Violence Quotes

• I am much more open about categories of gender, and my feminism has been about women's safety from violence, increased literacy, decreased poverty and more equality.

  

  Judith Butler
  • Poverty
  • Gender
  • Feminism

• Now a days, I don't think these things scare kids. I think that kids are so desensitized to violence and I don't mean this in a negative way what so ever, but, I just think it's the reality that I think that it's just all changing so I don't know.

  

  Mila Kunis
  • Kids
  • Scare
  • Negative way

• Listen up—there’s no war that will end all wars,’ Crow tells me. ‘War breeds war. Lapping up the blood shed by violence, feeding on wounded flesh. War is a perfect, self-contained being. You need to know that.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Need
  • Blood
  • Wars

• Comparison is an act of violence against the self.

  

  Iyanla Vanzant
  • Violence
  • Self
  • Comparison

• We have to bridge and join our struggles and understand how we can't fight violence against women without looking at racism, we can't fight violence against women without looking at economic deprivation or climate change. All these struggles are interconnected.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • Fight
  • Climate Change
  • Struggles

• Modern capitalist nations are the fruit of a history of slavery, genocide, violence and exploitation every bit as abhorrent as Mao's China or Stalin's Soviet Union.

  

  Terry Eagleton
  • Slavery
  • Modern
  • Soviet

• 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 look forward to working with the NRA to come up with ways in which we can use common sense approaches to reduce the level of violence that we see - in our streets, and make the American people as safe as they possibly can be.

  

  Eric Holder
  • Violence
  • Working
  • American People

• If I had my own world I'd build you an empire from here to the far lands to spread love like violence!

  

  Tom DeLonge Blink-182
  • World
  • Love
  • Empire

• Poetry arises from the desire to get beyond the finite and the historical - the human world of violence and difference - and to reach the transcendent or divine. You’re moved to write a poem… But as soon as you move from that impulse to the actual poem, the song of the infinite is compromised by the finitude of its terms. In a dream your verses can defeat time, your words can shake off the history of their usage, you can represent what can’t be represented, but when you wake, when you rejoin your friends around the fire, you’re back in the human world with its inflexible laws and logic.

  

  Ben Lerner
  • History
  • Desire
  • Poetry

• The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.

  

  Ezra Pound
  • Work
  • Artist
  • Gods

• He seems like a nice charming guy. Mike Huckabee doesn't believe in evolution and has some nutty views about what it is we should do about ending violence in our inner city—we should make sure all of our young people are armed. Republicans scare me.

  

  Elizabeth Edwards
  • Evolution
  • Republicans
  • Charming

• What we are learning around the world is that if women are healthy and educated, their families will flourish. If women are free from violence, their families will flourish. If women have a chance to work and earn as full and equal partners in society, their families will flourish. And when families flourish, communities and nations do as well.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Women
  • Free
  • Healthy

• Not all violence is equally reprehensible; not all wars are equally unjust.

  

  Susan Sontag
  • Wars
  • Unjust
  • Reprehensible

• All kinds of violence on the TV. You're not supposed to watch violence on the TV. Children, they can't watch it 'cause they're afraid maybe the kids will copy something they see on the TV. I can't even get a funny cartoon anymore because some 12-year-old somewhere watched a particularly violent episode of the Road Runner-Coyote show, and the next day, they found him at the bottom of a canyon, two giant springs strapped to his feet.

  

  Norm MacDonald
  • Children
  • Afraid
  • Cartoon

• I think of the security of cages. How violence, cruelty, oppression, become a kind of home, a familiar pattern, a cage, in which we know how to operate and define ourselves.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • Violence
  • Security
  • Operate

• The real men—who are themselves in fact perpetual boys, since America is adolescence without end—had to differentiate themselves with violence.

  

  Ben Lerner
  • America
  • Violence
  • Boys

• I have never fully exorcised shames that struck me to the heart as a child except through written violence, shadowy caricature, and dark jokes.

  

  Louise Erdrich
  • Heart
  • Dark
  • Violence

• So much of the violence in the movies is b.s. violence: A guy in the middle of a large city with 14 people lying on the ground that he's just killed with his superhuman powers, and there's not a cop to be found. Not a siren to be heard. No price to be paid. That's not true, and I don't like that sort of stuff.

  

  William H. Macy
  • People
  • Guy
  • Lying

• I am against anybody who uses violence to make their points.

  

  Nat Hentoff
  • Violence
  • Points

• We have not yet made violence against women abnormal, extraordinary, unacceptable. We have not yet come to see it as a pathological issue.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • Women
  • Violence
  • Issue

• People are sort of numb to watching violence, but sexual activity is still as strong as it ever was in terms of generating response.

  

  Steven Soderbergh
  • People
  • Violence
  • Response

• Practically every violent conflict or social change has proved that violence unleashes violence in return.

  

  Petra Kelly
  • Violence
  • Conflict
  • Return

• We now know that more than half the people who seek psychiatric care have been assaulted, abandoned, neglected, or even raped as children, or have witnessed violence in their families.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Children
  • Violence
  • Psychiatric Care

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