Violence Quotes
Text Quotes
The universe may be tenderly indifferent to our fate, but we shouldn’t be. We are our brothers’ keepers. There is right, and there is wrong. There are consequences to our actions or inactions. Disregard can be an act of violence (Violence Quotes)
In the city, a lot of crime happens, a lot of violence happens from time to time (Violence Quotes)
If people base their identity on identifying with authority, freedom causes anxiety. They must then conceal the victim in themselves by resorting to violence against others (Violence Quotes)
You can’t answer violence with counter violence... The answer is love. The best sabotage is love (Violence Quotes)
Wars aren’t stopped by fighting wars, any more than you can fight fire with fire. You fight fire with water. You fight violence with nonviolence (Violence Quotes)
Children are coming to school with trauma, everyday trauma, that they live under: violence in the homes, alcoholism in the community, unemployment thats 80 percent, not just during the recession. We need to help treat that before they can even go sit in a class and learn about math (Violence Quotes)
I’m a student of violence because I’m a student of the human heart (Violence Quotes)
Each of us must come to care about everyone else’s children. We must recognize that the welfare of our children and grandchildren is intimately linked to the welfare of all other people’s children. After all, when one of our children needs lifesaving surgery, someone else’s child will perform it. If one of our children is threatened or harmed by violence, someone else’s child will be responsible for the violent act. The good life for our own children can be secured only if a good life is also secured for all other people’s children (Violence Quotes)
An organic farmer is the best peacemaker today, because there is more violence, more death, more destruction, more wars, through a violent industrial agricultural system. And to shift away from that into an agriculture of peace is what organic farming is doing (Violence Quotes)
Maybe I’m a bad feminist, but I am deeply committed to the issues important to the feminist movement. I have strong opinions about misogyny, institutional sexism that consistently places women at a disadvantage, the inequity in pay, the cult of beauty and thinness, the repeated attacks on reproductive freedom, violence against women, and on and on. I am as committed to fighting fiercely for equality as I am committed to disrupting the notion that there is an essential feminism (Violence Quotes)
Perhaps it’s simply the dual nature of marriage, the proximity of violence and love (Violence Quotes)
I think in a country like mine, violence is at the root of all human relations (Violence Quotes)
I originally wanted to embrace the imagery and forthrightness of rap music. There are some interesting, dynamic voices in rap. But I find most of it irresponsible in its overt violence and commercialization of anger. As artists, we believe we can will action through language. If that’s the case, we have to take responsibility for what we say (Violence Quotes)
Military dictatorship is born from the power of the gun, and so it undermines the concept of the rule of law and gives birth to a culture of might, a culture of weapons, violence and intolerance (Violence Quotes)
It’s my view that gender is culturally formed, but it’s also a domain of agency or freedom and that it is most important to resist the violence that is imposed by ideal gender norms, especially against those who are gender different, who are nonconforming in their gender presentation (Violence Quotes)
The only defense against evil, violent people is good people who are more skilled at violence (Violence Quotes)
Peace needs and takes time, it needs and takes caution, it needs and takes patience after 30 years of terrorism and violence (Violence Quotes)
The fateful equating of power with violence, of the political with government, and of government with a necessary evil has begun (Violence Quotes)
Generally speaking, violence always arises out of impotence. It is the hope of those who have no power (Violence Quotes)
Family violence is a criminal act; perpetrators, while often former victims themselves, need to accept culpability (Violence Quotes)
I don’t know any religion that promotes violence. It is the adherents of whatever religion (Violence Quotes)
Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another (Violence Quotes)
An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so (Violence Quotes)
Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence (Violence Quotes)
I am a violent man who has learned not to be violent and regrets his violence (Violence Quotes)
When a creature is exposed to violence, it will tend to adapt to that disturbance, so that when the violence ceases or the creature is allowed its freedom, the healthy instinct to flee is hugely diminished, and the creature stays put instead (Violence Quotes)
Waking up from a dream of violence is much the same as waking up from a dream of love. You must go on living your life (Violence Quotes)
Violence is not the answer, it doesn’t work any more. We are at the end of the worst century in which the greatest atrocities in the history of the world have occurred... The nature of human beings must change. We must cultivate love and compassion (Violence Quotes)
Violence brings only temporary victories; violence, by creating many more social problems than it solves, never brings permanent peace (Violence Quotes)
If you succumb to the temptation of using violence in the struggle, unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and desolate night of bitterness, and your chief legacy to the future will be an endless reign of meaningless chaos (Violence Quotes)