Violence Quotes - Page 20

Ukraine is a tinderbox, and the fuse is lit. There is no solution through violence in Ukraine.

Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves the insects are eating each other; violence is a part of life.

Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.

Non-violence is not a passive idea. It is ethical activism at its political best

Frustration is the wet nurse of violence.

I only escaped from Tibet because I feared my people would resort to desperate violence if the Chinese took me as their prisoner.

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

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.

There is no such thing as defeat in non-violence.

War therefore is an act of violence to compel our opponent to fulfill our will.

I am a survivor of domestic violence.

The best way to deal with bureaucrats is with stealth and sudden violence.

I was just walking around like a zombie..I really had no idea what I was doing.. But the best thing that I did do was leave and get the hell out of there. I have no regrets.

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.

There is no shame in being a survivor of sexual violence. The shame is on the aggressor.

The violence and obscenity are left unadulterated, as manifestation of the mystery and pain which ever accompanies the act of creation.

Muslims have different meanings for the same words that we use. They are so convinced of the "truth" of Islam that they do not perceive Jihad/terrorism, or dhimmitude as violence.

Being offended by freedom of speech should never be regarded as a justification for violence.

From joblessness to lack of education and professional skills to sexual and gender-based violence, women face a multi-faceted oppression.

The injustice is that women continue to be the main target of violence both during wartime and peacetime and yet there is still a lack of a public outrage.

Violence was almost an aphrodisiac for me.

Only reverence can restrain violence - reverence for human life and the environment.

When you have large-scale legitimated violence in a place that is divided as profoundly and bitterly as Kentucky was, the legitimate violence can cause illegitimate violence, a terrible local heartlessness and cruelty that feeds on itself and goes on and on.

Violence stinks no matter which side of it you're on. But now and then there's nothing left to do but hit the other person over the head with a frying pan.

It is the madness of folly, to expect mercy from those who have refused to do justice; and even mercy, where conquest is the object, is only a trick of war; the cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf.