwen)
Education is a vaccine for violence. (Quote by - Edward James Olmos)
The violence and obscenity are left unadulterated, as manifestation of the mystery and pain which ever accompanies the act of creation. (Quote by - Anais Nin)
Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat. (Quote by - H. G. Bohn)
It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature. (Quote by - Christopher Morley)
Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state, with its haughtiness, its violence, its punishment, its wars. (Quote by - Leo Tolstoy)
We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict. (Quote by - Jim Morrison )
Violence is a calm that disturbs you. (Quote by - Jean Genet)
Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence. (Quote by - Albert Camus)
We're trying not to get caught up in the madness -- the violence, the looting and fires. (Quote by - Melinda Shiraki)
He who loves the bristle of bayonets only sees in the glitter what beforehand he feels in his heart. It is avarice and hatred; it is that quivering lip, that cold, hating eye, which built magazines and powder-houses. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger. (Quote by - Jean Genet)
Violence was almost an aphrodisiac for me. (Quote by - Woody Harrelson)
Domestic violence is America's hidden war. And the battleground is in all our homes. (Quote by - Michelle Bussolotti)
In some cases nonviolence requires more militancy than violence. (Quote by - Cesar Chavez)
I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie. (Quote by - Hubert Geroid Brown)
Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up. (Quote by - Mohandas Gandhi)
An innings of neurotic violence, of eccentric watchfulness, of brainless impetuosity and incontinent savagery - it was an extraordinary innings, a masterpiece and it secured the Ashes for England [on Pietersen's Ashes winning innings, 2005] (Quote by - Simon Barnes)
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -how passionately I hate them! (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion. (Quote by - Albert Schweitzer)
God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it. (Quote by - Euripides)
It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of non-violence to cover impotence. (Quote by - Mahatma Gandhi)
What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another? (Quote by - Alan Paton)
Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance. (Quote by - Hannah Arendt)
Non-violence is a powerful and just weapon. It is a weapon unique in history, which cuts without wounding and enobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals. (Quote by - Martin Luther King, Jr.)
Business is the art of extracting money from another man's pocket without resorting to violence. (Quote by - Max Amsterdam)
Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence. (Quote by - Dorothy Thompson)
I distrust the incommunicable; it is the source of all violence (Quote by - Jean-Paul Sartre)
The violence betwen women is unbelievable. Women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding. (Quote by - Tori Amos)
It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence. (Quote by - Seneca)
The right things to do are those that keep our violence in abeyance; the wrong things are those that bring it to the fore. (Quote by - Robert J. Sawyer)
There's more violence in one football game than there is in an entire hockey season, and nobody ever talks about that. (Quote by - Keith Allen)
The best way to deal with bureaucrats is with stealth and sudden violence. (Quote by - Butros Butros-Ghali)
The coalition is very disappointed that violence against women is being accepted. That's what him joining the Nuggets states. (Quote by - Tamika Payne)
I maintain that nothing useful and lasting can emerge from violence. (Quote by - Shirin Ebadi)
Keep violence in the mind Where it belongs Barefoot in the Head. (Quote by - Brian Aldiss)
At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love. (Quote by - Martin Luther King, Jr.)
Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary. (Quote by - Mahatma Gandhi)
Domestic violence is a whole pattern of behavior. There are a whole lot of ways that it impacts the workplace, starting with absenteeism and lost productivity. (Quote by - Laurie Fogelman)
The reality is that if you look at Barcelona tonight they had no yellow cards, Bayern Munich had no yellow card, Liverpool had no yellow card, Valencia had no yellow cards, Roma had no yellow cards but Chelsea have four. Do you think it is violence? (Quote by - Jose Mourinho)
The moment a man claims a right to control the will of a fellow being by physical force, he is at heart a slaveholder. (Quote by - Henry C. Wright)
Criminal record and his lifestyle of knives, guns and violence. (Quote by - Peter Arnell)
Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence. (Quote by - Alice Walker)
Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us. (Quote by - Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy)
Degeneracy follows every autocratic system of violence, for violence inevitably attracts moral inferiors. Time has proven that illustrious tyrants are succeeded by scoundrels. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. Only reverance can restrain violence - reverance for human life and the environment. (Quote by - William Sloan Coffin)
Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence. (Quote by - Jim Morrison)
Violence is the repartee of the illiterate. (Quote by - Alan Brien)
Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet. (Quote by - Dave Barry)
It's a very vivid memory and the violence of it really struck me, (Quote by - Eric Bana)
Nonviolence doesn't always work - but violence never does. (Quote by - Madge Micheels-Cyrus)
Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him. (Quote by - Martin Luther King, Jr.)
A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual. (Quote by - Sigmund Freud)
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage-to move in the opposite direction. (Quote by - E. F. Schumacher)
In Genesis, seeing the world filled with violence, God decided to drown all mankind except Noah's family. But because that family carried the same genes as those who had drowned, violence continued unabated. (Quote by - Robert Davis)
Non-violence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed. (Quote by - Mahatma Ghandi)
I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man's problem just to avoid violence (Quote by - Malcolm X)
We are walking to wipe out domestic violence. (Quote by - Sharon Moore)
Violence is the quest for identity. When identity disappears with technological innovation, violence is the natural recourse. (Quote by - Marshall McLuhan)
Rambo isn't violent. I see Rambo as a philanthropist. (Quote by - Sylvester Stallone)
All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Let us thank God that we live in an age when something has influence besides the bayonet. (Quote by - Daniel Webster)
The drop of rain maketh a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling. (Quote by - Hugh Latimer)
The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal in domestic affairs, specifically in the matter of revolution. (Quote by - Hannah Arendt)
Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit. (Quote by - Mohandas Gandhi)
It is clear that the way to heal society of its violence... and lack of love is to replace the pyramid of domination with the circle of equality and respect. (Quote by - Manitonquat)
Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings. (Quote by - George Will)
Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, are both uncivilized and undemocratic (Quote by - Mahatma Gandhi)
A man with a briefcase can steal millions more than any man with a gun. (Quote by - Don Henley)
Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man. (Quote by - Mohandas Gandhi)
So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private citizens will occasionally kill theirs. (Quote by - Elbert Hubbard)
Violence is a symptom of impotence. (Quote by - Anais Nin)
Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create. (Quote by - Pope John Paul II)
Monarchy degenerates into tyranny, aristocracy into oligarchy, and democracy into savage violence and chaos (Quote by - Polybius)
Television nearly always showed the bandits in masks and using violence, but I wanted to go about it in a kind and gentle way. (Quote by - Peggy Barlow)
There is a violence that liberates, and a violence that enslaves; there is a violence that is moral and a violence that is immoral. (Quote by - Benito Mussolini)
Is some cases non-violence requires more militancy than violence. (Quote by - Cesar Chavez)
We are all shot through with enough motives to make a massacre, any day of the week that we want to give them their head. (Quote by - Jacob Bronowski)
It seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does not change the world and if it does, then only temporarily. (Quote by - Martin Scorsese)
Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)
One must do violence to the object of one's desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater. (Quote by - Marquis de Sade)
If human beings are to survive in a nuclear age, committing acts of violence may eventually have to become as embarrassing as urinating or defecating in public are today. (Quote by - Myriam Miedzian)
Never raise your hand to your children it leaves your midsection unprotected. (Quote by - Robert Orben)
The violence done us by others is often less painful than that which we do to ourselves. (Quote by - Francois de la Rochefoucauld)
In violence we forget who we are. (Quote by - Mary McCarthy)
Violence against women can end only when the culprits get punished. (Quote by - Mukhtar Mai)
Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little. (Quote by - Plutarch)
And so, to the end of history, murder shall breed murder, always in the name of right and honor and peace, until the gods are tired of blood and create a race that can understand. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence. (Quote by - Joan Baez)
I can't remember any text of mine where I said that one should fight Hitler without violence; I'm not an idiot. (Quote by - Adam Michnik)
In America all too few blows are struck into flesh. We kill the spirit here, we are experts at that. We use psychic bullets and kill each other cell by cell. (Quote by - Norman Mailer)
It's a happy occasion and, unlike most of the television we watch, there's no violence involved. (Quote by - Dawn Fraser)
The greatest purveyor of violence in the world today - my own government. (Quote by - Martin Luther King, Jr.)
He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
Just so you know, we're on the good side with y'all. We do not want this war, this violence...and we're ashamed that the President of the United States is from Texas. (Quote by - Natalie Maines)
The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it. (Quote by - Bill Cosby)
