Best 2024 quotes in «violence quotes» category

Sometimes violence cannot be stopped no matter what we do. But the more peaceful we are, the better chance we have of bringing out the peace in those around us.

Sometimes when we're incensed by the rancid tide of injustice, the impulse is to attack. We must avoid this. We have learned that violence as a means is always unsuccessful.

Sometimes you want to have a talk about race, about police violence. It's very hard to get through to somebody. Everyone's got their side staked out. They don't want to talk about it. But you can break the ice with a little humor.

So much of contemporary crime fiction is painful to read and obsessed with violence, particularly against women, and I can't read that.

So, these political activities will create friction in and of themselves, and in this environment of friction there'll be additional violence.

So we have the toughest laws, and you have tremendous gun violence.

Sovereignty and the right to rule cannot be conferred on anyone no matter who ... as a result of an academic discussion. Sovereignty is acquired by force and power and violence.

States have invested themselves with the right to legitimise violence - so who gets criminalised and delegitimised? Only - or well that's excessive - usually, the resistance.

Symbolic violence is violence wielded with tacit complicity between its victims and its agents, insofar as both remain unconscious of submitting to or wielding it.

Success will be measured by change in the appallingly high levels of violence directed at women online and in the physical world, and change in the low levels of women's participation in public life.That change will require collective action, just as the changes so far have taken collective action.

Take away the violence and who will hear the man of peace?

Television is full of fictional and real violence that's turned into entertainment.

Technology, ideology, and social and cultural changes periodically throw out new forms of violence for humanity to contend with.

Television is perhaps the greatest medium ever discovered to teach and educate and even to entertain. But the filth, the rot, the violence, and the profanity that spew from television screens into our homes is deplorable. It is a sad commentary on our society. The fact that a television set is on six or seven hours every day in most of the homes of America says something of tremendous importance.

Terrorism: deadly violence against humans and other living things, usually conducted by government against its own people.

"Terrorism" is what we call the violence of the weak, and we condemn it; "war" is what we call the violence of the strong, and we glorify it.

The application of military force, or the prospect of such application, inhibits terrorist violence.

That is a lie. I'm not for wanton violence, I'm for justice.

The 20th century gave rise to one of the greatest and most distressing paradoxes of human history: that the greatest intolerance and violence of that century were practiced by those who believed that religion caused intolerance and violence.

The aggressive, unprovoked acts of violence against Israel by Hezbollah and Hamas are revealing. It is clear they don't want peace, but rather seek the ultimate destruction of Israel.

The amount of force and violence necessary to board the train, for example was no less and no more than the amoount of politeness and consideration necessary to ensure that the cramped journey was as pleasant as possible afterwards. What is necessary? That was the unspoken but implied, and unavoidable question everywhere in India.

terrorism is interesting to a novelist because it's a crime that's driven by an idea, as opposed to some kind of base materialist impulse. It's not like stealing from someone's house, or even assassinating someone. There are very complex ideological reasons behind these almost abstract acts of violence.

The absence and suppression of justice can only open the way for extremists to exploit such a condition to perpetrate acts of violence against innocents.

The American formal position has been that we oppose violence by governments against their people. That principle should not be abandoned.

The architecture of war and violence is now matched by a barrage of goods parading as fashion.

The atrocities in Cambodia are a direct and understandable response to the violence of the imperial system.

The attention of the media is only caught by acts of violence... so I must perform this act of violence against myself.

The best genius is that which absorbs and assimilates everything without doing the least violence to its fundamental destiny.

The blade itself incites to deeds of violence.

The bicycle had, and still has, a humane, almost classical moderation in the kind of pleasure it offers. It is the kind of machine that a Hellenistic Greek might have invented and ridden. It does no violence to our normal reactions: It does not pretend to free us from our normal environment.

The book I am best known for, or only known for, is a novel I am prepared to repudiate: written a quarter of a century ago, a jeu d'esprit knocked off for money in three weeks, it became known as the raw material for a film which seemed to glorify sex and violence. The film made it easy for readers of the book to misunderstand what it was about, and the misunderstanding will pursue me till I die. I should not have written the book because of this danger of misinterpretation.

The chief cause of our misery is less the violence of our passions than the feebleness of our virtues.

The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. Only reverance can restrain violence - reverance for human life and the environment.

The convoluted wording of legalisms grew up around the necessity to hide from ourselves the violence we intend toward each other. Between depriving a man of one hour from his life and depriving him of his life there exists only a difference of degree. You have done violence to him, consumed his energy.

The common breeds the common, A lout begets a lout, So when I take on half a score I knock their heads about.

The convoluted wording of legalisms grew up around the necessity to hide from ourselves the violence we do to each other.

The consumption of vegetables involves himsa, but I cannot give them up.

The copycat effects of media violence, similar to those previously attributed to westerns, radio serials and comic books, are easy to exaggerate.

The creation of today's market society was not the result of a sequence of spontaneous events but rather of state interference and violence.

The early feminist argument that violence against women is not inherently a private matter, but has been privatized by the sexist structures of the state, the economy, and the family has had a powerful impact on public consciousness.

The difficulty one experiences in meeting himsa arises from weakness of mind.

The devastation of neoliberalism is so multi-fold, whether it's violence against women or desperate economic inequality or the destruction of the planet.

The fundamentalist violence is, so is it, an attempt to increase the stakes, i.e. to discourage the potential desertions by showing that defection will cost them dear, that those who adopt other values will be persecuted or even killed.

The essence of God is consciousness. Consciousness can be used for either violence or peace; the choice is ours. When it is expanded, human consciousness chooses non-violence, since that is compatible with love.

The first function of violence in Native American literatures is simply to acknowledge that violence is implicit, like gravity and sunlight, in the world and our relations with the world.

The function of law and theology are the same: to keep the poor from taking back by violence what the rich have stolen by cunning.

The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility.

The extreme form of power is All against One, the extreme form of violence is One against All.

The foundation of my beliefs is the same as it was when I was 10. Non-violence.

The God of peace is never glorified by human violence.