Violence Quotes
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Passion is all but soft, it's not tender, it's violence to which you get hooked by pleasure.
Isabelle Adjani
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I never supported violence. Before the formation of TMC, I was a member of the Congress Party. Gandhi's Congress. Non-violence is a philosophy that runs deep.
Mamata Banerjee
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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
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I visited the Pentagon a few days after September 11, and I still remember so vividly the smell of terror surrounding the entire building and complex. I was angry that such a brutal act of violence was committed against innocent people.
Randy Forbes
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If you look beyond the short term violence and instability, you do see significant activities on the part of the Iraqi people that indicate they understand the commitment necessary to govern themselves. It's not clear how they will do it, but it never is.
Bob Kerrey
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In the future, violence would clearly become a valuable form of social cement.
J. G. Ballard
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In addition to needed gun control reforms, America urgently needs a stronger protest movement dedicated to reducing the glorification of violence in our culture - in music, film, television, video games, and even the Internet.
Bernice King
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Most male victims of violence are the victims of other men's violence. So that's something that both women and men have in common. We are both victims of men's violence.
Jackson Katz
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Any man that hits a woman is not a real man, he's a coward. With my wife Jodi, I think it's my job to protect her and stop anything bad happening in her life. Abusing your partner is the opposite of that. I want her to wake up and feel safe.
Kian Egan
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It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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In the absence of a Congress ready to act to reduce gun violence, we will keep working to create a different Congress.
Gabrielle Giffords
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Real power means you can get what you want without having to exert violence.
Barack Obama
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For me comedy and violence has a lot in common. Just as you expect, comedy always lurks behind the most unexpected of circumstances.
Takeshi Kitano
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Violence is a big problem. Too many children are dying. Too many children. We must do something.
Gabrielle Giffords
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There's less violence in the world when people are using Hula-Hoops.
Mikey Way My Chemical Romance
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I turn down a lot of movies because sometimes they glamorize violence or the darker side of sex or criminality.
David Oyelowo
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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 Boney M.
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There is no one single solution to the gun violence issue, nor are there any easy answers.
Brad Schneider
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Fixing a broken immigration system. Protecting our kids from gun violence. Equal pay for equal work, paid leave, raising the minimum wage. All these things still matter to hardworking families; they are still the right thing to do; and I will not let up until they get done.
Barack Obama
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We are not safe and secure when the government uses us as pawns to perpetrate violence against others. Our safety and security will come when we organize, love, and resist together.
Chelsea Manning
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I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Violence against embassies and civilians must be categorically condemned. At the same time, we must attempt to understand why such events occur.
Tariq Ramadan
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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
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I have been working with Women's Aid since 2003 when I became the charity's first Ambassador, and am so pleased to be able to be a part of the 'Real Man' campaign against domestic violence. I studied domestic violence at university and feel passionately that we need to raise awareness of violence against women and children and refuse to ignore it. Just by speaking out against domestic violence and being supportive of those directly affected we can all make a positive difference.
Will Young