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 StubbesWe 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 BerlusconiThe main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.
Bill CosbyOnly a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence.
Albert CamusA revolution is an act of violence whereby one class shatters the authority of another.
James MacGregor BurnsThe FA have given me a pat on the back. I've taken violence off the terracing and onto the pitch.
Vinny JonesI 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 better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
Mahatma GandhiOne of the main purveyors of violence in this world has been this country [America].
Danny GloverFrancesco Damiani punches with all the violence and bad intentions of Mahatma Gandhi.
Jerry IzenbergIn violence, we forget who we are
Mary McCarthyIf 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 GandhiI 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 KahnViolence does even justice unjustly.
Thomas CarlylePeople sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
George OrwellNonviolence 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 JrFrustration is the wet nurse of violence.
David AbrahansenPeople 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, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
Sir Arthur Conan DoyleTelevision nearly always showed the bandits in masks and using violence, but I wanted to go about it in a kind and gentle way.
Peggy BarlowNonviolence 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'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 StoweIt seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does not change the world and if it does, then only temporarily.
Martin ScorsesePeace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
Ralph Waldo EmersonSocial justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.
Pope John Paul II...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'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 MainesViolence is my last option.
Chuck NorrisIn 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 DavisThe drop of rain maketh a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.
Hugh LatimerBut it struck me that the extreme violence and cruelty of the English Civil War had gone understated.
Simon SchamaRevenge... 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 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 ThompsonViolence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence.
Jim MorrisonYou 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 PolanskiBusiness is the art of extracting money from another man's pocket without resorting to violence.
Max AmsterdamViolence 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 BarryPerseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.
PlutarchAmerican culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc.
Katherine DunnI say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie.
Hubert Geroid BrownPower 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 ArendtThere's more violence in one football game than there is in an entire hockey season, and nobody ever talks about that.
Keith AllenI'm a little foolhardy. Dangers of violence - rape, murder - are less frightening than making a living at fashion photography.
Diane ArbusKeep violence in the mind
Where it belongs (Barefoot in the Head)
Brian AldissIt 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 RilkeIt [violence] is as American as cherry pie.
H Rap BrownI ain't never liked violence.
Sugar Ray RobinsonThe 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
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