Violence Quotes

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

People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.

In some cases non-violence requires more militancy than violence.

The Roots of Violence: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice, Politics without principles.

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.

My character, Lola, is a psychopath who gets an almost sexual thrill out of violence.

These groups claim domestic violence is gender-equal, ... The research shows these claims are false. We need to reject myths pushed by fathers' rights groups as they try to change family law.

Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak... Non-violence is hard work. It is the willingness to sacrifice. It is the patience to win.

To stop violence we have to stop poverty.

Sexual violence cases just seem to continue to emerge with frightening regularity and I guess severity.

If you and I are having a single thought of violence or hatred against anyone in the world at this moment, we are contributing to the wounding of the world.

One more report on school violence and one more conference on school safety won't make a single American school safer.

It was about the violence, about the trafficking. It spoke of the police and our friends who had been dying. We also wanted to find solutions.

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.

I wanted to make the violence beautiful in order to heighten our revulsion.

Body language is essential for an actress, even if you don't use your body in an athletic way. Just to be free, to use it like your voice. A body can be small and have incredible violence. A body talks.

A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to violence and crime, and any sense of loyalty and good faith will be abandoned.

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.

I think that when we're talking about youth violence, we're talking about kids who don't have opportunities, so they're engaged in a certain degree of lawlessness, because we as a society have failed them.

This [youth violence] is a very big issue facing youth today, and it's rising. We are the next generation, so we need to make a stand and make a move.

The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by often falling.

Violence against women stays behind closed doors.

You can't make peace with just politics but by making friends. Peace is not made by fighting, shooting and violence, that won't solve problems.

a man with no history of violence, a man who's never served a day in custody before this case.

But I think the opposite is true, that this most extreme act of violence was internalized in some way in this country. ... There was soul-searching, ostensibly, but in the end the assassination became a tool in our culture wars.