Violence Quotes

• Acts of violence that occur simply because of how someone looks are horrific.

  

  Conner Eldridge
  • Violence

• May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • May
  • Today
  • Thoughts

• We admire predators - panthers, lions, tigers, even wolves. Maybe to be naturally thoughtful and hesitant to use violence is to be somehow second rate. To be in the middle of the social food chain. Especially if you're a man. This society thinks real men are violent.

  

  Marge Piercy
  • Men
  • Real
  • Society

• A majority of Americans oppose partial-birth abortion, and Judge Hamilton's decision flies in the face of Congress passing and President Bush signing legislation banning such horrible acts of violence.

  

  Marc Racicot
  • Decision
  • Violence
  • Judge

• I always thought the real violence in Hollywood isn't what's on the screen. It's what you have to do to raise the money.

  

  David Mamet
  • Real
  • Money
  • Violence

• Ignorance leads to fear, fear leads to hate, and hate leads to violence. This is the equation.

  

  Averroes
  • Fear
  • Violence
  • Ignorance

• Kids shouldn't see all the violence they do these days. But the industry just doesn't care.

  

  Linda Blair
  • Kids
  • Violence
  • Industry

• Decade after decade, the police culture has been just the very opposite. And that`s been to ignore or to rally around. And that`s something that systematically we are going to need to break this blue wall of silence if we`re ever going to dramatically change and end the culture of police violence.

  

  Hakeem Jeffries
  • Culture
  • Silence
  • Wall

• My wish for the world would be to end violence against women. My wish for myself would be for peace of mind.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • World
  • Women
  • Mind

• Well, one hopes that if you're really related to the core of your particular culture, you have profound commitments to it, and that you are aware of how much you can strain it before you do violence to its essential nature.

  

  Chaim Potok
  • Nature
  • Culture
  • Profound

• In reality, we can prove that the incidents of drug, alcohol abuse and violence have dropped dramatically among professional athletes - but the problem is it would be impossible to convince than fans, because of what they read on the AP wire.

  

  Leigh Steinberg
  • Reality
  • Professional
  • Drug

• Tamir Rice, Tanisha Anderson, Mya Hall, Walter Scott, Sandra Bland - these names are important. They're inherently important, and the space that #BlackLivesMatter held and continues to hold helped propel the conversation around the state-sanctioned violence they experienced.

  

  Patrisse Cullors
  • Important
  • Space
  • Violence

• Violence ends up defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Violence
  • Creates
  • Destroyers

• I am often asked what it is like to be on the 'front line.' But I do not use the term 'front line' to describe us, the protesters. Because everywhere in America, wherever we are, our blackness puts us in close proximity to police violence.

  

  DeRay Mckesson
  • America
  • Violence
  • Police

• A 'civilization' that makes such a ridiculous fuss about alleged 'war crimes' - acts of violence against the actual or potential enemies of one's cause - and tolerates slaughterhouses and vivisection laboratories, and circuses and the fur industry (infliction of pain upon creatures that can never be for or against any cause), does not deserve to live.

  

  Savitri Devi
  • Life
  • Pain
  • Enemy

• Mercantile jealousy is excited, and both inflames, and is itself inflamed, by the violence of national animosity:...

  

  Adam Smith
  • Violence
  • Jealousy

• The great Chinese classics have always said that it's better not to fight; that the clever man achieves his ends without violence; that a battle delayed is better than a battle fought.

  

  John Keegan
  • Great
  • Chinese
  • Clever

• Nonviolence is the only way. Even if you achieve your goal by violent means there are always side effects, and these can be worse than the problem. Violence is against human nature.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Nature
  • Way
  • Mean

• Through violence, you may murder the hater, but you do not murder the hate.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Hate
  • Violence
  • Murder

• That religion and that nation will be blotted out of the face of the earth which pins its faith on injustice, untruth or violence.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Faith
  • Violence
  • Religion

• What you get with violence can be maintained only with violence.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Violence
  • Maintained

• I call on men and boys everywhere to join us. Violence against women and girls will not be eradicated until all of us - men and boys - refuse to tolerate it.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Men
  • Women
  • Violence

• Violence begins where knowledge ends.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Knowledge
  • Violence
  • Ends

• Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. I am not unmindful of the fact that violence often brings about momentary results. Nations have frequently won their independence in battle. But in spite of temporary victories, violence never brings permanent peace.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Peace
  • Justice
  • Violence

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