Violence Quotes

The argument of socialists, that people really want to share, beyond a reasonable level of charity, is rubbish, though it is espoused by a lot of rich, pious hypocrites who want to share only enough to avoid widespread starvation, mob violence, and government seizure of more of their incomes.
Conrad Black

Government, Enough, Rich

Futurism: This was a movement of intellectuals who wanted to replace tradition with the modern world of machinery, speed, violence, and public relations. It proves that we should be careful what intellectuals wish for, because we might get it.
Brad Holland

Wish, Wanted, Public

So instead of talking about theoretical ways of ending the war and violence, I say that we have to get rid of the individual asholes in each office and situation.
Colin Quinn

War, Situation, Individual

Education is the vaccine for violence.
Edward James Olmos

Education, Vaccine

I think 'Hero' is not a real martial arts movie; it is not about violence, or formula.
Jet Li

Real, Hero, Movie

It seems that the only gun violence some leftists approve of is gun violence aimed at cops and other groups they see as oppressive or racist.
Gary Bauer

Gun, Seems, Groups

Some on the Left can be very selective about the kinds of violence they oppose. For some of them, gun violence is a crime to be decried - unless it is committed by an 'aggrieved' victim against what they consider a corrupt institution.
Gary Bauer

Against, Gun, Left

Liberals need to take the advice they routinely give to conservatives: that there are consequences to their divisive rhetoric, and that in their attempts to score political points, they are also inciting violence.
Gary Bauer

Political, Give, Advice

As we're bombarded with the imagery that we are and now, post 9-11, it's hard not to get hardened by the world and the amount of violence that's allowed to be shown to kids these days.
Mark Ruffalo

Hard, Kids, Days

We'll engage in pretty extreme violence in the world but, you know, the one thing that comes to humans as easily as eating or breathing or sleeping, is sex.
Mark Ruffalo

Sex, Pretty, Sleeping

We cannot sacrifice our safety to the murderous greed of drug cartels. We cannot stand idly by as drop houses, kidnappings and violence compromise our quality of life.
Jan Brewer

Life, Greed, Sacrifice

I think anybody who has been abused as a kid - and I was abused as a kid, by various people - will say it's irrational because violence is irrational.
Samantha Morton

Anybody, Kid, Irrational

My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.
Samantha Morton

Society, Today, Mind

There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors.
Frank Herbert

Pay, Escape, Ancestors

Claiming that you have got the truth wrapped up does breed violence and intolerance.
Timothy Radcliffe

Truth, Claiming, Wrapped

The unutterable violence of the Holocaust shook our confidence in the possibility of telling any story of faith at all.
Timothy Radcliffe

Faith, Confidence, Story

We have to change the culture of mass violence we have.
Joe Manchin

Change, Culture, Mass

The absence and suppression of justice can only open the way for extremists to exploit such a condition to perpetrate acts of violence against innocents.
King Hussein I

Justice, Against, Open

A fair observer only has to ask: If there is violence, who profits?
Jack Schwartz

Fair, Ask, Profits

First of all, my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because religion serves as the soul of community, it gets drawn into the fracas and turns up the heat.
Huston Smith

Religion, Political, Soul

Well I don't think sex and violence have ever stopped a movie from being mainstream.
David Cronenberg

Sex, Movie, Mainstream

I knew I wanted to write on religious themes when I was a GI in World War II. I saw and experienced so much violence that I thought I could express my outrage best with music.
Dave Brubeck

Music, Best, War

The motives of these parents vary, many parents don't like the curriculum being taught to their kids, or are wary of the threat of peer pressure or the presence of drugs or violence lurking in too many of our schools today.
Ernest Istook

Today, Parents, Kids

You can't write about the past and ignore religion. It was such a fundamental, mind-shaping, driving force for pre-modern societies. I'm very interested in what religion does to us - its capacity to create love and empathy or hatred and violence.
Geraldine Brooks

Love, Religion, Past

The Rolling Stones are violence. Their music penetrates the raw nerve endings of their listeners and finds its way into the groove marked 'release of frustration.'
Jon Landau

Music, Endings, Stones

There is no city or country in the world where women and girls live free of the fear of violence. No leader can claim: 'this is not happening in my backyard.'
Michelle Bachelet

Women, Fear, Live

Violence against women in all its forms is a human rights violation. It's not something that any culture, religion or tradition propagates.
Michelle Bachelet

Religion, Women, Human

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

Life, Hatred, Victim

I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.
Mandy Patinkin

Problem, Playing, Horrible

Europeans are familiar with terrorism and violence. We have not experienced a true conflict on our soil in a hundred years, and especially not one that involved 3,000 dead.
Brent Scowcroft

True, Dead, Terrorism

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