I'm a little foolhardy. Dangers of violence - rape, murder - are less frightening than making a living at fashion photography.
Diane ArbusViolence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
Isaac AsimovIn violence, we forget who we are
Mary McCarthyKeep violence in the mind
Where it belongs (Barefoot in the Head)
Brian AldissThe 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 AndersonOne of the main purveyors of violence in this world has been this country [America].
Danny GloverThe 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 MourinhoNonviolence 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 GhandiIt seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does not change the world and if it does, then only temporarily.
Martin ScorseseIt is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
Mahatma GandhiI 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 LoveNon-violence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.
Please note, this is actually a mis-spelling. For loads of Mahatma Gandhi quotes,
click hereMahatma GhandiViolence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence.
Jim MorrisonAmerican culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc.
Katherine DunnPeace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
Ralph Waldo EmersonFrustration is the wet nurse of violence.
David AbrahansenThe drop of rain maketh a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.
Hugh LatimerThere's more violence in one football game than there is in an entire hockey season, and nobody ever talks about that.
Keith AllenIn Genesis, seeing the world filled with violence, God decided to drown all mankind except Noah's family. But because that family carried the same genes as those who had drowned, violence continued unabated.
Robert DavisPeople sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
George OrwellI did not enjoy the violence of boxing so much as the science of it.
Nelson MandelaFootball is violence and cold weather and sex and college rye.
Roger Kahn'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 StoweI ain't never liked violence.
Sugar Ray RobinsonPower 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 ArendtThe main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.
Bill CosbyA revolution is an act of violence whereby one class shatters the authority of another.
James MacGregor BurnsWe are meeting here to put an end to this cycle [of violence], to put things back in order and to put the wheel of peace on the right track. The task is very great, but our hopes are greater.
Hosni MubarakViolence 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 BarryAnswer violence with violence. If one of us falls today, five of them must fall tomorrow.
Evita PeronBusiness is the art of extracting money from another man's pocket without resorting to violence.
Max AmsterdamViolence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
Sir Arthur Conan DoyleFrancesco Damiani punches with all the violence and bad intentions of Mahatma Gandhi.
Jerry IzenbergFootball, 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 StubbesI object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
Mahatma GandhiWriting saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.
Alice WalkerIt 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...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 BarnesOnly a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence.
Albert CamusSocial justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.
Pope John Paul IIThe FA have given me a pat on the back. I've taken violence off the terracing and onto the pitch.
Vinny JonesBut it struck me that the extreme violence and cruelty of the English Civil War had gone understated.
Simon Schama'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 MainesPerseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.
PlutarchI say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie.
Hubert Geroid BrownPeace 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 ThompsonIt [violence] is as American as cherry pie.
H Rap BrownYou 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 PolanskiPeople 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 CarrViolence does even justice unjustly.
Thomas Carlyle
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