Violence Quotes - Page 4

Rather than bring peace and harmony, the EU will cause insurgency and violence.

Violence against women isn't cultural, it's criminal. Equality cannot come eventually, it's something we must fight for now.

A recent government survey found that 47 percent of all women report being the victims of either physical, emotional, sexual or economic violence. But 84 percent of those who are victims of domestic violence remain silent.

Women have a better chance to secure freedom and protect themselves from violence, from abuse, from injustice, if they are well-educated and know their rights.

If I do not respond to some situation, my conscience kills me. I believe in permissible violence, not necessarily non-violence.

To not have your suffering recognized is an almost unbearable form of violence.

Violence is not completely fatal until it ceases to disturb us.

I maintain that nothing useful and lasting can emerge from violence.

We must meet violence with violence.

I did not know that the first step in any domestic violence relationship is to seduce and charm the victim. I also did not know that the second step is to isolate the victim. The next step in the domestic violence pattern is to introduce the threat of violence and see how she reacts. We victims know something you [non-victims] usually don't. It's incredibly dangerous to leave an abuser, because the final step in the domestic violence pattern is to 'kill her'. Over 70% of domestic violence murders happens after the victim has ended the relationship.

Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies from indifference toward the unique values which created it.

Often things are as bad as they seem.

The violence in the Old Testament and New Testament is descriptive. The violence in the Koran is for all time and it is prescriptive. And Mohammed said "I have been made victorious through terror.".

Sexual assault and domestic violence are difficult things to talk about. Talk about them anyway.

It's not enough just to treat women well. We have to work to make sure all men treat women well.

Are terrorists going to be deterred - are terrorists going to be scared if we react violently? No. They love it. That's what they dote on. They dote on violence. They dote on having more reasons to commit more terrorism.

A film is like a battleground. It's love, hate, action, violence, death—In one word, emotions.

There is a great streak of violence in every human being. If it is not channeled and understood, it will break out in war or in madness.

Real confidence comes from knowing and accepting yourself- your strengths and your limitations -in contrast to depending on affirmation from others.

Violence is a personal necessity for the oppressed...It is not a strategy consciously devised. It is the deep, instinctive expression of a human being denied individuality.

I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.

Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism.

Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.

Nothing is so dangerous as that of violence employed by well-meaning people for beneficial objects.

Sovereignty and the right to rule cannot be conferred on anyone no matter who ... as a result of an academic discussion. Sovereignty is acquired by force and power and violence.