Violence Quotes - Page 18

The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of nonviolence has been the organization of violence.

Gentleness succeeds better than violence.

We cannot turn our back and say that violence in films or anything that we do doesn't have a sort of influence. It does.

A revolution is an act of violence whereby one class shatters the authority of another.

As for sex, well, I mean sex is a perfectly respectable subject as far as Shakespeare is concerned. I mean, all history is love and violence.

I'm very disturbed by violence against women when it is violence.

Violence can destroy power; it is utterly incapable of creating it.

The convoluted wording of legalisms grew up around the necessity to hide from ourselves the violence we do to each other.

The oppressed always learned from and copied the oppressor. When the tables were turned, the stage was set for another round of revenge and violence -- roles reversed. And reversed and reversed ad nauseam.

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.

If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.

It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature.

Domestic violence refers to acts of violence (physical, sexual, emotional and psychological) that occur between people who have, or have had, an intimate relationship. It tends to involve an ongoing pattern of behaviour aimed at controlling a partner through fear.

I don't advocate senseless violence of any human being. I'm the one who's been beat down. But I will not be a victim again.

Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.

Humour is like violence. They both come to you unexpectedly, and the more unpredictable they both are, the better it gets.

I have a violence in me that is hot as death-blood.

Nothing comes from violence and nothing ever could, for all those born beneath an angry star, lest we forget how fragile we are.

Protection of children from violence and abuse has always been my main activity or campaign.

Today, the worst conflicts, the most deep-rooted violence, and those likely to emerge in the coming years are due to disparities in development.

Violence is not the answer but neither is peace.

This is about saving children's lives. It is not about agencies and services protecting themselves.

There is nothing in anything that I have ever written that could be reasonably construed as an incitement to violence against anyone.

Victims of the violence are black and white, rich and poor, young and old, famous and unknown. They are most important of all, human beings whom other human beings loved and needed.

You know, what we do know is that there is a high frequency of violence in the home of those who bully.