Violence Quotes

I often close my eyes because I can't tolerate violence.
Christine Baranski

Eyes, Often, Close

Victory Over Violence is an organization that was created to help fund shelters for women and children.
Victoria Principal

Women, Children, Help

Of course, I write crime stories, and I have to describe violence and the aftermath of violence.
Jeffery Deaver

Write, Crime, Stories

Poverty does not cause violence and terrorism. Lack of education does not cause terrorism.
John O. Brennan

Education, Poverty, Terrorism

You have to show violence the way it is. If you don't show it realistically, then that's immoral and harmful. If you don't upset people, then that's obscenity.
Roman Polanski

Show, Upset, Immoral

No Arab ruler will consider the peace process seriously so long as he is able to toy with the idea of achieving more by the way of violence.
Yitzhak Rabin

Peace, Long, Able

One of the main purveyors of violence in this world has been this country.
Danny Glover

All the Abrahamic faiths are marked by violence.
Timothy Radcliffe

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.
Darrell Issa

Hope, Wish, Both

I think that when we're talking about youth violence, we're talking about kids who don't have opportunities, so they're engaged in a certain degree of lawlessness, because we as a society have failed them.
Matt Gonzalez

Society, Kids, Youth

I was offered one of the roles in a big project that shall remain nameless. I thought the whole thing encouraged violent sex crimes toward women. It made horrible, ghastly rape violence seem sexy. I just didn't want to sign my name to it.
Mira Sorvino

Women, Sex, Sexy

Yet the march toward freedom is not without its hazards or its casualties and the threats of violence aimed at Iraqis who participate in the election will be dealt with accordingly.
Jim Gerlach

Freedom, Election, Toward

I mean I grew up in Ireland, so one would have to be consciously blinkered not to have reflected on the issue of political violence because that was the story since I was 19 years old or 20.
Neil Jordan

Political, Mean, Old

I think that when we have a better educated society, when there is less violence in our cities, when people get back into the workforce and have the opportunity to take care of themselves and their families - that for me really is the kind of success and the kind of America that I think most of us still want, we aspire to.
Michael Nutter

Success, Society, Care

In the book, America had already been weakened by bio terror plagues before waves of selfish violence took down the rest. But the real enemy was the kind of male human being who nurses fantasies of violent glory at the expense of his fellow citizens.
David Brin

Selfish, Enemy, Human

From a parent's right to know what their children are doing, to protecting citizens across the country from the growing threat of gang violence, the House Democrat leadership is simply out to lunch.
Virginia Foxx

Leadership, Children, Country

Man has an innate capacity for violence, but can only justify it in the name of justice.
Ralph Steadman

Justice, Name, Capacity

The violence in society, I'm afraid, is perpetrated by the people at the top.
Rob Walton

Society, Afraid, Top

If we go back in the history of different nations, violence and the use of force are part of their heritage. These are the traditions of mankind.
Harri Holkeri

History, Different, Force

The president welcomes peaceful protests - it is a time-honored tradition. The president agrees violence is not the answer in Iraq, and that's why he hopes Saddam Hussein will disarm.
Ari Fleischer

Why, President, Answer

I'm a very great non-violent character. I would never resort to violence to change anything.
Bob Brown

Change, Great, Character

Violence is like a weed - it does not die even in the greatest drought.
Simon Wiesenthal

Greatest, Die, Weed

I don't think I will do a Mafia character again. I want to get away from the violence a little bit, because it is starting to bother me personally.
James Gandolfini

Character, Away, Again

Ever since taking office, the Obama administration has sought to accommodate Islamist demands that freedom of expression be curbed, lest it offend Muslims and stoke violence. For example, in 2009, the administration co-sponsored a United Nations Human Rights Council resolution along those lines.
Frank Gaffney

Freedom, Human, Since

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

Women, Experience, American

Violence against women in this country is not levied against just Democrats, but Republicans as well... not just rich people or poor people. It knows no gender, it knows no ethnicity, it knows nothing.
Gwen Moore

Women, Nothing, Country

It is only with the passage of the Violence Against Women Act in 1994 that we have been able to put a dent in violence against women, and women have had a place to go.
Gwen Moore

Women, Put, Place

As legislators and as Members of Congress, it is our obligation to speak up for those who are being ignored in our society. The Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) does just that.
Gwen Moore

Women, Society, Speak

Violence against women is as American as apple pie.
Gwen Moore

Women, American, Against

Violence against judges and threats of violence against Judges is on the rise and it is no laughing matter. When leaders attempt to rationalize this violence, it only makes the problem worse.
John Conyers

Problem, Matter, Makes

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