Violence Quotes

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It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Answer violence with violence. If one of us falls today, five of them must fall tomorrow.
Evita Peron

It [violence] is as American as cherry pie.
H Rap Brown

...an innings of neurotic violence, of eccentric watchfulness, of brainless impetuosity and incontinent savagery - it was an extraordinary innings, a masterpiece and it secured the Ashes for England [on Pietersen's Ashes winning innings, 2005]
Simon Barnes

Business is the art of extracting money from another man's pocket without resorting to violence.
Max Amsterdam

Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.
Dorothy Thompson

The reality is that if you look at Barcelona tonight they had no yellow cards, Bayern Munich had no yellow card, Liverpool had no yellow card, Valencia had no yellow cards, Roma had no yellow cards but Chelsea have four. Do you think it is violence?
Jose Mourinho

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
Mahatma Gandhi

But it struck me that the extreme violence and cruelty of the English Civil War had gone understated.
Simon Schama

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.
Indira Gandhi

Football is violence and cold weather and sex and college rye.
Roger Kahn

People are disturbed enough by serial killers, but the whole notion of female violence, particularly maternal violence - the idea of mothers who kill - really unnerves people.
Caleb Carr

Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence.
Albert Camus

I did not enjoy the violence of boxing so much as the science of it.
Nelson Mandela

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Television nearly always showed the bandits in masks and using violence, but I wanted to go about it in a kind and gentle way.
Peggy Barlow

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
George Orwell

Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.
Albert Schweitzer

The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.
Bill Cosby

Keep violence in the mind
Where it belongs (Barefoot in the Head)
Brian Aldiss

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.
Roman Polanski

The most insidious influence on the young is not violence, drugs, tobacco, drink or sexual perversion, but our pursuit of the trivial and our tolerance
Eric Anderson

'Just so you know, we're on the good side with y'all. We do not want this war, this violence...and we're ashamed that the President of the United States is from Texas.'
Natalie Maines

'A lot of people in the movie industry tend to run and hide from it like ostriches. Movie industry people are definitely in denial right now, but you do become desensitized to violence when you see it on the screen so often. Let's face it, violence exists for one reason in movies, and that's to get an effect, create an emotion, sell tickets.'
- on the link between movies and school violence.
Madeleine Stowe

Football, wherein is nothing but beastly fury and extreme violence, whereoth proceedeth hurt, and consequently rancour and malice do remain with them that be wounded.
Phillip Stubbes

The FA have given me a pat on the back. I've taken violence off the terracing and onto the pitch.
Vinny Jones

A revolution is an act of violence whereby one class shatters the authority of another.
James MacGregor Burns

I like to behave in an extremely normal, wholesome manner for the most part in my daily life. Even if mentally I'm consumed with sick visions of violence, terror, sex and death.
Courtney Love

There's more violence in one football game than there is in an entire hockey season, and nobody ever talks about that.
Keith Allen

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
Mahatma Gandhi

American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc.
Katherine Dunn

Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence.
Jim Morrison

Francesco Damiani punches with all the violence and bad intentions of Mahatma Gandhi.
Jerry Izenberg

Frustration is the wet nurse of violence.
David Abrahansen

One of the main purveyors of violence in this world has been this country [America].
Danny Glover

We are grateful to him for the tireless and difficult work he carried out unstintingly against all forms of totalitarianism, violence, oppression and moral degradation, all in the name of the values of the Catholic Church, which are the supreme values of human dignity and solidarity. [on Pope John Paul II]
Silvio Berlusconi

I ain't never liked violence.
Sugar Ray Robinson

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
Isaac Asimov

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.
Martin Luther King Jr

Violence does even justice unjustly.
Thomas Carlyle

Non-violence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.

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Mahatma Ghandi

I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie.
Hubert Geroid Brown

Wars such as those which have occurred in Iraq only allow hatred, violence and terror to proliferate
Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.
Alice Walker

Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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

I'm a little foolhardy. Dangers of violence - rape, murder - are less frightening than making a living at fashion photography.
Diane Arbus

Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.
Hannah Arendt

In violence, we forget who we are
Mary McCarthy

Nonviolence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.
Mahatma Ghandi



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