Violence Quotes - page 3

We shall continue to work for a Middle East that is free of strife and violence, living in harmony without the threat of terrorism or dangers of weapons of mass destruction. (Hosni Mubarak)
Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another. View quote
Arthur Conan Doyle
My attitude to peace is rather based on the Burmese definition of peace - it really means removing all the negative factors that destroy peace in this world. So peace does not mean just putting an end to violence or to war, but to all other factors that threaten peace, such as discrimination, such as inequality, poverty. View quote
Aung San Suu Kyi
Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body? View quote
Virginia Woolf
If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve worldly conflicts with force? View quote
Letty Cottin Pogrebin
If violence is wrong in America, violence is wrong abroad. If it is wrong to be violent defending black women and black children and black babies and black men, then it is wrong for America to draft us, and make us violent abroad in defense of her. And if it is right for America to draft us, and teach us how to be violent in defense of her, then it is right for you and me to do whatever is necessary to defend our own people right here in this country. View quote
Malcolm X
Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence. View quote
Jim Morrison
You have to show violence the way it is. If you don't show it realistically, then that's immoral and harmful. If you don't upset people, then that's obscenity. View quote
Roman Polański
What postmodernism gives us instead is a multicultural defense for male violence - a defense for it wherever it is, which in effect is a pretty universal defense. View quote
Catharine MacKinnon
The whole history of the Christian Church is a mixture of errors and violence. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Violence and smut are of course everywhere on the airwaves. You cannot turn on your television without seeing them, although sometimes you have to hunt around. (Dave Barry)
You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman. View quote
James Joyce
Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning. View quote
Rainer Maria Rilke
Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman, it could not fully express the pent-up violence and depravity of a single day in the life of the average family. View quote
Quentin Crisp
Physical love is unthinkable without violence. View quote
Milan Kundera
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them! View quote
Albert Einstein
Islamophobia has become so mainstream in this country that Americans have been trained to expect violence against Muslims - not excuse it, but expect it. And that's happened because you have an Islamophobia industry in this country devoted to making Americans think there's an enemy within. View quote
Reza Aslan
As long as Palestinian violence exists, but not a Palestinian state, Israel is in danger, because it cannot obtain assistance from the international community against an entity that is not subordinate to international law. View quote
Stephane Hessel
The violence had broken out in both sides, but our philosophy as a party was very, very clear. (John Hume)
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... View quote
Eve Ensler
The East Timorese government does not believe that we should consider compensation for the victims because there are tens of thousands of people who were, in one way or another, affected by the violence either directly or indirectly. View quote
Jose Ramos-Horta
The World War broke out with such elemental violence, and with such resort to all means for leading or misleading public opinion, that no time was available for reflection and consideration. View quote
Hjalmar Branting
Perhaps all our troubles - all the violence, obesity, illness, depression, and greed we can't overcome - began when we stopped living as Running People. Deny your nature, and it will erupt in some other, uglier way. View quote
Christopher McDougall