Best 2024 quotes in «violence quotes» category

War is not a pathology that, with proper hygiene and treatment, can be wholly prevented. War is a natural condition of the State, which was organized in order to be an effective instrument of violence on behalf of society. Wars are like deaths, which, while they can be postponed, will come when they will come and cannot be finally avoided.

Wars such as those which have occurred in Iraq only allow hatred, violence and terror to proliferate

War therefore is an act of violence to compel our opponent to fulfill our will.

We are a country of excess. So it's not the violence, per se, but the exacerbation and constant repetition.

We are all shot through with enough motives to make a massacre, any day of the week that we want to give them their head.

We are all victims of the violence that animals suffer... their liberation is also our liberation.

We are fighting hard against radical Islamic terrorism, and we will prevail. We cannot accept those who reject our values and who use hatred to justify violence against the innocent.

We are quite convinced, and we say this to the Palestinians, that violence is not going to solve the problem of Israel and the Middle East. We say that to the Israelis. We say it to the Palestinians.

We are saving American lives every single day. The court system has not made it easy for us. We've even created a new office in Homeland Security dedicated to the forgotten American victims of illegal immigrant violence, of which there are many.

We cannot allow violence from militant activists to dictate where and how democratically elected state leaders hold their meetings.

We cannot eradicate violence if we do not build strong, inclusive communities.

We cannot anticipate the moral circumstances under which we will live. And therefore [I refuse] to say that I will not live in a moral circumstance that requires violence.

We condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry, and violence on many sides, on many sides. It has no place in America. What is vital now is a swift restoration of law and order and the protection of innocent lives.

We have not touched the stars, nor are we forgiven, which brings us back to the hero’s shoulders and the gentleness that comes, not from the absence of violence, but despite the abundance of it.

We have to stop this violence. We have to make the political nature of the violence clear, that the violence we experience in our own homes is not a personal family matter, it's a public and political problem. It's a way that women are kept in line, kept in our places.

Well I don't think sex and violence have ever stopped a movie from being mainstream.

We have to have films about action and violence and special effects. That's the sad part, but you know what? It's not me doing it.

We have to start from the fact that there are always alternatives to violence.

We live in a society where manhood is all about conquering and violence. And what we don't realize is that ultimately that kind of manhood ultimately kills you.

We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.

We may never understand what leads anybody to terrorize their fellow human beings. Such violence, such evil is senseless. It's beyond reason.

We must choose between the violence of adults and the smiles of children.

We must talk about how sexism and patriarchy operate in conjunction with state violence. Until we're honest about that, and do something to resist, we're complicit in the persistence of oppression.

We need to take violence against women seriously. It is the biggest indicator of whether a country is violent inside itself, and whether it will be militarily violent against another country.

We need to do something about gun violence in America. But every time one of these things happen, we say the same thing, and then we don't seem to be able to do anything. And that needs to change.

We really are creatures of a violent world, biologically speaking - watching violence and learning about it is one of our cognitive drives.

We remember when women were spoken of differently. I don't mean that we didn't speak of women sexually - that happened. It was never this crude: there wasn't the connotations, the violence. I think there's got to be a relationship between the coarsening of the culture, of which pornography was a piece of the puzzle.

We're fascinated by things that scare us, and one of the things that scares us is violence. Violence exists. It's a real part of our lives. We are obsessed with what we're scared of, but it certainly doesn't define us.

We're warriors, this culture, and we're very puritanical about sex and very embracing about violence and I don't know why that is.

We're the most violent nation on earth. There's no getting away from that. But you've got to look at it on a broader level.

We seem okay with violence, but nudity we race to criticize and censor.

We see violence to forcibly seize land, at any price, murders and corruption.

We shall not yield to violence. We shall not be deprived of union freedoms. We shall never agree with sending people to prison for their convictions.

We shall not bind ourselves by treaties. We shall not allow ourselves to be entangled by treaties. We reject all clauses on plunder and violence, but we shall welcome all clauses containing provisions for good-neighbourly relations and all economic agreements; we cannot reject these.

We set ourselves the ultimate aim of abolishing the state, i.e., all organized and systematic violence, all use of violence against people in general.

We should all have greater freedoms to define and pursue our lives without pathologization, de-realization, harassment, threats of violence, violence, and criminalization. I join in the struggle to realize such a world.

We remain in the Romantic cycle initiated by Rousseau: liberal idealism canceled by violence, barbarism, disillusionment and cynicism.

We wake, if we ever wake at all, to mystery, rumors of death, beauty, violence.

We talk about how many women were raped last year, not about how many men raped women.

We want you to express your point of view but without violence.

What bothers me most about today is that we're getting used 2 it. ENOUGH. 2nd amendment must go. Violence has 2 stop. Culture MUST change.

We were raised with that discussion about violence and non-violence, and we all pretty much came up on the side of non-violence. That became my foundation with politics and my livelihood.

What a vast difference there is between the barbarism that precedes culture and the barbarism that follows it.

What I have set down in a moment of ardour I must then critically examine. Sometimes I must do myself violence before I can mercilessly erase things thought out with love.

What does it matter if, by chance, a little vile blood be spilled?

What is debt anyway? A debt is just the perversion of a promise. It is a promise corrupted by both math and violence.

What is gained by violence must be lost before superior violence.

What is wanted is a deliberate giving up of violence out of strength.

What is the meaning of it, Watson? said Holmes solemnly as he laid down the paper. "What object is served by this circle of misery and violence and fear? It must tend to some end, or else our universe is ruled by chance, which is unthinkable. But what end? There is the great standing perennial problem to which human reason is as far from an answer as ever.

What is magnificent about humans is when they decide to turn and stand. If they respond with non-violence on principle and hold their ground, they are really magnificent.