Idea Violence Quotes

#1. The Grimm collections were never intended for children. Not because kids were excluded, but because the division we make today of children's literature didn't exist then. The idea of protecting children from tales with violence didn't occur until the earlier part of the 19th century.

Jack Zipes

#2. I will never cut it as a Quaker - I cannot find it in me to renounce all violence, not with two daughters under my protection - but I do love their silent hour, which in my case invariably evolved into a self-scouring meditation on the idea that the busy life is not the full life.

Michael Perry

#3. We can't handle violence in women characters but we CAN handle what's done to women in our present tense every second of the day worldwide? Or next door? Or in political or medical discourse? Please. That idea just makes me want to crap on a table at a very fancy restaurant.

Lidia Yuknavitch

#4. But the idea of an Aryan race could never become metaphysically true, despite all the violence unleashed to create it, because there simply is no Aryan race. There is only the idea of it - and the consequences of trying to make it seem real. The male sex is very like that.

John Stoltenberg

#5. I do not know what put the idea of China into his head, but at first he must have thrust it aside with violent repulsion; and perhaps the very violence of his repulsion impressed the idea on him, for he found it haunting him.

W. Somerset Maugham

#6. There were no hundreds and hundreds of cases of domestic violence. I would have no knowledge of that or have any idea how I would authenticate that. That was never the intent of the writer's conversation with me.

Jerry Angelo

#7. If the pain and destruction wasn't a kind of creation, too: the violence of birth, that kind of idea.

Jeani Rector

#8. War, hatred, and violence all spring from one infernal idea: that one person, race, creed, or culture is better than another.

Laurence Overmire

#9. The entire idea of sin, is based on books of the dead people. It is a sociological invention founded on textual fanaticism.

Abhijit Naskar

#10. Have you any idea of what you've unleashed? (Hades) Cruelty, pestilence, wrath, violence, ultimate suffering ... what other gifts did the gods bestow on him?

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#11. As a human rights issue, the effort to end violence against women becomes a government's obligation, not just a good idea.

Charlotte Bunch

#12. Sorilla wasn't going to pretend that she understood how political discourse worked, but her idea of negotiation took five minutes and generally involved violence or the threat of violence if it lasted much longer.

Evan Currie

#13. No Arab ruler will consider the peace process seriously so long as he is able to toy with the idea of achieving more by the way of violence.

Yitzhak Rabin

#14. An idea is an idea. It can be right or wrong. Let me say what I think. Don't seal my lips with your symbolic violence.

Tarif Naaz

#15. Superhero movies and comic books teach a lesson that runs directly counter to the culture-of-violence idea: guns are for bad guys too cowardly to fight like men.

Stephen King

#16. When every young man refuses to go to war, you will have peace. You do not defend any idea with violence.

Jane Roberts

#17. It's the same way people have always felt. Since the days we lived in caves and feared the violence of nature and then dreamed up the idea of gods and feared their anger and then joined together in groups and came to fear each other.

Greg Hrbek

#18. This pervasive idea that trans women deserve violence needs to be abolished. It's a socially sanctioned practice of blaming the victim. We must begin blaming our culture, which stigmatizes, demeans, and strips trans women of their humanity.

Janet Mock

#19. The idea that America exists in a culture of violence is bullshit. What America exists in is a culture of Kardashian.

Stephen King

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

Marianne Williamson

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

Ela Bhatt

#22. He soon recognized the fact that the stimulus proceeded from the idea to be in the power of a woman rather than from the act of violence itself.

Richard Von Krafft-Ebing

#23. No! Wait! I've got a better idea ... "
"Your ideas tend to result in unnecessary violence, Sergeant Schlock."
"And your point is ... "
"Let's broaden the definition of 'necessary'.

Howard Tayler

#24. Truth, Peace and Non-violence form the central tenets of the 'Idea of India'!

Narendra Modi

#25. Life is sacred? Who said so? God? Hey, if you read history, you realize that God is one of the leading causes of death! Has been for thousands of years! Hindus, Muslims, Jews, Christians; all taking turns killing each other because God told 'em it was a good idea.

George Carlin

#26. - The idea that love conquers all may seem to be a foolishly idealistic one, but I believe in it nonetheless. How can I believe otherwise? If love cannot conquer all, what can? Hatred? Violence? Despair?

Mary Balogh

#27. The only idea they have ever manifested as to what is a government of consent, is this
that it is one to which everybody must consent, or be shot.

Lysander Spooner

#28. Hiroshima has become a metaphor not just for nuclear war but for war and destruction and violence toward civilians. It's not just the idea we should not use nuclear arms. We should not start another war because it's madness.

Max Von Sydow

#29. People are disturbed enough by serial killers, but the whole notion of female violence, particularly maternal violence - the idea of mothers who kill - really unnerves people.

Caleb Carr

#30. The human body is not obscene, sexuality is not obscene. But it [pornography] is not sex, it is violence. It encourages acceptance of the idea that violence is a legitimate part of sexuality.

Gloria Steinem

#31. No Bolshevik, no Communist, no intelligent socialist has ever entertained the idea of violence against the middle peasants. All socialists have always spoken of agreement with them and of
their gradual and voluntary transition to socialism.

Vladimir Lenin

#32. I like this idea of generation after generation helping children on the streets, kids who have run away fleeing violence. I like the whole idea of opening arms for children who have nowhere else to go, sleeping by dumpsters.

Laura Bush