Violence Quotes

• The Rolling Stones are violence. Their music penetrates the raw nerve endings of their listeners and finds its way into the groove marked 'release of frustration.'

  

  Jon Landau
  • Music
  • Violence
  • Listeners

• We're seeing that women continue to make less money, they continue to face violence.

  

  Niki Ashton
  • Women
  • Money
  • Violence

• It is suggested that in domestic violence at least the presence or absence of a firearm, or of any other type of weapon, is of far less importance to the outcome than the passion generated in the attacker. The man who has lost control will cause serious injuries in many cases, quite irrespective of the weapon he uses and regardless of the certainty of detections and punishment.

  

  Colin Greenwood Radiohead
  • Punishment
  • Weapon
  • Firearms

• I cannot speak adequately, especially considering my race and my privilege, to the violence of the NYPD or the police in racial terms. That is something that I cannot speak adequately to.

  

  Cecily McMillan
  • Speak
  • Police
  • Term

• Others haven’t had the same luck. In the wealthier countries a mediocrity that hides the horrors of the rest of the world has prevailed. When those horrors release a violence that reaches into our cities and our habits we’re startled, we’re alarmed.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Luck
  • Habits
  • Mediocrity

• Refraining from violence is not a sign of weakness in one's faith but a sign that one's faith is unshakeable...

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Violence
  • Refraining

• 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

• We cannot eradicate violence if we do not build strong, inclusive communities.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Violence
  • Communities

• Modern empires rise and fall not on armies, ideology, or violence, but on the instantaneous flow of capital.

  

  Eric Van Lustbader
  • Violence
  • Empires
  • Armies

• I think violence against women in America has become ordinary - it's been made absolutely acceptable.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • Women
  • America
  • Violence

• Speaking, I wished to eliminate both me and him, in that bed, different from the children of long ago. We had in common only the violence we had witnessed.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Children
  • Speaking
  • Eliminate

• Friends that I value most are people who would essentially use physical violence against me at a time when I seem to be teetering on the edge.

  

  Ezra Miller
  • Friends
  • Value
  • Violence

• On our part we have given our assurance there will be no act of violence by the L.T.T.E. against government forces.

  

  Anton Balasingham
  • Violence
  • Forces
  • Assurance

• Actual plans for how we help the economy, how we help the environment, how we help deal with violence in our cities. These are things that Hillary Clinton has always brought the conversation back to, when he's gone vulgar and he's gone low.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Economy
  • Conversation
  • Enviroment

• Preliminary research-most of it published outside the medical literature-indicates that a significant number of our patients have experienced some form of violence and abuse during their lifetime, including elder abuse, child abuse, gang-related violence, sexual abuse, and domestic violence.

  

  David Schneider
  • Children
  • Patient
  • Medical

• To live... in any sense of the word... is to reject others; to accept them, one must renounce, do oneself violence.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Violence
  • Sense
  • Word

• 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

• Violence is not the way.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Way
  • Violence

• Our media, which is like a planetary nervous system, are far more sensitive to breakdowns than to breakthroughs. They filter out our creativity and successes, considering them less newsworthy than violence, war, and dissent. When we read newspapers and watch television news, we feel closer to a death in the social body than to an awakening.

  

  Barbara Marx Hubbard
  • Death
  • Creativity
  • Media

• The occupation is a source of violence that has to stop.

  

  Hanan Ashrawi
  • Violence
  • Occupation

• 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

• As I grew older and more mature, I've been able to move beyond the immediate response of violence to a projection of the pragmatic, political consequences of that violence. So it's an effort to attain equilibrium.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • Political
  • Moving
  • Effort

• We must stand our ground to ensure that our laws reduce violence and take a hard look at laws that contribute to more violence than they prevent.

  

  Eric Holder
  • Violence
  • Prevent
  • Contribute

• Obasanjo has openly endorsed violence as a means of governance, embraced and empowered individuals whose avowed declarations, confessions and acts are cynically contrary to the mandate that alone upholds the legitimacy and dignity of his office.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • Individual
  • Office
  • Dignity

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