Violence famous quotes

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

The violence and obscenity are left unadulterated, as manifestation of the mystery and pain which ever accompanies the act of creation.
-- Anais Nin

#Pain #Violence #Mystery

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

#Violence #Expect Nothing #Insubordination

To not have your suffering recognized is an almost unbearable form of violence.
-- Andrei Lankov

#Suffering #Violence #Unbearable

Violence is not more efficient than non-violence.
-- Andrew Young

#Violence #Non Violence

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

#Justice #Racist #Violence

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

#Sex #Book #Violence

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

#World #Violence #Life Is

No violence, gentlemen — no violence, I beg of you! Consider the furniture!
-- Arthur Conan Doyle

#Gentleman #Violence #Furniture

Some people's affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle

#People #Soul #Violence

Violence is sometimes a duty.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle

#War #Violence #Sometimes

You can't answer violence with counter violence ... The answer is love. The best sabotage is love.
-- Athol Fugard

#Answers #Violence #Sabotage

The world's a poor standard. any society which is free of hunger and violence looks bright against that background.
-- B. F. Skinner

#Violence #Looks #World

Violence never brings permanent peace. It solves no social problem: it merely creates new and more complicated ones.
-- Barack Obama

#Inspirational #Violence #Complicated

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

#Evil #May #Violence

No religion is responsible for terrorism. People are responsible for violence and terrorism.
-- Barack Obama

#People #Violence #Terrorism

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

#Powerful #Violence #Violence Against Women

Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
-- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

#Numbness #Violence #Calm

All violence is the illustration of a pathetic stereotype,
-- Barbara Kruger

#Illustration #Violence #Stereotype

People aren't for hitting.
-- Barbara Mikulski

#People #Hitting #Violence

Violence doesn't equal strength.
-- Becca Fitzpatrick

#Violence #Equal

This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence.
-- Ben Elton

#Psychology #Special #Violence

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

#Violence #Moral #Immoral

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 Banneker

#Father #Rights #Violence

Americans love to read about violence.
-- Bernardine Dohrn

#Violence #Love To Read

Non violence is not a thing that comes easily. You have to learn how to be non-violent
-- Betty Williams

#Violence #Violent #Non Violence

Violence existed before our music was even suggested.
-- Big Pun

#Rock And Roll #Violence

Violence won't solve a thing. It makes it more challenging to solve, though.
-- Bill Cosby

#Wise #Challenges #Violence

Television is full of fictional and real violence that's turned into entertainment.
-- Bill James

#Real #Television #Violence

There's an incredible fascination for that and that goes with violence and everything else in pictures.
-- Bo Derek

#Fascination #Violence #Incredibles

Glorifying violence is terrible. Simulating sex is nothing - it's something so impersonal really.
-- Bo Derek

#Sex #Violence #Terrible

I'm a very great non-violent character. I would never resort to violence to change anything.
-- Bob Brown

#Character #Violence #Violent

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

#Country #Violence #Lovers

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 Seale

#Violence #Position

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

#Years #Soil #Violence

Keep violence in the mind Where it belongs (Barefoot in the Head)
-- Brian Aldiss

#Mind #Violence #Barefoot

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

#Killers #Spinning #Violence

I sometimes go for the strongest, most vivid colour on the palette, which in the case of movies is violence.
-- Brian De Palma

#Vivid #Violence #Sometimes

Violence is stupid. Even as a last resort, it only ever begets more of the same.
-- Brian K. Vaughan

#Stupid #Lasts #Violence

When a man carries an instrument of violence, he'll always find the justification to use it.
-- Brian K. Vaughan

#Men #Use #Violence

I am a survivor of domestic violence,
-- Brooke Axtell

#Domestic Violence #Survivor #Violence

All politics is a struggle for power; the ultimate kind of power is violence.
-- C. Wright Mills

#Struggle #Violence #Kind

We remain in the Romantic cycle initiated by Rousseau: liberal idealism canceled by violence, barbarism, disillusionment and cynicism.
-- Camille Paglia

#Violence #Cynicism #Barbarism

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

#Emotional #Age #Violence

Despite hundreds of studies, cause-and-effect relationship between ***** and violence has never been satisfactorily proved. ?
-- Camille Paglia

#Violence #Causes #Study

I am in a charity out there to stop violence against women.
-- Caprice Bourret

#Charity #Violence #Violence Against Women

Where love stops, power begins, and violence, and terror
-- Carl Jung

#Violence #Terror

War therefore is an act of violence to compel our opponent to fulfill our will.
-- Carl von Clausewitz

#War #Opponents #Violence

Let's start a movement - a movement of men who aren't afraid to stop violence against women.
-- Carlos Andres Gomez

#Powerful #Men #Violence

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

#Blood #Want #Violence

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

#Spiritual #Reality #Violence

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

#Sex #Violence #Enough

In non-violence the cause has to be just and clear as well as the means.
-- Cesar Chavez

#Mean #Violence #Causes

Violence just hurts those who are already hurt...Instead of exposing the brutality of the oppressor, it justifies it.
-- Cesar Chavez

#Hurt #Peace #Violence

There is no such thing as defeat in non-violence.
-- Cesar Chavez

#Peace #Violence #Defeat

When activists need a pretext to justify their violence, they always find it.
-- Charb

#Needs #Violence #Activist

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

#Ordinary #Earth #Violence

If you love with violence and you hate with violence there is nothing that can be questioned.
-- Charlie Sheen

#Hate #Violence

It is not violence that best overcomes hate -- nor vengeance that most certainly heals injury.
-- Charlotte Bronte

#Hate #Overcoming #Violence

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 Palminteri

#Violence #Subjects

I'm not up for violence, just for fun.
-- Chloe Grace Moretz

#Fun #Violence #Just For Fun

Violence is a disease, a disease that corrupts all who use it regardless of the cause.
-- Chris Hedges

#Use #Disease #Violence

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

#Violence #Language #Speak

Despite what your momma told you, Violence does solve problems,
-- Chris Kyle

#Doe #Violence #Problem

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

#Degradation #Our Society #Violence

I often close my eyes because I can't tolerate violence.
-- Christine Baranski

#Eye #Violence #Because I Can

It's possible to disagree with someone about the ethics of non-violence without wanting to kick his face in.
-- Christopher Hampton

#Faces #Violence #Ethics

Nothing violent, oft have I heard tell, can be permanent.
-- Christopher Marlowe

#Violence #Violent #Heard

It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature.
-- Christopher Morley

#Men #Literature #Violence

Violence is my last option.
-- Chuck Norris

#Hipster #Lasts #Violence

I don't initiate violence, I retaliate.
-- Chuck Norris

#Violence