Violence Is Inevitable Quotes

#1. Violence is Inevitable.

Robert Harris

#2. Violence is inevitable in crime novels, but there are many different ways to tell a story. I use my characters' reactions to illustrate the worst moments rather than let readers witness them at first hand.

Michael Robotham

#3. To kill these (rabid) dogs, in my opinion, amount to himsa, but I believe it to be inevitable if we are to escape much greater himsa.

Mahatma Gandhi

#4. If pretending to know was childish and pretending not to know was adult, then Punpun thought that he was still probably just a child.

Inio Asano

#5. Some people say ... that violence and war are inevitable. I say rubbish: Our brains are fully capable of controlling instinctive behavior. We're not very good at it though, are we?

Jane Goodall

#6. Great leaders communicate a vision that captures the imagination and fires the hearts and minds of those around them.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#7. I see friends who are in different genres of music, and they say they're so burnt playing the same stuff every night. That's why you see a country act wanting to go out and play an old classic rock song. But what cracks me up is that they all want to be Jimmy Buffett. I can't figure that out.

Kid Rock

#8. In your face, E! X totally won that bet. The dark madame left the room to let X continue to bleed out. X had one other thought beyond destroying the female. Where the hell did she get those sweet shoes?

Marie Johnston

#9. In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival.

Andrew Young

#10. I think violence is part of the struggle against oppression. If something bad happens to these people [animal researchers], it will discourage others. It is inevitable that violence will be used in the struggle and that it will be effective.

Jerry Vlasak

#11. I didn't want to be a 'Fortune' writer who was constrained in any way.

Carol Loomis

#12. Some people say, therefore, that violence and war are inevitable. I say rubbish: Our brains are fully capable of controlling instinctive behavior.

Jane Goodall

#13. The Bush administration made us nostalgic for ... well, any other time in history.

Hal Sparks

#14. Violence is not inevitable. I mean, the only inevitable form of violence is the kind that we understand, the only legitimate (if there can ever be legitimate violence) and that's self-defense.

Gloria Steinem

#15. There was one big rule in life - the things you worried about never happened, and the things that happened were never the ones you expected. Not that this bit of advice helped Johnny much. It simply meant that he spent more time guessing at what the unexpected disasters in his life would be.

John Bellairs

#16. Hannah ran past, beaming. I remember that feeling
when you're a kid and it's your birthday and for one day everyone makes you feel like the most special person in the world.

Jojo Moyes

#17. I picked up the statue and looked at it from different angles. The eight arms were fearsome. Note to self: in a battle against Durga, run the other direction.

Colleen Houck

#18. The US government decided today that because I did such a good job investigating the cyber-industrial complex, they're now going to send me to investigate the prison-industrial complex.

Barrett Brown

#19. I was never in an awkward position where I had to curb my manhood.

Beanie Sigel

#20. Indeed the very word, nonviolence, a negative word, means that it is an effort to abandon the violence that is inevitable in life.

Mahatma Gandhi

#21. We're trying to sell peace, like a product, you know, and sell it like people sell soap or soft drinks. And it's the only way to get people aware that peace is possible, and it isn't just inevitable to have violence. Not just war - all forms of violence.

John Lennon

#22. Violence against women is an appalling human rights violation. But it is not inevitable. We can put a stop to this.

Nicole Kidman

#23. All at once he feels weary of ganefs and prophets, guns and sacrifices and the infinite gangster weight of God. He's tired of hearing about the promised land and the inevitable bloodshed required for its redemption.

Michael Chabon

#24. Our souls should be like a transparent crystal through which God can be perceived.

Hildegard Of Bingen

#25. But does that mean that war and violence are inevitable? I would argue not because we have also evolved this amazingly sophisticated intellect, and we are capable of controlling our innate behavior a lot of the time.

Jane Goodall

#26. Politics now is really only about self-interest, which means it has violence built into it because your self-interest is going to collide with the self-interest of the rest of the world. That's inevitable.

Pankaj Mishra

#27. Ask the poor. They'll tell you who the christians are.

Mahatma Gandhi

#28. Like the muscles knew from the beginning that it would end with this, this inevitable falling apart ... It's sad, but a relief as well to know that two things so closely bound together can separate with so little violence, leaving smooth surfaces instead of bloody shreds.

Julie Powell

#29. Each being in the universe yearns for the free energy necessary for survival and development. Each existence resists extinction. The consequent history of violence in the universe is as inevitable as the gravitational pull between the Earth and the Sun.

Brian Swimme