Quotes about Violence

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. Votes: 9

We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict. Votes: 7

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent. Votes: 7

Violence is my last option. Votes: 6

Poverty is the worst form of violence. Votes: 6

Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence. Votes: 6

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him. Votes: 6

Even today we raise our hand against our brother... We have perfected our weapons, our conscience has fallen asleep, and we have sharpened our ideas to justify ourselves as if it were normal we continue to sow destruction, pain, death. Violence and war lead only to death. Votes: 6

The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it. Votes: 5

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. Votes: 5

Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love but to use violence to get what they want. Votes: 5

All violence is the result of people tricking themselves into believing that their pain derives from other people and that consequently those people deserve to be punished. Votes: 5

Nothing good ever comes of violence. Votes: 4

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love. Votes: 4

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. Votes: 4

The State calls its own violence, law; but that of the individual, crime Votes: 4

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding. Votes: 4

When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her. Votes: 4

Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars... Votes: 4

Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence. Votes: 4

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me. Votes: 4

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month. Votes: 4

I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man's problem just to avoid violence. Votes: 4

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence. Votes: 4

Violence multiplies violence. Votes: 3

Violence begets violence. Votes: 3

Violence diminishes our humanity. Votes: 3

Violence doesn't equal strength. Votes: 3

Violence never settles anything. Votes: 3

Violence is never random. Votes: 3

Violence is not funny. Votes: 3

Violence is fun, man. Votes: 3

Violence isn't the answer. Votes: 3

Violence is sometimes a duty. Votes: 3

Violence begins with the fork. Votes: 3

Violence recoils on the violent. Votes: 3

Violence is not the way. Votes: 3

Violence in Darfur is cataclysmic. Votes: 3

Violence begins when imagination fails. Votes: 3

Violence is man re-creating himself. Votes: 3

Violence does even justice unjustly. Votes: 3

Violence begins where knowledge ends. Votes: 3

Violence is absolutely not our method. Votes: 3

Violence is an expression of impotence. Votes: 3

Violence often brings about momentary results. Votes: 3

Violence always thrived on counter violence. Votes: 3

Violence is both unavoidable and unjustifiable. Votes: 3

Violence is a symptom of impotence. Votes: 3

Violence is the ultimate human degradation. Votes: 3

Violence is a form of cinematic entertainment. Votes: 3

Violence should not always beget more violence. Votes: 3

Violence represents the worst kind of conformism. Votes: 3

Violence toward women isn't cultural; it's criminal. Votes: 3

Violence is not only impractical but immoral. Votes: 3

Violence is not only impractical but immoral. Votes: 3

Violence is the language of the inarticulate. Votes: 3

Violence is not more efficient than non-violence. Votes: 3

Violence is the instinctive response to fear. Votes: 3

Violence is a tool of the ignorant. Votes: 3

Violence is as American as cherry pie Votes: 3

Violence is the repartee of the illiterate. Votes: 3

Violence is the repartee of the illiterate. Votes: 3

Violence was almost an aphrodisiac for me. Votes: 3

Violence is just, where kindness is vain. Votes: 3

Violence is the fear to other's ideals. Votes: 3

Violence and fraud can create no right. Votes: 3

Violence and war lead only to death... Votes: 3

Violence is a calm that disturbs you. Votes: 3

Violence is the sign of temporary weakness. Votes: 3

Violence is the weapon of the weak. Votes: 3

Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself. Votes: 3

Violence will only increase the cycle of violence. Votes: 3

Violence is not a catalyst but a diversion. Votes: 3

Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself. Votes: 3

Violence existed before our music was even suggested. Votes: 3

Violence is the only way to answer violence. Votes: 3

Violence is for mugs. War is for mugs. Votes: 3

Violence stops thought. Hence its popularity as a pain-killer. Votes: 3

Violence is for those who have lost their imagination. Votes: 3

Violence can be a gift. Violence belongs to everyone. Votes: 3

Violence against women is as American as apple pie. Votes: 3

Violence is not the answer but neither is peace. Votes: 3

Violence is born of the desire to escape oneself. Votes: 3

Violence is spiritual junk food, and boredom is spiritual anorexia. Votes: 3

Violence has been Nicaragua's most important export to the world. Votes: 3

Violence is one of the most fun things to watch. Votes: 3

Violence is good for those who have nothing to lose. Votes: 3

Violence against even one human being is violence against all. Votes: 3

Despite what your momma told you, Violence does solve problems, Votes: 3

Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men. Votes: 3

Violence of the tongue is very real- sharper than any knife. Votes: 3

Violence isn't the only answer, but it is the final answer. Votes: 3

Violence is a common part of far too many women's lives. Votes: 3

Violence is not completely fatal until it ceases to disturb us. Votes: 3

Violence is the weapon of weak, non-violence that of the strong. Votes: 3

Violence is never ever a choice that a man should make. Votes: 3

Violence is never the answer, unless you don't feel like talking. Votes: 3

Violence always leads to pain" Trendal Malian- Ishtaria: Prince of Blades Votes: 3

Violence can destroy power; it is utterly incapable of creating it. Votes: 3

Violence against women can end only when the culprits get punished. Votes: 3

Violence is a concession to human weakness, satyagraha is an obligation. Votes: 3

Violence is never the right answer, unless used against heathens and monsters. Votes: 3

Violence arises not out of superfluity of power but out of powerlessness. Votes: 3

Violence is not the answer. Terrorism is the most dangerous of answers. Votes: 3

Whenever you deny the hand of Justice, Violence almost always steps in. Votes: 3

Violence in any form is a tragic expression of our unmet needs. Votes: 3

Violence up close has a smell. Like copper blood and charcoal burning. Votes: 3

Violence isn't just a conceptual thing. it could happen to your kids. Votes: 3

Violence is what people do when they run out of good ideas. Votes: 3

Violence is the way stupid people try to level the playing field. Votes: 3

Violence would be a huge gift to those who want a divided Lebanon. Votes: 3

Violence does not always take visible form, and not all wounds gush blood. Votes: 3

Violence won't solve a thing. It makes it more challenging to solve, though. Votes: 3

Violence is a choice a man makes and he alone is responsible for it. Votes: 3

Violence only begets violence when we allow it to. We always have a choice. Votes: 3

Violence was just as much about WHAT was happening as it was how it happened. Votes: 3

Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat. Votes: 3

Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat. Votes: 3

Violence is like a weed - it does not die even in the greatest drought. Votes: 3

Violence is a dark contrast to what so many of us still believe in -- love. Votes: 3

Intimidation, harassment and violence have no place in a democracy. Votes: 2

Mission accomplished, we didn't have any problems as far as violence goes. Votes: 2

I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence. Votes: 2

Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education. Votes: 2

With violence, as with so many other concerns, human nature is the problem, but human nature is also the solution. Votes: 2

If I do not respond to some situation, my conscience kills me. I believe in permissible violence, not necessarily non-violence. Votes: 2

No matter where you go and what you do in America, you turn the tele on and you're confronted with violence. Votes: 2

Dignity does not come from avenging insults, especially from violence that can never be justified. It comes from taking responsibility and advancing our common humanity. Votes: 2

Both Iraq and Syria are a fissile mixture of ethnicities and religions thrown together after Versailles by departing French and British imperialists and only kept together by Baathist tyranny and violence. Votes: 2

Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance. Votes: 2

A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to violence and crime, and any sense of loyalty and good faith will be abandoned. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

It's one thing to say, 'I don't like what you said to me and I find it rude and offensive,' but the moment you threaten violence in return, you've taken it to another level, where you lose whatever credibility you had. Votes: 2

Almost half of the population of the world lives in rural regions and mostly in a state of poverty. Such inequalities in human development have been one of the primary reasons for unrest and, in some parts of the world, even violence. Votes: 2

Jews know this in their bones. Our community could not exist for a day without its volunteers. They are the lifeblood of our organizations, whether they involve welfare, youth, education, care of the sick and elderly, or even protection against violence and abuse. Votes: 2

Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. I am not unmindful of the fact that violence often brings about momentary results. Nations have frequently won their independence in battle. But in spite of temporary victories, violence never brings permanent peace. Votes: 2

It's my view that gender is culturally formed, but it's also a domain of agency or freedom and that it is most important to resist the violence that is imposed by ideal gender norms, especially against those who are gender different, who are nonconforming in their gender presentation. Votes: 2

The story of Noah, like other stories in the first 11 chapters of Genesis, are archetypal. Noah's story tells us that human beings have an inherent tendency towards violence both towards their fellow human beings and towards the creation itself. The story tells us that this violence grieves God. Votes: 2

Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don't see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence. Votes: 2

When violence is real and you flinch away from it, violence does not push people to try and imitate that. Often, we shun the violence that makes us flinch, because it disturbs us. And what makes us uncomfortable and disturbs us is not often bad. What disturbs us will not make us imitate that. Votes: 2

If we desire a society of peace, then we cannot achieve such a society through violence. If we desire a society without discrimination, then we must not discriminate against anyone in the process of building this society. If we desire a society that is democratic, then democracy must become a means as well as an end. Votes: 2

Violent consumption demands violent production. Votes: 1

You should shoot. I should shoo. Votes: 1

War is a terrible, bloody thing. Votes: 1

Control is violence; cooperation is friendship. Votes: 1

Pain is weakness leaving the body Votes: 1

Mercy is stronger than your sword. Votes: 1

Physical love is unthinkable without violence. Votes: 1

Every socialist is a disguised dictator. Votes: 1

his abusemakes her an anvilwithout spark Votes: 1

Peace in patriarchy is war against women. Votes: 1

Some werewolves are hairy on the inside. Votes: 1

Never scorn a woman. They get violent. Votes: 1

Where there is commerce there is peace. Votes: 1

The germ of creation lies in violence. Votes: 1

GUNS ARE NOT THE ISSUE. WE ARE. Votes: 1

We live in a culture of violence. Votes: 1

...robots pencil prescriptions for acid gas sunsets Votes: 1

Guns give Evil a means to expression. Votes: 1

Any one war seems rooted in its antecedents. Votes: 1

We don't need guns, man, we got dogs! Votes: 1

Whoever has the sword will have the earth. Votes: 1

When fear meets fear nothing good ever happens. Votes: 1

History is the same story with different costumes. Votes: 1

I'm for the revolutionaries but against the revolution. Votes: 1

Love surrounds, softens and tires violence and force. Votes: 1

When fear meets fear nothing good every happens. Votes: 1

I will see my father in every anger. Votes: 1

See, people with power understand exactly one thing: violence. Votes: 1

Confession is an act of violence against the unoffending. Votes: 1

Don't let your next decision threaten the world's peace. Votes: 1

A valid contract requires voluntary offer, acceptance, and consideration. Votes: 1

Love is also a violence, and cannot be undone. Votes: 1

Walk away from every vicious act. Never look back. Votes: 1

The old Lie:Dulce et decorum estPro patria mori. Votes: 1

A man of your valor deserves not another breath. Votes: 1

Fire is often the weapon of choice for the insane. Votes: 1

Every day in America is a day with a shooting. Votes: 1

Don't you read the statistics? Guns are unisex these days. Votes: 1

There is violence in this supposedly tender heart of mine. Votes: 1

The struggle against injustice is just another kind of injustice. Votes: 1

You can conquer any aggressive action, with restraint and patient. Votes: 1

All violence is an attempt to replace shame with self-esteem. Votes: 1

Science & Love have progressed "either" ways with growth of violence! Votes: 1

How do evil people find the strength to do good? Votes: 1

The conquest of the earth is not a pretty thing. Votes: 1

We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love. Votes: 1

More violence does not necessarily equate with greater religious conviction. Votes: 1

Kill not, cause no pain. Nonviolence is the greatest religion. Votes: 1

Intolerance is a species of violence and therefore against our creed. Votes: 1

Children are barometers of the chaos that exists within their lives. Votes: 1

With tybo men there isn't much difference between fucking and killing. Votes: 1

As if violence could make light. Maybe violence could make light. Votes: 1

Bonobo discipline involves being schooled in a gentler, more playful fashion. Votes: 1

Fear could drive one to violence as quickly as anger could. Votes: 1

Lies are the first step to the violent protection of them Votes: 1

If I am to die tonight, let me die a fighter. Votes: 1

Not one person on earth is immune to crime and trauma. Votes: 1

The part of her that should have been disgusted was numb. Votes: 1

Never plan an act of violence. Just let it happen natural. Votes: 1

I chose not to fight it. Eating them...is my revenge. Votes: 1

The worst kind of tyrant is one that is righteously wrong Votes: 1

The cost of growth is always a small act of violence. Votes: 1

Why fight to the death when we can love eachother to death? Votes: 1

An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind. Votes: 1

All violence demands reform, and all violence desperately begs to be healed. Votes: 1

Moderate strength is shown in violence, supreme strength is shown in levity. Votes: 1

All violence demands reform, and all violence desperately begs to be healed. Votes: 1

This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence. Votes: 1

Unfortunately, violence has a way of overpowering even the strongest of wills Votes: 1

In an age of bombsguzzling blood, skylarks merge peacewith thought and action. Votes: 1

Emotional blackmails and psychological threats are the feces of a rotten soul. Votes: 1

Mentioning violence to Bruce was like mentioning chocolate sauce to a six-year-old. Votes: 1

War or violence never can destroy enemies, only forgiveness can do that. Votes: 1

If you want to understand the causes of aggression, study police officers Votes: 1

I think guns would be more effective if bullets worked like boomerangs. Votes: 1

Nausea and panic rose in my throat. I had killed a man. Votes: 1

She checked herself in the mirror. She was a roadmap of violence. Votes: 1

The further from law you move, the closer to claw you come. Votes: 1

As long as you persecute people, you will actually throw up terrorism. Votes: 1

I wanted to punch him and understand him at the same time. Votes: 1

They have the guns, we have the poets. Therefore, we will win. Votes: 1

A head can be beaten small enough until it fits the hat. Votes: 1

Through violence you may murder the hater, but you cannot murder hate. Votes: 1

Use the darkness of your past to propel you to a brighter future. Votes: 1

Survival depends on denial, and death comes swiftly to those who forsake it. Votes: 1

Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down. Votes: 1

Modern consumer life is a form of extreme passive violence against all people. Votes: 1

Violence?"Skulduggery said. "Violence is never the answer, until it's the only answer. Votes: 1

Judging by the sounds of general panic, I want a gun like that. Votes: 1

To not have your suffering recognized is an almost unbearable form of violence. Votes: 1

Abortion should be listed as a weapon of mass destruction against the voiceless. Votes: 1

As much as it hurts, I would rather miss someone than hit someone. Votes: 1

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary. Votes: 1

All violence is based on blindness, on a lack of reflection and empathy. Votes: 1

The most deadly combination known to man is low IQ and high testosterone. Votes: 1

The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual, crime. Votes: 1

Extreme violence has a way of preventing us from seeing the interests it serves. Votes: 1

REJECT THE LIES AND VIOLENCE. STAND FOR LOVE, TRUTH, DECENCY AND THE COMMON GOOD. Votes: 1

If you remembered somebody was as real as yourself, how could you kill anybody? Votes: 1

The most dangerous men on earth are those who are afraid they are wimps Votes: 1

To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time. Votes: 1

We have to start from the fact that there are always alternatives to violence. Votes: 1

Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor. Votes: 1

There is no document of civilization that is not also a document of barbarism. Votes: 1

We are flawed creatures with explosive feelings that subconsciously aspire to be non-violent sociopaths. Votes: 1

I collect human skin. I keep it all on the bumper of my car. Votes: 1

We are all artificial and have been unnaturally changed by violence and unwholesome conditioning. Votes: 1

Guns are like thermometers, only instead of measuring body temperatures they measure our fear. Votes: 1

If everyone who had a gun just shot themselves, there wouldn't be a problem. Votes: 1

In a world gushing blood day and night, you never stop mopping up pain. Votes: 1

Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create. Votes: 1

What deep violence does the mind invent / As polar opposite to love. (In 'Hat Love'). Votes: 1

One must acknowledge with cryptography no amount of violence will ever solve a math problem. Votes: 1

There is power in controlling something that can do so much damage-in controlling something, period. Votes: 1

We are currently facing many hurdles, BUT will never lose the sight of infinite hope. Votes: 1

So long as atrocities remain remote, abstract, they will be tolerated, even by decent people. Votes: 1

The pinnacle of human consciousness must be the rejection of unhealthy competition, war and violence. Votes: 1

It was much easier to explain the veil than to answer questions about the wounds. Votes: 1

A place where something so terrible had happened shouldn't continue to exist in the world Votes: 1

In light of all the gun violence in the USA, I'd prefer my democracy unleaded. Votes: 1

The spirit of the law is the least of the things we're prepared to violate. Votes: 1

Outside of the killings, DC has one of the lowest crime rates in the country. Votes: 1

Here was the love and violence in the hearts of men, all for their women Votes: 1

We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion. Votes: 1

Those who get in the way of love's path will be kicked by horses.~Kyoya Votes: 1

Honey, no offense, but sometimes I think I could shoot you and watch you kick. Votes: 1

When you are at the edge of life it will be either silence or violence Votes: 1

I will follow anyoneAnd ask everyoneTo stand together as one nationAgainst the killing of innocent citizens Votes: 1

To use violence against a peaceful man is the greatest immorality and the biggest rot ever! Votes: 1

Today you closed your eyes on violence, tomorrow, the violence will close your eyes on you. Votes: 1

And now submarines are armed with mass murder, our silly, only way of deterring mass murder. Votes: 1

The ocean waves were choppy. Good thing I know karate and was able to fight back. Votes: 1

Deeply-rooted conditioning has perverted us. We ARE the culture of violence. We must look at ourselves. Votes: 1

The passive and overt violence waged against the women and children of the world must end. Votes: 1

The most disgusting human trait is bias, because it typically leads to propaganda, hate and violence. Votes: 1

War has been the necessary and inevitable consequence of the establishment of a monopoly on security. Votes: 1

Through TV people turn their family living rooms into meditative dens of death and violence worship. Votes: 1

Here's a rule of life: You don't get to pick what bad things happen to you Votes: 1

...always-the sharp,plaintive edgeon the rimof the spoonof my giving.(lines 8-13 of the poem 'Confessions') Votes: 1

Governments are committed to preserving the myth of their monopoly on violence. Violence belongs to everyone. Votes: 1

Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain. Votes: 1

Repeat one word of what I just said and I'll cheerfully beat you to death, Mike. Votes: 1

He had conquered murder only to be faced with war. There were no laws for that. Votes: 1

I am a violent man who has learned not to be violent and regrets his violence. Votes: 1

Government is a gun that shoots money at your enemy and blows up in your face. Votes: 1

Violence is a disease, a disease that corrupts all who use it regardless of the cause. Votes: 1

If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how? Votes: 1

That's the law, son. But you were never much of a one for following the law. Votes: 1

Violence send deep roots into the heart, it has no seasons, it is always ripe, evergreen. Votes: 1

Our tenderness, compassion and kindness go with sensitive generous heart that should not be abused by others. Votes: 1

Senseless violence is a prerogative of youth, which has much energy but little talent for the constructive. Votes: 1

We need to teach our nation to detest any form of plots, insinuations, evil intrigues and violence. Votes: 1

The most disgusting human trait is bias because it ends of leading to propaganda, hate and violence. Votes: 1

For every fatal shooting, there were roughly three non-fatal shootings. And, folks, this is unacceptable in America. Votes: 1

History has always been violent, unstoppable and bound to happen; either with or without you. Acknowledge it. Votes: 1

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat for it is momentary."(Satyagraha Leaflet No. 13, 3 May 1919) Votes: 1

I crave for knowledge. I envy tolerant, peaceful folks. I am frightened by ignorance. I loathe violence. Votes: 1

Our culture of violence is an incubator, where our children are the crop of future techno-warrior killers. Votes: 1

Violence is avoided, when we sit down with others, and discuss issues, and work together for solutions. Votes: 1

Recall that the minimum wage was initially conceived as a method to exclude undesirables from the workforce. Votes: 1

Violence can only breed more violence and suffering. Our struggle must remain non-violent and free of hatred. Votes: 1

We are currently facing countless hurdles and obstacles, BUT will never lose the sight of infinite hope. Votes: 1

Through our expectations, we violently expand and try to fill the world with our proofs of worth. Votes: 1

...we have entertained ourselves with the pornography of violence and inflamed passions that might otherwise have slumbered... Votes: 1

We have been trained by a culture of violence and we are all agents of passive violence. Votes: 1

Which do you prefer, she says. Sex or Violence?I try to smile. What's the difference, really. Votes: 1

A culture of vultures steeped and born of violence shall choke on the blood of its offspring. Votes: 1

Death was not the scariest thing out there; no, the denial of it could be far worse. Votes: 1

We are all a part of a culture of violence that dominates every aspect of our lives. Votes: 1

A violent order is disorder; and a great disorder is an order.These two things are one. Votes: 1

Rubbing a clit to competin and sawing off someone's foot seemed to use all the same muscles. Votes: 1

I finally understood what could drive kids to show up with guns and shoot up their schools. Votes: 1

I both made the knife-fighting team, and I got cut. If only love were so easy to understand. Votes: 1

There is no such thing as a "just" war. It's just war. And it's antithetical to the Gospel. Votes: 1

Never on me let such wrath lay hold, as the wrath you cherish, you whose valor causes harm! Votes: 1

Oh, they don't allow the Bible in Heaven, Miss Mary...It contains far too much sex and violence. Votes: 1

If government played by the same rules as the rest of us, it would cease to be government. Votes: 1

Despite all the sadness, violence and misery, I still believe in universal peace, goodness, and beauty of humanity. Votes: 1

Maxim 10: Sometimes the only way out is through... through the hull.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries Votes: 1

War is not a means but an end. It makes violence respectable and makes sadists look like heroes. Votes: 1

No one has the right to place one human being in a position of political power over another. Votes: 1

Education about gender and peace is important. Educational strategies to promote peace must consider all relations of dominance. Votes: 1

You don't get it boy... this isn't a mudhole... its an operating table. (KRAKKKKK) And I'm the surgeon. Votes: 1

y lo que ha dicho el fiscal es que un hombre no debe morir por tan poca cosa Votes: 1

All this miraculous hatred. Christ, a man can't eat his breakfast for filling his belly full of it. Votes: 1

Intimidated, old traumas triggered, and fearing for my safety, I did what I felt I needed to do. Votes: 1

Any violation of a woman's body can become sex for men; this is the essential truth of pornography. Votes: 1

Be an active bystander because sooner or later you or someone you love could be a victim too. Votes: 1

If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again. Votes: 1

Difficult times do not produce gentility, as if there is an angle hovering over the world of the oppressed. Votes: 1

This is why I keep telling Ash to get you a cat or a bird. Guns aren't proper pets. Votes: 1

It is not what you can do for your country, but what you can do for all of mankind. Votes: 1

The violence between women is unbelievable...women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding. Votes: 1

We don't like security rules and laws, but without them men will be animals, perhaps the most dangerous animals. Votes: 1

Violence was a disease Gansey didn't think he could catch. But all around him, his friends were slowly infected. Votes: 1

You can take the barbarian out of the tavern, but he can take the blood out of your body. Votes: 1

The tank, the submarine, the torpedo, the machine-gun, even the rifle and the hand grenade are still in use. Votes: 1

I was not frightened as they were, for the very violence of his threats showed how weak he was. Votes: 1

I can assure you that no kingdom has ever had as many civil wars as the kingdom of Christ. Votes: 1

Beware of dead religions.Beware of teachers & preachers of dead religions.Dead religions promote sin, hatred, violence & intolerance etc. Votes: 1

...reclusiveness itself may be a kind of violence. It leaves an abyss for us to throw our fantasies into. Votes: 1

Maxim 27: Don't be afraid to be the first to resort to violence.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries Votes: 1

What do you think? Overkill?""I don't believe there is any such thing.But in this case, 'yes, overkill. Votes: 1

The war is against children, and all the other wars are just a shadow of the war on children. Votes: 1

People were excited by violence. What, after all, was the sexual act but a voluntarily endured assault, a momentary death? Votes: 1

Politics: the art of using euphemisms, lies, emotionalism and fear-mongering to dupe average people into accepting--or even demanding--their own enslavement. Votes: 1

In Labor movements generally, success through violence can hardly be expected except in circumstances where success without violence is attainable. Votes: 1

Anyone who remains silent in the face of murder is an accomplice to murder. Anyone who does not condemn approves. Votes: 1

Cullen was a bully. Bullies are cowards. You plant your feet and stay calm, they don't know what to do. Votes: 1

We can't win the world with weapons or violence.We can win the world with love and practice of nonviolence. Votes: 1

Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another. Votes: 1

The last thing we wanted was for the Machiguenga to be sad again. Sadness appeared to bring out their violence. Votes: 1

We also self-inflict violence, because violence is our only way of relating to the world, to others and to ourselves. Votes: 1

Love is a violent recreational sport. Proceed at your own risk. Helmets, armor, and steel-toe boots are required by law. Votes: 1

You can't talk about fucking in America, people say you're dirty. But if you talk about killing somebody, that's cool. Votes: 1

There just seems to be too much violence everywhere, even the news can't help break now and then on TV Votes: 1

The slick concrete reflected the facades of the work weary - grey, cracked and old,but more importantly, trodden upon. Votes: 1

She decided that day to study Russian, the language of violence, terror, and absurdity. She knew she would never be bored. Votes: 1

Maxim 37: There is no "overkill". There is only "open fire" and "time to reload".-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries Votes: 1

Implicit in the stare of those eyes, the power of those knobbly hands, was labor's historic threat of violence against capital. Votes: 1

You can do a lot with diplomacy, but with diplomacy backed up by force you can get a lot more done. Votes: 1

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd. Votes: 1

There is more than one way to lose your life; quickly through violence, or fettered-away and wasted around dreadful, toxic people. Votes: 1

TV is a pornographic cacophony of violence, death obsession, screams, gunfire and drama. You think it's fine because you are damaged. Votes: 1

Allah-U-Akbar (God is great) is the most frightening word, because it always reminds me that someone is committing crime;specifically murder. Votes: 1

All breathing, existing, living, sentient creatures should not be slain, nor treated with violence, nor abused, nor tormented, nor driven away. Votes: 1

Eastward and westward storms are breaking,--great, ugly whirlwinds of hatred and blood and cruelty. I will not believe them inevitable. Votes: 1

Thou shalt not be a victim, thou shalt not be a perpetrator, but, above all, thou shalt not be a bystander. Votes: 1

Can America get back to a point where politicians are honest? Not unless that point is the tip of a sword. Votes: 1

A quick and brutal fuck from behind usually served as an effective reminder of where you stood in the pack hierarchy. Votes: 1

Where a person has no control, he will turn to violence; either to attain control, or as an alternative to it. Votes: 1

We are what we think about and meditate on. Look around people! America is a buffet of violence; a total immersion. Votes: 1

If a violent person wishes to attack us, let us send him a gentle phrase as this will defuse his violence. Votes: 1

I do not blame himfor not knowing the gentleness of my soul.When I only showed him,how violently I loved. Votes: 1

I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out of me with steel pipes. Votes: 1

Get what you can with words, because words are free, but the words of an armed man ring that much sweeter. Votes: 1

When the state itself is held to the same moral standards as everyone else, it dies. And that's a wonderful thing. Votes: 1

Man kept control over the machines he created, I wish God would have done the same with the man he created. Votes: 1

Tribalism is an addiction that is driven by false beliefs that need to be reflected back to be perceived as true. Votes: 1

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."[Remarks on the first anniversary of the Alliance for Progress, 13 March 1962] Votes: 1

In a stress pressure-cooker like America, I believe we will see more and more shooting massacres. Violence is in our cultural DNA. Votes: 1

To break the silence the old man said the first thing that came to his mind: "Loneliness is a type of violence. Votes: 1

The system wears a mask of civility, yet will quickly reveal its true nature in the form of magnificently-purposed violence when needed. Votes: 1

Knocking on a door is so violent. Talk on the door. Try to get it to open up through communication, not violence. Votes: 1

As a product of Anglo-Saxon-Protestant culture, I am familiar with its centuries-old tradition of hiding its abuse of women under pretty packaging. Votes: 1

I forgive you," I said. I said what I had to. I would die by pieces to save myself from real death. Votes: 1

I am not going to believe in militant nationalism, which cultivates a culture of intolerance, Can't we think of a solution without violence. Votes: 1

The old days are dead and gone days. For what I did in the past I have been punished. I have been cured. Votes: 1

He'd shot and beaten people because he couldn't talk to them.Violence was the only language nobody could understand. There were no translators. Votes: 1

Only victors have stories to tell,we the vanquished were then thought ofas cowards and weaklings whose memoriesand fears should not be remembered. Votes: 1

There is nothing wrong with standing back and thinking. To paraphrase several sages: 'Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time. Votes: 1

..each bloodletting hastens the next, and as the value of human life is degraded and violence becomes tolerated, the unimaginable becomes more conceivable. Votes: 1

In real life, you don't get a reset, and you don't get extra lives, and I got the crap pounded out of me. Votes: 1

A weapon does not decide whether or not to kill. A weapon is a manifestation of a decision that has already been made. Votes: 1

If German boys had learned to be contemptuous of violence, Hitler would have had to take up knitting to keep his ego warm. Votes: 1

The fish does not know it is wet. America is immersed in violence. The violence is in our souls. The enemy is within. Votes: 1

When I find the guy who torched that forest, I'm going to eat him. And I'm only going to half-cook him first.-Sergeant Schlock Votes: 1

Yesterday I bought myself a karate trophy. But I feel like I won it, because the salesman really beat me up over the price. Votes: 1

Since the human mind is the primary weapon of the human being, it is also therefore the primary and most significant instrument of violence. Votes: 1

Every rock or molotov cocktail thrown should make a very obvious political point. Random violence produces random propaganda results. Why waste even a rock? Votes: 1

. . . the sole aim of Okinawa Karate is to teach A person to handle violence and violent individuals; whether it is tactile, mental or spiritual Votes: 1

He attacked me, so I had to slit his throat with a steak knife. But not before I splashed Worcestershire sauce all over it. Votes: 1

We'll cross that bridge when we come to it.Cross it? I'm making plans to destroy the bridge from orbit.-Colonel Ceeta & Captain Tagon Votes: 1

A society that chooses between capitalism and socialism does not choose between two social systems; it chooses between social cooperation and the disintegration of society. Votes: 1

As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is kill. Votes: 1

You don't necessarily need atomic bombs to destroy a nation. Politicians who value their pockets than the life of citizens always do that every day. Votes: 1

At that time, there was only one thing better that a good fight, and that was having a good fight and getting paid for it. Votes: 1

I show how much of the wars of religion involved Catholics killing Catholics, Lutherans killing Lutherans, and Catholic-Protestant collaboration. (Page 10 The Myth of Religious Violence) Votes: 1

When you get to know them, most professional fighters are big teddy bears. I say that having been beat up by a few stuffed animals. Votes: 1

Racism and violence were non-existent in this world, When people were aware to fight for identity'- Terzanelle for Octavia Estelle Butler, Poem by Marieta Maglas Votes: 1

We kill at every step, not only in wars, riots ad executions. We kill every time we close our eyes to poverty, suffering and shame. Votes: 1

Of course it was horrible,' smiled Dr. Branom. 'Violence is a very horrible thing. That's what you're learning now. Your body is learning it. Votes: 1

We have placed such idolatrous faith in our ability to protect ourselves that we call it more courageous to die killing than to die loving. Votes: 1

He, who thought it necessary to maintain himself in her good graces, strove to console her under her disappointment by committing a little violence upon truth. Votes: 1

On one level, a roomful of men is always a dangerous thing. Competition is usually in the air, so the potential for violence is always nearby. Votes: 1

Maxim 12: A soft answer turneth away wrath. Once wrath is looking the other way, shoot it in the head.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries Votes: 1

You better watch out. You better not cry. You better not pout, I'm telling you why,Cause Santa Clause might put a cap in your ass. Votes: 1

The 2 extremes, neither one worse than the other: the result of bad religion is self-loathing and violence; the result of bad spirituality is self-worship and narcissism. Votes: 1

Is racial violence is the answer for happened racial violence? Which planet am I? Where are the people who taught me there is no difference? Why? Votes: 1

I could scarf down a scarf faster than I could eat any other throat warmer, with the possible exception of your clenched hands around my neck. Votes: 1

Support what is good and spit out what is bad. Get off of your knees and reject the role of slave to the culture of violence. Votes: 1

Death is ordinary. Behold it, subtract its patterns and lessons from those of the death that weapons bring, and maybe the residue will show what violence is. Votes: 1

If we know anything about man, it's that he's not pacific. The temptation to butcher anyone considered undesirable seems to be a common temptation, not always resisted. Votes: 1

When you vote, you are exercising political authority, you're using force. And force, my friends, is violence. The supreme authority from which all other authorities are derived. Votes: 1

There is a comfort in conformity, a security in control, that is appealing. There is a thrill in domination, and we are all secretly attracted to violence. Votes: 1

There are plenty of good reasons for fighting, but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too. Votes: 1

You spoke to Nicodemus?' Vivian asked.[Francesca] 'We did.'V: 'And he trusts you?'F: 'As much as one might after a first impression involving hatchets. Votes: 1

They understood what had really held the market together before. Violence. After all, what good was a debt if the creditor couldn't compel it to be paid? Votes: 1

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'. Votes: 1

But in terms of "psychological" time, most of us are still living in centuries past, stirred by ancient grudges, controlled by obsolete prejudices, driven by buried fears. Votes: 1

Mistaken ideas always end in bloodshed, but in every case it is someone else's blood. This is why our thinkers feel free to say just about anything. Votes: 1

Everyone in prison has an ideal of violence, murder. Beneath all relationships between prisoners is the ever-present fact of murder. It ultimately defines our relationship among ourselves. Votes: 1

Remember, I'm the only person her who's paid to be nice to you. But not too nice. Give me any lip and I'll break your face. OK? Votes: 1

State is the name of the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly it lies; and this lie slips from its mouth: 'I, the state, am the people. Votes: 1

It did not last long. It is only in the movies that knife fighters stab and miss and slash and miss and tussle over several city blocks. Votes: 1

The saying goes, if you love something, let it go. I always though it was better to just shoot the damn thing so it'd never go anywhere. Votes: 1

The rivers fight with each other with the only currency that they know water. We humans fight with the only currency that we know in this age violence. Votes: 1

Revolution does have to be violent precisely because the Pharaoh won't let you go. If the Pharaoh would let you go, the revolution won't have to be violent. Votes: 1

The dark-haired girl behind Winston had begun crying out: 'Swine! Swine! Swine!', and suddenly she picked up a heavy Newspeak dictionary and flung it at the screen. Votes: 1

violence is an evil thing, but when the guns are all in the hands of the men without respect for human rights, then men are really in trouble. Votes: 1

I can kill a bad guy, but I can't save anyone. I'm not a hero. All I am is a killer. A dead killer who shit his pants. Votes: 1

The anti-hero has played an important role in the history of mankind, so much so that the whole ethos of what is good and bad has become blurred. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

When the enemy of my enemy is willing to use plasma weapons inside a hotel, I think I can do better than stupid aphorisms, General.-Captain Kevyn Andreyasn Votes: 1

In protesting for your rights in any form you may, but it's only good, If they can understand your problems and feelings and not only to judge you. Votes: 1

A day came when I should have died,and after than nothing seemed very important, so I stayed as I am, without regret separated from the normal human condition. Votes: 1

It was a piece of thoroughly picturesque and proper violence. I like a violent man, really, a man who's a bit of a brute in a decent straightforward way. Votes: 1

Where choice is set between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence ... I prefer to use arms in defense of honor rather than remain the vile witness of dishonor... Votes: 1

When you see a person acting violently, ask yourself whether he knows how powerful he is. If he knew his power, would he feel the need to assert it? Votes: 1

She always says I'm the best friend that she's ever had... how do you hang up on someone who needs you that bad? ~From 'Laura' on The Nylon Curtain Votes: 1

He can neither read nor write and in him broods already a taste for mindless violence. All history present in that visage, the child the father of the man. Votes: 1

John was still making comments regarding violent things that he shouldn't, but I hoped he was just being a big mouth. Nobody was going to listen to me anyway. Votes: 1

He'd possessed all the key elements of a school shooter: hormones, misery, ammunition. People wondered how something like Columbine could happen. Jude wondered why it didn't happen more often. Votes: 1

The object I stabbed him with was all bloody. Fortunately for him, the blood was on the tampon before I stabbed him, and not a result of the stabbing. Votes: 1

Guy Boy Man," says Baby Doll15. "Violence is not the answer."I look down the hallway, steely eyed. "Then I don't like the question." Sweetie and I high five. Votes: 1

Violence is the method of ignorance, the weapon of the weak. The strong of heart and brain need no violence, for they are irresistible in their consciousness of being right. Votes: 1

When her boyfriend broke his leg, I knew it was my chance to ask her to dance. So I put down my baseball bat and approached her like Babe Ruth. Votes: 1

Knocking on a door is so violent. Instead, try talking to the door to get it to open up to you. I should write a self-help book for door-to-door salesmen. Votes: 1

Black people are victims of an enormous amount of violence. None of those things can take place without the complicity of the people who run the schools and the city. Votes: 1

Too many are sorry where they should be assertive, and nearly moved to aggressive radical action, where they should be apologizing to themselves first, and then the world at large. Votes: 1

Any self-defense situation has the potential to quickly become A 'life and death' situation, therefore your practice of martial arts should be undertaken, as if your very life depends on it . . . Votes: 1

There is nothing more pathetically sad than a parent who teaches a child not to hit by spanking them. Well, that, and adults who think hitting someone will solve a problem. Votes: 1

A bird was shot. I suspect fowl play. The next man to be shot is the man who wrote that pun. Excuse me while I load my gun and shoot myself. Votes: 1

But before he could either comfort me or commit further acts of violence upon my person, I spun away from him and made my drama queen moment complete by running away. Votes: 1

The philosophy of taking up arms to kill for God is the worst blasphemy any man or group of men can ever invent as an excuse to snuff out human life Votes: 1

One of these days I'm gonna beat him in the face with the butt of my service revolver until an eyeball pops out. These are the thoughts that keep me happy. Votes: 1

No amount of me trying to explain myself was doing any good. I didn't even know what was going on inside of me, so how could I have explained it to them? Votes: 1

To sum up: politically speaking, it is insufficient to say that power and violence are not the same. Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Votes: 1

He had also learned that there is no use murdering people; there are always so many left, and if you tried to murder them all you would never get anything else done. Votes: 1

A man of peace shall always live in peace, if all chances are given and only shall he stand to fight for his rights if peace and freedom isn't granted to him. Votes: 1

When a man carries an instrument of violence, he'll always find the justification to use it. If we really want to escape this war, we have to stop bringing it with us. Votes: 1

Since violence is largely a male pastime, cultures that empower women tend to move away from the glorification of violence and are less likely to breed dangerous subcultures of rootless young men. Votes: 1

The poker fell from my trembling hands as my entire body shook with reaction. I fell to my knees, pressed my hands to my face and began to sob. What had I done? Votes: 1

We're this big melting pot, but someone turned up the heat too high, and the stew started to burn. Gangs, crime, fights, and fear are now a regular part of our local stew. Votes: 1

In the world of so-called villains, what we need is not another hero. What we need is to stop the influx of people who dress themselves as menaces and proceed to harm others. Votes: 1

I aint sure we've seen these people before. Their kind. I dont know what to do about em even. If you killed em all they'd have to build a annex on to hell. Votes: 1

Go that way, past the viaduct, and the wops will jump you, or chase you into Jew town...Polacks would stomp on you...Micks will shower you with Irish confetti from the brickyards. Votes: 1

We got into an argument over the color of love. I said it was pink, and he said it was red. So you see, I had no other choice but to stab him. Votes: 1

I suspect that a greater and more insidious influence [than violence in movies] may lie in what they tell us about being in love, and how to conduct ourselves while in that condition. Votes: 1

The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this... Votes: 1

In the basement, with Ruth, I began to learn that anger, hate, fear and loneliness are all one button awaiting the touch of just a single finger to set them blazing toward destruction. Votes: 1

Is it easier to get you to do what I want with a fist to your face, or a gentle pat on the back and a handshake? Let this be a lesson in power. Votes: 1

The violence of language consists in its effort to capture the ineffable and, hence, to destroy it, to seize hold of that which must remain elusive for language to operate as a living thing. Votes: 1

It is brutal. Only I never could see the sense in having folks look at your tombstone and say, 'He was a man who didn't believe in violence, He's a good man... and dead. Votes: 1

We already live on the planet of war, we already live on the red planet, and it's a war against children. All the other wars are just the shadows of the war on children. Votes: 1

Violence and resistance are the only answer. Empire has to feel pain or it will never stop devouring you. It is only when a gun is put in a person's face that anything changes Votes: 1

Some day, my son, you are going to learn that the two greatest joys of being a man are beating the hell out of someone and getting the hell beaten out of you, good night. Votes: 1

Our age not only does not have a very sharp eye for the almost imperceptible intrusions of grace, it no longer has much feeling for the nature of the violences which precede and follow them. Votes: 1

We'd be the safest country in the world if the world knew we didn't have a gun. Men are not killed because they get mad at each other. They're killed because one has a gun. Votes: 1

And what is it, according to Plato, that philosophy is supposed to do? Nothing less than to render violence to our sense of ourselves and our world, our sense of ourselves in the world. (p. 40) Votes: 1

Forgive me, O Heavenly Father, according to the multitude of Thy mercies. I have lusted in my heart to break a man's skull and scatter the stench of his brains across several people's back yards. Votes: 1

The difference between a heel and a coward and one who jumps in the fire and one who runs away from the fire; is up to the individual in how they manage a given situation. Votes: 1

Although I had committed just about every sort of assault imaginable on people and even the odd one or two against the police, I still had and still do have respect for the old school policeman. Votes: 1

A sensibility that wails almost exclusively over the enemies of liberty seems suspect to me. Stop shaking the tyrant's bloody robe in my face, or I will believe that you wish to put Rome in chains. Votes: 1

A Dick and Jane story written in blood and battered bone.See Spot.See Spot run.See Spot run from a gaping chest wound.Run Spot run.See Detective smear Spot into a baggy for DNA testing. Votes: 1

If somebody says 'I love you' to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol holder requires? 'I love you, too'. Votes: 1

I get it,' said the prisoner. 'Good Cop, Bad Cop, eh?'If you like.' said Vimes. 'But we're a bit short staffed here, so if I give you a cigarette would you mind kicking yourself in the teeth? Votes: 1

When a child hits a child, we call it aggression.When a child hits an adult, we call it hostility.When an adult hits an adult, we call it assault.When an adult hits a child, we call it discipline. Votes: 1