Violence Quotes
-
No Bolshevik, no Communist, no intelligent socialist has ever entertained the idea of violence against the middle peasants. All socialists have always spoken of agreement with them and of their gradual and voluntary transition to socialism.
Vladimir Lenin -
Due to broken windows policing, the following interactions can lead to tickets, arrests and summonses, warrants if tickets go unpaid and, in some cases, violence: jaywalking, sleeping on a park bench, spitting, putting your feet up on the subway, and more.
Opal Tometi
-
The debate ends, the action begins. It is not a question of the necessity of violence, but how to organize it to fit our unique situation, to tie it with flawless exactitude to our political activity, and to organize it immediately.
George Jackson -
I'm not comfortable with walking the red carpet in a tuxedo and seeing all the women with their boobs pushed up and all the men dressed as penguins - particularly when the subject of your film is the nature of violence and humanity.
William Hurt -
I'm a strong person, but I'd never resort to violence.
Kristen Johnston -
We cannot stop senseless violence without the rule of law and security forces that represent and respect every segment of society.
Haider al-Abadi -
Seeing the similarity to oneself, one should not use violence or have it used.
Gautama Buddha -
Universal ratification of the Optional Protocol on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict will establish an international moral consensus that no child should take part in hostilities or be involuntarily recruited and that former child soldiers should be assisted by their governments after a life of violence and distress.
Ban Ki-moon
-
When food becomes scarce, refugees often turn to desperate measures to feed themselves and their families. We are particularly worried about the health of the refugee population, domestic violence and refugees resorting to illegal employment or even to prostitution, just to put enough food on the table.
Antonio Guterres -
The fear that goes with the writing of verse has nothing in common with the fear one experiences in the presence of the secret police. Our mysterious awe in the face of existence itself is always overridden by the more primitive fear of violence and destruction.
Nadezhda Mandelstam -
There's no question that Mr. Arafat has to make an effort to control violence and that Mr. Sharon has to comply with the requirements to withdraw from zones A.
Javier Solana -
Every statute for terrorism requires violence.
Bernard von NotHaus -
All the political parties have the right to be part of the elections, but there is a certain code of conduct that has to be accepted by everybody. It's very difficult that parties who do not condemn violence ... can be partners for the future.
Javier Solana -
In fact, violence as a symbol of our growing irrationality has had an increasing role in activity for its own sake, when no possible justification could be made that the activity was seeking to resolve a problem.
Carroll Quigley
-
I have been Europe's last hope. She proved incapable of refashioning herself by means of voluntary reform. She showed herself impervious to charm and persuasion. To take her I had to use violence. (26th February)
Adolf Hitler -
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 -
Women trapped in violent relationships need to know that there's no shame in talking out and walking out on their abusive partners.
Kate Thornton -
I firmly believe today that the only way to stop violence against women is to speak out and refused to be silenced.
Zainab Salbi -
Domestic violence and sexual assault go hand in hand.
Georgia Taylor -
I've discovered that I can't trust the ratings board at all, because they have - to my mind - a perverted point of view about what's appropriate for children. They think that if you see any part of a male or female anatomy, we have to protect children from it, which is not true, and they think almost any level of violence is okay for children, which is absolutely not true... They're really off the mark.
William H. Macy
-
Laws provide, as much as ispossible that the goods and health of subjects be not injured by the fraud and violence of others. They do not guard them from thenegligence or ill-husbandry of the possessors themselves.
John Locke Nazareth -
In all these situations, there was not enough violence against them to take it beyond the category of sex; they were not coerced enough.
Catharine MacKinnon -
Every decided colour does a certain violence to the eye, and forces the organ to opposition.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Few people love with the violence they hate.
Norm MacDonald