Violence Quotes

• The number of laws is constantly growing in all countries and, owing to this, what is called crime is very often not a crime at all, for it contains no element of violence or harm.

  

  Pyotr Ouspensky
  • Growing
  • Violence

• I was a monster. I don't deny it. I wasn't a monster until a few years ago. But you have to be a monster to survive in New York City. New York City doesn't give a damn about violence.

  

  Bernhard Goetz
  • City
  • Violence
  • Monster

• Our Lord God doesn't do great things except by violence, as they say.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Violence
  • Great Things
  • Lord God

• Whenever the true message of the cross is abolished, the anger of hypocrites and heretics ceases.. and all things are in peace. This is a sure token that the devil is guarding the entry to the house, and that the PURE doctrine of God's Word has been taken away. The Church then, is in the BEST state when Satan assaileth it on every sideboth with subtle sleights, and outright violence. And likewise, it is in the WORST state when it is most at peace!

  

  Martin Luther
  • Church
  • Taken
  • Message

• As women, we have to deal with constant threats of violence. And it's in our media and fiction, too. So we internalize it.

  

  Marjorie Liu
  • Women
  • Violence

• America don't have no future! America's going to be destroyed! Allah's going to divinely chastise America! Violence, crimes, earthquakes - there's gonna be all kinds of trouble. America's going to pay for all its lynchings and killings of slaves and what it's done to black people.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • America
  • Destroyed
  • Slaves

• We shall not bind ourselves by treaties. We shall not allow ourselves to be entangled by treaties. We reject all clauses on plunder and violence, but we shall welcome all clauses containing provisions for good-neighbourly relations and all economic agreements; we cannot reject these.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Economic
  • Relation
  • Welcome

• What holds an Arab leader in power is a mixture of violence and prestige. Both President Assad and King Hussein were felt to have defended Arab interests against the world. That, in the end, is more important than what they wear on their head.

  

  James Buchan
  • World
  • Important
  • Power

• Because the twentieth century was a century of violence, let us make the twenty-first a century of dialogue.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Violence

• Violence in drama is an external contextualization of internal conflicts.

  

  Laeta Kalogridis
  • Violence
  • Drama

• 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. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate... Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.

  

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

• Somebody's gotta stand up and say pubic hair is good, murder is bad. Sex is good, violence is bad.

  

  William H. Macy
  • Hair
  • Sex
  • Murder

• To break out of the chaos of my darkness Into a lucid day is all my will. My words like eyes in night, stare to reach A centre for their light: and my acts thrown To distant places by impatient violence Yet lock together to mould a path of stone Out of my darkness into a lucid day.

  

  Stephen Spender
  • Together
  • Night
  • Eye

• We must understand the factors that cause fragility, violence, and conflict in order to develop solutions that will meaningfully reduce instability at its roots rather than merely addressing the symptoms.

  

  Peter Maurer
  • Violence

• Ending gun violence isn't political. This is personal.

  

  Joe Kennedy III
  • Political
  • Violence
  • Gun

• 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

• Well, I do write on political and social issues and the idea that one shouldn't - or the idea that we should censor ourselves - doesn't really work for me because it would be doing the government's job for them. And I'm not interested in doing that. I think what we need very much in Pakistan is to be able to discuss the corruption and the violence that really colours most of our life here.

  

  Fatima Bhutto
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Political

• I was born the year the Troubles began, in 1968. That world of violence was all I knew - people murdered, maimed, kneecapped, bombed. I don't remember a time without a major atrocity of some kind every week.

  

  Adrian McKinty
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• I knew I wanted to write on religious themes when I was a GI in World War II. I saw and experienced so much violence that I thought I could express my outrage best with music.

  

  Dave Brubeck
  • World
  • Music
  • War

• Those who use the term 'alt-left' consistently point to violence from the left, often by anti-fascists - both perceived and real.

  

  Elizabeth Flock
  • Real
  • Violence

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

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Violence

• All over the world, young males and females, schooled in the art of patriarchal thinking, are building an identity on a foundation that sees the will to do violence as the essential way to assert being.

  

  bell hooks
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Art

• It is claimed for satyagraha that it is a complete substitute for violence or war.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • War
  • Violence
  • Claimed

• It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death.

  

  Elijah Cummings
  • American
  • Death
  • Black

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