Rather than bring peace and harmony, the EU will cause insurgency and violence. Votes: 3
Nigel FarageThe whole history of the Christian Church is a mixture of errors and violence. Votes: 3
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheViolence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted. Votes: 2
Ellen GlasgowViolence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence. Votes: 2
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynOf course, I write crime stories, and I have to describe violence and the aftermath of violence. Votes: 2
Jeffery DeaverViolence begets violence, and then you get leaders who are violent men. And you don't want that. Votes: 2
Robert CrumbWe tried to make a movie that had sex and violence because we like sex and violence. Votes: 2
Lana WachowskiI personally can't handle frivolous violence. I overreact to it. Votes: 0
Alejandro Gonzalez InarrituThe essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility. Votes: 0
John Fisher, 1st Baron FisherArt, in fact, can be nothing but violence, cruelty and injustice. Votes: 0
Filippo Tommaso MarinettiTrust your intuition, rather than technology, to protect you from violence. Votes: 0
Tom Butler-BowdonSome people's affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls. Votes: 0
Arthur Conan DoyleViolence is never the right answer, unless used against heathens and monsters. Votes: 0
Alexander AndersonI think violence is counter-productive and it is bad in democratic societies. Votes: 0
Pierre TrudeauModerate strength is shown in violence, supreme strength is shown in levity. Votes: 0
Gilbert K. ChestertonThere is no lasting hope in violence, only temporary relief from hopelessness. Votes: 0
Kingman Brewster, Jr.Through violence you may murder the hater, but you cannot murder hate. Votes: 0
Martin Luther King Jr.Moderate strength is shown in violence, supreme strength is shown in levity. Votes: 0
G.K. ChestertonAll violence demands reform, and all violence desperately begs to be healed. Votes: 0
Bryant McGillnsWe cannot eradicate violence if we do not build strong, inclusive communities Votes: 0
Hillary ClintonOne who uses coercion is guilty of deliberate violence. Coercion is inhuman. Votes: 0
Mahatma GandhiOnly a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence. Votes: 0
Albert CamusDomination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated. Votes: 0
Theodor AdornoUnless we teach our children peace, somebody else will teach them violence. Votes: 0
Colman McCarthyWe see violence to forcibly seize land, at any price, murders and corruption. Votes: 0
Claudio HummesMy experience teaches me that truth can never be propagated by doing violence. Votes: 0
Mahatma GandhiTruth, Peace and Non-violence form the central tenets of the 'Idea of India'! Votes: 0
Narendra ModiVictory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary. Votes: 0
Mahatma GandhiIn my political philosophy I think that there sometimes is room for violence. Votes: 0
Pierre TrudeauModern consumer life is a form of extreme passive violence against all people. Votes: 0
Bryant McGillThe best way to deal with bureaucrats is with stealth and sudden violence Votes: 0
Butros Butros-GhaliAll politics is a struggle for power; the ultimate kind of power is violence. Votes: 0
C. Wright MillsSeeing the similarity to oneself, one should not use violence or have it used. Votes: 0
Gautama BuddhaThe violence in society, I'm afraid, is perpetrated by the people at the top. Votes: 0
S. Robson WaltonWe have to start from the fact that there are always alternatives to violence. Votes: 0
Mairead CorriganThrough violence, you may murder the hater, but you do not murder the hate. Votes: 0
Martin Luther King, Jr.My view is when you use violence on your people, that never ends well. Votes: 0
Abdallah II of JordanIn light of all the gun violence in the USA, I'd prefer my democracy unleaded. Votes: 0
Jayseth GubermanAnger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up. Votes: 0
Mahatma GandhiViolence was just as much about WHAT was happening as it was how it happened. Votes: 0
Walter Dean MyersAnd I thought the whole point of my education was that violence IS the answer. Votes: 0
Richelle MeadViolence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat. Votes: 0
Henry George BohnIn real life I do violence, but for psychic stuff I do other things better. Votes: 0
Laurell K. HamiltonIt is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence. Votes: 0
Lucius Annaeus SenecaWhen you are at the edge of life it will be either silence or violence Votes: 0
Gopichand LagadapatiI hate violence, and I didn't plan to write horror; it just poured out of me. Votes: 0
James HerbertAbove all Christians are not allowed to correct by violence sinful wrongdoings.
Clement of AlexandriaOpinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest of violence.
Francis Jeffrey, Lord JeffreyThe violence of either grief or joy, their own enactures with themselves destroy.
William ShakespeareViolence is always the last option, but if that time comes, it is the only option.
Sir John Gilmour, 2nd BaronetMost do violence to their natural aptitude, and thus attain superiority in nothing.
Baltasar GracianViolence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison[Domestic violence is] a carefully laid physical, financial and psychological trap.
Leslie Morgan SteinerAll violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.
Ralph Waldo EmersonOnly reverence can restrain violence - reverence for human life and the environment.
William Sloane CoffinThere is nothing to be gained by being unnecessarily nasty. Violence begets violence.
Aung San Suu KyiFrancesco Damiani punches with all the violence and bad intentions of Mahatma Gandhi.
Jerry IzenbergWhere there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence.
Mahatma GandhiMy nonviolence does recognize different species of violence, defensive and offensive.
Mahatma GandhiEnough with the slaughters. Enough with the violence. Enough with the hatred in Iraq!
Pope Benedict XVINon violence is not a thing that comes easily. You have to learn how to be non-violent
Betty WilliamsPreaching nonviolence on principle reproduces the existing institutionalized violence.
Herbert MarcuseThere are things we can do [with violence], and we ought to do it in a bipartisan way.
Hillary ClintonA question settled by violence, or in disregard of law, must remain unsettled forever.
Jefferson DavisBlaming Obama for Iraq violence is like blaming Daniel Craig because Octopussy sucked.
John FugelsangThe man who coerces another not to eat fish commits more violence than he who eats it.
Mahatma GandhiViolence can only be effectively met by nonviolence. This is an old established truth.
Mahatma GandhiThe only way to end a culture of violence is to proactively create a culture of peace.
Marianne WilliamsonTyranny is abhorrent, freedom benefits all, whereas violence benefits no one for long.
Mark KingwellViolence is an admission that one's ideas and goals cannot prevail on their own merits.
Edward KennedyWhat would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?
Gloria SteinemWar is an attempt of one group to impose its will upon another group by armed violence.
Helen and Scott NearingA civilization based on nonviolence must be different from that organized for violence.
Mahatma GandhiBy using violence to subjugate one another we are using violence against our own souls.
Mahatma GandhiI was shooting at myself - I was shooting my own violence and the violence of the times
Niki de Saint PhalleViolence against women is the single greatest human rights violation of our generation,
Patrick StewartI express preference for a chronological sequence of events which precludes a violence.
Terry PratchettThere is no shame in being a survivor of sexual violence. The shame is on the aggressor.
Angelina JolieMy focus is first of all, to remove every thought of violence from my own consciousness.
Deepak ChopraA lot of violence, a lot of gore in it, and I just didn't want to do that kind of thing.
Dick Van DykeThe violence done us by others is often less painful than that which we do to ourselves.
Francois de La RochefoucauldIt's the suppression of the word that gives it the power, the violence, the viciousness.
Lenny BruceThe socialistic conception of the West was born in an environment reeking with violence.
Mahatma GandhiThe greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.
Martin Luther King, Jr.I do not believe it is right to identify Islam with violence. This is not right or true.
Pope FrancisWithout love, violence will change the world; it will change it into a more violent one.
William Sloane CoffinSex and violence was never really my cup of tea; I was always more into sax and violins.
Wim WendersPressure or violence will ever move us to relinquish our honor or our equality of rights.
Adolf HitlerViolence does not and cannot flourish by itself; it is inevitably intertwined with lying.
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynAnswer violence with violence. If one of us falls today, five of them must fall tomorrow.
Evita PeronYou wanted to drown in a woman. Here's your chance. Drown in her blood" ~Violence(Maddox)
Gena ShowalterDisorder and violence are, in fact, things that might check the pace of India's progress.
Mahatma GandhiFor me popular violence is as much an obstruction in our path as the Government violence.
Mahatma GandhiNaked violence repels like the naked skeleton shorn of flesh, blood and the velvety skin.
Mahatma GandhiWhen the panchayat raj is established, public opinion will do what violence can never do.
Mahatma GandhiSpaghetti Westerns are really brutal and operatic with a surreal quality to the violence.
Quentin TarantinoA lot of people think that domestic violence is if someone hits, kicks, [or] punches you.
Robin McGrawI'm very careful about violence in games. I'm not interested in creating violent effects.
Satoshi TajiriViolence is a part of the world and life, and you shouldnt have to take it out of stories.
Jane LevyNon-violence should never be used as a shield for cowardice. It is a weapon for the brave.
Mahatma GandhiMix me with violence, blend me with peace, Combine me with hate, and I can't face defeat.
Puff DaddyReligious fanaticism and hatred are a world-devouring fire, whose violence none can quench.
Bahá'u'lláhI don't know any religion that promotes violence. It is the adherents of whatever religion.
Desmond TutuThere is a direct connection between violence against the Earth and violence against women.
Lee MaracleCivil disobedience is the only nonviolent escape from the soul-destroying heat of violence.
Mahatma GandhiI don't want to express violence or anger or hate in my art. I want to express forgiveness.
Raymond PettibonNo religion is responsible for terrorism. People are responsible for violence and terrorism.
Barack ObamaWhen a man carries an instrument of violence, he'll always find the justification to use it.
Brian K. VaughanAny act of violence creates resentment and resistance, because humans were meant to be free.
Bryant H. McGillLet's start a movement - a movement of men who aren't afraid to stop violence against women.
Carlos Andres GomezI couldn't think of one clever way to stop this guy, so I just trusted to mindless violence.
Grant MorrisonPassion is all but soft, it's not tender, it's violence to which you get hooked by pleasure.
Isabelle AdjaniEvery decided colour does a certain violence to the eye, and forces the organ to opposition.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe dictatorship of the Communist Party is maintained by recourse to every form of violence.
Leon TrotskyWhat senseless violence does is to prolong the lease of life of the British or foreign rule.
Mahatma GandhiThe choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.
Martin Luther King, Jr.Protection of children from violence and abuse has always been my main activity or campaign.
Sinead O'ConnorIf you love with violence and you hate with violence there is nothing that can be questioned.
Charlie SheenThe violence had broken out in both sides, but our philosophy as a party was very, very clear
John HumeThere is a legacy of violence against native women that has gotten worse and worse over time.
Louise ErdrichPeace through superior violence inevitably leads to the atom bomb and all that it stands for.
Mahatma GandhiViolence is anything that denies human integrity, and leads to hopelessness and helplessness.
Martin Luther King, Jr.Ignorance leads to fear, fear leads to hate, and hate leads to violence. This is the equation.
AverroesIt is not violence that best overcomes hate -- nor vengeance that most certainly heals injury.
Charlotte BronteYou can't get away from violence in drama. If you do not have conflict, you do not have drama.
Cornel WildeSo I think we're kind of an alternate choice for people who have had it with sex and violence.
Dick Van DykeUkraine is a tinderbox, and the fuse is lit. There is no solution through violence in Ukraine.
Frank-Walter SteinmeierThe extreme form of power is All against One, the extreme form of violence is One against All.
Hannah ArendtThe architecture of war and violence is now matched by a barrage of goods parading as fashion.
Henry GirouxThe most important civil liberty... is to stay alive and to be free from violence and death...
John HowardIf love or non-violence be not the law of our being, the whole of my argument falls to pieces.
Mahatma GandhiThe only defense against evil, violent people is good people who are more skilled at violence.
Rory MillerA film is like a battleground. It's love, hate, action, violence, deathIn one word, emotions.
Samuel FullerThe peace produced by grace is a spiritual stability too deep for violence it is unshakeable
Thomas MertonOn the field is a place where you can just let it loose and react to everything with violence.
Troy PolamaluWhatever has been achieved through pressure and violence is unstable, unreliable and incorrect.
Janusz KorczakViolence doesn't have a race, a class, a religion, or a nationality, but it does have a gender.
Rebecca SolnitEvery woman who thinks she is the only victim of violence has to know that there are many more.
Salma HayekThe true master lives in truth, in goodness and restraint, non-violence, moderation, and purity.
Gautama BuddhaOn this International Day of Peace, let us dare to imagine a world free of conflict and violence
Kofi AnnanWhen you practice a life of non-violence you no longer need seek the truth, the truth finds you.
Mahatma GandhiSexual assault and domestic violence are difficult things to talk about. Talk about them anyway.
Mariska HargitayOne must do violence to the object of one's desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.
Marquis de SadeYou cannot commit an act of violence against a non-sentient object, only against a living thing.
Paul WatsonTo imitate the hatred and violence of tyrants and murderers is the best way to take their place.
Pope FrancisIt is bad for the soul to know itself a coward, it is apt to take refuge in mere wordy violence.
Radclyffe HallGovernment is violence masquerading as answers to strangers' problems using other peoples' money.
Dan McCallIndia's freedom will not be won by violence but only by the purest suffering without retaliation.
Mahatma GandhiViolence comes from the belief that other people cause our pain and therefore deserve punishment.
Marshall B. RosenbergLife etches itself onto our faces as we grow older, showing our violence, excesses or kindnesses.
RembrandtIf we are to overcome terrorism and violence, we need education. That is the only way we can win.
Sakena YacoobiThe FA have given me a pat on the back. I've taken violence off the terracing and onto the pitch.
Vinnie JonesAbortion is violence; a deep, desperate violence inflicted by a woman upon, first of all, herself.
Adrienne RichYou can't answer violence with counter violence ... The answer is love. The best sabotage is love.
Athol FugardI believe that the United States is not genuine regarding having a cessation of violence in Syria.
Bashar al-AssadThe sex was so passionate it bordered on violence. It was not vanilla. It was passion as suffering
Elise ValmorbidaWe are all victims of the violence that animals suffer... their liberation is also our liberation.
George Bernard ShawMovies and television don't make you violent; all they do is channel the violence more creatively.
George CarlinWe will export death and violence to the four corners of the earth in defense of our great nation.
George W. BushOur nonviolence in respect of the Government is a result of our incapacity for effective violence.
Mahatma GandhiViolence is bound sooner or later to exhaust itself but peace cannot issue out of such exhaustion.
Mahatma GandhiThe Centers for Disease Control says that men's violence against women is at epidemic proportions.
Tony PorterI hate superficial violence. It's shallow and stupid, and the impact on the audience is really bad.
Alejandro Gonzalez InarrituNothing is so dangerous as that of violence employed by well-meaning people for beneficial objects.
Alexis de TocquevilleNon-violence has suffered its biggest defeat in the hands of people who most want to talk about it.
Cesar ChavezThe weapons-violence hypothesis is far too simplistic a basis on which to base sound public policy.
Daniel D. PolsbyIf [George] Zimmerman had been arrested for domestic violence, Trayvon Martin might still be alive.
Gloria SteinemA peaceful world is a world in which differences are tolerated, and are not eliminated by violence.
John Foster DullesCourtesy towards opponents and eagerness to understand their view-point is the ABC of non-violence.
Mahatma GandhiNon-violence is a piece of theatre. You need an audience. What can you do when you have no audience?
Arundhati RoyI hate violence. When I hold a gun, I feel death in my hands, but it's fun to pretend in the movies.
Javier BardemWars such as those which have occurred in Iraq only allow hatred, violence and terror to proliferate
Jose Luis Rodriguez ZapateroUnder all conditions, well-organized violence seems to him the shortest distance between two points.
Leon TrotskyI have no secret methods. I know no diplomacy save that of truth. I have no weapon but non-violence.
Mahatma GandhiIf we want Swaraj to be built on non-violence, we will have to give the villages their proper place.
Mahatma GandhiViolence has not really been an issue. Even in my wildest hopes, I wasn't trying to get violence in.
Mitchell HurwitzIf I've made it a little easier for artists to work in violence, great! I've accomplished something.
Quentin TarantinoViolence is never the answer but sometimes, like with cockroaches, it is the only possible response.
Tanya HuffTo achieve the extirpation of Nazi tyranny there are no lengths of violence to which we will not go.
Winston Churchill