Best 2024 quotes in «violence quotes» category

My whole access into culture was violent. Violence is something I understand. Don't like it, don't condone it, but I sure understand where it comes from.

My whole life I had seen my father solve every problem he had through the use of violence.

Nations are not ruined by one act of violence, but gradually and in an almost imperceptible manner by the depreciation of their circulating currency, through its excessive quantity.

No Bolshevik, no Communist, no intelligent socialist has ever entertained the idea of violence against the middle peasants. All socialists have always spoken of agreement with them and of their gradual and voluntary transition to socialism.

No evolution is accomplished in nature without revolution. Periods of very slow changes are succeeded by periods of violent changes. Revolutions are as necessary for evolution as the slow changes which prepare them and succeed them.

No, General. I'm not your subordinate. And what I'm coming dangerously close to is violence. -General Wedge Antilles

No matter how liberal I am, I'm still outraged by crimes of violence. Regardless of whether I can sympathize with the causes that lead these individuals to do these crimes, the effects are outrageous.

Non-co-operators will make a serious mistake if they seek to convert people to their creed by violence.

Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence.

Non-violence is a piece of theatre. You need an audience. What can you do when you have no audience?

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

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

Nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger... . Between violence and cowardly flight I can only prefer violence to cowardice.

Non-violence is not a passive idea. It is ethical activism at its political best

Non-violence is the article of faith.

Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute.

Nonviolence of the strong is infinitely braver than their violence.

Nonviolence in the sense of mere non-killing does not appear to me, therefore, to be of any improvement on the technique of violence.

Nonviolence is an unchangeable creed. It has to be pursued even in face of violence raging around you.

Non-violence 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.

Non violence is not a thing that comes easily. You have to learn how to be non-violent

No one may threaten or commit violence ('aggress') against another man's person or property. Violence may be employed only against the man who commits such violence; that is, only defensively against the aggressive violence of another. In short, no violence may be employed against a non-aggressor. Here is the fundamental rule from which can be deduced the entire corpus of libertarian theory.

No other form of violence is legitimate. It is never acceptable to use violence to solve a problem. Whether personal or political.

No problem is so deep that it cannot be overcome, given the will of all parties, through discussion and negotiation rather than force and violence.

No problems are ever resolved by violence. It only aggravates the pain and the hurt on every side.

No religion is responsible for terrorism. People are responsible for violence and terrorism.

North America is not altogether to blame with regard to her Indians. If the Indian had been more susceptible to higher culture, violence and arms would not have been used against him, as is now the case.

Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.

Not all bodies are born in male or female. There is a continuum of bodies and it seems to me that trying to persuade medical and psychiatrist establishments to deal with the intersex involves critique of the binary gender system. Similarly there continues to be extreme, sometimes very extreme violence against transgender people.

Non-violence should be a tactic - not an ideology preached from the sidelines to victims of massive violence.

Nothing endures. Not a tree. Not love. Not even death by violence.

Nothing in our society-with the exception of violence and fear-has been more effective in keeping women in their place than the degradation of the menstrual cycle.

Nothing good ever comes of violence.

Not violence, nor untruth but non-violence and Truth are the laws of our being.

Nothing violent, oft have I heard tell, can be permanent.

Not only do most people accept violence if it is perpetuated by legitimate authority, they also regard violence against certain kinds of people as inherently legitimate, no matter who commits it.

No violent extreme endures.

Now, especially in public places, you always have that unease. When the children were cast, if I thought that they might be victims of violence because of participating in this movie, we would have chosen children from outside this country.

Now [after election] where it goes into violence, I have a zero tolerance for riots.

Now I see it clearly. My whole life has pointed in one direction. I see that now. There never has been any choice for me.

No wonder we have a lot of violence in Rio: the corrupt and violent policemen meet the violent criminals in the streets. What else is going to happen?

Novelists who treat violence and cruelty as something to be exploited for their effect, or to enjoy the pleasure of an evacuation, are carriers of a singularly unpleasant disease.

Obama repeatedly has condemned Hamas as a terrorist organization that should be isolated until it renounces violence and recognizes Israel.

Obasanjo has openly endorsed violence as a means of governance, embraced and empowered individuals whose avowed declarations, confessions and acts are cynically contrary to the mandate that alone upholds the legitimacy and dignity of his office.

Of course I tensed up when he touched me. To be with him was to hurt him-inevitably. And that's what I'd felt as he reached for me: I'd felt as though I were committing an act of violence against him, because I was.

Of course I am frustrated with regard to extreme poverty, to violence that never seems to cease.

Of course, we talked about Westerns we like with [James Ransone in Valley of Violence] , but it was always thematically in relation to the movie and what the themes of the movie were.

Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence.

Of course, there is nothing intrinsic linking any religion with any act of violence. The crusades don't prove that Christianity was violent. The Inquisition doesn't prove that Christianity tortures people. But that Christianity did torture people.

Often things are as bad as they seem.