Violence Quotes

• Conservatives may worship Adam Smith's 'invisible hand,' but for Obama, the helping hand comes in large measure from the public, not the private sector. To call this 'socialism' is to do violence to the word and to the concept. To call it 'un-American' is a smear.

  

  Jeff Greenfield
  • May
  • American
  • Hand

• Taking away the peace of a people, committing every act of violence, or consenting to such acts, especially when directed against the weakest and defenseless, is a profoundly grave sin against God.

  

  Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople
  • God
  • Sin
  • Grave

• Fortune blinds men when she does not wish them to withstand the violence of her onslaughts.

  

  Livy
  • Men
  • She
  • Wish

• Violence is sometimes a very practical solution but I don't think it is the ultimate solution. Owning a gun is not OK for me. But I could argue both sides. Why shouldn't people own them? I'm not fundamentally against citizens having access to a weapon but I think it has complications. It's probably not the wisest idea. Obviously, it has consequences. Personally, I do not own a weapon.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • People
  • Why
  • Gun

• We're fascinated by things that scare us, and one of the things that scares us is violence. Violence exists. It's a real part of our lives. We are obsessed with what we're scared of, but it certainly doesn't define us.

  

  Ethan Hawke
  • Obsessed
  • Fascinated
  • Scares

• No one law or set of laws will end horrific acts of violence, but Congress has an obligation to take action and make sure that terrorists and bad guys don't have easy access to guns in our country.

  

  Marc Veasey
  • Country
  • Bad
  • Law

• In this dangerous world that we live in, where hatred and violence and natural disasters sometimes collide to almost overwhelm us, we each can help in some way.

  

  Marsha Blackburn
  • World
  • Live
  • Help

• The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Violence
  • Weakness
  • Destroy

• We're surrounded by violence, and we see so much of it on TV, especially the news programs. We almost become numb. And that forces filmmakers to try to outdo themselves... They say, 'Look what I can do,' and it becomes like a showoff thing. To me, that's ridiculous. Filmmaking isn't a contest!

  

  Jan de Bont
  • Violence

• The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Violence
  • Choice
  • Non-Existence

• La puissance qui s'acquiert par la violence n'est qu'une usurpation, et ne dure qu'autant que la force de celui qui commande l'emporte sur celle de ceux qui obéissent.

  

  Denis Diderot
  • Violence

• The East Timorese government does not believe that we should consider compensation for the victims because there are tens of thousands of people who were, in one way or another, affected by the violence either directly or indirectly.

  

  Jose Ramos-Horta
  • People
  • Believe
  • Violence

• The killing of Gaddafi means a lot. That means dictatorships is going down and is done, and there are a lot of scenarios for the end of those dictators...In Yemen, we will have our own scenario. We will not go in the direction of violence.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • Done
  • Violence

• 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

• It's important for someone who's dealt with violence to be able to talk to someone, no matter who it is. So I'm vocal about how I feel. That's how I've worked through a lot of my problems.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Important
  • Problem
  • Able

• I don't want to write about violence, and I don't want to hang a plot on a murder. I think it's cheap.

  

  Alice McDermott
  • Violence

• The continuation of violence will affect the fledging stability of the region as a powerful deterrent to direct foreign aid.

  

  Javier Solana
  • Violence
  • Region
  • Foreign Aid

• We were raised with that discussion about violence and non-violence, and we all pretty much came up on the side of non-violence. That became my foundation with politics and my livelihood.

  

  Joan Baez
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Violence

• I mean I grew up in Ireland, so one would have to be consciously blinkered not to have reflected on the issue of political violence because that was the story since I was 19 years old or 20.

  

  Neil Jordan
  • Up
  • Political
  • Violence

• We are spectators to violence, and therefore are, how well we don't know and make sure we don't know the difference of real violence to that of simulation.

  

  Malachy McCourt
  • Violence
  • Difference
  • Spectators

• Do not conquer the world with force, for force only causes resistance. Thorns spring up when an army passes. Years of misery follow a great victory. Do only what needs to be done without using violence.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Victory
  • Resistance
  • Passes

• As I refuse violence, I refuse to serve the violent.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Violence

• The TV generation is postliterate and retribalized. It seeks by violence to scrub the old private image and to merge in a new tribal identity, like any corporate executive. (p. 201)

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • Violence
  • Identity

• Some people might shy away from a character like Deathstroke because, you know, all of the blood-letting and the swordplay and violence and all that other stuff.

  

  Christopher Priest
  • People
  • Character
  • Violence

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