Prevent Violence Quotes

#1. I would suffer all the humiliation, all the torture, the absolute ostracism and even death, to prevent violence

Martin Luther King Jr.

#2. Making improvements to our background check system and cracking down on illegal gun trafficking are common-sense ways to prevent violence without punishing law abiding gun owners. We owe it to the American people to take real action to reduce gun violence in our communities.

Martin Heinrich

#3. The power to prevent violence is a power that no police force seems to have anywhere in the United States.

John Abizaid

#4. We are affirming human rights for all women and girls, acknowledging the full range of diversity that exists, and detailing actions to prevent violence.

Bella Abzug

#5. My second novel, 'The Luminaries,' is set in the New Zealand gold rushes of the 1860s, though it's not really a historical novel in the conventional sense. So far, I've been describing it as 'an astrological murder mystery.'

Eleanor Catton

#6. Middle class jobs prevent crime and violence.

Michael Moore

#7. The purpose and function of government is not to preside over change but to prevent change. By political methods when unavoidable, by violence when convenient.

Edward Abbey

#8. Life is as beautiful as we make it ...

Jagvir

#9. To prevent the workers from going to their work by standing in front of them is pure violence and must be given up.

Mahatma Gandhi

#10. Thwart: to prevent someone from accomplishing something by means of visiting gratuitous violence upon his smarmy person.

Jim Butcher

#11. If you have been raped or sexually assaulted and you have been blamed, or fear that you may be blamed, I just want you to understand this: You are not to blame. There is nothing you did to make someone hurt you, nor is there anything you could have done differently to prevent or stop it.

Robert Uttaro

#12. Surely there are common-sense reforms that we should, and must, take in order to keep our children and our communities safe. I take these recommendations very seriously, and will listen to the voices of my constituents to ensure I do everything I can to help prevent gun violence.

Paul Tonko

#13. Sometimes violence is necessary to prevent even more violence, I concluded, almost as if it were an epiphany.

Zack Love

#14. We cannot stop every act of senseless violence. We cannot know every evil that lurks in troubled minds. But if we can prevent even one tragedy like this, save even one life, spare other families what these families are going through, certainly we've got an obligation to try.

Barack Obama

#15. If we act together on the drug problem, with a comprehensive vision devoid of ideological or political biases, we will be able to prevent much harm and violence!

Juan Manuel Santos

#16. The main point of the Klan's orgy of violence was to prevent blacks from voting - voting, that is, for Republicans. Leading Democrats, including at least one president, two Supreme Court justices, and innumerable senators and congressmen, were Klan members.

Dinesh D'Souza

#17. It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.

Plato

#18. This overwhelming, encompassing feeling is love. It's not perfect and it's messy as hell. And it's exactly what I need.

Katie McGarry

#19. Any situation in which some men prevent others from engaging in the process of inquiry is one of violence; ... to alienate humans from their own decision making is to change them into objects.

Paulo Freire

#20. It's easier to revise lousy writing than to revise a blank sheet of paper.

S.A. Bodeen

#21. Thwart," I said. "To prevent someone from accomplishing something by means of visiting gratuitous violence upon his smarmy person."
"I'm pretty sure that isn't the definition." Sarissa said.
"It is today.

Jim Butcher

#22. Our first responsibility in the midst of violence is to prevent it from destroying us.

Henri Nouwen

#23. Health systems usually deal with the consequences of violence. We normally, in the health system, don't have the tools to prevent it, because these require policy interventions in every arena.

Julio Frenk