Violence Quotes

• The real violence is committed in the writing of history, the records of the legal system, the reporting of news, through the manipulation of social contracts, and the control of information.

  

  Bryant H. McGill
  • Writing
  • Real
  • History

• More people died as a result of the tiny abortive Easter Uprising against British rule in Ireland (1916) than died as a result of political violence in Germany during the entire National Socialist revolution.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Revolution
  • Died
  • British Rule

• Not violence, nor untruth but non-violence and Truth are the laws of our being.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Violence
  • Laws
  • Untruth

• We ourselves, though we're guilty of every sin, are not just a work of God: we're image. Yet we have cut ourselves off from our Creator in both soul and body. Did we get eyes to serve lust, the tongue to speak evil, ears to hear evil, a throat for gluttony, a stomach to be gluttony's ally, hands to do violence, genitals for unchaste excesses, feet for an erring life? Was the soul put in the body to think up traps, fraud, and injustice? I don't think so.

  

  Tertullian
  • Life
  • Soul
  • Sin

• I'm not at all upset to be considered a crime novelist. But for me, it's never really about the crime or the violence. I'm much more interested in exploring issues.

  

  Marcus Sakey
  • Violence

• Inner disarmament, external disarmament; these must go together, you see. Peace is not just mere absence of violence - genuine peace must start in each individual heart.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Heart
  • Together
  • Peace

• Pressure or violence will ever move us to relinquish our honor or our equality of rights.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Violence
  • Honor
  • Rights

• There are certain things that they say you can't do, there are all these secret people behind the scenes who make things available for you to do. That's why you have so much crime and violence.

  

  Afrika Bambaataa
  • People
  • Why
  • Violence

• Trauma happens to us, our friends, our families, and our neighbors. Research by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has shown that one in five Americans was sexually molested as a child; one in four was beaten by a parent to the point of a mark being left on their body; and one in three couples engages in physical violence. A quarter of us grew up with alcoholic relatives, and one out of eight witnessed their mother being beaten or hit.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Friends
  • Trauma
  • Neighbors

• A civilization based on nonviolence must be different from that organized for violence.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Different
  • Violence
  • Civilization

• If any fall by the hand of violence, others will continue the blessed work.

  

  Lewis Tappan
  • Work
  • Hand
  • Fall

• Our young people live in a world in which there's violence wherever you turn.

  

  Nina Jacobson
  • World
  • Violence
  • Turn

• Gun violence is a plague in all of our communities, and we must come together to stop it.

  

  Elizabeth Esty
  • Together
  • Stop
  • Gun

• I don't understand why black people have been so quiescent, so passive over the hundreds of years of American history. Why hasn't there been more violence, more armed struggle? I know answers to some of that, but it seems to me it's an issue of faith, an abiding faith in some sort of great beyond, or great spirit, or even in the American dream.

  

  John Edgar Wideman
  • People
  • Great
  • Why

• The appalling crackdown that we witnessed in Hama and other Syrian cities on 30 and 31 July only erode the regime's legitimacy and increase resentment. In the absence of an end to the senseless violence and a genuine process of political reform, we will continue to pursue further EU sanctions.

  

  William Hague
  • Political
  • Cities
  • Absence

• If you want peace, you won't get it with violence.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Peace
  • Violence

• The nation cannot be kept on the nonviolent path by violence.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Violence
  • Nation
  • Nonviolent

• I think people's relationship with the concept of violence changes, and that to me might be a little more interesting.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Relationship

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

  

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

• For me popular violence is as much an obstruction in our path as the Government violence.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Government
  • Violence
  • Obstruction

• I have kids. I can't hardly watch an afternoon football game with them without having to turn off the TV during the commercials. It's too much. I don't know when violence was deemed such a cinematic thing.

  

  Derek Cianfrance
  • Kids
  • Game
  • Football

• Poetry arises from the desire to get beyond the finite and the historical—the human world of violence and difference—and to reach the transcendent or divine. You're moved to write a poem, you feel called upon to sing, because of that transcendent impulse. But as soon as you move from that impulse to the actual poem, the song of the infinite is compromised by the finitude of its terms.

  

  Ben Lerner
  • Poetry
  • Sing
  • Impulse

• We see violence to forcibly seize land, at any price, murders and corruption.

  

  Claudio Hummes
  • Violence

• I believe that restricting the rights of law-abiding gun owners will not prevent a deranged individual or criminal from obtaining and misusing firearms to commit violence.

  

  Kelly Ayotte
  • Believe
  • Law
  • Gun

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