Best 2024 quotes in «violence quotes» category

To kill these (rabid) dogs, in my opinion, amount to himsa, but I believe it to be inevitable if we are to escape much greater himsa.

To live fixated on the future is to engage in psychological denial. It is a form of psychic violence that prepares us to accept the violence needed to ensure the maintenance of imperialist, future-oriented society.

Tortures are a dangerous invention, and seem to be a test of endurance rather than of truth.

To the ideal of high consumption and the downgrading of spiritual values corresponds a conception of injustice that centers exclusively on the problem of consumption; and equality in consumption cannot be achieved except by violence.

True nonviolence is mightier than the mightiest violence.

Trust your intuition, rather than technology, to protect you from violence.

Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realizing Him.

Turning a human being into a thing is almost always the first step towards justifying violence against that person.

Turning a human being into a thing, an object, is almost always the first step towards justifying violence against that person. It is very difficult, perhaps impossible, to be violent to someone we think of as an equal, someone we have empathy with, but it is very easy to abuse a thing

Under the interlocking regimes of neoliberal power, violence appears so arbitrary and thoughtless that it lacks the need for any justification, let alone claims to justice and accountability. It is truly as limitless as it appears banal.

Universal violence compels the language to be mute . . . . Silence is not only a metaphor of Hemingway's work; it is also the source of its formal excellence, its integrity.

Unfortunately part of pulp is that there is sex, there is violence. It's not a kids' show. It's an 18-and-over audience - like anything cable. I see some things in Game of Thrones that turn my hair gray. It's the way the industry has gone.

Unfortunately, man, a lot of places in America have to deal with unnecessary violence. Somebody like me who knows it firsthand and could relate... I had a best friend killed, plenty other friends killed. I been through it. I seen it.

Under all conditions, well-organized violence seems to him the shortest distance between two points.

[Uniting workers should not] lead to a war upon property, or the owners of property.

Until you can love what is - everything, including the apparent violence and craziness - you're separate from the world, and you'll see it as dangerous and frightening.

Until we eliminate the mentality of violence, we will not find the harmony within ourselves we're looking for.

Vehemence without feeling is but rant.

Users of marijuana become STIMULATED as they inhale the drug and are LIKELY TO DO ANYTHING. Most crimes of violence in this section, especially in country districts are laid to users of that drug.

[Valley of Violence] was written for James Ransone. PJ's a friend of mine, I've known him for a long time, he's always like, "Dude, when are we going to make a movie together?" I finally called him.

Violence against even one human being is violence against all.

Violence always seems to me the worst form of tyranny. It deprives people of their rights, including the right to live.

Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.

Violence, contrary to popular belief, is not part of the anarchist philosophy. It has repeatedly been pointed out by anarchist thinkers that the revolution can neither be won, nor the anarchist society established and maintained, by armed violence.

Violence does not and cannot flourish by itself; it is inevitably intertwined with lying.

Violence [in Palestina] is part of the resistance to occupation. The basic fact is not the violence; the basic fact is the occupation.

Violence is a part of the world and life, and you shouldnt have to take it out of stories.

Violence is never the answer but sometimes, like with cockroaches, it is the only possible response.

Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies from indifference toward the unique values which created it.

Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.

Violence is the most elemental truth of life. It's the central shaper of history, the ultimate determiner of whether A or B is going to get his way.

Violence is the weapon of weak, non-violence that of the strong.

Violence toward women isn't cultural; it's criminal.

Violent excitement exhausts the mind and leaves it withered and sterile.

Violence against women is still treated as a lesser crime. Armed groups turn it into a weapon of choice because of near total impunity.

Violence and wrong enclose all who commit them in their meshes and do mostly recoil on him from whom they begin.

Violence cannot destroy the body of the Goddess, for Her body is the world itself.

Violence comes in many forms and can be particularly disturbing when confronted in an educational setting if handled dismissively or in ways that blame victims.

Violence diminishes our humanity.

Violence doesn't solve anything? World War I. World War II. Star Wars. Every Super Bowl. Who says violence doesn't solve anything?

Violence in any form is a tragic expression of our unmet needs.

Violence is good for those who have nothing to lose.

Violence is not a catalyst but a diversion.

Violence is the sign of temporary weakness.

Violence never quashed violence because if you're equipped to do violence then you'll continue that passage. Let's say Nazis, if Nazis they be, have got a profoundly ugly form of thought and of actions, why match that? Antifa's ugliness is no better than the ugliness of the far right.

Violence ravaged my life. I was a victim of hatred, and I have dedicated my life to reversing that hatred.

Violence stops thought. Hence its popularity as a pain-killer.

Violence will prevail over violence, only when someone can prove to me that darkness can be dispelled by darkness

Very slight violence will break that which has once been cracked.

Violence against women is as American as apple pie. I know, not only as a legislator, but from personal experience.