Violence Quotes
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Maybe every other American movie shouldn't be based on a comic book. Other countries will think Americans live in an infantile fantasy land where reality is whatever we say it is and every problem can be solved with violence.
Bill Maher
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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
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You can't get away from violence in drama. If you do not have conflict, you do not have drama.
Cornel Wilde
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The Bible is not a book for the faint of heart -- it is a book full of all the greed and glory and violence and tenderness and sex and betrayal that befits mankind. It is not the collection of pretty little anecdotes mouthed by pious little church mice -- it does not so much nibble at our shoe leather as it cuts to the heart and splits the marrow from the bone. It does not give us answers fitted to our small-minded questions, but truth that goes beyond what we even know to ask.
Rich Mullins
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Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.
Plutarch
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There is a growing consensus in the private sector that companies can and should take action to address the problem of gun violence in our country.
Brian Schatz
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If the adjustment made by a court can be accepted or not, it will be refused whenever the men can gain more by continuing the strike, with whatever of violence that involves.
John Bates Clark
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Find something you really love doing and mix it with something you really care about. That's why I've had such longevity as an artist. I really, really care about ending violence against women, and I really, really love playing music. It's super enjoyable!
Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
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The violence in society, I'm afraid, is perpetrated by the people at the top.
S. Robson Walton
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My mother spoke of Christ to my father, by her feminine and childlike virtues, and, after having borne his violence without a murmur or complaint, gained him at the close of his life to Christ.
Saint Augustine
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The only way to stop the violence and abuse that surrounds us is to talk about it.
Paco Ignacio Taibo II
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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
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How on earth do people imagine we equip children for life if we never show them the sorts of issues other people encounter, if we never talk through with them how they might deal with difficulty or violence or unexpected shocks and surprises?
Margo Lanagan
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Violence is a calm that disturbs you.
Jean Genet
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Fear, she's the mother of violence.
Peter Gabriel Genesis
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I would suffer all the humiliation, all the torture, the absolute ostracism and even death, to prevent violence.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Does our culture have a need for violence? I don't know. I guess it's a personal thing.
Lena Headey
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The violence and injustice of the rulers of mankind is an ancient evil, for which, I am afraid, the nature of human affairs can scarce admit a remedy.
Adam Smith
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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
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However, don't let these statistics mislead you, gang violence is not limited to California and or big urban areas - that might have been true a while ago but it is no longer the case today.
Bob Filner
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I must declare that it is better for India do discard violence altogether even for defending her borders.
Mahatma Gandhi
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My wish for the world would be to end violence against women. My wish for myself would be for peace of mind.
Gabrielle Union
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The only way to address terrorism is to deal with the issues that create terrorism, to resolve them where possible, and where that's not possible to ensure that there is an alternative to violence.
Cofer Black
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Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them.
Louise Bogan