quotes about Violence
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After decimating several vegetables, I decide juicing is my favorite form of food preparation. There's something perversely appealing about subjecting an innocent plant to that much violence.
-- A. J. JacobsSource : A. J. Jacobs (2012). “Drop Dead Healthy: One Man's Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection”, p.226, Simon and Schuster
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In a world built on violence, one must be a revolutionary before one can be a pacifist.
-- A. J. MusteSource : "American Power and the New Mandarins". Book by Noam Chomsky, 1969.
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No, General. I'm not your subordinate. And what I'm coming dangerously close to is violence. -General Wedge Antilles
-- Aaron Allston -
I can think of films that I'm producing right now that are extremely hard-hitting, graphic films, that nobody necessarily wants to see, graphic in terms of violence, of adult content and racial and historical subject matter.
-- Aaron Eckhart -
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Obama repeatedly has condemned Hamas as a terrorist organization that should be isolated until it renounces violence and recognizes Israel.
-- Aaron Klein -
But, I don't know, the violence, I can't even talk about. We don't do a lot of violent shows. When I started in television, breaking a pencil was a violent act.
-- Aaron Spelling -
I think violence can never be justified.
-- Abbas Kiarostami -
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[Uniting workers should not] lead to a war upon property, or the owners of property.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
I can't remember any text of mine where I said that one should fight Hitler without violence; I'm not an idiot.
-- Adam Michnik -
In times of violence, personal predilections for niceties of colour and form seem irrelevant. All primitive expression (like the myths) reveals the constant awareness of powerful forces, the immediate presence of terror and fear.
-- Adolph GottliebSource : "bstract Expressionism Creators and Critics". Book edited by Clifford Ross, Abrams Publishers New York, 1990.
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It is the quietest and meekest people who are often capable of the most sudden and unexpected violences for the reason that when their control does snap, it goes entirely. (Hercule Poirot)
-- Agatha Christie -
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The threat or fear of violence should not become an excuse or justification for restricting freedom of speech.
-- Alan DershowitzSource : "Are Radical Imams Going to Redefine Freedom of Speech?" by Alan Dershowitz, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 20, 2012.
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All the violence in videos and movies, you can't tell me that that wouldn't influence a disturbed person.
-- Alana StewartSource : "Alana Stewart: Hollywood honchos 'hypocritical' when it comes to guns". Interview with Hollie McKay, www.foxnews.com. January 30, 2013.
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Violence is both unavoidable and unjustifiable.
-- Albert Camus -
Poverty doesn't imply necessarily violence.
-- Alberto FujimoriSource : Interview with Lucia Newman, www.cnn.com. January 8, 1997.
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Violence does not and cannot flourish by itself; it is inevitably intertwined with lying.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
Violence is never the right answer, unless used against heathens and monsters.
-- Alexander Anderson -
I'm not going to appeal to violence or aggression - of course not.
-- Alexei Navalny -
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Nothing is so dangerous as that of violence employed by well-meaning people for beneficial objects.
-- Alexis de Tocqueville -
Cruelty to animals can become violence to humans.
-- Ali MacGraw -
Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.
-- Alice Walker -
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The 20th century gave rise to one of the greatest and most distressing paradoxes of human history: that the greatest intolerance and violence of that century were practiced by those who believed that religion caused intolerance and violence.
-- Alister E. McGrath -
There is a cultural factor promoting violence which nowadays undoubtedly is highly effective is the mass media. And particularly everything that enters our minds through pictorial media.
-- Alva MyrdalSource : Alva Myrdal, Cecilia Åse, Yvonne Hirdman (2002). “"Något kan man väl göra: texter 1932-1982”
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Violence is fomented by the imposition of singular and belligerent identities on gullible people, championed by proficient artisans of terror.
-- Amartya Sen -
Compassion is the signature of Higher Consciousness. Non-violence is the tool to evolve into the Higher Consciousness.
-- Amit Ray -
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Peace is not just the absence of violence,peace is when the flowers bloom.
-- Amrita PritamSource : Petra Karin Kelly, Glenn D. Paige (1992). “Nonviolence Speaks to Power”, Matsunaga Inst for Peace
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The violence and obscenity are left unadulterated, as manifestation of the mystery and pain which ever accompanies the act of creation.
-- Anais Nin -
One can understand why Surrealism was not afraid to make for itself a tenet of total revolt, complete insubordination, of sabotage according to rule, and why it still expects nothing save from violence.
-- Andre Breton -
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To not have your suffering recognized is an almost unbearable form of violence.
-- Andrei Lankov -
Violence is not more efficient than non-violence.
-- Andrew Young -
There is so much history of this racist violence that simply to bring one person to justice is not going to disturb the whole racist edifice.
-- Angela Davis -
The book I am best known for, or only known for, is a novel I am prepared to repudiate: written a quarter of a century ago, a jeu d'esprit knocked off for money in three weeks, it became known as the raw material for a film which seemed to glorify sex and violence. The film made it easy for readers of the book to misunderstand what it was about, and the misunderstanding will pursue me till I die. I should not have written the book because of this danger of misinterpretation.
-- Anthony Burgess -
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Delimitation is always difficult. The world is one, life is one. The sweetest and most heavenly of activities partake in some measure of violence - the act of love, for instance; music, for instance.
-- Anthony Burgess -
No violence, gentlemen — no violence, I beg of you! Consider the furniture!
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
Some people's affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
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You can't answer violence with counter violence ... The answer is love. The best sabotage is love.
-- Athol Fugard -
The world's a poor standard. any society which is free of hunger and violence looks bright against that background.
-- B. F. Skinner -
Violence never brings permanent peace. It solves no social problem: it merely creates new and more complicated ones.
-- Barack Obama -
We may never understand what leads anybody to terrorize their fellow human beings. Such violence, such evil is senseless. It's beyond reason.
-- Barack Obama -
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No religion is responsible for terrorism. People are responsible for violence and terrorism.
-- Barack Obama -
To anyone out there who has ever been assaulted: You will never be alone. You are never alone. We have your back. I've got your back.
-- Barack Obama -
Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
-- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison -
All violence is the illustration of a pathetic stereotype,
-- Barbara KrugerSource : Barbara Kruger (1994). “Remote Control: Power, Cultures, and the World of Appearances”, p.223, MIT Press
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This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence.
-- Ben Elton -
There is a violence that liberates, and a violence that enslaves; there is a violence that is moral and a violence that is immoral.
-- Benito Mussolini -
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How pitiable is it to reflect, that although you were so fully convinced of the benevolence of the Father of Mankind, and of his equal and impartial distribution of these rights and privileges, which he hath conferred upon them, that you should at the same time counteract his mercies, in detaining by fraud and violence so numerous a part of my brethren, under groaning captivity and cruel oppression, that you should at the same time be found guilty of that most criminal act, which you professedly detested in others, with respect to yourselves
-- Benjamin BannekerSource : Letter to Thomas Jefferson on slavery, August 19, 1791.
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Americans love to read about violence.
-- Bernardine DohrnSource : "Radical Chic Resurgent", www.slate.com. August 22, 2001.
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Non violence is not a thing that comes easily. You have to learn how to be non-violent
-- Betty Williams -
Violence existed before our music was even suggested.
-- Big PunSource : Song: Parental Discretion, Album: Capital Punishment, 1998
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Violence won't solve a thing. It makes it more challenging to solve, though.
-- Bill Cosby -
Television is full of fictional and real violence that's turned into entertainment.
-- Bill JamesSource : "Writer Bill James". "Tavis Smiley", www.pbs.org. May 20, 2011.
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There's an incredible fascination for that and that goes with violence and everything else in pictures.
-- Bo Derek -
Glorifying violence is terrible. Simulating sex is nothing - it's something so impersonal really.
-- Bo Derek -
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I'm a very great non-violent character. I would never resort to violence to change anything.
-- Bob Brown -
There is nothing more American than brutal violence. The country was built on it, revels in it and shows every evidence of clinging to it with the crazed, destructive strength of an obsessive lover.
-- Bob Herbert -
Our position was: If you don't attack us, there won't be any violence; if you bring violence to us, we will defend ourselves.
-- Bobby SealeSource : "Black Panther Co-Founder Bobby Seale condemns Boston terrorism in exclusive interview". Interview with Al Carlos Hernandez, www.heralddeparis.com. April 22, 2013.
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Europeans are familiar with terrorism and violence. We have not experienced a true conflict on our soil in a hundred years, and especially not one that involved 3,000 dead.
-- Brent Scowcroft -
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Keep violence in the mind Where it belongs (Barefoot in the Head)
-- Brian AldissSource : Barefoot in the Head (1969) (last lines of concluding poem "Charteris")
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Joyfully celebrating the killing of a killer who joyfully celebrated killing carries an irony that I hope will not be lost on us. Are we learning anything, or simply spinning harder in the cycle of violence?
-- Brian D. McLaren -
I sometimes go for the strongest, most vivid colour on the palette, which in the case of movies is violence.
-- Brian De Palma -
Violence is stupid. Even as a last resort, it only ever begets more of the same.
-- Brian K. Vaughan -
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When a man carries an instrument of violence, he'll always find the justification to use it.
-- Brian K. Vaughan -
I am a survivor of domestic violence,
-- Brooke AxtellSource : "Katy Perry Just Gave an Incredibly Moving Grammys Performance" by Sally Holmes, www.elle.com. February 9, 2015.
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All politics is a struggle for power; the ultimate kind of power is violence.
-- C. Wright Mills -
We remain in the Romantic cycle initiated by Rousseau: liberal idealism canceled by violence, barbarism, disillusionment and cynicism.
-- Camille Paglia -
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Much violence against women originates in emotional territory that they already command. By midlife and early old age, as the hormones of both genders change, women are in total, despotic control of their marriages.
-- Camille Paglia -
Despite hundreds of studies, cause-and-effect relationship between ***** and violence has never been satisfactorily proved. ?
-- Camille Paglia -
I am in a charity out there to stop violence against women.
-- Caprice BourretSource : "Caprice Bourret...the sexiest fish in the pond". www.askmen.com.
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Where love stops, power begins, and violence, and terror
-- Carl Jung -
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War therefore is an act of violence to compel our opponent to fulfill our will.
-- Carl von Clausewitz -
Let's start a movement - a movement of men who aren't afraid to stop violence against women.
-- Carlos Andres GomezSource : "Men: we can start a movement to stop violence against women" by Carlos Andrés Gómez, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2013.
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Women like to be scared, but they don't like the blood and the gore, and especially movies that have violence and torture involving women. Women don't want to see that, I can tell you for damn sure right now.
-- Cassandra Peterson -
I found a religion that blended scientific reason with spiritual reality in a unifying faith far removed from the headlines of violence, destruction and terrorism.
-- Cat Stevens -
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In all these situations, there was not enough violence against them to take it beyond the category of sex; they were not coerced enough.
-- Catharine MacKinnon -
In non-violence the cause has to be just and clear as well as the means.
-- Cesar Chavez -
Violence just hurts those who are already hurt...Instead of exposing the brutality of the oppressor, it justifies it.
-- Cesar Chavez -
There is no such thing as defeat in non-violence.
-- Cesar ChavezSource : Darrell Royal, Robert Heard (1976). “Dance with who Brung Us: Quips and Quotes from Darrell Royal”
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When activists need a pretext to justify their violence, they always find it.
-- CharbSource : "The Charlie Hebdo Affair: Laughing at Blasphemy" by Emily Greenhouse, www.newyorker.com. September 28, 2012.
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In attempting to explain geological phenomena, the bias has always been on the wrong side; there has always been a disposition to reason á priori on the extraordinary violence and suddenness of changes, both in the inorganic crust of the earth, and in organic types, instead of attempting strenuously to frame theories in accordance with the ordinary operations of nature.
-- Charles Lyell -
If you love with violence and you hate with violence there is nothing that can be questioned.
-- Charlie Sheen -
It is not violence that best overcomes hate -- nor vengeance that most certainly heals injury.
-- Charlotte Bronte -
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Mental violence is as bad as physical violence. You don't see that very often in movies, so it was a good subject to tackle.
-- Chazz PalminteriSource : "Chazz Palminteri: Feeling Mighty Fine" by Marshall Fine, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 29, 2012.
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I'm not up for violence, just for fun.
-- Chloe Grace Moretz -
Violence is a disease, a disease that corrupts all who use it regardless of the cause.
-- Chris Hedges -
The violent subjugation of the Palestinians, Iraqis, and Afghans will only ensure that those who oppose us will increasingly speak to us in the language we speak to them—violence.
-- Chris Hedges -
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Despite what your momma told you, Violence does solve problems,
-- Chris Kyle -
Nothing in our society-with the exception of violence and fear-has been more effective in keeping women in their place than the degradation of the menstrual cycle.
-- Christiane Northrup -
I often close my eyes because I can't tolerate violence.
-- Christine Baranski -
It's possible to disagree with someone about the ethics of non-violence without wanting to kick his face in.
-- Christopher HamptonSource : Christopher Hampton (1976). “Treats: A Play”, Samuel French
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Nothing violent, oft have I heard tell, can be permanent.
-- Christopher Marlowe -
It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature.
-- Christopher Morley -