Violence Quotes
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Natasha has just come up to the window from the courtyard and opened it wider so that the air may enter more freely into my room. I can see the bright green strip of grass beneath the wall, and the clear blue sky above the wall, and sunlight everywhere. Life is beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression and violence, and enjoy it to the full.
Leon Trotsky
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An imam should be able to say that homosexuals are worse than pigs. My only demand is that you mustn't incite violence.
Pim Fortuyn
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I didn't want people to go out wanting to go tool up against the bad guys (and at impressionable ages). I said, don't shy away from the violence or pull back on this, commit to this.
Ray Stevenson
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Ending gun violence isn't political. This is personal.
Joe Kennedy III
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I firmly believe today that the only way to stop violence against women is to speak out and refused to be silenced.
Zainab Salbi
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I may not remember the name of a book's author, but let it be clear, what I will not forget is the violence, the poverty and the desperation that Mexico is living through.
Enrique Pena Nieto
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A civilization based on nonviolence must be different from that organized for violence.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I'm more alarmed by people reacting violently to the violence in my films than I am by the violence in films.
George A. Romero
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To prevent the workers from going to their work by standing in front of them is pure violence and must be given up.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Violence will prevail over violence, only when someone can prove to me that darkness can be dispelled by darkness.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Since the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School three years ago, we have lost over 90,000 Americans to gun violence. This is a manmade crisis that needs to be treated as the public health epidemic it has become.
Elizabeth Esty
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The human population is 90% gullible, violence-prone dipshits.
Scott Adams
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He has known joy and violence. Felt the warmth of children and the cruelty of abuse. He has nearly died saving lives and merely been killed by a drunken act. He has known the finery of grand estates and the filth of stinking slums. He has survived fire and flood, starvation and torment. And nothing could break his spirit-or his great love. This is HIS life. He is called the horse.
Anna Sewell
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Speech, not violence, is how we will bridge the divides between us.
Deeyah Khan
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I don't want to express violence or anger or hate in my art. I want to express forgiveness.
Raymond Pettibon Black Flag
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We may win a battle, but if in doing so we have planted thousands of seeds of hatred and fear..the war is not over- only the present conflict has ceased. There will be no peace as long as we react to violence with violence.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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There is no denying that unhappiness - even violence - exists in some arranged marriages. Or that some arranged marriages are borne out of cruelty. And part of that six percent global divorce rate can be attributed to the powerful stigma against divorce that's present in countries where arranged marriage is common.
Elizabeth Flock
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There were moments in life when violence was necessary to save lives.
Nicholas Sparks
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Plus fait douceur que violence.
Jean de La Fontaine
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A man who lives with nature is used to violence and is companionable with death. There is more violence in an English hedgerow than in the meanest streets of a great city.
P. D. James
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People use location as a language in films, and Quentin uses action as a language in his films. There's really not a lot of violence. It's more of an emotional beat than it is a physical beat.
Lucy Liu
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My words like eyes that flinch from light, refuse And shut upon obscurity; my acts Cast to their opposites by impatient violence Break up the sequent path; they fly On a circumference to avoid the centre.
Stephen Spender
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What postmodernism gives us instead is a multicultural defense for male violence - a defense for it wherever it is, which in effect is a pretty universal defense.
Catharine MacKinnon
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Courtesy towards opponents and eagerness to understand their view-point is the ABC of non-violence.
Mahatma Gandhi