Violent Acts Quotes:

Most people don't realize that when we violate the natural order of things when we pollute the air, when we pollute the water, we are destroying mother nature and that's a violent act. If we don't first and foremost come to some peaceful terms, none of us are going to be able to survive.

- Cathy Hughes

topic: Mother, Order, Violent Acts, Natural Order

You can't blame a victim for being under the influence when there is a violent act [happening to them]. These are two separate things.

- Jon Shenk

source: Source: www.mtv.com

topic: Violent Acts, Two, Blame

The very idea of the nude is only a neutralization of a primitive and violent act.

- Pierre Klossowski

topic: Violent Acts, Ideas, Violent

We have states that are throwing away the DNA of rapists. How can a woman be so inconsequential, that we as a nation aren't standing up and doing something about this intimate, violent act?

- Patricia Arquette

source: Source: www.motherjones.com

topic: Violent Acts, Dna, Intimate, Throwing Away

You know that Republicans will yell about the evils of partisanship whenever anyone tries to make a connection between the rhetoric of Beck, Limbaugh, etc. and the violence I fear we’re going to see in the months and years ahead. But violent acts are what happen when you create a climate of hate. And it’s long past time for the GOP’s leaders to take a stand against the hate-mongers.

- Paul Krugman

source: "Assassination Attempt In Arizona". krugman.blogs.nytimes.com. January 8, 2011.

topic: Hate, Past, Violent Acts, Gop

If you go out and have unprotected sex with lots of people, that behavior puts you at risk. Similarly, violent behavior can spread. One violent act can elicit a response. It can spread to people in a peer group so that they feel that they have to respond. It can pass generation to generation almost like a genetic disease.

- Steven James

source: Source: www.guernicamag.com

topic: Sex, Violent Acts, People, Peer Group

Meditation is a violent act of separation from mass consciousness and direct access to power.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Buddhism, Violent Acts, Meditation

I contend that non-violent acts exert pressure far more effective than violent acts, for the pressure comes from goodwill and gentleness.

- Mahatma Gandhi

source: Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

topic: Peace, War, Violent Acts, Non Violent

There is no effort to acknowledge some equivalent accountability by associating "terrorism" with all violence that is deliberately aimed at civilians, either directly or as foreseeable effects of violent acts, whether the actor is a non-state individual or group or the state.

- Richard A. Falk

source: Source: www.truth-out.org

topic: Violent Acts, Effort, Accountability

The mystics will tell you death is perfectly safe. A violent act will beget a violent act; it is simply a law.

- Tom Shadyac

topic: Violent Acts, Law, Safe, Begets

The purpose of terrorism lies not just in the violent act itself. It is in producing terror. It sets out to inflame, to divide, to produce consequences which they then use to justify further terror.

- Tony Blair

source: Tony Blair's Speech opening the Commons debate on Iraq, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2003.

topic: Lying, Violent Acts, Purpose, Acts Of Terror

When I first arrived in London, I so quickly tired of being surrounded by so many people that it was only with great difficulty that I refrained from seizing the next unfortunate who crossed my path and committing violent acts upon their person.

- Cassandra Clare

source: Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.573, Simon and Schuster

topic: Tired, Violent Acts, People, Seizing

Only the violent acts of men "count" toward something besides evil in a patriarchy. It is the male story of violence that is sanctioned both socially and aesthetically. The male hero and acts of heroism require violence. Everyone is okey dokey with that. We are only beginning to see that constricting set of truths open up a little.

- Lidia Yuknavitch

source: Source: therumpus.net

topic: Hero, Men, Violent Acts, Acts Of Heroism

Anger is a violent act, envy a constant habit - no one can be always angry, but he may be always envious ...

- Hannah More

topic: Envy, May, Habit, Violent Acts

A violent act pierces the atmosphere, leaving a hole through which the cold, damp draft of its memory blows forever.

- Jane Stanton Hitchcock

source: Jane Stanton Hitchcock (2003). “Trick of the Eye”, Miramax Books

topic: Memories, Blow, Forever, Violent Acts, Pierce

I want our enemies to understand that don't think that their violent acts are going to cause this president to leave before the job is done. And I want our troops to understand we respect them and that the sacrifices they make are noble and necessary for peace.

- George W. Bush

source: "President Bush Discusses Midterms; War on Terror Strategy With Sean Hannity". "Hannity & Colmes", www.foxnews.com. October 31, 2006.

topic: Jobs, Sacrifice, Thinking, Our Troops, Violent Acts

Any form of corporal punishment or 'spanking' is a violent attack upon another human being's integrity. The effect remains with the victim forever and becomes an unforgiving part of his or hier personality--a massive frustration resulting in a hostility which will seek expression in later life in violent acts towards others. The sooner we understand that love and gentleness are the only kinds of called-far behavior towards children, the better. The child, especially, learns to become the kind of human being that he or she has experienced. This should be fully understood by all caregivers.

- Ashley Montagu

topic: Children, Integrity, Frustration, Spanking, Unforgiving

When media coverage sets up a binary opposition between 'the accuser' and 'the accused,' there is no longer a victim or even an alleged victim - a flesh and blood person who was harmed by the violent act of another.

- Jackson Katz

source: "DSK’s Alleged Victim Should Not Be Called His 'Accuser'" by Jackson Katz, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 20, 2011.

topic: Media, Blood, Flesh, Media Coverage, Flesh And Blood

Peace in the Middle East isn't going to be created by another war or violent act on the other side.

- Mandy Patinkin

topic: War, Middle East, Sides, Violent Acts

Society had grown cruel. People who felt they were unwanted or unwelcome in their own country, reacted with aggression. There was no such thing as meaningless violence. Every violent act had a meaning for the person who committed it. Only when you dared accept this truth could you hope to turn society in another direction.

- Henning Mankell

source: FaceBook post by Henning Mankell from Jul 29, 2011

topic: Country, People, Violence, Unwelcome, Unwanted

...people think non-violence is really weak and non-militant. These are misconceptions that people have because they don't understand what non-violence means. Non-violence takes more guts, if I can put it bluntly, than violence. Most violent acts are accomplished by getting the opponent off guard, and it doesn't take that much character, I think, if one wants to do it.

- Cesar Chavez

topic: Character, Mean, Thinking, Militant, Violent Acts

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.

- Lilian Katz

topic: Children, Good Life, People, Linked, Violent Acts

We think of bulimia and anorexia as either a bizarre psychosis, or as a quirky little habit, a phase, or as a thing that women just do. We forget that it is a violent act, that it bespeaks a profound level of anger toward and fear of the self.

- Marya Hornbacher

topic: Thinking, Self, Psychosis, Bulimia, Violent Acts

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

topic: Silence, Television, Violence, Violent Acts