Violence Quotes

• We seem okay with violence, but nudity we race to criticize and censor.

  

  Eva Mendes
  • Race
  • Nudity
  • Censor

• Bad art was as good as good art. Grammar and spelling were no longer important. To be clean was no better than to be filthy. Good manners were no better than bad. Family life was derided as an outdated bourgeois concept. Criminals deserved as much sympathy as their victims. Many homes and classrooms became disorderly - if there was neither right nor wrong there could be no basis for punishment or reward. Violence and soft pornography became accepted in the media. Thus was sown the wind, and we are now reaping the whirlwind.

  

  Norman Tebbit
  • Important
  • Victim
  • Accepted

• We are not going to deal with the violence in our communities, our homes, and our nation, until we learn to deal with the basic ethic of how we resolve our disputes and to place an emphasis on peace in the way we relate to one another.

  

  Marian Wright Edelman
  • Peace
  • Deal
  • Communities

• All forms of violence are quests for identity. When you live on the frontier, you have no identity. You're a nobody.

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • Live
  • Violence
  • Identity

• The Muslim world is deeply hurt by the campaign of violence initiated against our Palestinian brothers.

  

  Ahmet Necdet Sezer
  • World
  • Hurt
  • Brother

• We are used to thinking of Amazon myths in terms of violence against uppity women, but the ancient evidence also reveals a vision of gender equality.

  

  Adrienne Mayor
  • Thinking
  • Women
  • Vision

• Violence can destroy power; it is utterly incapable of creating it.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Violence
  • Creating
  • Destroy

• I sleep well. It's the politicians who are to blame for failing to come to an agreement and resorting to violence.

  

  Mikhail Kalashnikov
  • Violence
  • Politician
  • Agreement

• There's violence in my culture [from America's South].

  

  William Gibson
  • America
  • Culture
  • South

• Disapproving and boycotting is the Quranic thing to do, whereas violence and threats are not.

  

  Mustafa Akyol
  • Violence
  • Things
  • Disapproving

• Nipples aren't killing children. They should be more concerned about the wars that are happening. There's so much violence in the world. There are so many legitimate things to be upset about besides nipples.

  

  Eva Green
  • Children
  • Killing
  • Nipples

• I was proud to be an original cosponsor of the Violence Against Women Act when Congress passed it in 1994, and was proud to support the previous renewals in 2000 and 2005. These bills always enjoyed large, bipartisan support.

  

  Carolyn Maloney
  • Support
  • Proud
  • Renewal

• Civilization and violence are antithetical concepts.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Violence
  • Civilization
  • Antithetical Concepts

• As Commander of the Faithful, it is out of the question that I fight Islam. We need to fight violence and ignorance. It is true, when one strolls out, one sees women with scarves and men with beards. This has always been the case in Morocco. Morocco is built on tolerance.

  

  Mohammed VI of Morocco
  • Question
  • Ignorance
  • Faithful

• There are two ways to lose you sanity in Juarez. One is to believe the violence results from a cartel war. The other is to claim to understand what is behind each murder.

  

  Charles Bowden
  • Believe
  • War
  • Behinds

• There are lots of guns and action in my drawings, and part of that is just to make them more interesting. Because you can go through a whole film and it's mostly talking heads and little else until the action scenes, and they're usually violence or physical stuff. Same with baseball, or any sport. Except I find pitching and batting are visually very striking.

  

  Raymond Pettibon Black Flag
  • Interesting
  • Sports
  • Baseball

• We need to finally be proactive in enlightening people from Islamic cultural groups. And this applies to immigrants already here as well as to current refugees. The German constitution stands above the Sharia. Schools need to offer classes on gender equality. You also have to offer an alternative to young men with a penchant for violence.

  

  Alice Schwarzer
  • Violence
  • Constitution
  • Gender Equality

• An end to wars, peace among the nations, the cessation of pillaging and violence - such is our ideal, but only bourgeois sophists can seduce the masses with this ideal, if the latter is divorced from a direct and immediate call for revolutionary action.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • War
  • Action
  • Revolutionary

• I lived in Complexo do Alemao until I was 12, dealt with domestic violence in my childhood and faced difficulties in life.

  

  Maria das Gracas Silva Foster
  • Violence
  • Childhood
  • Difficulty

• Cats are oppressed, dogs terrify them, landladies starve them, boys stone them, everybody speaks of them with contempt. If they were human beings we could talk of their oppressors with a studied violence, add our strength to theirs, even organize the oppressed and like good politicians sell our charity for power.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Dog
  • Cat
  • Boys

• The lesson I learned in Cairo still applies. The only way to deal with bureaucrats is with stealth and sudden violence.

  

  Boutros Boutros-Ghali
  • Violence

• I'm concerned about a better world. I'm concerned about justice; I'm concerned about brotherhood; I'm concerned about truth. And when one is concerned about that, he can never advocate violence. For through violence you may murder a murderer, but you can't murder murder. Through violence you may murder a liar, but you can't establish truth. Through violence you may murder a hater, but you can't murder hate through violence. Darkness cannot put out darkness; only light can do that.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Truth
  • Justice
  • Murder

• The chief evil of war is more evil. War is the concentration of all human crimes. Here is its distinguishing, accursed brand. Under its standard gather violence, malignity, rage, fraud, perfidy, rapacity, and lust. If it only slew man, it would do little. It turns man into a beast of prey.

  

  William Ellery Channing
  • Men
  • War
  • Evil

• 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
  • Thinking
  • Violence
  • States

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