Best 2024 quotes in «violence quotes» category

Malcolm X made it very clear that if somebody goes after you - whether it's cops or not - you have to defend yourself. But he was not an advocate for violence the way the Black Panthers were.

Mankind has to get out of violence only through non-violence.

Many who are convinced that God is non-violent simply dismiss the Old Testament accounts of God commanding or engaging in violence. I don't consider this to be a viable option, for Jesus treats the whole Old Testament as the inspired Word of God. My cross-centered interpretation of these violent portraits allows believers to affirm that God is non-violent while also affirming that all Scripture is "God-breathed.".

Marijuana is the most violence causing drug in the history of mankindMost marijuana smokers are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos and entertainers.

Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western World. Simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.

Men are distinguished from women by their commitment to do violence rather than to be victimized by it.

Mental violence is as bad as physical violence. You don't see that very often in movies, so it was a good subject to tackle.

Muslims have different meanings for the same words that we use. They are so convinced of the "truth" of Islam that they do not perceive Jihad/terrorism, or dhimmitude as violence.

Multiply your death, divide by sex, add up your violence, what do you get?

Mental violence has no potency and injures only the person whose thoughts are violent. It is otherwise with mental non-violence. It has potency which the world does not yet know.

Middle class jobs prevent crime and violence.

Most Americans would say that they disapproved of violence. But what they really mean is that they believe it should be the monopoly of the state.

Most dramatically, and perhaps least noticed, is the violence inside Saudi Arabia itself.

Most do violence to their natural aptitude, and thus attain superiority in nothing.

Most screen violence is tedious.

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Murder, considered a crime when people commit it singly, is transformed into a virtue when they do it en masse.

My focus is first of all, to remove every thought of violence from my own consciousness.

My dictionary has no such expression as a violent fight.

My family were staunch believers in physical violence, not automatic violence, and we had a Safeway around the corner, so we never really needed to kill anything.

My experience teaches me that truth can never be propagated by doing violence.

My love ,she speaks like silence, without ideals or violence. She doesn't have to say she's faithful, yet she's true.

My non-violence bids me dedicate myself to the service of the minorities.

My nonviolence does recognize different species of violence, defensive and offensive.

My opposition to the socialist and the other consists in attacking violence as a means of effecting any lasting reform.

My moral compass swings far to the left, but when it comes to gratuitous violence, I have trouble.

My mother spoke of Christ to my father, by her feminine and childlike virtues, and, after having borne his violence without a murmur or complaint, gained him at the close of his life to Christ.

My own concern is primarily the terror and violence carried out by my own state... It is very easy to denounce the atrocities of someone else. That has about as much ethical value as denouncing atrocities that took place in the 18th century.

My philosophy is that one shall not resort to violence unless one is resolved to become the subject of violence at any time.

Nations are not ruined by one act of violence, but gradually and in an almost imperceptible manner by the depreciation of their circulating currency, through its excessive quantity.

My whole access into culture was violent. Violence is something I understand. Don't like it, don't condone it, but I sure understand where it comes from.

My whole life I had seen my father solve every problem he had through the use of violence.

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

No Bolshevik, no Communist, no intelligent socialist has ever entertained the idea of violence against the middle peasants. All socialists have always spoken of agreement with them and of their gradual and voluntary transition to socialism.

No, General. I'm not your subordinate. And what I'm coming dangerously close to is violence. -General Wedge Antilles

No matter how liberal I am, I'm still outraged by crimes of violence. Regardless of whether I can sympathize with the causes that lead these individuals to do these crimes, the effects are outrageous.

Non-co-operators will make a serious mistake if they seek to convert people to their creed by violence.

Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence.

Non-violence is a piece of theatre. You need an audience. What can you do when you have no audience?

Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.

Non-violence should be a tactic - not an ideology preached from the sidelines to victims of massive violence.

Non-violence is not a passive idea. It is ethical activism at its political best

Non-violence is the article of faith.

Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute.

Nonviolence of the strong is infinitely braver than their violence.

No one may threaten or commit violence ('aggress') against another man's person or property. Violence may be employed only against the man who commits such violence; that is, only defensively against the aggressive violence of another. In short, no violence may be employed against a non-aggressor. Here is the fundamental rule from which can be deduced the entire corpus of libertarian theory.

No problem is so deep that it cannot be overcome, given the will of all parties, through discussion and negotiation rather than force and violence.

No problems are ever resolved by violence. It only aggravates the pain and the hurt on every side.

North America is not altogether to blame with regard to her Indians. If the Indian had been more susceptible to higher culture, violence and arms would not have been used against him, as is now the case.

Not all bodies are born in male or female. There is a continuum of bodies and it seems to me that trying to persuade medical and psychiatrist establishments to deal with the intersex involves critique of the binary gender system. Similarly there continues to be extreme, sometimes very extreme violence against transgender people.