Best 2024 quotes in «violence quotes» category

Ahimsa is the highest duty. Even if we cannot practice it in full, we must try to understand its spirit and refrain as far as is humanly possible from violence.

[A.J. Muste] never engaged in violence but he believed, as [Mahatma] Gandhi did - and he knew Gandhi slightly - he believed that a pacifist had to be active in the community.

Alcohol removes inhibitions. It doesn't trigger criminal violence where there was none before.

All fear violence, all are afraid of death.

All forms of violence, especially war, are totally unacceptable as means to settle disputes between and among nations, groups and persons.

All forms of violence are quests for identity. When you live on the frontier, you have no identity. You're a nobody.

All marriages are sacred, but not all are safe.

All of my life I have stayed away from violence and the instruments of violence, and have seen a legal, democratic struggle as the only means to achieve change.

All the violence in videos and movies, you can't tell me that that wouldn't influence a disturbed person.

All tremble at violence; all fear death. Putting oneself in the place of another, one should not kill nor cause another to kill.

All violence is the illustration of a pathetic stereotype.

All violence flows from the same source ... the need for power. Power is the only true morality ... the only deathless god, and the appetite for violence is its only commandment.

All you violated ones with gentle hearts; You violent dreamers whose cries shout heartbreak

Almost always, it is the conviction that 'I am right' or 'my cause is the cause of justice' that triggers violence. That is, ...the moment propaganda does its work, violence is unleashed. And violence can be reduced by countering this propaganda.

A lot of violence, a lot of gore in it, and I just didn't want to do that kind of thing.

Among the numerous advantages promised by a well-constructed Union, none deserves to be more accurately developed than its tendency to break and control the violence of faction.

A lot of women do a lot of harm because they don't control their emotions. But in terms of violence, men seem to have a monopoly

A martial art that has no rules is nothing but violence.

America has become numb to violence because it just drowns in it, day in and day out.

Americans love to read about violence.

An absolutely devastating ridicule of all that is false, primitive, and vicious in current American life: the abuses of power, hero worship, aimless violence, materialistic obsession, intolerance, and every form of hypocrisy.

A man who lives with nature is used to violence and is companionable with death. There is more violence in an English hedgerow than in the meanest streets of a great city.

And in the wake of Trump's elections, there have been reports across the country of intimidation, harassment and violence against those very groups. So if Trump is serious about unifying the country, if this is a thing he wants to do, then I think he needs to immediately speak against these acts of intimidation, harassment and violence that are happening to some degree in the name of the campaign that he ran.

And I thought the whole point of my education was that violence IS the answer.

Anger and violence in Gaza and among Gazans is completely predictable. In a situation like ours, the absence of violence and anger would be abnormal. All of of us feel angry at least occasionally.

And what is it, according to Plato, that philosophy is supposed to do? Nothing less than to render violence to our sense of ourselves and our world, our sense of ourselves in the world.

Any time we read a newspaper or take any look at the world around us, we are aware of the cruelty and violence that dominates our world.

A nonviolent occupation is that occupation which is fundamentally free from violence and which involves no exploitation or envy of others.

Any criminal act against any individual or institution in India is to be condemned. The attackers must be strongly punished as per law. I have said this before and I say it again: any discrimination or violence against any community will not be tolerated. My position on this is very clear: Sab ka saath, sab ka vikas. We stand for every one of the 1.25 billion Indians regardless or caste or creed and we will work for the progress of every one of them.

Anyone who endorses violence, hatred or oppression is not welcome in America and never, ever will be!

A peaceful world is a world in which differences are tolerated, and are not eliminated by violence.

Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism.

Art, in fact, can be nothing but violence, cruelty and injustice.

Are terrorists going to be deterred - are terrorists going to be scared if we react violently? No. They love it. That's what they dote on. They dote on violence. They dote on having more reasons to commit more terrorism.

As an actor you're only as good as the things you're offered. And there just weren't any female directors offering me things. So when you dissect that, you realize there aren't women offering you things because they don't have the opportunities. I work to raise money for women's cancers; I use my voice for violence against women.

Art should cause violence to be set aside and it is only art that can accomplish this.

As for sex, well, I mean sex is a perfectly respectable subject as far as Shakespeare is concerned. I mean, all history is love and violence.

As boys without bonds to their fathers grow older and more desperate about their masculinity, they are in danger of forming gangs in which they strut their masculinity for one another, often overdo it, and sometimes turn to displays of fierce, macho bravado and even violence.

As you become more conscious of your cruelty, of your violence, gross and subtle, you start becoming more and more compassionate. Not that you cultivate compassion. Just by becoming aware of your cruelty, violence, ugliness... the very awareness brings new changes in you. And the energy that was involved in cruelty, in violence, starts changing. The same energy becomes purified, the same energy becomes compassion.

As the welfare state is hollowed out, a culture of compassion is replaced by a culture of violence, cruelty and disposability.

As women are empowered, violence can come down, for a number of reasons. By all measures, men are the more violent gender.

As the State is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence.

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

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 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.

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.

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 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.