Violence Quotations | Page 6

I will never be by violence constrained to do anything.

Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.

The very definition of news is something that hardly ever happens. If an incident is in the news, we shouldn't worry about it. It's when something is so common that its no longer news - car crashes, domestic violence - that we should worry.

Non-violence is a piece of theatre. You need an audience. What can you do when you have no audience?

There is nothing to be gained by being unnecessarily nasty. Violence begets violence.

The hatred of truth is the taproot of violence.

Violence is sometimes a duty.

I have mastered the principles of several religions. They have all shocked me by the violence which I should have to do to my reason to accept the dogmas of any one of them.

Violence recoils on the violent.

Not only do most people accept violence if it is perpetuated by legitimate authority, they also regard violence against certain kinds of people as inherently legitimate, no matter who commits it.

Most Americans would say that they disapproved of violence. But what they really mean is that they believe it should be the monopoly of the state.

Jealousy is a painful passion; yet without some share of it, the agreeable affection of love has difficulty to subsist in its full force and violence.

Growing up, I thought my grandfather was dead. Later, I learned he was alive, but my family pretended he didn't exist because of the terrible way he'd abused my grandmother and my mother. He did things like shave my grandmother's head and lock her in a closet. With my mother's help, my grandmother finally left him.

Preventing radicalization that leads to violence here in America is part of our larger strategy to decisively defeat al Qaeda.

Today we are calling for reinstatement of the Violence Against Women Act,

The question is, 'what do we do?' as there is a view which says that anything artistic should not be censored because it is a creative expression, etc. But if it is having that kind of negative impact on our young people, that is something that we are fighting against, the violence and the aggression, then we have to do something about it. And my view is that these things should be censored, banned from the airwaves and the electronic media. I have no qualms about it.

The question is, when it comes time to confront those policy decisions, whether that could create more violence or unrest.

There is many reasons that men could choose to attend: to be entertained, the show has parts that are enormously funny, to show their support for ending violence against women, to bond with female friends or girlfriends; to relax and learn a little about the funny, scary, bizarre and wondrous parts of the female experience.

This statistical manipulation of the vote amounts to a prize to those who advocate violence.

to work actively to end the violence and maintain calm.

Toys that glorify violence encourage children to act out that violence -- violence which appears fun, cool and amusing,

Traditional thinking dictates that most women, children and other vulnerable groups within the family accept physical and emotional violence as a normal part of life. It is not normal. It is a matter of power and a lack of accountability. This Family Response Unit should become a symbol of hope in the community.

When we're dealing with an issue that involves a school and violence, we're going to go in quickly because we're dealing with kids and their safety.

[In response to the question "Do you think that you underestimated the insurgency's strength?"] I think so. I guess if I look back on it now, I don't think anybody anticipated the level of violence that we've encountered.

We are growing weary of the National Collegiate Athletic Association's reluctance to establish any sort of policy against athlete violence.

Yasser Arafat left a terrible legacy of violence behind him where people are always acting outside the law. Now, with him gone, everyone is fighting for his power.

I don't believe in anything. I'm just here for the violence.

We still don't know what the circumstances of the crime were, if it was in some way related directly or indirectly to the violence shaking the Islamic community in so many countries.

We are particularly worried about the health of the refugee population, domestic violence and refugees resorting to illegal employment or even to prostitution, just to put enough food on the table, ... When food becomes scarce, refugees often turn to desperate measures to feed themselves and their families.

We are placing the question of violence right in the middle of our basic research on the neurobiology of emotion, ... Our previous insights in this area give us tremendous leverage to understand the root causes of violence.

When the world's leading democracy scorns the notion of justice for the victims of violence in its jurisdiction, it gives confidence to those who target journalists in countries where freedom hardly exists.

We are concerned about the violence and particularly regret the loss of life. But the parties themselves have committed a serious effort and are committed to a serious effort at the negotiating table.

We are deeply concerned at the recent escalation of violence and repeated violations of the ceasefire.

We are deeply concerned at the recent escalation of violence in Sri Lanka and repeated violations of the ceasefire.

We are deeply concerned by the recent escalation of violence in Sri Lanka and repeated violation of the ceasefire.

What we have seen is a brutal and violent assault on press freedom. It is an unspeakable affront to democracy when a government turns to violence to stifle the voice of its media critics.

What we have seen yesterday is something I thought I would never see in Australia and perhaps we have not seen in Australia in any of our lifetimes. And that is a mass call to violence based on race.

We are never going to get a serious grip on gun violence in this country until we adopt comprehensive measures to keep guns away from those who should not have them,

A bottomless pit of violence, a Tower of Babel where all are speakers and no hearers.

we were all responsible in one way or another for the political violence that took place during the polls.

We won't stand for cowardly acts. We just want this rash of violence to end in our community.

Every rock or molotov cocktail thrown should make a very obvious political point. Random violence produces random propaganda results. Why waste even a rock?

The definition of security must be broadened to encompass the security of people, as well as states. That means a commitment to human rights. That means recognizing that insecurity and violence are best tackled by effective, accountable states which uphold, not violate human rights,

The department believes that a further release of images could only further inflame and possibly incite unnecessary violence in the world and would endanger our military men and women that are serving around the world.

The department believes that the release of all of these images will further inflame and cause unnecessary violence in the world.

The dangerous outburst of violence with numerous fatalities may kill off the sprouts of confidence that have emerged between the two sides in the course of the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza and parts of the West Bank and may endanger prospects for further progress toward a settlement.

Wyoming is a state where we may not be the best messengers, because people misinterpret our message and our goals. It's interesting because this is not really a gun issue; it's a violence issue.

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

There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.

In a world built on violence, one must be a revolutionary before one can be a pacifist.

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.

I can't remember any text of mine where I said that one should fight Hitler without violence; I'm not an idiot.

The violence and injustice of the rulers of mankind is an ancient evil, for which, I am afraid, the nature of human affairs can scarce admit a remedy.

Whatever work he does, beyond what is sufficient to purchase his own maintenance, can be squeezed out of him by violence only, and not by any interest of his own.

But what all the violence of the feudal institutions could never have effected, the silent and insensible operation of foreign commerce and manufactures gradually brought about.

Mercantile jealousy is excited, and both inflames, and is itself inflamed, by the violence of national animosity:...

We have lived with violence far too long.

Abortion is violence; a deep, desperate violence inflicted by a woman upon, first of all, herself.

In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence.

I think violence can never be justified.

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)

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.

When there is deliberate, intentional violence by man against man, very particular feelings are generated, ... The victimized population wants revenge. There's a breakdown of trust in your fellow man.

As the duties of superintending the national defense and of securing the public peace against foreign or domestic violence involve a provision for casualties and dangers to which no possible limits can be assigned, the power of making that provision ought to know no other bounds than the exigencies of the nation and the resources of the community.

I personally can't handle frivolous violence. I overreact to it.

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

Wellstone was expected to receive a lot of information (from the human-rights groups) about violence committed by the Colombian army, ... If he would be taking that back to the Senate floor, that actually helps the PR campaign of the rebels. It is a strain to think they would want to kill him.

There is an unbroken line of police violence in the United States that takes us all the way back to the days of slavery, the aftermath of slavery, the development of the Ku Klux Klan. 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.

I think that the response to the OJ Simpson trial was based on a kind of sensibility that emerged out of the many campaigns to defend black communities against police violence.

Violence is not more efficient than non-violence.

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

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

It's so important to raise awareness of this problem that continues to affect 1 in 4 women at some point in their lifetime, regardless of career, wealth or background.

These women need to feel that we're all aware of what they may be going through, to give them the confidence to speak out.

What we should aim at is the creation of people power, which is opposed to the power of violence and is different from the coercive power of state.

Senseless violence is a prerogative of youth, which has much energy but little talent for the constructive.

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.

We're all living under the threat of violence and terror these days.

And once you're unafraid with death, I think your capacity for violence is immediately increased. Once you're unafraid of death, you are a very, very dangerous adversary

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.

Terrorism is about magnifying one mediagenic act of violence into one hundred billion acts of terrorized authoritarian idiocy.

Politicians need to stop the violence because it has become a way of life in Jamaica. It's the thing to do - be violent in Jamaica.

This poem has been called obscure. I refuse to believe that it is obscurer than pity, violence, or suffering. But being a poem, not a lifetime, it is more compressed.

...In every realm of male expression and action, violence is experienced and articulated as love and freedom.

Technology and violence are interdependent.

I see contemporary violence as a kind of sardonic response to the promise of consumer fulfilment in America...

Not all ants use violence to dominate their world, some use more subtle methods.

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

We see violence to forcibly seize land, at any price, murders and corruption.

My focus is first of all, to remove every thought of violence from my own consciousness.

Politics is a substitute for violence.

Fundamentalist Muslim terrorists kill three thousand Americans, but America isn't supposed to respond, because if we respond, they'll respond. We always hear about 'karmic retributions' and the 'cycle of violence' only after we've been hit.

Cruelty to animals can become violence to humans.

Pressure or violence will ever move us to relinquish our honor or our equality of rights.

You can't change the system through violence.

Violence and fraud can create no right.

Poverty doesn't imply necessarily violence.

There are many weapons that have been distributed to civilians and there are factions who don't want to lose power and who'd do anything including inciting ethnic violence to stop the electoral process. The only way to ensure stability during the elections is to actually have troops on the ground.

We call on all Somalis to desist from violence and use legitimate ways of participating in the reconstruction of their country,

We call on the authorities and the security forces to stop all violence against journalists, who are currently finding it impossible to work.