Best 2024 quotes in «violence quotes» category

The learned and the studious of thought have no monopoly of wisdom. Their violence of direction in some degree disqualifies them to think truly.

The major violence now is because of a plethora, explosion almost, of rebel groups, all of whom oppose the government, and they're fighting each other, strangely precipitated by the fact that the United Nations and African Union has now planned peace talks.

The man who coerces another not to eat fish commits more violence than he who eats it.

The man who submits to violence is debased by his compliance; but when he submits to that right of authority which he acknowledges in a fellow creature, he rises in some measure above the person who give the command.

The mechanism of violence is what destroys women, controls women, diminishes women and keeps women in their so-called place.

The midwife of history is violence.

The modern choice is between non-violence or non-existence.

The moral to be legitimately drawn from the supreme tragedy of the bomb is that it will not be destroyed by counter bombs even as violence cannot be by counter-violence.

The most Heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together.

The more laws and orders are multiplied, the more theft and violence increase.

The most exquisite words and finest strokes of an author are those which very often appear the most doubtful and exceptionable to a man who wants a relish for polite learning; and they are those which a sour undistinguishing critic generally attacks with the greatest violence.

The nation cannot be kept on the nonviolent path by violence.

The natives of England are closing their doors to relationships with Asians and Africans or, for that matter, Turks and Spaniards. While the Africans and Asians on their part are increasingly closing their doors too and resentment at both sides is increasing. This trend can be dangerous. It can lead, sooner or later, to violence - even in this country, which is traditionally an opponent of violence.

The Norwegian response to violence is more democracy, more openness and greater political participation.

The poet resists the pressures of reality, including the pressures of violence, in making, in forming, the poem. The tension is in the resistance - the poem is an act of resistance.

The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of nonviolence has been the organization of violence.

The oppressed always learned from and copied the oppressor. When the tables were turned, the stage was set for another round of revenge and violence -- roles reversed. And reversed and reversed ad nauseam.

The one thing in my films, I only kill people who need to be killed, or killers killing killers. And I believe that the violence is very justifiable.

The only way to end a culture of violence is to proactively create a culture of peace.

The pornography of violence of course far exceeds, in volume and general acceptance, sexual pornography, in this Puritan land of ours.

The praise of a civilized world is justly due to Christianity;—war, by the influence of the humane principles of that religion, has been stripped of half its horrors. The French renounce Christianity, and they relapse into barbarism;—war resumes the same hideous and savage form which it wore in the ages of Gothic and Roman violence.

The power to prevent violence is a power that no police force seems to have anywhere in the United States.

The problem to me is violence. It's not cool to kill somebody or hurt people.

There are many causes I would die for. There is not a single cause I would kill for.

The question is no longer between violence and non-violence it is between non-violence and non-existence.

There are fewer Arabs in Tel Aviv, one of the largest cities in the Middle East, than there are in Chicago, the largest city in the American Midwest. How do you accomplish such a remarkable feat of social engineering without massive violence?

There are many difficult challenges in Afghanistan. And we still have Taliban. We still have terrorist organizations there, and we will see violence and we will see conflict there also in the coming years,.

There is a cultural factor promoting violence which nowadays undoubtedly is highly effective is the mass media. And particularly everything that enters our minds through pictorial media.

There are things that can be accomplished only by violence. Physical love is unthinkable without violence.

There is a direct connection between violence against the Earth and violence against women.

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.

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.

There is a need for subjects who find intense pleasure in commodification of violence and a culture of cruelty.

There is no lasting hope in violence, only temporary relief from hopelessness.

There is no greater violence than to deny the dreams of our children.

There is no shame in being a survivor of sexual violence. The shame is on the aggressor.

There is no reason to live in fear of crime and violence. There is however reason to take reasonable precautions. And in doing so, you will have deterred most criminals from choosing you as their victim.

There is no such thing as defeat in non-violence.

There is nothing more American than brutal violence. The country was built on it, revels in it and shows every evidence of clinging to it with the crazed, destructive strength of an obsessive lover.

There is nothing in anything that I have ever written that could be reasonably construed as an incitement to violence against anyone.

There is so much history of this racist violence that simply to bring one person to justice is not going to disturb the whole racist edifice.

There is the emergence of a militarized society that now organizes itself for the production of violence. A society in which the range of acceptable opinion inevitably shrinks.

There's always been violence in movies, and there will always be violence in movies. Whether it lends to the one psychotic that's out there, thinking the worst thoughts you could possibly thing, is always going to be a mystery.

There's an economy of violence. It's sexy. It's being exploited.

There's an incredible fascination for that and that goes with violence and everything else in pictures.

There's just so much lazy violence directed at women. But beyond that, lazy violence directed at humans generally. Just lazy violence.

There's less violence in the world when people are using Hula-Hoops.

There’s less violence in my world compared to yours,” she insisted. Spade sighed. “No, darling. There are only different reasons for it.

There's more danger in the violence you don't face.

There's more violence in one football game than there is in an entire hockey season, and nobody ever talks about that.