Quotes and Sayings About Violence

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. Jacobs

#Vegetables #Preparation #Violence

In a world built on violence, one must be a revolutionary before one can be a pacifist.
-- A. J. Muste

#World #Violence #Revolutionary

No, General. I'm not your subordinate. And what I'm coming dangerously close to is violence. -General Wedge Antilles
-- Aaron Allston

#Violence #Wedges

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

#Thinking #Historical #Violence

Obama repeatedly has condemned Hamas as a terrorist organization that should be isolated until it renounces violence and recognizes Israel.
-- Aaron Klein

#Israel #Organization #Violence

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

#Silence #Television #Violence

I think violence can never be justified.
-- Abbas Kiarostami

#Thinking #Violence #Justified

I do not like violence.
-- Abdurrahman Wahid

#Violence

[Uniting workers should not] lead to a war upon property, or the owners of property.
-- Abraham Lincoln

#War #Uniting #Violence

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

#Fighting #Violence #Idiot

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 Gottlieb

#Powerful #Expression #Violence

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

#People #Violence #Doe

The threat or fear of violence should not become an excuse or justification for restricting freedom of speech.
-- Alan Dershowitz

#Freedom Of Speech #Violence #Excuse

All the violence in videos and movies, you can't tell me that that wouldn't influence a disturbed person.
-- Alana Stewart

#Video #Violence #Influence

Violence is both unavoidable and unjustifiable.
-- Albert Camus

#Violence

Poverty doesn't imply necessarily violence.
-- Alberto Fujimori

#Poverty #Violence

Violence does not and cannot flourish by itself; it is inevitably intertwined with lying.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#Lying #Doe #Violence

You can't change the system through violence.
-- Alex Cox

#Violence

Violence is never the right answer, unless used against heathens and monsters.
-- Alexander Anderson

#Monsters #Answers #Violence

I'm not going to appeal to violence or aggression - of course not.
-- Alexei Navalny

#Violence #Appeals #Aggression

Nothing is so dangerous as that of violence employed by well-meaning people for beneficial objects.
-- Alexis de Tocqueville

#People #Violence #Dangerous

Violence and fraud can create no right.
-- Algernon Sidney

#Violence #Economics #Fraud

Cruelty to animals can become violence to humans.
-- Ali MacGraw

#Animal #Violence #Cruelty

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

#Writing #Violence #Sin

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

#Violence #Paradox #Intolerance

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 Myrdal

#Media #Mind #Violence

Violence is fomented by the imposition of singular and belligerent identities on gullible people, championed by proficient artisans of terror.
-- Amartya Sen

#People #Identity #Violence

Compassion is the signature of Higher Consciousness. Non-violence is the tool to evolve into the Higher Consciousness.
-- Amit Ray

#Compassion #Violence #Signatures

Peace is not just the absence of violence,peace is when the flowers bloom.
-- Amrita Pritam

#Flower #Violence #Absence

Violence is a symptom of impotence.
-- Anais Nin

#Violence #Symptoms