Best 2024 quotes in «violence quotes» category

Like a dead man, only friction could make him warm or violence make him mobile.

Like most human behavior, violence has meaning: it only seems 'senseless' or 'meaningless' to the extent we are unable-or unwilling-to decode it.

Like most Americans, I hope and wish is that there is a peaceful resolution to the Middle East conflict. Unfortunately, there are extremists on both sides who oppose a peaceful resolution and instead choose violence.

Look at the violence in Pakistan and the presence of U.S. troops in Afghanistan: the more troops we put in the more violent Pakistan becomes.

Looked at objectively, it is clear that the overwhelming majority of civilian deaths resulting from political violence are produced by what should be understood as "state terror." Terrorism also serves as an excuse to avoid diplomacy and the peaceful resolution of conflict.

Looking at the huge number of transgender women of color who have been murdered since the beginning of the year - that we know of - the number has reached seven or eight at this point, maybe even nine, since the start of 2015. The number of those women involved in sex work is not a piece that gets lifted up in news reports. Sometimes people want to bury that, because they don't want to say anything that might make it seem as though those women were asking for it. We're still living with the idea that sex work somehow marks people as acceptable targets for violence.

Looting is a natural response to the unnatural and inhuman society of commodity abundance. It instantly undermines the commodity as such, and it also exposes what the commodity ultimately implies: the army, the police and the other specialized detachments of the state's monopoly of armed violence.

Love isn't blind. Love is reasonable. God is pure love, but He is also pure reason. If you separate reason from faith you'll end in violence. Either way, if you have a purely rationalistic scheme that is atheistic, for instance Communism was for social justice. Fascism was for the nation-state, which isn't automatically a bad thing.

Love soothes wounds, while hatred and violence deepen them.

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.

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

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

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.".

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.

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.

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.

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.

Middle class jobs prevent crime and violence.

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.

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

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

Most screen violence is tedious.

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

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

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.

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 dictionary has no such expression as a violent fight.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

No evolution is accomplished in nature without revolution. Periods of very slow changes are succeeded by periods of violent changes. Revolutions are as necessary for evolution as the slow changes which prepare them and succeed them.

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.

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.

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.

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 an unchangeable creed. It has to be pursued even in face of violence raging around you.

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

Nonviolence becomes meaningless if violence is permitted for self-defence.

Nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger... . Between violence and cowardly flight I can only prefer violence to cowardice.