Violence Quotes

• Not only do most people accept violence if it is perpetuated by legitimate authority, they also regard violence against certain kinds of people as inherently legitimate, no matter who commits it.

  

  Edgar Friedenberg
  • Authority
  • Legitimate
  • Commits

• One of the unspoken themes that I'm grappling with in Day of Honey is the relationship between violence and cosmopolitanism. It's one thing to comprehend violence as an outgrowth of ignorance, poverty, and backwardness. It's another matter entirely to confront incredible atrocities in a country with a rich civic and intellectual life.

  

  Annia Ciezadlo
  • Country
  • Poverty
  • Ignorance

• This idea that America is somehow on the verge of collapse, this vision of violence and chaos everywhere, doesn't really jibe with the experience of most people.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Experience
  • America

• Every decided colour does a certain violence to the eye, and forces the organ to opposition.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Violence
  • Decided
  • Opposition

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

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Violence
  • Honor
  • Rights

• Regardless of religion or race or ethnic background we are all human and we are all on this planet together. So what better reason do you need to not tolerate any form of violence against another human being?

  

  Tony Bennett
  • Together
  • Religion
  • Race

• 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
  • God
  • Wisdom
  • Human Family

• If people base their identity on identifying with authority, freedom causes anxiety. They must then conceal the victim in themselves by resorting to violence against others.

  

  Arno Gruen
  • Identity
  • Anxiety
  • Causes

• Immorality, violence, and divorce, with their accompanying sorrows, plague society worldwide.

  

  Joseph B. Wirthlin
  • Society
  • Violence
  • Divorce

• So, these political activities will create friction in and of themselves, and in this environment of friction there'll be additional violence.

  

  John Abizaid
  • Political
  • Environment
  • Violence

• I wished to see storms only on those coasts where they raged with most violence.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Violence
  • Wished
  • Storms

• There's the 5% of the people that are wise and righteous and I'd definitely be amongst them, building, communicating, and continuing to try and figure out how we can awaken the 85%. The 85% are walking around [like] cattle, not realizing the things we do, the violence we do; you see people falling victim to all sorts of unnecessary things because they just don't know the way and nobody is showing them the way.

  

  Robert Fitzgerald Diggs Achozen
  • People
  • Trying
  • Fall

• I don't think I will do a Mafia character again. I want to get away from the violence a little bit, because it is starting to bother me personally.

  

  James Gandolfini
  • Character
  • Violence

• They have been a terrorist organization. They have to change their methods and they have to accept that violence is incompatible with democracy.

  

  Javier Solana
  • Violence
  • Chance
  • Terrorist Organization

• The more children see of violence, the more numb they are to the deadly consequences of violence. Now, video games like 'Mortal Kombat,' 'Killer Instinct,' and 'Doom,' the very game played obsessively by the two young men who ended so many lives in Littleton, make our children more active participants in simulated violence.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Children
  • Consequences
  • Video Games

• Once one assumes an attitude of intolerance, there is no knowing where it will take one. Intolerance, someone has said, is violence to the intellect and hatred is violence to the heart.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Heart
  • Attitude
  • Intellect

• We're asking that the Compton citizens have a zero tolerance policy against violence.

  

  Aja Brown
  • Violence
  • Tolerance

• What senseless violence does is to prolong the lease of life of the British or foreign rule.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Life
  • Violence
  • Foreign Rule

• Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love but to use violence to get what they want.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • People
  • Country
  • Abortion

• My work is less violent because we tend to write what we want to read... and I'm not that interested in gruesome books. Any violence, to fit in well with a crime novel, has to have compassion.

  

  Ann Cleeves
  • Work
  • Violence
  • Compassion

• At least in my country, we have come to accept the flags burning, but what we cannot accept is violence, burning of embassies and intimidations, and there is no excuse for that.

  

  Daniel Fried
  • Country
  • Accepting
  • Excuse

• In our current society, it is considered a weakness to be female and a treason to protest this. Highlighting inequality results in aggressive insults and threats, all of which are propped up by the repeated narrative now that women are 'playing the gender card'. And this is the final insult. That of all the unfair things associated with women - the violence and insults, the financial oppression, the very undermining of our worth as human beings - it is the acknowledgement of these inequalities that gives us some kind of unfair advantage over the men who benefit from them.

  

  Clementine Ford
  • Kind
  • Financial
  • Weakness

• The present war is the saturation point in violence. It spells, to my mind, also its doom.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • War
  • Violence
  • My Mind

• Seeing the similarity to oneself, one should not use violence or have it used.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Violence
  • Similarity

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