Violence Quotes
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Violence in our society has reached epidemic proportions. ... Violence in the media for entertainment purposes has been established as a major contributing factor.
Deborah Prothrow-Stith
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There is nothing more American than brutal violence. The country was built on it, revels in it and shows every evidence of clinging to it with the crazed, destructive strength of an obsessive lover.
Bob Herbert
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Violence always thrived on counter violence.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The solution to violence in America is the acceptance of reality.
Gavin de Becker
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The world is ruled by violence, or at least the imminent threat of violence. It always has been.
John Malkovich
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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
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I can't relate to the people who shoot wolves. I'm guessing the person who shot Wolf 06 wouldn't relate much to me either. You let people go out and shoot hundreds of wolves and watch violent movies, and then you're surprised when they go on a rampage shooting other humans. You can't separate violence like that.
Zoe Helene
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I would say that while most Muslims take offense at the portrayal of the Prophet Muhammad in cartoons, they would never resort to violence. It is a minority of extremist Muslims who take such actions, and they do it for political and tactical reasons far beyond just being offended.
Maz Jobrani
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Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
Tacitus
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Let's start a movement - a movement of men who aren't afraid to stop violence against women.
Carlos Andres Gomez
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All forms of violence are quests for identity. When you live on the frontier, you have no identity. You're a nobody.
Marshall McLuhan
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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
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I was raised in Washington, DC, very violent place. I grew up with violence. My introduction to music was violent. The years I've spent on tours, some of that was extremely violent.
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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Pressure or violence will ever move us to relinquish our honor or our equality of rights.
Adolf Hitler
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Living in a house where domestic violence goes on every day never feels like home. You don't have to suffer in silence. I'm giving my full support to this website as it will give proper and practical advice about what to do if you feel afraid. Remember, you're not alone.
Beverley Knight
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The truth is that cowardice itself is violence of a subtle type and therefore dangerous and far more difficult to eradicate than the habit of physical violence.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is non-interference with their own particular ways of being happy, provided those ways do not assume to interfere by violence with ours.
William James
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The Mexico - United States border was always porous. People have been going and coming back since before the Spaniards arrived. Now we're seeing communities who have family members on the other side very frightened. I feel saddened for those families divided by violence. The whole border area is under siege.
Sandra Cisneros
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On our part we have pledged that there will be no acts of violence. At the same time we want the government of Sri Lanka to ensure there shouldn't be any violence perpetrated against innocent civilians and the LTTE.
Anton Balasingham
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I think there are so many children being brought up in some form of violence, be it violence of poverty or sexism or racism or homophobia or transphobia. That violence takes a life to transform or overcome. I don't think people should be spending their lives dealing with that. I think people should be thriving, playing, creating, evolving.
Eve Ensler
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When you resort to violence to prove a point, you’ve just experienced a profound failure of imagination.
Sherman Alexie
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Apparently, the heart of opposition to new gun regulations is in the white community. Yet white people face far less daily violence with guns.
Juan Williams
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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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There's always been violence in movies, and there will always be violence in movies. Whether it lends to the one psychotic that's out there, thinking the worst thoughts you could possibly thing, is always going to be a mystery.
Josh Brolin