Violence Quotes

You see all the other fellows were so active and earnest and all that sort of thing- always rampagin...

The power which establishes a state is violence the power which maintains it is violence the power w...

Learn this now and learn it well. Like a compass facing north, a man’s accusing finger always finds ...

You can do a lot with diplomacy, but with diplomacy backed up by force you can get a lot more done.

If we know anything about man, it's that he's not pacific. The temptation to butcher anyone consider...

I shook my head. "I'm good, Nicky helped."Nicky looked at Edward. "She's having one of those what-if...

They had come for us in the night. Hey had come expecting a lot of blood. They had come with all the...

All my humor is based on destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease ...

Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what ...

As long as human labor power, and, consequently, life itself, remain articles of sale and purchase, ...

[Letter to his wife, Natalia Sedova]In addition to the happiness of being a fighter for the cause of...

Generally speaking, by the way, that is the moral of the opponents of violence in politics: they ren...

This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly t...

A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the ...

When I wrote 'The Giver,' it contained no so-called 'bad words.' It was set, after all, in a mythica...

Modern warfare wasn't supposed to have this much blood in it. The weapons were supposed to cook ever...

Take away the violence and who will hear the men of peace?

It is brutal. Only I never could see the sense in having folks look at your tombstone and say, 'He w...

violence is an evil thing, but when the guns are all in the hands of the men without respect for hum...

People have a greater tolerance for evil than for violence. If crooked gamboling, thieving and robin...

Every socialist is a disguised dictator.

A new type of superstition has got hold of people's minds, the worship of the state. People demand t...

The only idea they have ever manifested as to what is a government of consent, is this--that it is o...

If any man's money can be taken by a so-called government, without his own personal consent, all his...

Violence was a disease Gansey didn't think he could catch. But all around him, his friends were slow...

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.

An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat for it is momen

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviole...

Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.

It is better to be violent if there is violence in our hearts than to put on the cloak of non-viol...

Where choice is set between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence ... I prefer to use arms...

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it doe...

Intolerance is a species of violence and therefore against our creed.

Over 120 Aboriginal communities run their own health services - some have been doing so for 30 years...

I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense I call it intelligence.

A man with a rifle or a club can only be stopped by a person who defends himself with a rifle or a c...

If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.

Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.

A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery;...

Here we will solve with laws and dollars, problems that too many people around the world still must ...

Jesus is a half-naked guy, hanging, nailed to a cross, and then people wear that around their neck, ...

Outside of the killings, DC has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.

I would like to say to those who think of my pictures as serene, whether in friendship or mere obser...

New York City is a tinderbox. The Sons of the Serpent - a white supremacist group with a twisted his...

What I hope to do is create a play that investigates the ongoing violence toward women and children ...

Violence is the quest for identity. When identity disappears with technological innovation violence...

Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian...

Nothing good ever comes of violence.

Through violence you may murder the hater, but you cannot murder hate.

Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love. It destroys community and makes b...

Violence is not only impractical but immoral.

The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it see...

But it is not enough for me to stand before you tonight and condemn riots. It would be morally irres...

Violence never really deals with the basic evil of the situation. Violence may murder the murderer, ...

It may well be that we will have to repent in this generation. Not merely for the vitriolic words an...

We were all involved in the death of John Kennedy. We tolerated hate; we tolerated the sick stimulat...

It seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does not change the world and if it d...

He, who thought it necessary to maintain himself in her good graces, strove to console her under her...

The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual, crime.

I am never proud to participate in violence, yet I know that each of us must care enough for ourselv...

All at once he feels weary of ganefs and prophets, guns and sacrifices and the infinite gangster wei...

Jamaica's a country of great dichotomy. On the one hand you have a tourist industry with great beach...

Drama lives on conflict. If you're trying to deal with social issues seriously, there's no way of av...

I think that when we have a better educated society, when there is less violence in our cities, when...

Armageddon is not around the corner. This is only what the people of violence want us to believe. Th...

Physical love is unthinkable without violence.

Since Castro took power, the Cuban people have been denied basic human freedoms. No freedom of relig...

I am not anti-gun. I'm pro-knife. Consider the merits of the knife. In the first place, you have to ...

If you want to make peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion.

Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love but to use violence to get what...

I'm just hoping that people understand that Islam is peace and not violence.

We owe our children – the most vulnerable citizens in any society – a life free from violence and fe...

I have always felt,” he said, “that violence was the last refuge of the incompetent, and empty threa...

People respond in accordance to how you relate to them. If you approach them on the basis of violenc...

I do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I h...

Feet away, Professor Dema stood, carrying a large gunlike weapon with both her hands and a snarl on ...

The Nuru men, and their women, had done what they did for more than torture and shame. They wanted t...

Well before September 11, it was understood that with modern technology, the rich and powerful will ...

See, people with power understand exactly one thing: violence.

The former colonies, in Latin America in particular, have a better chance than ever before to overco...

There are few genuine conservatives within the U.S. political system, and it is a sign of the intell...

Respectable opinion would never consider an assessment of the Reagan Doctrine or earlier exercises i...

The private terror of the liberal spirit is invariably suicide not murder.

Whoever has the sword will have the earth.

Remember, I'm the only person her who's paid to be nice to you. But not too nice. Give me any lip an...

I think Bonzo died. I dreamed about it last night. I remembered the way he looked after I jammed his...

Man is complete in himself. When they go into the world, the world will disagree with them. That is ...

All authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and degrades those over whom it...

The things people say of a man do not alter a man. He is what he is. Public opinion is of no value w...

People were excited by violence. What, after all, was the sexual act but a voluntarily endured assau...

I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out of me with steel pipes.

So when you spot violence, or bigotry, or intolerance or fear or just garden-variety misogyny, hatre...

Even in the most peaceful communities, an appetite for violence shows up in dreams, fantasies, sport...

From a viable economy to the full funding of Headstart, from a clean environment to true equality fo...

Pacifists have usually regarded the use of violence as absolutely wrong, irrespective of its consequ...