Violence Quotes

There is a subconscious way of taking violence as a way of expression, as a normality, and it has a lot of effects in the youth in the way they absorb education and what they hope to get out of life.
Salma Hayek

Life, Education, Hope

If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.
Indira Gandhi

Death, Fear, Thought

Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.
Alice Walker

Writing, Sin, Saved

For as long as the power of America's diversity is diminished by acts of discrimination and violence against people just because they are black, Hispanic, Asian, Jewish, Muslim or gay, we still must overcome.
Ron Kind

Power, Gay, Long

Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies.
Joseph Addison

Justice, Cannot, Nor

My attitude to peace is rather based on the Burmese definition of peace - it really means removing all the negative factors that destroy peace in this world. So peace does not mean just putting an end to violence or to war, but to all other factors that threaten peace, such as discrimination, such as inequality, poverty.
Aung San Suu Kyi

Peace, War, Attitude

God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it.
Euripides

God, Men, Property

Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire.
Heraclitus

Fire, Deliberate, Quenched

War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war.
Anatole France

Men, War, Whatever

Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.
Quentin Tarantino

I don't initiate violence, I retaliate.
Chuck Norris

Initiate, Retaliate

Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?
Virginia Woolf

Heart, Woman, Body

Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and justice should understand that it is not terrifically important to us that they learn to cry; it is important to us that they stop the crimes of violence against us.
Andrea Dworkin

Women, Men, Freedom

Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
Arthur Conan Doyle

Truth, Another, Violent

All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom.
Isabel Allende

Freedom, Death, End

Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.
Hannah Arendt

Power, Left, Rules

All religions have based morality on obedience, that is to say, on voluntary slavery. That is why they have always been more pernicious than any political organization. For the latter makes use of violence, the former - of the corruption of the will.
Alexander Herzen

Political, Corruption, Why

From pacifist to terrorist, each person condemns violence - and then adds one cherished case in which it may be justified.
Gloria Steinem

Person, May, Terrorist

Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.
Theodor Adorno

Physical, Domination, Delegates

The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.
E. B. White

Age, Power, Acceptance

The violence in the Bible is appalling.
Christopher Hitchens

Bible, Appalling

Violence and smut are of course everywhere on the airwaves. You cannot turn on your television without seeing them, although sometimes you have to hunt around.
Dave Barry

Cannot, Sometimes, Around

The democracy process provides for political and social change without violence.
Aung San Suu Kyi

Change, Political, Democracy

I found a religion that blended scientific reason with spiritual reality in a unifying faith far removed from the headlines of violence, destruction and terrorism.
Cat Stevens

Faith, Religion, Spiritual

It seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does not change the world and if it does, then only temporarily.
Martin Scorsese

Change, Person, Sensible

Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings.
George Will

Football, Two, America

Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.
Jeremy Taylor

Revenge, Him, Break

Wrestling is ballet with violence.
Jesse Ventura

Wrestling, Ballet

The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal in domestic affairs, specifically in the matter of revolution.
Hannah Arendt

Revolution, Become, Matter

Violence is almost an everyday occurrence in some Muslim lands: it should not be exacerbated by revenge attacks on more innocent families and communities.
Cat Stevens

Revenge, Everyday, Almost

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