Violence Quotes

Man has an innate capacity for violence, but can only justify it in the name of justice.

Claiming that you have got the truth wrapped up does breed violence and intolerance.

It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas.

Football is violence and cold weather and sex and college rye.

The civil unrest of recent days must come to an end, and the healing process must begin for the future of the community. We will provide assistance both in ending the violence and enabling the healing process in Benton Harbor.

Hatred, intolerance, poor hygienic conditions and violence all have roots in illiteracy, so we're trying to do something to help the poor and the needy.

I think there's a natural system in your own head about how much violence the scene warrants. It's not an intellectual process, it's an instinctive process.

My door will always be open to those who genuinely renounce violence and seek peaceful accommodation into our nascent democracy.

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

The power which establishes a state is violence; the power which maintains it is violence; the power which eventually overthrows it is violence.

Violence is always the last option, but if that time comes, it is the ONLY option.

Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.

The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. Only reverance can restrain violence - reverance for human life and the environment.

Dignity does not come from avenging insults, especially from violence that can never be justified. It comes from taking responsibility and advancing our common humanity.

Violence is almost an everyday occurrence in some Muslim lands: it should not be exacerbated by revenge attacks on more innocent families and communities.

However, don't let these statistics mislead you, gang violence is not limited to California and or big urban areas - that might have been true a while ago but it is no longer the case today.

Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation.

In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival.

The aggressive, unprovoked acts of violence against Israel by Hezbollah and Hamas are revealing. It is clear they don't want peace, but rather seek the ultimate destruction of Israel.

We seem okay with violence, but nudity we race to criticize and censor.

If a man is pictured chopping off a woman's breast, it only gets a R rating, but if, God forbid, a man is pictured kissing a woman's breast, it gets an X rating. Why is violence more acceptable than tenderness?

From pacifist to terrorist, each person condemns violence - and then adds one cherished case in which it may be justified.

It's something that I am going over in my head about the whole video game thing, and whether you support violence by being in a film like this. I mean, to me, it's incredibly unreal and it's all about the action, and just explosions.

Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.

For decades, the violence in the Middle East has claimed a multitude of innocent civilian victims: Men, women and children, Arab and Israeli.

America and its allies are engaged in a war against a terrorist movement that spans all corners of the globe. It is sparked by radical ideologues that breed hatred, oppression, and violence against all of their declared enemies.

It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.

Gay culture is surviving and thriving. Some activists believe the recent rise in homophobic violence might be a gauge of the success of positive gay images.

The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.

My view is when you use violence on your people, that never ends well.