Best 2024 quotes in «violence quotes» category

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Civilization and violence are antithetical concepts.

Classifying and judging people promotes violence.

Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.

Comparison leads to violence.

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

Comparison is an act of violence against the self.

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.

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

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.

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

Cruelty to animals can become violence to humans.

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

Deep within I'm shaken by the violence of existing for only you.

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

Democracy is the most realistic way for diverse peoples to resolve their differences, and share power, and heal social divisions without violence or repression.

Democracy cannot sustain itself amid a high degree of violence.

Decriminalization would take the profit out of drugs and greatly reduce, if not eliminate, the drug-related violence that is currently plaguing our streets.

Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire

Despite what your momma told you, Violence does solve problems.

Despite hundreds of studies, cause-and-effect relationship between pornography and violence has never been satisfactorily proved.

Dignity does not come from avenging insults, especially from violence that can never be justified. It comes from taking responsibility and advancing our common humanity.

Dictatorship is rule based directly upon force and unrestricted by any laws. The revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat is rule won and maintained by the use of violence by the proletariat against the bourgeoisie, rule that is unrestricted by any laws.

Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.

Disapproving and boycotting is the Quranic thing to do, whereas violence and threats are not.

Doctors should recognise the importance of the five human values; Truth, righteousness, Peace, Love and Non-violence. Love is the basis for all the other values. Doctors can infuse courage in patients by the love they show towards the patients. If doctors carry out their duties with love they will be crowned with success.

Eliminating wickedness is a different project from eliminating violence. Eliminating violence - the destruction associated with wickedness - is a practical program that I'm very willing to pursue.

Each of these failures for me is a failure of communication, via a mode of communication that can be violent or meant to behave violently. Butler provides a way of thinking about how language becomes an instrument of violence. And why we feel it as such.

Do not ever threaten an Afghan with violence. We will rise as one and we will face every threat the way we have taken on thousands of previous armies and conquerors.