Violence Quotes
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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
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I honestly never understood how violence against women became a women's issue. 95 percent of the violence men are doing to women.
Eve Ensler
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We seem okay with violence, but nudity we race to criticize and censor.
Eva Mendes
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I would never ever condone any violence of any kind. But in the theater of fiction, blood is delightful.
Jonathan Raymond
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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
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The Jihad is not just a way of testing yourself but also means using violence to spread Islam.
Bassam Tibi
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God, to prevent all escape, hath sown the seeds of death in our very constitution and nature, so that we can as soon run from ourselves, as run from death. We need no feller to come with a hand of violence and hew us down; there is in the tree a worm, which grows out of its own substance, that will destroy it; so in us, those infirmities of nature that will bring us down to the dust.
William Gurnall
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Mexico is going to need the United States to cooperate in order to rid itself of the violence and corruption that results from the drug trade.
Barack Obama
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Civilization and violence are antithetical concepts.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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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
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Crime and violence are the easiest emotions to reenact.
will.i.am
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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
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Violence can destroy power; it is utterly incapable of creating it.
Hannah Arendt
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I ain't never liked violence.
Sugar Ray Robinson
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Violence recoils on the violent.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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A terrible violence of creation,A flash into the burning heart of the abominable;Yet if we wait, unafraid, beyond the fearful instant. The burning lake turns into a forest pool. The fire subsides into rings of water. A sunlit silence.
Theodore Roethke
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In the seed and the soil, we find the answers to every one of the crises we face. The crises of violence and war. The crises of hunger and disease. The crisis of the destruction of democracy.
Vandana Shiva
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Good stuff tends to happen gradually, whereas violence or catastrophes are deemed more newsworthy.
Bill Gates
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So, these political activities will create friction in and of themselves, and in this environment of friction there'll be additional violence.
John Abizaid
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Under all conditions, well-organized violence seems to him the shortest distance between two points.
Leon Trotsky
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Where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Even before the election I was saying that the rhetoric used by Trump was going to cause violence before and after the election. That was easy to predict.
Chip Berlet
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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
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Many people are concerned with children of India, with the children of Africa where quite a few die of hunger, and so on. Many people are also concerned about the violence in this great country of the United States. These concerns are very good. But often these same people are not concerned with the millions being killed by the deliberate decision of their own mothers. And this is the greatest destroyer of peace today- abortion which brings people to such blindness.
Mother Teresa