Violence Quotes
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Since [violence against women] is rooted in discrimination, impunity and complacency, we need to change attitudes and behavior - and we need to change laws and make sure they are enforced just like you are doing in Cuba.
Ban Ki-moon
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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
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It's obvious that humanity continues to be torn by religious violence.
Thomas Keating
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The foundation of my beliefs is the same as it was when I was 10. Non-violence.
Joan Baez
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I have recognized that the nation has the right, if it so wills, to vindicate her freedom even by actual violence.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I think if there was no violence in our world, there would be no violence in film. Violence is a part of human nature, and obviously it's a troublesome part of human nature. You always have responsibilities when you portray violence in what angle you put down on that scene..
Niels Arden Oplev
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As soon as you choose to fight with violence you're choosing to fight against your opponents best weapons and you have to be smarter than that.
Gene Sharp
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Every statute for terrorism requires violence.
Bernard von NotHaus
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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
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Conquer the heart of the enemy with truth and love, not by violence.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I think so much of my early life, even though I grew up White and middle class, I was completely shattered by the horrifically violent atmosphere I grew up in. I am a consequence of violence. That opened a door to many realities that I would not have experienced had I not survived what I did.
Eve Ensler
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There should be no boundaries, no hierarchy, no violence. Men and women are equal.
Alessandro Michele
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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
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I would do violence for one glimpse of your naked breasts. Bleed for one taste of your nipple on my tongue.
Elizabeth Hoyt
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How a society channels male aggression is one of the greatest questions as to whether that society will survive. That's why I am not against violence in the media, I am against the glorification of immoral violence.
Dennis Prager
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It is only the working class at the head of the masses, it is only the working class headed by its real Marxist-Leninist party, it is only the working class through armed revolution, through violence, that can and must bury the traitorous revisionists.
Enver Hoxha
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Quiet authority accomplishes what violence cannot, and that mandate compels more which comes from a commanding calm.
Claudius Claudianus
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The worst violence we can do to each other often is psychological, especially in families. I dwell a lot on domestic danger. That's the backdrop of most of my novels - what kind of damage is done without ever lifting a finger.
Lisa Unger
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When I recall my own path of life I cannot but speak of the violence, hatred and lies. A lesson drawn from such experiences, however, was that we can effectively oppose violence only if we ourselves do not resort to it.
Lech Walesa
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When you think about going back to the States you start to become more aware of the violence there and how we pollute the Earth more than the New Zealanders.
Renee O'Connor
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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
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I have quite a close relationship with violence and horror. They are enjoyable and terrible. I try and offset the horror with a sense of satisfaction or humor. You can't write a book that is entirely dark without having little spots that hopefully make you laugh out loud.
Evie Wyld
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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
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I've always been very interested in political violence. When I finished high school, I did a small dissertation about political violence and fascism in Italy.
Loretta Napoleoni