Best 2024 quotes in «violence quotes» category

Being a Southerner, Im interested in sex, violence, religion and all the things that make life interesting.

Being offended by freedom of speech should never be regarded as a justification for violence.

Being vegan provides us with the peace of knowing that we are no longer participants in the hideous violence that is animal exploitation.

Belief in non-violence is based on the assumption that human nature in the essence is one and therefore unfailingly responds to the advances of love.

Better be secure under one king, than exposed to violence from twenty millions of monarchs, though oneself be one of them.

Better than cowardice is killing and being killed in battle.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

But transitions from the politics of violence to democratic compromise are always messy.

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.

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.

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?

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

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.

Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Democracy cannot sustain itself amid a high degree of violence.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Comparison leads to violence.

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

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