Violence Quotes

• Human rights are universal and indivisible. Human freedom is also indivisible: if it is denied to anyone in the world, it is therefore denied, indirectly, to all people. This is why we cannot remain silent in the face of evil or violence; silence merely encourages them.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • People
  • World
  • Why

• What is magnificent about humans is when they decide to turn and stand. If they respond with non-violence on principle and hold their ground, they are really magnificent.

  

  James Cromwell
  • Violence

• I was in middle school right around the time the Bloods and the Crips started taking root in Compton and a lot of the other neighborhoods around me. I saw way too many of my peers - smart, kind, good kids - who got drawn into gangs and violence, and their futures were going to be forever scarred by that.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Time
  • Good
  • School

• Without love, violence will change the world; it will change it into a more violent one.

  

  William Sloane Coffin
  • World
  • Love
  • Violent

• Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture.

  

  Charlotte Bunch
  • Culture
  • Violence

• The aggressive, unprovoked acts of violence against Israel by Hezbollah and Hamas are revealing. It is clear they don't want peace, but rather seek the ultimate destruction of Israel.

  

  John Boehner
  • Peace
  • Violence

• Americans give you the violence, Europeans give you the sex. I think people have been saying that since the 70s. And I think it's kind of pathetic that Americans are still stuck - on the shock value of violence, when sex is such a natural thing for everybody.

  

  Marina Ann Hantzis aTelecine
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Giving

• Violence is a problem we all want to solve. I want to make sure that kids learn to deal with anger by learning how to talk with people to solve problems. Here in the United States Senate I want to make sure we have safe schools, safe neighborhoods and good things for kids to do after school!

  

  Patty Murray
  • People
  • Good
  • School

• Currently, my machines are black and sometimes gentle, if not sexy or exuding a contained violence; I finally found the technical means for accomplishing this.

  

  Jean Tinguely
  • Black
  • Violence
  • Sexy

• The body is not the only target of rape. Violence does not always take a visible form, and not all wounds gush blood.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Blood
  • Wounds
  • Target

• I condemn all statements - made in sincerity or jest - that threaten or suggest the use of violence against the president of the United States or any other public official. Such rhetoric cannot and will not be tolerated.

  

  Paul Broun
  • Violence

• Children are coming to school with trauma, everyday trauma, that they live under: violence in the homes, alcoholism in the community, unemployment that's 80 percent, not just during the recession. We need to help treat that before they can even go sit in a class and learn about math.

  

  Denise Juneau
  • Live
  • Children
  • School

• The most terrible thing about materialism, even more terrible than its proneness to violence, is its boredom, from which sex alcohol, drugs, all devices for putting out the accusing light of reason and suppressing the unrealizable aspirations of love, offer a prospect of deliverance.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Light
  • Sex
  • Alcohol

• My door will always be open to those who genuinely renounce violence and seek peaceful accommodation into our nascent democracy.

  

  Jalal Talabani
  • Democracy
  • Violence
  • Door

• It's pure Black Label. It's about violence and booze. That's all it is. There is no plan.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Black
  • Violence
  • Plan

• I sometimes go for the strongest, most vivid colour on the palette, which in the case of movies is violence.

  

  Brian De Palma
  • Movies
  • Case
  • Colour

• No level of border security, no wall, doubling the size of the border patrol, all these things will not stop the illegal migration from countries as long as a 7-year-old is desperate enough to flee on her own and travel the entire length of Mexico because of the poverty and the violence in her country.

  

  Jeh Johnson
  • Long
  • Country
  • Stop

• What is a debt, anyway? A debt is just the perversion of a promise. It is a promise corrupted by both math and violence.

  

  David Graeber
  • Violence
  • Promise
  • Math

• If you really analyze my music, there is a lot of violence in my music because the Bronx, at the era and time I was coming up, was almost equivalent to how a 'Braveheart' or 'Gladiator' movie would be.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• The world soffers a lot. Not because the violence of bad people. But because of the silence of the good people.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Violence
  • Silence
  • Soffers

• Perhaps violence, like pornography, is some kind of an evolutionary standby system, a last-resort device for throwing a wild joker into the game?

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Game
  • Games
  • Lasts

• Whenever we engage in consumption or production patterns which take more than we need, we are engaging in violence.

  

  Vandana Shiva
  • Violence

• Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.

  

  Emily Bronte
  • Enemies
  • Wound
  • Treachery

• For many child soldiers, war and violence are all they have ever known. If we don't take it upon ourselves to show them an alternative, then they're going to be soldiers forever, and they'll continue to be recruited and to participate in violence if another conflict starts five or 10 years down the road.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • War
  • Forever
  • Road

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