Violence Quotes

We shall continue to work for a Middle East that is free of strife and violence, living in harmony without the threat of terrorism or the dangers of weapons of mass destruction.
Hosni Mubarak

Work, Living, Free

You know, 20 years... the films of television when it started, the literature, radio in communist countries, they're clean as a whistle; there was no violence, no sex, no drugs, nothing.
Milos Forman

Sex, Nothing, Started

So many women have experienced horrific forms of male violence throughout their lives, and why isn't there a song about how you get depressed because of it?
Kathleen Hanna

Women, Why, Song

We might not object to the statement that Lear deserved to suffer for his folly, selfishness and tyranny; but to assert that he deserved to suffer what he did suffer is to do violence not merely to language but to any healthy moral sense.
Andrew Coyle Bradley

Sense, Moral, Language

With the adoption of the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, the international community sent out a clear message that gender based violence will not be tolerated.
Jenny Shipley

Women, Against, Community

One way of watering down the effects of violence is to approach it in a more lighthearted way. I don't mean to say that you laugh when somebody has their arm sawn off, but you can diffuse fear with humour.
Colin Baker

Fear, Mean, Laugh

Though there is growing division among the Ukrainian military ranks as to loyalty in this revolution, the possibility of violence looms over the entire situation.
Bob Schaffer

Loyalty, Revolution, Situation

Violence is the first refuge of the violent.
Aaron Allston

Violent, Refuge

Wars such as those which have occurred in Iraq only allow hatred, violence and terror to proliferate.
Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

Hatred, Iraq, Terror

I wish everyone was a sci-fi geek because then there would be no violence in the world. There'd be no wars. There'd only be people e-mailing each other.
Claudia Christian

Wish, Everyone, Wars

I feel like there is just as much violent programming in other countries and there is not the same incidence of factors. I think there are other factors contributing to violence in this country and not the media.
Sara Gilbert

Country, Same, Media

There are certain things that they say you can't do, there are all these secret people behind the scenes who make things available for you to do. That's why you have so much crime and violence.
Afrika Bambaataa

Why, Secret, Behind

Extremists and populist movements are exploiting people's fear of those who are not like us. We can see the consequences in the form of terrorism and racially motivated violence.
Kjell Magne Bondevik

Fear, Terrorism, Motivated

Americans love to read about violence.
Bernadine Dohrn

They are always very lax about putting restrictions on violence for children's movies, which I think is much more harrowing than sexuality for children.
Philip Kaufman

Movies, Children, Sexuality

I don't think any of our lyrics have ever been erotic in a sexual term, because I haven't really written, touched on, that subject too often. But, uh... I mean, I suppose they could point the finger at us for violence maybe in certain songs.
Scott Ian

Mean, Often, Point

Glorifying violence is terrible. Simulating sex is nothing - it's something so impersonal really.
Bo Derek

Sex, Nothing, Terrible

There's an incredible fascination for that and that goes with violence and everything else in pictures.
Bo Derek

Everything, Else, Goes

If any fall by the hand of violence, others will continue the blessed work.
Lewis Tappan

Work, Blessed, Others

If the adjustment made by a court can be accepted or not, it will be refused whenever the men can gain more by continuing the strike, with whatever of violence that involves.
John Bates Clark

Men, Made, Whatever

The Reform Bill has destroyed the ancient conduits and strainers, and brings Public Opinion to act upon the government with the rapid, turbulent, and uncertain violence of a flood!
Robert Peel

Government, Opinion, Public

While the vast majority of hackers may be disinclined towards violence, it would only take a few to turn cyber terrorism into reality.
Dorothy Denning

Reality, May, Few

What I intended to accomplish was to rouse the student body, not by means of an organization, but solely by my simple words; to urge them, not to violence, but to moral insight into the existing serious deficiencies of our political system.
Kurt Huber

Simple, Political, Words

All issues, therefore, must be resolved through dialogue and there can be no place for violence. Negativity and rejection cannot be the path for a vibrant country that is moving to seek its destiny.
Pratibha Patil

Moving, Through, Country

Violence is absolutely not our method.
Pope Shenouda III

Absolutely, Method

I think the last one would have to be The Godfather because it was such a powerful story. There was lots of violence in it but I could take it because I thought there was a reality to it. It wasn't gratuitous, it was just these guys' story.
Bobby Farrelly

Powerful, Reality, Thought

Our work in Britain suggests that radicalization is driven by an ideology which claims that Muslims around the world are being oppressed and - and this is the key bit of the argument - which then legitimizes violence in their supposed defense.
Pauline Neville-Jones

Work, Around, Bit

Nearly one in four women will experience domestic violence during her lifetime. And slightly more than half of female victims of domestic violence live in households with children under age 12.
Lucille Roybal-Allard

Age, Women, Experience

I will also continue to fight to provide better economic security for victims of domestic violence.
Lucille Roybal-Allard

Fight, Security, Economic

This October, we renew the fight against domestic violence and abuse in America. Together, we can eliminate domestic violence from homes across the country and ensure that our children grow up in healthy, peaceful communities.
Lucille Roybal-Allard

Fight, Children, Together

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