Best Violence Quotes

#1. What eleven- to thirteen-year-old boys fear is passivity of any kind. When they do act passively we can be fairly certain that it is an act of aggression designed to torment a parent or teacher ... Mischief at best, violence at worst is the boy's proclamation of masculinity.

Louise J. Kaplan

#2. I try to tell the best story, and the story that has some heart and some genuine terror and some social commentary and some comedy and some romance and some sex and some violence.

Alan Ball

#3. Attack being the best form of defence, and never ever show that you might be in pain. That would only invite more violence because pity was for wimps and wimps could not survive round here

Meera Syal

#4. For the violence in the dark streets, education is the best street light!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#5. There is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the average
human being to supply any given army on any given day and the best at murder are those who preach against it
and the best at hate are those who preach love and the best at war finally are those who preach peace

Charles Bukowski

#6. Keeping a monopoly on legitimate violence is still the proven best way to limit violence and allow reason some asylum where it can be freely practiced.

Jacques Ranciere

#7. She always says I'm the best friend that she's ever had... how do you hang up on someone who needs you that bad? ~From 'Laura' on The Nylon Curtain

Billy Joel

#8. The best soldier does not attack. The superior fighter succeeds without violence. The greatest conqueror wins without struggle. The most successful manager leads without dictating. This is intelligent non aggressiveness.

Laozi

#9. That is straight out of Gandhi. If people are not afraid of the dictatorship, that dictatorship is in big trouble. ... If you fight with violence, you are fighting with your enemy's best weapon, and you may be a brave but dead hero.

Gene Sharp

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

Ela Bhatt

#11. There are many ways to roll with the punches. Still, it's probably best to avoid people who punch you.

Alex Bosworth

#12. Violence never settles anything right: apart from injuring your own soul, it injures the best cause. It lingers on long after the object of hate has disappeared from the scene to plague the lives of those who have employed it against their foes.

Obafemi Awolowo

#13. To imply that domestic abuse is only inflicted against women by men is at best, ill informed, and at worst, intentionally deceptive. To acknowledge domestic violence against men does not diminish the injustices suffered by women. In fact, it gives men and women common cause to go forward together.

Mark Greene

#14. The best protection against rape, stalking, and domestic violence is to raise men who both understand that women are different, and would never dare take advantage of this difference.

Wendy Shalit

#15. Violence needs to stop. All of us - men and women - need to speak up and teach our children that violence is never the solution. Together we can all make a difference. The best place to start is with yourself.

Will Young

#16. As soon as you choose to fight with violence you're choosing to fight against your opponents best weapons and you have to be smarter than that,

Gene Sharp

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

Charlotte Bronte

#18. Rohini Mohan read. While she did, I sketched her. She writes with such beauty and violence, and it seemed like the best way to listen was to really watch her, in the way that only drawing someone lets me do.

Molly Crabapple

#19. We know that in the attempt to be freed of the enemy without, we can be tempted to feed the enemy within. To imitate the hatred and violence of tyrants and murderers is the best way to take their place.

Pope Francis

#20. You can't answer violence with counter violence ... The answer is love. The best sabotage is love.

Athol Fugard

#21. Islam doesn't have a monopoly on violence in Africa. And violence plays a particularly critical role in places where statehood is weak at best, such as the Maghreb.

Eliza Griswold

#22. Control and violence that is best reflected in the state, are evil in themselves. In this knowledge lies the great truth of anarchism.

Nikolai A. Berdyaev

#23. The community does not fight crime well by chasing it; after-the-fact, crime has won and the target of violence is injured or worse. Crime is fought best not by chasing it, but by facing it before it can become a completed act.

Crime is fought best at the scene of the violence.

John Longenecker

#24. I knew I wanted to write on religious themes when I was a GI in World War II. I saw and experienced so much violence that I thought I could express my outrage best with music.

Dave Brubeck

#25. Always best to start with violence and attempt communication second. People reacted more favorably when they knew you would snuff a few lives to get what you wanted... or for no reason whatsoever.

Michael R. Fletcher

#26. During the summer of 2009, the debate on health care reform was emotional and intense. At its best, it represented the free exchange of ideas that makes this country great. At its worst, it generated death threats and acts of violence.

Chellie Pingree

#27. It's not easy to be optimistic and hopeful after you come to know and love some of the young victims of sexual abuse, violence, poverty, neglect, drugs, and rape. It's taking me a while to climb out of this hatred, this noxious cynicism. I'm doing my best.

M.T. Johnson

#28. Creativity and intelligence, rather than violence, are the best problem solvers.

Don Roff

#29. Unfortunately, man, a lot of places in America have to deal with unnecessary violence. Somebody like me who knows it firsthand and could relate ... I had a best friend killed, plenty other friends killed. I been through it. I seen it.

Nas

#30. An organic farmer is the best peacemaker today, because there is more violence, more death, more destruction, more wars, through a violent industrial agricultural system. And to shift away from that into an agriculture of peace is what organic farming is doing.

Vandana Shiva

#31. Poetry, at the best, does us a kind of violence that prose fiction rarely attempts or accomplishes.

Harold Bloom

#32. Children get acquainted with each other in a special way, they do not make contracts as adults, they believe each other or not. Childish friendships often end in violence. You may become an enemy all of a sudden as well as notice that you are someone's best friend.

Henning Mankell

#33. I'd also heard that humans were a life-form of, at best, middling intelligence and prone to violence, deep sexual embarrassment, bad poetry, and walking around in circles.

Matt Haig

#34. DANTON: Could you indeed? It's you idealists who make the best tyrants.
ROBESPIERRE: It seems a bit late to be having this conversation. I've had to take up violence now, and so much else. We should have discussed it last year.

Hilary Mantel

#35. Violence always leads to pain Trendal Malian- Ishtaria: Prince of Blades

Keith Collier

#36. Many entire nations are marginalised by the more powerful nations. That is causing imbalance, violence and terror. Women must do their best to introduce another perspective.

Karen Armstrong

#37. The best genius is that which absorbs and assimilates everything without doing the least violence to its fundamental destiny.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#38. As a woman, you accept the situation, adapt to it, and do your best, whereas men would choose violence.

Asne Seierstad