Top 100 With 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. Peace does not mean an absence of violence or conflict, but it means how we respond to it, with violence or with love and understanding. Hate never can eradicate hate but love can.
Debasish Mridha
#3. My experiences with violence in schools still echo throughout my life but standing to face the problem has helped me in immeasurable ways,
Shane Koyczan
#4. May the God of peace arouse in all an authentic desire for dialogue and reconciliation. Violence cannot be overcome with violence. Violence is overcome with peace.
Pope Francis
#5. It didn't take much prompting for Cariocas who were sick of living with violence to advocate violence as a solution.
Juliana Barbassa
#6. 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
#7. I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.
Mandy Patinkin
#8. With violence, as with so many other concerns, human nature is the problem, but human nature is also the solution.
Steven Pinker
#9. If you are writing a thriller with violence in it, the ending must be violent. You are delivering a promise to your reader.
Gayle Lynds
#10. Mix me with violence, blend me with peace,
Combine me with hate, and I can't face defeat.
Puff Daddy
#11. There is nothing wrong with violence in itself. In any particular case, whether violence is good or bad depends on how it is used and the purpose for which it is used.
Theodore Kaczynski
#12. I don't feel comfortable with violence, and I'm not sure that I film violent scenes properly, and it's something I'm reticent to do, and yet violence is sort of in all of my films.
Jacques Audiard
#13. Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence.
Jim Morrison
#14. The saying that people who have nothing to do become busybodies is not the only truth. Excitement is a drug, and people whose lives are filled with violence are always wondering where the next 'fix' is coming from.
Maya Angelou
#15. When you take hope away it leaves a void. Some people fill that up with anger and with violence. To simply blame it on the media is wrong. It's much deeper than that.
Michael Connelly
#16. We are supposed to be the children of Seth; but Seth is too much of an effete nonentity to deserve ancestral regard. No, we are the sons of Cain, and with violence can be associated the attacks on sound, stone, wood and metal that produced civilization.
Anthony Burgess
#18. I do not believe it is right to identify Islam with violence. This is not right or true.
Pope Francis
#19. Intemperance is naturally punished with diseases; rashness, with mischance; injustice; with violence of enemies; pride, with ruin; cowardice, with oppression; and rebellion, with slaughter.
Thomas Hobbes
#20. In general, the mass media tell us that black people are not loving, that our lives are so fraught with violence and aggression that we have no time to love.
Bell Hooks
#21. We may win a battle, but if in doing so we have planted thousands of seeds of hatred and fear..the war is not over- only the present conflict has ceased. There will be no peace as long as we react to violence with violence.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#22. In football, you're taught to react by being aggressive, taught to react with violence. If you can't separate that on the field and off the field, you're going to be in a lot of trouble in your life.
Troy Polamalu
#23. Its [Communism's] unfortunate association with violence encourages a certain evil tendency in human beings.
Jawaharlal Nehru
#24. Say what you want but you NEVER say it with violence!
Gerard Way
#25. The fateful equating of power with violence, of the political with government, and of government with a necessary evil has begun.
Hannah Arendt
#26. It is triple ultra forbidden to respond to criticism with violence. There are a very few injunctions in the human art of rationality that have no ifs, ands, buts, or escape clauses. This is one of them. Bad argument gets counterargument. Does not get bullet. Never. Never ever never for ever.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#27. I am profoundly fascinated by cruelty, fear, horror and death. My films show my preoccupation with violence, the pathology of violence.
Fritz Lang
#29. On the field is a place where you can just let it loose and react to everything with violence.
Troy Polamalu
#30. No matter where you go and what you do in America, you turn the tele on and you're confronted with violence.
Steve Irwin
#31. When every young man refuses to go to war, you will have peace. You do not defend any idea with violence.
Jane Roberts
#32. I voice my opinions on social media and I have people threatening me with violence. It is troubling but I can fight back, which is good.
Margaret Cho
#34. We collide like two forceful storm clouds creating a thunderhead, with violence and darkness, and bright flashes of angry electricity that will raze the land to the ground. But when the fire dies out, the land will be reborn.
Erica Chilson
#35. Good heavens." Wolfe pushed back his chair, not of course with violence, but with determination. "Archie. Understand this. As a man of action you are tolerable, you are even competent. But I will not for one moment put up with you as a psychologist. I
Rex Stout
#36. Feminism is not antisexuality. On the contrary. It says that sexuality shouldn't be confused with violence and dominance and that it should be a matter of free choice. It shouldn't be forced on you by economics, including dependence on a husband, or by pressure.
Gloria Steinem
#38. I think America's obsession with guns and with violence in media and society is a horrible sickness.
Jeff Lemire
#39. So much of contemporary crime fiction is painful to read and obsessed with violence, particularly against women, and I can't read that.
Donna Leon
#40. And I served as an officer in the army."
"Very impressive. I've been told that war is boredom interspersed with violence and terror.
Julie Anne Long
#41. Answer violence with violence. If one of us falls today, five of them must fall tomorrow.
Evita Peron
#42. A strip club is one of the few places where two groups voluntarily come together who have such precipitous contrasts in net worth and familiarity with violence, each group with a head-and-shoulders edge in one category. The basic math of a tropical storm.
Tim Dorsey
#43. He defended respectability with violence and exaggeration.
G.K. Chesterton
#44. There is a certain kind of dignity we admire, and to which we aspire, in the person who refuses to meet anger with anger, violence with violence, or hatred with hatred.
Desmond Tutu
#45. The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise they will win and the decent people will loose.
James Earl Jones
#46. I was raised in Washington, DC, very violent place. I grew up with violence. My introduction to music was violent. The years I've spent on tours, some of that was extremely violent.
Henry Rollins
#47. Lizzie Harris's Stop Wanting is an unflinching book about a girlhood filled with violence, doubt, vulnerability, and loss. These gorgeously crafted and hauntingly memorable poems are a bleak place full of life, prayer, and the kind of answers only poems like these can provide.
Rachel Zucker
#48. When these with violence were burned to death,
We wished for our Elizabeth.
Alison Weir
#49. 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
#50. The feel of her skin as she struggled beneath, the life inside, the death without. The breaching of life and death, of survival uncaged inside him: a dark beast with violence and sex in its soul.
In his soul.
Mav Skye
#51. When these with violence were put to death,
We prayed to God four our Elizabeth.
Emily Purdy
#53. The National Football League needs "a guardian, not a CEO" to deal with the fact that "the sport is simply more and more identified with violence, both in its inherent nature and in its savage personnel.
Frank Deford
#54. There is a fascination with violence and power in all modernism, and I sort of saw classic modernism as being more similar to Wyndham Lewis than to the Renaissance. It's not about flow and the presence of humanism and all those things.
John Currin
#55. Here we will solve with laws and dollars, problems that too many people around the world still must solve with violence and civil war.
Marco Rubio
#56. It's so weird that I play this woman who pretty much deals with violence on a daily basis, and I'm such a wimp in who I am.
Katey Sagal
#57. Power exercised with violence has seldom been of long duration ...
Seneca The Younger
#58. The threat is over, erased with violence and tiny porcelain hands so used to abuse they can stand innocent no longer.
C.M. Stunich
#59. The opposite of war is not peace but civilisation, and civilisation is purchased with violence and cold-blooded murder. With war.
Nadeem Aslam
#60. I am a teacher. Pay close attention - this will be on the test. You don't wreck buildings. You don't take children hostage. And you don't threaten people with violence. Okay class dismissed. Looks like you fail!
Yoko
#61. We seem okay with violence, but nudity we race to criticize and censor.
Eva Mendes
#62. It is unfortunate that the efforts of mankind to recover the freedom of which they have been so long deprived, will be accompanied with violence, with errors, and even with crimes. But while we weep over the means, we must pray for the end.
Thomas Jefferson
#63. It's important for someone who's dealt with violence to be able to talk to someone, no matter who it is. So I'm vocal about how I feel. That's how I've worked through a lot of my problems.
Christina Aguilera
#64. I have this problem with violence. I've only done one movie in almost 20 years where I killed people. It's called Perdita Durango. It's a Spanish movie. I'm very proud of the movie, but I felt weird doing that.
Javier Bardem
#65. American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc.
Katherine Dunn
#66. You can't transform a society for the better with violence, Ashala. Only with ideas.
Ambelin Kwaymullina
#67. There's an incredible fascination for that and that goes with violence and everything else in pictures.
Bo Derek
#68. It seems disingenuous to ask a writer why she, or he, is writing about a violent subject when the world and history are filled with violence.
Joyce Carol Oates
#69. This wretched body, the chain and prison of the soul, is tossed hither and thither; upon it punishment and pillage and disease wreak havoc: but the soul itself is holy and eternal, and it cannot be assailed with violence.
Seneca.
#70. 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
#71. All breathing, existing, living, sentient creatures should not be slain, nor treated with violence, nor abused, nor tormented, nor driven away.
Mahavira
#72. The sexual energies returned, when they're not evolved, are still linked with violence and the fear of power - the fear of women.
Frederick Lenz
#73. It's the way that I think about the world, and the way that I like to tell stories - I don't think you should get too heavy. There's enough out there, in the world, with violence. I think that comedy lightens the heaviness [of the world].
Martin McDonagh
#74. If you try to fix violence with violence, you do NOTHING but create violence.
Tom DeLonge
#75. I think it's very easy to disgust the reader with violence on the page - that's incredibly easy - but it's far harder to make a reader care about a character.
Mark Billingham
#76. Do not ever threaten an Afghan with violence. We will rise as one and we will face every threat the way we have taken on thousands of previous armies and conquerors.
Ashraf Ghani
#77. In a world filled with violence, hatred, and suspicion, giving is an expression of faith, trust, and concern.
Douglas A. Lawson
#79. If you want peace, you won't get it with violence.
John Lennon
#80. One who, while seeking happiness, oppresses with violence other living beings who also desire happinesss, will not find happiness hereafter.
Gautama Buddha
#81. We can't answer King's assassination with violence. That would be the worst tribute we could pay him.
Sammy Davis Jr.
#82. The socialistic conception of the West was born in an environment reeking with violence.
Mahatma Gandhi
#83. If you love with violence and you hate with violence there is nothing that can be questioned.
Charlie Sheen
#85. The world holds no trace of what happens in it unless we carve it in with violence or concrete.
Barney Norris
#86. people cling to folly as if it were their most prized possession, defending it, sometimes with violence, against the possibility of wisdom. It
Richard Russo
#87. Maybe every other American movie shouldn't be based on a comic book. Other countries will think Americans live in an infantile fantasy land where reality is whatever we say it is and every problem can be solved with violence.
Bill Maher
#88. I isolate this non-co-operation from Sinn Feinism, for it is so conceived as to be incapable of being offered side by side with violence.
Mahatma Gandhi
#89. Where men come to and women come together most intimately in sexuality in the home has become suffused with violence.
Gloria Steinem
#90. It's not that the film is violent, it's that people have an issue with violence right now.
Thomas Jane
#91. At first everyone predicted that it would be impossible to hold these divergent people together, but aside from the skilled men, some of whom belonged to craft unions, comparatively few went back to the mills. And as a whole, the strike was conducted with little violence.
Ray Stannard Baker
#92. Unfortunately there is a standard set for it that precedes hip-hop. It would be great if corporate America didn't do this, but there is a huge market for sex and violence and anti-Black representations in America and the world that doesn't begin or end with hip-hop.
Bakari Kitwana
#93. Dicing with death is one man's cup of tea, but another man's poison. I just didn't fear anything.
Stephen Richards
#94. The older I get, the more I can't stand violence and have a hard time with seeing people die in horrific ways. It gets harder and harder to watch and deal with that stuff.
Matthew Lillard
#95. You don't need a weapon to protect yourself.
Bill Maher
#96. Our goals can only be achieved with a society that respects and equally protects the rights of every human being, old and young, rich and poor, regardless of gender, color, race, or creed. We must reject the initiation of violence by individuals or government as morally repugnant.
Ron Paul
#97. Custom is the lord of everything,
of mortals and immortals king.
High violence it justifies,
with hand uplifted plundering.
Pindar
#98. It takes a good guy with a gun, to stop a bad guy with a gun (unless the bad guy's a much better shot).
Quentin R. Bufogle
#99. See how it's a philosophy that's been handed to you by a bunch of men who were afraid. So instead, they overcompensate with hatred and violence and repression.
Frederick Lenz
#100. The ice cold fear I'd felt, not knowing if Wyatt was alive, pressed into the wall with other girls and surrounded by guys who were unspeakably brave, hit my body again in a wave. This was trauma - the gift that keeps on giving.
Laura Anderson Kurk
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