Violence Quotes - page 4

The white man's victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder. (Ida B. Wells-Barnett)
Gang violence in America is not a sudden problem. It has been a part of urban life for years, offering an aggressive definition and identity to those seeking a place to belong in the chaos of large metropolitan areas. View quote
Dave Reichert
I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie. View quote
H. Rap Brown
The Violence Against Women Act is so important. It provides money to train the cop on the beat, to train the judges that this is a new day, that we won't tolerate this violence and to know how to deal with it. View quote
Patricia Ireland
For as long as the power of America's diversity is diminished by acts of discrimination and violence against people just because they are black, Hispanic, Asian, Jewish, Muslim or gay, we still must overcome. View quote
Ron Kind
The grand irony, however, is that Southern segregation was not brought to an end, nor redneck violence dramatically reduced, by violence. View quote
Stanley Crouch
We need to get serious about combating gang violence on Long Island, and the entire nation. View quote
Tim Bishop
I came in contact with every known Indian anarchist in London. Their bravery impressed me, but I felt that their zeal was misguided. I felt that violence was no remedy for India's ills, and that her civilisation required the use of a different and higher weapon for self-protection. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
If one has no affection for a person or a system, one should feel free to give the fullest expression to his disaffection so long as he does not contemplate, promote, or incite violence. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
The schizoid man is the natural product of the technological man. It is one way to live and is increasingly utilized - and it may explode into violence. (Rollo May)
When inward life dries up, when feeling decreases and apathy increases, when one cannot affect or even genuinely touch another person, violence flares up as a daimonic necessity for contact, a mad drive forcing touch in the most direct way possible. View quote
Rollo May
This is a formidable enemy. To dismiss it as a bunch of 'cowards' perpetuating 'senseless acts of violence' is complacent nonsense. People willing to kill thousands of innocents while they kill themselves are not cowards. They are deadly vicious warriors and need to be treated as such. View quote
Charles Krauthammer
If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying. View quote
Indira Gandhi
What is a debt, anyway? A debt is just the perversion of a promise. It is a promise corrupted by both math and violence. View quote
David Graeber
Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide. It is in vain to say that democracy is less vain, less proud, less selfish, less ambitious, or less avaricious than aristocracy or monarchy. It is not true, in fact, and nowhere appears in history. Those passions are the same in all men, under all forms of simple government, and when unchecked, produce the same effects of fraud, violence, and cruelty. View quote
John Adams
Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
There are a great number of peoples who need more than just words of sympathy from the international community. They need a real and sustained commitment to help end their cycles of violence, and launch them on a safe passage to prosperity. View quote
Kofi Annan
The lesson I learned in Cairo still applies. The only way to deal with bureaucrats is with stealth and sudden violence. View quote
Boutros Boutros-Ghali
No matter where you go and what you do in America, you turn the tele on and you're confronted with violence. View quote
Steve Irwin
There are some who, for varying reasons, would appease Red China. They are blind to history's clear lesson, for history teaches with unmistakable emphasis that appeasement but begets new and bloodier war. It points to no single instance where this end has justified that means, where appeasement has led to more than a sham peace. Like blackmail, it lays the basis for new and successively greater demands until, as in blackmail, violence becomes the only other alternative. (Douglas MacArthur)
Its typical of Mexico, of the whole human race perhaps - violence in favour of an ideal and then the ideal lost but the violence just going on. View quote
Graham Greene
Perhaps justified violence is better than peace at any price. View quote
Edmund Cooper
I maintain that nothing useful and lasting can emerge from violence. View quote
Shirin Ebadi
[S]tatism is a system of institutionalized violence and perpetual civil war. It leaves men no choice but to fight to seize political power -- to rob or be robbed, to kill or be killed. ... Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by production. View quote
Ayn Rand