Violence Quotes - page 9

The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling. (Lucretius)
Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Maybe every other American movie shouldn't be based on a comic book. Other countries will think Americans live in an infantile fantasy land where reality is whatever we say it is and every problem can be solved with violence. View quote
Bill Maher
The most important civil liberty... is to stay alive and to be free from violence and death... View quote
John Howard
I think when people talk about civil liberties, they sometimes forget that action taken to protect the citizen against physical violence and physical attack is a blow in favour and not a blow against civil liberties. View quote
John Howard
I believe the printed word is more than sacred Beyond the gauge of good or bad The human right to let your soul fly free and naked Above the violence of the fearful and sad. View quote
Andy Partridge
In all these situations, there was not enough violence against them to take it beyond the category of "sex"; they were not coerced enough. View quote
Catharine MacKinnon
To be lonely is to feel unwanted and unloved, and therefor unloveable. Loneliness is a taste of death. No wonder some people who are desperately lonely lose themselves in mental illness or violence to forget the inner pain. View quote
Jean Vanier
With kings, nations, and private individuals, the strongest assume to themselves rights over the weakest, and the same rule is followed by animals, by matter, by the elements, so that everything is performed in the universe by violence. And that order which we blame with some appearance of justice is the most universal, most absolute, most unchangeable, and most ancient law of nature. View quote
Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues
By necrophilia is meant love for all that is violence and destruction; the desire to kill; the worship of force; attraction to death, to suicide, to sadism; the desire to transform the organic into the inorganic by means of "order." The necrophile, lacking the necessary qualities to create, in his impotence finds it easy to destroy because for him it serves only one quality: force. View quote
Erich Fromm
It is the duty of all troops and police in my command to adopt the severest measures. Every act of violence committed by partisans must be punished immediately. Reports submitted must also give details of countermeasures taken. Wherever there is evidence of a considerable number of partisan groups a proportion of the male population of the area will be arrested, and in the event of an act of violence being committed these men will be shot. (Albert Kesselring)
I am deeply disturbed by the senseless violence instigated by some leaders in pursuit of their personal political agenda. View quote
Mwai Kibaki
All good niggas, all the niggas who change the world, die in violence. They don't die in regular ways. View quote
Tupac Shakur
Violence is the only way to answer violence. View quote
Gudrun Ensslin
If you mean by "military victory" an Iraqi government that can be established and whose writ runs across the whole country, that gets the civil war under control and sectarian violence under control in a time period that the political processes of the democracies will support, I don't believe that is possible. View quote
Henry Kissinger
The blade itself incites to deeds of violence. View quote
Homer
Sociologists and historians have avoided looking for the family sources of wars and social violence. Whenever a group produces murderers, the early parental relationship must have been abusive and neglectful. Yet this elementary truth has not even begun to be considered in historical research; just stating that poor mothering lies behind wars seems blasphemous. View quote
Lloyd deMause
Tyranny is abhorrent, freedom benefits all, whereas violence benefits no one for long. View quote
Mark Kingwell
We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom. View quote
Toni Morrison
As soon as men live entirely in accord with the law of love natural to their hearts and now revealed to them, which excludes all resistance by violence, and therefore hold aloof from all participation in violence - as soon as this happens, not only will hundreds be unable to enslave millions, but not even millions will be able to enslave a single individual. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
Understand then all of you, especially the young, that to want to impose an imaginary state of government on others by violence is not only a vulgar superstition, but even a criminal work. Understand that this work, far from assuring the well-being of humanity is only a lie, a more or less unconscious hypocrisy, camouflaging the lowest passions we posses. (Leo Tolstoy)
People continued - regardless of all that leads man forward - to try to unite the incompatibles : the virtue of love, and what is opposed to love, namely, the restraining of evil by violence. And such a teaching, despite its inner contradiction, was so firmly established that the very people who recognize love as a virtue accept as lawful at the same time an order of life based on violence and allowing men not merely to torture but even to kill one another. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
When you resort to violence to prove a point, you've just experienced a profound failure of imagination. View quote
Sherman Alexie
I have not seen anyone assume that all the citizens of New York are guilty of murder, violence, robbery, perjury, or writing proprietary software. View quote
Richard Stallman
No religion is responsible for terrorism. People are responsible for violence and terrorism. View quote
Barack Obama