Violence Quotes
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There will be no peace until the violence is done. Peace is inaccessible without the violence, because violence is righteousness in action.
Adam Nicolson
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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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Violence is not funny.
William Friedkin
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I like living in Vancouver .It's more a matter of being a Vancouver loyalist. Harking back to what I said about growing up with the inherent violence in the southern U.S., I'm deeply enamoured of, and entirely used to living in a society with gun laws akin to those of a Scandinavian social democracy .It's a good thing.
William Gibson
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Millions of statements are made about the president every day on every subject and from every standpoint; threats of violence are not an integral feature of any one subject or viewpoint as distinct from others. Differential treatment of threats against the president, then, selects nothing but special risks, not special messages.
David Souter
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Violence multiplies violence.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The Eucharist has been preempted and redefined in dualistic thinking that leaves the status quo of the world untouched, so congregations can take the meal without raising questions of violence; the outcome is a "colonized imagination" that is drained of dangerous hope.
Walter Brueggemann
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There is simply too much unnecessary suffering in our world. And we should see that as a national security risk, by the way. Given enough time, desperate people will tend to do desperate things. At a certain point you won't be able to build enough prisons or enough bombs to eradicate the effects of all that violence inside so many hearts.
Marianne Williamson
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Many people today agree that we need to reduce violence in our society. If we are truly serious about this, we must deal with the roots of violence, particularly those that exist within each of us. We need to embrace 'inner disarmament,' reducing our own emotions of suspicion, hatred and hostility toward our brothers and sisters
Dalai Lama
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In Canadian comedy, you'll almost never see guns. If you bring a gun into a scene, it's like, 'Whoa! Wow, how are we going to deal with that!' Guns in an American comedy are a given. Violence in America is used in a much more cavalier way.
Scott Thompson
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All the violence in videos and movies, you can't tell me that that wouldn't influence a disturbed person.
Alana Stewart
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Our young people live in a world in which there's violence wherever you turn.
Nina Jacobson
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God, in His wisdom, has so linked the whole human family together that any violence done at one end of the chain is felt throughout its length.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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I think the violence in the world right now is being reflected inside people. And I also believe the violence inside people is being reflected in the world.
Marianne Williamson
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You either approve of violence or you don't, and nothing on earth is more violent or extreme than the meat industry.
Morrissey The Smiths
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All sex, even consensual sex between a married couple, is an act of violence perpetrated against a woman.
Patrick Henry
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I would risk violence a thousand times rather than risk the emasculation of the whole race.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Generally speaking, violence always arises out of impotence. It is the hope of those who have no power.
Hannah Arendt
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When activists need a pretext to justify their violence, they always find it.
Stéphane Charbonnier
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Unfortunately there is a standard set for it that precedes hip-hop. It would be great if corporate America didn't do this, but there is a huge market for sex and violence and anti-Black representations in America and the world that doesn't begin or end with hip-hop.
Bakari Kitwana
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I enjoy doing action a lot more because my films have a sense of violence. That's because I have a broad structure, and if I hit someone, it looks believable. Maybe my contemporaries are meeker-looking in comparison.
Arjun Kapoor
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The key fallacy of so called gun control laws is that such laws do not in fact control guns. They simply disarm law abiding citizens, while people bent on violence find firearms readily available.
Thomas Sowell
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Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence.
Jim Morrison The Doors
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I think the president's comfortable with a certain level of violence.
Wayne LaPierre