Violence Quotes - Page 14

We must stand our ground to ensure that our laws reduce violence and take a hard look at laws that contribute to more violence than they prevent.

Education is a vacine for violence

There's a difference between violence and senseless violence.

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.

People who say that violence doesn't accomplish anything have not read history. I don't celebrate that reality, but there you have it.

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.

Men say they love independence in a woman, but they don't waste a second demolishing it brick by brick.

Violence recoils on the violent.

Love soothes wounds, while hatred and violence deepen them.

The pornography of violence of course far exceeds, in volume and general acceptance, sexual pornography, in this Puritan land of ours.

Everybody against me. Why? Why me? I have not brought violence to you. I have not brought Thug Life to America. I didn't create Thug Life. I diagnosed it.

The God of peace is never glorified by human violence.

I've overcome neglect and deprivation, abandonment and abuse.

I've never laid a cane on the back of a lord before, but if you force me to I shall speedily become used to the practice.

Violence is for those who have lost their imagination.

Let's start calling family violence 'terrorism' and then maybe we will start to see that investment of funding applied to where it needs to be.

Violence is the ultimate human degradation.

Violence is a crime against humanity, for it destroys the very fabric of society.

Practically every violent conflict or social change has proved that violence unleashes violence in return.

Like a dead man, only friction could make him warm or violence make him mobile.

Pornography and violence are by-products of societies in which private identity has been ... destroyed by sudden environmental change.

Eating is aggressive by nature, and the implements required for it could quickly become weapons; table manners are, most basically, a system of taboos designed to ensure that violence remains out of the question.

Almost always, it is the conviction that 'I am right' or 'my cause is the cause of justice' that triggers violence. That is, ...the moment propaganda does its work, violence is unleashed. And violence can be reduced by countering this propaganda.

Passion is all but soft, it's not tender, it's violence to which you get hooked by pleasure.

Constipation was one of the things she hated most in the world, on par with despicable men who commit domestic violence and narrow-minded religious fundamentalists.