Best 2024 quotes in «violence quotes» category

At Ohio State University, to avoid being guilty of 'sexual assault' or 'sexual violence,' you and your partner now apparently have to agree on the reason WHY you are making out or having sex. It's not enough to agree to DO it, you have to agree on WHY: there has to be agreement 'regarding the who, what, where, when, why, and how this sexual activity will take place.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

At the same time as we clearly condemn actions of violence by groups in Palestinian against Israel.

Auschwitz stands as a tragic reminder of the terrible potential man has for violence and inhumanity.

A vast majority of Republicans are on the record saying that they believe the Violence Against Women Act should be reauthorized. Let me be clear: I believe that Violence Against Women Act must be reauthorized.

Because of the influence of the cinema, most reports or stories of violence are so pictorial that they lack content or meaning. The camera brings them to our eyes, but does not settle them in our minds, nor in time.

Because people see violence on the movie screen, they're not going to go out and hold up a liquor store and kill somebody. It really doesn't correlate.

Because the twentieth century was a century of violence, let us make the twenty-first a century of dialogue.

Because we hold it for 'a fundamental and undeniable truth', that religion or 'the duty which we owe to our Creator' and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence.

Being a Southerner, Im interested in sex, violence, religion and all the things that make life interesting.

Being offended by freedom of speech should never be regarded as a justification for violence.

Being vegan provides us with the peace of knowing that we are no longer participants in the hideous violence that is animal exploitation.

Belief in non-violence is based on the assumption that human nature in the essence is one and therefore unfailingly responds to the advances of love.

Birth is violent, whether it be the birth of a child or the birth of an idea.

Better be secure under one king, than exposed to violence from twenty millions of monarchs, though oneself be one of them.

Better than cowardice is killing and being killed in battle.

Birth is violent, and out of that violence is our only chance of rebirth.

Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.

Black Power If the motive is good, and there are no other possibilities, then seen most deeply it [violence] is nonviolence, because its aim is to help others.

But I can't bear it when somebody who some man made a pass at - to call that violence seems to me absurd and insulting to women who've really met violence, who've been raped or bashed.

Bullying and violence that exists in someone can also be inherent in a nation without us knowing it.

But does that mean that war and violence are inevitable? I would argue not because we have also evolved this amazingly sophisticated intellect, and we are capable of controlling our innate behavior a lot of the time.

But, I don't know, the violence, I can't even talk about. We don't do a lot of violent shows. When I started in television, breaking a pencil was a violent act.

But I don't think there has ever been anything written on the nature of violent man as deep and as thorough as Shakespeare's Titus. I think it puts all modern movies and modern exploitations of violence to shame.

Bush and bin Laden are really on the same side: the side of faith and violence against the side of reason and discussion. Both have implacable faith that they are right and the other is evil.

Christians appeal to those who wrong them and make them friendly to themselves; they are eager to do good to their enemies; they are mild and conciliatory.

But transitions from the politics of violence to democratic compromise are always messy.

By choosing to be kind instead of cruel, we can break the karmic chain of reacting to violence with more violence, contributing to a more peaceful future for everyone.

Caroline says as she gets up from the floor, you can hit me all you want to, but I don't love you anymore.

Claiming that you have got the truth wrapped up does breed violence and intolerance.

Civilization and violence are antithetical concepts.

By ending catch-and-release on the border, we will end the cycle of human smuggling and violence. Illegal border crossings will go down. We will stop it. It won't be happening very much anymore. Believe me.

By what standard of morality can the violence used by a slave to break his chains be considered the same as the violence of a slave master?

Citizens who live or work near protest sites or marches have every right to be free of violence from protesters, and they should never be subjected to destruction of property.

Circumcision is where sex and violence meet for the first time.

Civil disobedience does not admit of any violence or countenancing of violence directly or indirectly.

Civil disobedience is the only nonviolent escape from the soul-destroying heat of violence.

Classifying and judging people promotes violence.

Colombia has been the leading western recipient of U.S. arms and training as violence has grown through the '90s.

Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.

Comparison leads to violence.

Comparison is an act of violence against the self.

Conflict exists only when there are two opposing things: fear and non-fear, violence and non-violence.

Complete independence through truth and non-violence means the independence of every unit, be it the humblest of the nation, without distinction of race, colour or creed.

Conflicts are fueled by the tendency of the powerful to exploit the power and the anger and frustration of the powerless, which turns into violence. International Solidarity Movement activists are attempting to confront the exploitation of power and to bring back hope to the powerless.

Courtesy towards opponents and eagerness to understand their view-point is the ABC of non-violence.

Darkness cannot be overcome with more darkness, only with light. Violence cannot be overcome with more violence, only with peace.

Cruelty to animals can become violence to humans.

Crime and violence is an attack on the poor and will never be accepted in a Trump administration.

Deceit and violence - these are the two forms of deliberate assault on human beings.