Violence Quotes - Page 31

When you're trapped in an abusive home environment you can feel completely hopeless and lost. Remember that situations can change with time, and that it won't be this way forever.

Violence always seems to me the worst form of tyranny. It deprives people of their rights, including the right to live.

The violence and sexuality on TV today is exhilarating. You can explore every aspect of society. People's sexual orientations, the violence that goes within that... there are no holds barred.

In many instances violence - which obviously inflicts tremendous trauma on victims - also inflicts trauma on the perpetrator. Radical evil takes a lot of preparation, not just from an organizational point of view, but from brainwashing, psychological preparation and the legitimization of violence.

You cannot commit an act of violence against a non-sentient object, only against a living thing.

I think violence has always been popular, way before movies started being made.

The natives of England are closing their doors to relationships with Asians and Africans or, for that matter, Turks and Spaniards. While the Africans and Asians on their part are increasingly closing their doors too and resentment at both sides is increasing. This trend can be dangerous. It can lead, sooner or later, to violence - even in this country, which is traditionally an opponent of violence.

Judge Afiuni has suffered enough. She has been subject to acts of violence and humiliations to undermine her human dignity. I am convinced that she must be set free.

If the most important revolutionary part of the George W. Bush Doctrine is that states that harbor terrorists are terrorist states, what do we conclude from that? We conclude exactly what Kissinger was kind enough to say: These doctrines are unilateral. They are not intended as doctrines of international law or doctrines of international affairs. They are doctrines that grant the U.S. the right to use force and violence and to harbor terrorists, but not anyone else.

I did not enjoy the violence of boxing so much as the science of it.

Be it caste or communal violence, they stall the growth of the nation. Let us affirm that we will be free from these tensions.

I have a deep-seated skepticism about the morality of violence. Violence is almost always morally corrosive.

There are fewer Arabs in Tel Aviv, one of the largest cities in the Middle East, than there are in Chicago, the largest city in the American Midwest. How do you accomplish such a remarkable feat of social engineering without massive violence?

Violence often brings about momentary results.

Birth is violent, whether it be the birth of a child or the birth of an idea.

The consumption of vegetables involves himsa, but I cannot give them up.

If God holds me to be a pure instrument for the spread of nonviolence in place of the awful violence now ruling the earth, He will give me the strength and show me the way.

I have no secret methods. I know no diplomacy save that of truth. I have no weapon but non-violence.

Non -violence is infinitely superior to violence , forgiveness is more manly than punishment. Forgiveness is the ornament.

Courtesy towards opponents and eagerness to understand their view-point is the ABC of non-violence.

Nonviolence to be a creed has to be all-pervasive.

A nonviolent person's life is always at the disposal of him who would take it.

Belief in non-violence is based on the assumption that human nature in the essence is one and therefore unfailingly responds to the advances of love.

Poverty is the greatest violence.

Civil disobedience does not admit of any violence or countenancing of violence directly or indirectly.