Violence Quotes
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Since violence is largely a male pastime, cultures that empower women tend to move away from the glorification of violence and are less likely to breed dangerous subcultures of rootless young men (Violence Quotes)
A new type of superstition has got hold of people’s minds, the worship of the state. People demand the exercise of the methods of coercion and compulsion, of violence and threat. Woe to anybody who does not bend his knee to the fashionable idols! (Violence Quotes)
On my knees, I beg of you to turn away from the paths of violence and to return to the path of peace. Those who resort to violence always claim that only violence brings about change. You must know there is a political, peaceful way to justice (Violence Quotes)
Research shows that the wealthier, more educated, and healthier a nation, the less violence and civil unrest among its populace, and the less likely that unrest will spread across its borders (Violence Quotes)
Violence, contrary to popular belief, is not part of the anarchist philosophy. It has repeatedly been pointed out by anarchist thinkers that the revolution can neither be won, nor the anarchist society established and maintained, by armed violence (Violence Quotes)
One effect of an individualistic culture that’s poor at instilling mutual respect is that people jump more quickly to anger or violence (Violence Quotes)
Family violence is a criminal act; perpetrators, while often former victims themselves, need to accept culpability (Violence Quotes)
I don’t know any religion that promotes violence. It is the adherents of whatever religion (Violence Quotes)
There is no religion in fact that I know that encourages or propagates violence in that its adherents should carry out (Violence Quotes)
Until we eliminate the mentality of violence, we will not find the harmony within ourselves we’re looking for (Violence Quotes)
There’s always been violence in movies, and there will always be violence in movies. Whether it lends to the one psychotic that’s out there, thinking the worst thoughts you could possibly thing, is always going to be a mystery (Violence Quotes)
Rome has betrayed itself. It knew the truth and chose violence, it knew humaneness and it chose tyranny (Violence Quotes)
I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life (Violence Quotes)
Democracy is the most realistic way for diverse peoples to resolve their differences, and share power, and heal social divisions without violence or repression (Violence Quotes)
If you study the history of mankind, it seems to be a history of violence. Certainly the history of art, whether you look at paintings or movies or plays or whatever, is just a litany of murder and death (Violence Quotes)
We’re fascinated by things that scare us, and one of the things that scares us is violence. Violence exists. It’s a real part of our lives. We are obsessed with what we’re scared of, but it certainly doesn’t define us (Violence Quotes)
I’ve written films that are violent. I’m not big on sitting and watching violence (Violence Quotes)
If you’re ever in a dark place, don’t resort to violence. Talk to someone; whether it be a therapist, teacher, parent, or just someone you can trust. We all have our dark places and it’s important that you get help (Violence Quotes)
Human nature at times is unfortunately very ugly and I learned the world can be a very ugly place. For as much beauty there is, there’s just as much brutality and violence and ugliness (Violence Quotes)
It’s the suppression of the word that gives it the power, the violence, the viciousness (Violence Quotes)
The learned and the studious of thought have no monopoly of wisdom. Their violence of direction in some degree disqualifies them to think truly (Violence Quotes)
No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence in the end is rewarded (Violence Quotes)
People kill and are killed because they cling too tightly to their own beliefs and ideologies. When we believe that ours is the only faith that contains the truth, violence and suffering will surely be the result (Violence Quotes)
Munificent nature follows the methods of the divine and true, and rounds all things to her perfect law. While nations are convulsed with blood and violence, how quietly the grass grows (Violence Quotes)
I am not an absolute pacifist, because I can’t rule out the possibility that under some, carefully defined circumstances, some degree of violence may be justified, if it is focused directly at a great evil (Violence Quotes)
Education in the key to preventing the cycle of violence and hatred that marred the 20th century from repeating itself in the 21st century (Violence Quotes)
Little minds try to solve the matters through violence and darkness; great minds try to solve the matters through love and light! (Violence Quotes)
Till the sun of knowledge shines on the ignorant masses and till all the men start hating violence, the world shall find no peace! (Violence Quotes)
Hate is your enemy; you must defeat it! Anger is your enemy; you must defeat it! Violence is your enemy; you must defeat it! Death is your enemy; you must defeat it! Know well your real enemies! (Violence Quotes)
There’s no more personal issue than gun violence; every one of these stories is a life lost, I’m hoping that over the long term, as I tell these stories, that it will help to open people’s eyes (Violence Quotes)