Violence Quotations | Page 7

We call on the Ethiopian government to halt the police violence and set up an independent and impartial commission of inquiry.

We came in here unarmed. We've been in these situations before. I draw your attention back to those who are responsible for this violence and those who are responsible for controlling this violence, and they are not doing that.

We have consistently called upon the Maoists to abandon the path of violence and terror, accept the discipline of multiparty democracy, and work for a political settlement that contributes to the political stability and economic prosperity of Nepal.

We learned at the time that all of the others have been caught or committed suicide. Brenda's is the only domestic violence (murder) that hasn't been solved.

whose ideology leads him to excuse violence against other Americans.

Who shall measure the heat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?

those who perpetrate violence deal themselves out of the peace process.

Those who want to sow violence of fear, they will be arrested, judged and punished,

We condemn the act of violence and we are really concerned with what happened yesterday and we hope that it won't disturb the agenda for next week's meeting of foreign ministers.

We condemn these acts, but we assume they are isolated. We do not believe that there is a state of violence against Mexican migrants in the border region.

We have been asking the rebels to cease violence because only then can our movement be effective. Though the decision came late, we welcome the move which will provide some relief to the people.

We don't want to give the authorities any excuse for violence.

We can't allow violence from militant activists to dictate where and how democratically elected state leaders hold their meetings.

We will go on full alert today for the May 1 celebrations. We will exert maximum tolerance against the protesters. I can assure you that violence will not come from the police ranks.

We're worried about violence being marketed to children as fun and entertaining, ... Our list is a little different this year because it highlights the 'brands' that are marketed to children through a combination of toys, video games, DVDs and other items.

to a vicious circle of violence that harms the interests of the region's countries, Israel at the top.

There has been a constitutional coup in the republic. A small group of irresponsible plotters and carpet-baggers in a criminal way used force to capture power. An uncontrolled and destructive wave of anarchy and violence overwhelmed the capital and other cities,

There is a control on the level of violence which is still at a worrisome level, but there is a definite control over the immediate potential for it to escalate.

Whenever we engage in consumption or production patterns which take more than we need, we are engaging in violence.

We urge the Albanian government to immediately draw up a plan of action that includes protection mechanisms for women who suffer from violence, and to prosecute and punish the perpetrators, including by making domestic violence an offence under the Criminal Code.

Acts of violence-- Whether on a large or a small scale, the bitter paradox: the meaningfulness of death--and the meaninglessness of killing.

It is suggested that in domestic violence at least the presence or absence of a firearm, or of any other type of weapon, is of far less importance to the outcome than the passion generated in the attacker. The man who has lost control will cause serious injuries in many cases, quite irrespective of the weapon he uses and regardless of the certainty of detections and punishment.

The US condones violence in El Salvador.

All violence flows from the same source ... the need for power. Power is the only true morality ... the only deathless god, and the appetite for violence is its only commandment.

You treat violence as an aberration ... when in truth it is the norm. It is the very essence of the human condition.

When a creature is exposed to violence, it will tend to adapt to that disturbance, so that when the violence ceases or the creature is allowed its freedom, the healthy instinct to flee is hugely diminished, and the creature stays put instead.

Each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins.

It's odd how violence and humor so often go together, isn't it?

You can't get away from violence in drama. If you do not have conflict, you do not have drama.

We wake, if we ever wake at all, to mystery, rumors of death, beauty, violence...

Violence diminishes our humanity.

The greatest violence is seeing a child go to bed hungry.

We were basically spying with one arm tied behind our back. These restrictive limitations on not being able to recruit people who have some violence in their past as spies were ridiculous.

For anybody who's ever been on the other end of, like, racial violence logic is not something that can be used.

We have scraped together the $9,500 to keep the doors open until March 31. We need a miracle to save our domestic violence program, and in turn, save women and children.

We want participation from each of the 11 states in the original Confederacy. We invite all those committed to carrying the South out of the dark past of racial violence and conflict, away from fear and segregation and impoverishing lifestyles to share this journey with us.

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

Jane! will you hear reason?' (he stooped and approached his lips to my ear) 'because, if you won't, I'll try violence.

Women, who enjoyed a high social status and levels of education under Saddam, saw terrible setbacks as Iraq fell into civil war. As a result of the sectarian violence from 2005-2007, women retreated to their homes and fell from public view.

We are all sickened by these continual random acts of violence that are sweeping our country,

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.

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

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

Since the primitive times, the wealth of the popes was exposed to envy, their powers to opposition, and their persons to violence.

So natural to man is the practice of violence that our indulgence allows the slightest provocation, the most disputable right, as a sufficient ground of national hostility.

Education is a vaccine for violence.

Education is a vacine for violence

I don't support violence, period.

Would I be dumb enough to do something like that? ... I always think violence is the last means and the last resort. I never advocate violence.

Would you describe yourself as prone to violence?

Victims of domestic violence need assistance and deserve justice, I commend the crime unit's efforts to put offenders behind bars and reach out to victims.

When I'm describing wartime activities or violence I don't want to be too ornate, to prettify the picture. Once we trace them to the present, the prose becomes denser.

Sarah Palin's whole family got into a drunken public fistfight. Something police are calling a 'tragic case of trash-on-trash violence.'

I think we're at a time where people just want to join together and cause change. People don't want to live like this any more.

When you get to the fourth, fifth and sixth years of a show, it's really good to have held back, so that you have somewhere to go. That also applies to levels of violence, levels of humor, levels of production value.

If you see the blood, then there's an easy association of the violence. The violence that happens when there isn't blood is actually much more subversive and unsettling.

A bonus, being a writer, is that the true-life source material is fabulously bizarre. There's so much corruption, violence and free-floating depravity that the well never runs dry, whether you're a novelist, a journalist, or both.

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

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

Clarity moves much more efficiently than violence or stress.

All politics is a struggle for power; the ultimate kind of power is violence.

The message [of Donald Trump] is that that type of thing happening. Let's focus on what happened.What happened was the murder, the murder of this person pushing a stroller, it's unacceptable in an American city to continue to have this level of violence and the level of violence in Chicago is unacceptable.

I'm going to be specific so you can render your verdict. Let's go to North Africa, she was the chief engineer of the disastrous overthrow of [Muamar] Qaddafi in Libya. Libya today after Hillary Clinton's grand strategy? Their economy's in ruins. There's death and violence on the streets, and ISIS is now dominating that country.

Hillary Rodham Clinton was America's chief diplomat. So let's look around at the violence and danger in our world today in every region of the world that has been infected with her flawed judgment.

The fact of the matter is, we need to have a very clear message. We haven't had that from the current president [Barack Obama]. And you've seen the violence in his home city of Chicago. This is just another example.

Until mankind is peaceful enough not to have violence on the news, there's no point in taking it out of shows that need it for entertainment value.

We abhor crime, abuse and violence against anyone, but under the current proposal do not support elevating one group as a protected class over another and support the concept of equal protection under the law for all.

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

As a woman, you accept the situation, adapt to it, and do your best, whereas men would choose violence.

there is no link between the end of violence and the question of the settlements. That issue has to be discussed later on between the parties.

working to promote a culture of peace and to reject violence and eliminate its causes.

When we have those incidents, when there is a threat of violence, we take it very seriously.

Using violence isn't the only way to solve a problem.

Unless the commitments necessary to end the violence are carried out in a way that is sustainable and mutually reinforcing, it will be difficult for the parties to change the realities on the ground,

We reject violence to punish anyone who harms us.

There are concerns that if we do not make progress ... desperate people will resort to violence again,

We are at a very critical point, ... If Arafat gives a clear final order to stop the violence, and the violence really, totally stops, then everything is open again for resumption of the talks.

Yes, I'm a bit bored ... there is no need of protests and violence to induce someone to leave. The desire to do it already exists.

Veganism has given me a higher level of awareness and spirituality, primary because the energy associated with eating has shifted to other areas. If you’re violent to yourself by putting [harmful] things into your body that violate its spirit, it will be difficult not to perpetuate that [violence] onto someone else.

Ulster (Northern Ireland) and the Balkans have already shown how difficult it is to split cities, and with Iraq's centralized and failing infrastructure, and impoverished economy, violence and economics cannot be separated.

With violence spiraling out of control, we felt we had to do something to reverse the direction of society,

If history shows anything, it is that there's no better way to justify relations founded on violence, to make such relations seem moral, than by reframing them in the language of debt—above all, because it immediately makes it seem that it's the victim who's doing something wrong.

What is debt anyway? A debt is just the perversion of a promise. It is a promise corrupted by both math and violence.

Conversely, terrorists who are motivated to cause violence seem to lack the capability to cause that degree of damage in cyberspace.

criminal record and his lifestyle of knives, guns and violence.

Each day, 10 children and teens are killed by firearms, and that is 10 too many, ... However, it is a significant decrease from four years earlier. This indicates that violence prevention efforts are showing results.

Dr. Hicks had a mission and her mission was to make sure all victims of sexual violence had the best medical care possible.

As if we don't have enough violence on television.

At no previous period has mankind been faced by a half-century which so paradoxically united violence and progress. Its greater and lesser wars and long series of major assassinations have been strangely combined with the liberation of more societies and individuals than ever before in history, and by the transformation of millions of second-class citizens -- women, workers and the members of subject races -- to a stage at which first-rate achievement is no longer inhibited even if opportunities are not yet complete.

At the beginning, I wasn't aware of some of the stuff that goes on. Now, I have a heightened awareness of domestic violence and how to spot it.

Blessings are upon the head of the just: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.

Con's climactic metamorphosis into the man behind the aristocrat's pose is embodied with shattering, scary violence and precision.

could shake the confidence in the peace process and arouse feelings of anger that would create violence and threaten the process of peace building.

Conflicts and factions, violence and upheavals are caused by the neglect of human values in daily life.

Wars such as that which has occurred in Iraq only allow hatred, violence and terror to proliferate

Violence against minorities has increasingly become a problem in Serbia today. Serbia cannot hope to move closer towards the European Union unless it starts taking these attacks a lot more seriously.

Violence against women is a universal problem. Many governments have taken serious steps to deal with it. Pakistan hasn't.

Violence and racism are bad. Whenever they occur they are to be condemned (and) we should not turn a blind eye to them.

Violence, arrests, pressures, tailing and threats are the daily lot of the foreign correspondent,

Violence breeds violence. I urge you to opt for restraint.