Quotes About Senseless Violence

#1. What senseless violence does is to prolong the lease of life of the British or foreign rule.

Mahatma Gandhi

#2. I won't make games with senseless violence. There has to be a reason for it, such as war.

Hideo Kojima

#3. John F. Kennedy, the man I had thought would define the political ideal for the rest of my days, was suddenly gone in the senseless violence of a single moment.

Tom Brokaw

#4. There's a difference between violence and senseless violence.

DMX

#5. Senseless violence is a prerogative of youth, which has much energy but little talent for the constructive.

Anthony Burgess

#6. The appalling crackdown that we witnessed in Hama and other Syrian cities on 30 and 31 July only erode the regime's legitimacy and increase resentment. In the absence of an end to the senseless violence and a genuine process of political reform, we will continue to pursue further EU sanctions.

William Hague

#7. I find it difficult to believe that I belong to such an idiotic, rotten species - the species that actually boasts of its freedom of will, heroism on command, senseless violence, and all of the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism.

Albert Einstein

#8. I don't advocate senseless violence of any human being. I'm the one who's been beat down. But I will not be a victim again.

Tupac Shakur

#9. Torture is senseless violence, born in fear ... torture costs human lives but does not save them. We would almost be too lucky if these crimes were the work of savages: the truth is that torture makes torturers.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#10. Working together, as parents, neighbors, and law enforcement officials, we must dedicate ourselves to preventing senseless violence in our communities.

Corey Mitchell

#11. Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them.

Steve Alten

#12. 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

#13. I am deeply disturbed by the senseless violence instigated by some leaders in pursuit of their personal political agenda.

Mwai Kibaki

#14. A random act of violence," his mother called it. "A totally senseless thing." Unnecessary qualifiers, he sometimes wants to tell her, as the universe is random and senseless place.

Thomas Pierce

#15. Like most human behavior, violence has meaning: it only seems 'senseless' or 'meaningless' to the extent we are unable-or unwilling-to decode it.

Stephen A. Diamond

#16. We may never understand what leads anybody to terrorize their fellow human beings. Such violence, such evil is senseless. It's beyond reason.

Barack Obama

#17. The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forces it to do so.

Henri Poincare

#18. This is a formidable enemy. To dismiss it as a bunch of 'cowards' perpetuating 'senseless acts of violence' is complacent nonsense. People willing to kill thousands of innocents while they kill themselves are not cowards. They are deadly vicious warriors and need to be treated as such.

Charles Krauthammer

#19. The best thing you have to offer the world is yourself. You don't have to copy anyone else. If you do, you're second best. To achieve success is to be first, and that's being yourself.

John Denver

#20. We cannot start over, but we can begin now, and make a new beginning

Zig Ziglar

#21. Marriage is no way of life for the weak, the selfish, or the insecure.

Sidney Poitier

#22. Kids are curious.Kids are watching ants while adults are stepping on them.

Jim Rohn

#23. In the service of Caesar, everything is legitimate.

Pierre Corneille

#24. And I wondered if hurdlers ever thought, you know, 'This would go faster if we just got rid of the hurdles.

John Green

#25. Okay, he thinks, perhaps it's time for everybody to move on; nothing lasts forever, it's part of the physics of friendships, alliances, whatever it might be they perpetrated for a while among themselves.

Paul Russell

#26. I had a dream about you last night. The champagne was non-alcoholic. You didn't notice, and laughed at my jokes anyway.

Michael Summers

#27. The ordinary, utterly mundane reason behind the massacre makes it somehow more terrible, and far more depressing. The word 'senseless' springs to mind, and Idris thwarts it. It's what people always say. A senseless act of violence. A senseless murder. As if you could commit sensible murder.

Khaled Hosseini

#28. Dear young friends, learn to pray every day: this is the way to know Jesus and invite him into your lives.

Pope Francis

#29. Relying so heavily on an individual is dangerous, Because you never truly know who they put their dependency in And when they walk away You'll never fully recover that piece of you they took with them.

Gwyneth Oviere

#30. For some years, I've been very interested in the relationship between science and art.

Simon McBurney

#31. People respect me; I respect them. I'll never change. I realize who I am.

Michael Vick