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 GlasgowWe tried to make a movie that had sex and violence because we like sex and violence. Votes: 2
Lana WachowskiViolence 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 CrumbI 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-BowdonThrough violence you may murder the hater, but you cannot murder hate. Votes: 0
Martin Luther King Jr.Some people's affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls. Votes: 0
Arthur Conan DoyleModerate strength is shown in violence, supreme strength is shown in levity. Votes: 0
Gilbert K. ChestertonModerate 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 McGillnsUnless we teach our children peace, somebody else will teach them violence. Votes: 0
Colman McCarthyOne who uses coercion is guilty of deliberate violence. Coercion is inhuman. Votes: 0
Mahatma GandhiWe cannot eradicate violence if we do not build strong, inclusive communities Votes: 0
Hillary ClintonI think violence is counter-productive and it is bad in democratic societies. Votes: 0
Pierre TrudeauOnly 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 AdornoViolence is never the right answer, unless used against heathens and monsters. Votes: 0
Alexander AndersonThere is no lasting hope in violence, only temporary relief from hopelessness. Votes: 0
Kingman Brewster, Jr.The best way to deal with bureaucrats is with stealth and sudden violence Votes: 0
Butros Butros-GhaliVictory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary. Votes: 0
Mahatma GandhiWe see violence to forcibly seize land, at any price, murders and corruption. Votes: 0
Claudio HummesTruth, Peace and Non-violence form the central tenets of the 'Idea of India'! Votes: 0
Narendra ModiIn 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 McGillMy experience teaches me that truth can never be propagated by doing violence. Votes: 0
Mahatma GandhiMy view is when you use violence on your people, that never ends well. Votes: 0
Abdallah II of JordanThrough violence, you may murder the hater, but you do not murder the hate. Votes: 0
Martin Luther King, Jr.All politics is a struggle for power; the ultimate kind of power is violence. Votes: 0
C. Wright MillsThe violence in society, I'm afraid, is perpetrated by the people at the top. Votes: 0
S. Robson WaltonSeeing the similarity to oneself, one should not use violence or have it used. Votes: 0
Gautama BuddhaWe have to start from the fact that there are always alternatives to violence. Votes: 0
Mairead CorriganWhen you are at the edge of life it will be either silence or violence Votes: 0
Gopichand LagadapatiIt is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence. Votes: 0
Lucius Annaeus SenecaIn real life I do violence, but for psychic stuff I do other things better. Votes: 0
Laurell K. HamiltonViolence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat. Votes: 0
Henry George BohnViolence was just as much about WHAT was happening as it was how it happened. Votes: 0
Walter Dean MyersAnger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up. Votes: 0
Mahatma GandhiAnd I thought the whole point of my education was that violence IS the answer. Votes: 0
Richelle MeadIn light of all the gun violence in the USA, I'd prefer my democracy unleaded. Votes: 0
Jayseth GubermanI hate violence, and I didn't plan to write horror; it just poured out of me. Votes: 0
James HerbertIt's not the violence of the few that scares me, it's the silence of the many Votes: 0
Martin Luther King, Jr.Above 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 ChurchillComparison is an act of violence against the self. Votes: 3 Iyanla Vanzant
I am against war, against violence, against violent revolution, for peaceful settlement of differences, for nonviolent but nevertheless radical changes. Change is needed, and violence will not really change anything: at most it will only transfer power from one set of bull-headed authorities to another. Votes: 4 Thomas Merton
With improved historical records, and easier access to them, we actually have better reasons for hating one another, for anger and violence toward one another. Votes: 3 Richard Rohr
And we've also had now the speaker of the Parliament in Iraq using blatantly anti-Semitic remarks, saying the Jews and sons of Jews are the problem of all the violence that's in Iraq. Votes: 1 Jan Schakowsky
Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them. Votes: 3 Louise Bogan
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: 1 Malcolm X
The vast majority of murdered whites are murdered by other whites. That's why there's no national outrage when a white person is killed by a black person: it's not evidence of some underlying black violence problem directed against white people. Votes: 3 Ben Shapiro
I loved my parents... but that can never change the fact that my father's violence ruined my childhood. Votes: 1 Pat Conroy
The part that always shocked me was the inter-community violence among the chimps: the patrols and the vicious attacks on strangers that lead to death. It's an unfortunate parallel to human behavior - they have a dark side just as we do. We have less excuse, because we can deliberate, so I believe only we are capable of true calculated evil. Votes: 3 Jane Goodall
Until we all start to take responsibility, until we do all we can to improve the character of our communities, we'll never break the cycle of violence and indifference. Votes: 3 Carrie P. Meek
They believed that Britain was in Ireland defending their own interests, therefore the Irish had the right to use violence to put them out. My argument was that that type of thinking was out of date. Votes: 1 John Hume
If you give me any problem in America I can trace it down to domestic violence. It is the cradle of most of the problems, economic, psychological, educational. Votes: 4 Salma Hayek
I am not only overwhelmed with excitement to be back in the seat but also to show my support to help raise awareness to end domestic violence and sexual assault by displaying the 'No More' symbol as I pilot the No. 24 car. Votes: 1 Amber Cope
I think there's as much violence, in a way, as a scene with two women having a cup of coffee in a Ruth Rendell novel - in terms of emotional violence and the violence you can inflict with language - as there is in the most graphic kind of serial killer/slasher novel you can think of. Votes: 1 Mark Billingham
I prefer rugby to soccer. I enjoy the violence in rugby, except when they start biting each other's ears off. Votes: 3 Elizabeth Taylor
If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve worldly conflicts with force? Votes: 3 Letty Cottin Pogrebin
I came to see the streets and the schools as the arms of the same beast. One enjoyed the official power of the state while the other enjoyed its implicit sanction. But fear and violence were the weaponry of both. Votes: 3 Ta-Nehisi Coates
I don't think violence on film breeds violence in life. Violence in life breeds violence in films. Votes: 2 Robert Aldrich
Of course I am for stopping violence against women. It is unfortunate that the Senate Democrats are making the current re-authorization of Violence Against Women bill into a political football. The Republicans are offering an improved version of the reauthorization bill and I want to review it. Votes: 2 Sarah Steelman
The Middle East is ailing. The malady stems from pervasive violence, shortages of food, water and educational opportunities, discrimination against women and - the most virulent cause of all - the absence of freedom. Votes: 3 Shimon Peres
I intentionally shoot violence to make the audience feel real pain. I have never and I will never shoot violence as if it's some kind of action video game. Votes: 1 Takeshi Kitano
Gang violence in America is not a sudden problem. It has been a part of urban life for years, offering an aggressive definition and identity to those seeking a place to belong in the chaos of large metropolitan areas. Votes: 4 Dave Reichert
Making improvements to our background check system and cracking down on illegal gun trafficking are common-sense ways to prevent violence without punishing law abiding gun owners. We owe it to the American people to take real action to reduce gun violence in our communities. Votes: 6 Martin Heinrich
As long as Palestinian violence exists, but not a Palestinian state, Israel is in danger, because it cannot obtain assistance from the international community against an entity that is not subordinate to international law. Votes: 1 Stephane Hessel
Turning a human being into a thing is almost always the first step towards justifying violence against that person. Votes: 3 Jean Kilbourne
Now it is time to make historic reassessments in order to transform our region into one of stability, freedom, prosperity, cultural revival and co-existence. In this new regional order there should be less violence and fewer barriers between countries, societies and sects. Votes: 3 Ahmet Davutoglu
There is a cultural factor promoting violence which nowadays undoubtedly is highly effective is the mass media. And particularly everything that enters our minds through pictorial media. Votes: 1 Alva Myrdal
How a society channels male aggression is one of the greatest questions as to whether that society will survive. That's why I am not against violence in the media, I am against the glorification of immoral violence. Votes: 2 Dennis Prager
The World War broke out with such elemental violence, and with such resort to all means for leading or misleading public opinion, that no time was available for reflection and consideration Votes: 3 Hjalmar Branting
We tried to make a movie that had sex and violence because we like sex and violence. Votes: 2 Lana Wachowski
The Rolling Stones are violence. Their music penetrates the raw nerve endings of their listeners and finds its way into the groove marked 'release of frustration.' Votes: 1 Jon Landau
We don't need no more danger, we don't need no more difficulties, we don't need no more misunderstanding, and we don't need no more violence. We need the people to see each other and know of each other, feel each other, touch each other, share with each other, and change hearts with each other. Votes: 1 Burning Spear
At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love. Votes: 3 Martin Luther King, Jr.
The sincere effort to accept and promote the human values - Truth, Right Conduct, Peace, Non-Violence and Love. These five values are a essential for a full and worthwhile life as the five vital airs or pranas mentioned in the scriptures. Votes: 3 Sathya Sai Baba
These [Arab] youth who have been inspired by universal values are idealistic enough to imagine a magnificent future and, at the same time, realistic enough to balance this kind of imagination and the process leading to it - not using violence, not trying to create chaos. Votes: 3 Wadah Khanfar
Islam teaches tolerance, not hatred; universal brotherhood, not enmity; peace, and not violence. Votes: 2 Pervez Musharraf
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: 1 Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Polish freedom movement of 1968 lost its confrontation with police violence; the Prague Spring was crushed by the armies of five Warsaw Pact members. But in both countries, 1968 gave birth to a new political consciousness. Votes: 3 Adam Michnik
I've always been very interested in political violence. When I finished high school, I did a small dissertation about political violence and fascism in Italy. Votes: 6 Loretta Napoleoni
I've always been very interested in political violence. When I finished high school, I did a small dissertation about political violence and fascism in Italy. Votes: 2 Loretta Napoleoni
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: 3 Hannah Arendt
To my mind it is wholly irresponsible to go into the world incapable of preventing violence, injury, crime, and death. How feeble is the mindset to accept defenselessness. How unnatural. How cheap. How cowardly. How pathetic. Votes: 3 Ted Nugent
In 'The Insider,' I had violence - lethal, life-taking aggression - all happening psychologically, all with people talking to other people. Votes: 2 Michael Mann
This is why my art is about violence. Because I was subjected to so much of it as a kid. After that, and a lot of thinking, I became less violent. I realized that there must be other ways. So, I started to pursue them. Votes: 1 Jack Bowman
In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central. Votes: 1 Park Chan-wook
My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him. Votes: 1 Mahatma Gandhi
I found a religion that blended scientific reason with spiritual reality in a unifying faith far removed from the headlines of violence, destruction and terrorism. Votes: 2 Cat Stevens
It's obvious that humanity continues to be torn by religious violence. Votes: 3 Thomas Keating
There is no accurate or useful 'profile' of students who engage in targeted school violence. Some come from good homes, some from bad. Some have good grades, some bad. Votes: 8 Bill Dedman
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting. Votes: 1 George Orwell
Even in the most peaceful communities, an appetite for violence shows up in dreams, fantasies, sports, play, literature, movies and television. And, so long as we don't transform into angels, violence and the threat of violence - as in punishment and deterrence - is needed to rein in our worst instincts. Votes: 1 Paul Bloom
I've been on the wrong end of violence, and I've done violence myself... I refuse to glorify violence in my movie and television roles. Votes: 1 James Garner
When people say there is too much violence in my books, what they are saying is there is too much reality in life. Votes: 3 Joyce Carol Oates
Tragedy occurs when a human soul awakes and seeks, in suffering and pain, to free itself from crime, violence, infamy, even at the cost of life. The struggle is the tragedy - not defeat or death. Votes: 1 Whittaker Chambers
The Jihad is not just a way of testing yourself but also means using violence to spread Islam. Votes: 3 Bassam Tibi
I would say I'm pretty much the exact same as the stereotypical American kid. I mean I'm really lazy, I play a lot of video games, I like girls. I like, you know, the violence and action type thing. Votes: 2 Callan McAuliffe
So, if falling crime rates coincide with the rise of violent video games and increasing violence on TV and at the cinema, should we conclude that media violence is causing the drop in crime rates? Votes: 1 Hugh Mackay
A vast majority of Republicans are on the record saying that they believe the Violence Against Women Act should be reauthorized. Let me be clear: I believe that Violence Against Women Act must be reauthorized. Votes: 7 John Cornyn
Don't stand back with your arms folded; step forward... There is hope and light to resist injustice and promote peace without violence. Votes: 4 Adolfo Perez Esquivel
People are still thinking of solving problems by violence and war, and that has to stop. Votes: 4 Yoko Ono
Al Qaeda's message that violence, terrorism and extremism are the only answer for Arabs seeking dignity and hope is being rejected each day in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Bahrain and throughout the Arab lands. Votes: 1 Elliott Abrams
I'm not sure that the problem of violence in society can be put at the feet of the entertainment industry. Votes: 1 Ivana Milicevic
Even in the most peaceful communities, an appetite for violence shows up in dreams, fantasies, sports, play, literature, movies and television. And, so long as we don't transform into angels, violence and the threat of violence - as in punishment and deterrence - is needed to rein in our worst instincts. Votes: 2 Paul Bloom
When you see violence in movies in general, it's very quick and painless, which isn't what it's like. Votes: 7 Vincent Cassel
The violence in society, I'm afraid, is perpetrated by the people at the top. Votes: 4 Rob Walton
The violence and burnings in Lebanon were the work of Syrian soldiers and workers dressed in civilian clothes. Votes: 1 Walid Jumblatt
I'm a right pain in the hole for my agent. I won't take certain parts if I think they're offensive or banal. For instance, I won't do a film if I think it's full of violence for violence's sake, or a television drama if I don't think it's intelligent writing. Votes: 2 Anne-Marie Duff
How a society channels male aggression is one of the greatest questions as to whether that society will survive. That's why I am not against violence in the media, I am against the glorification of immoral violence. Votes: 1 Dennis Prager
So, if falling crime rates coincide with the rise of violent video games and increasing violence on TV and at the cinema, should we conclude that media violence is causing the drop in crime rates? Votes: 2 Hugh Mackay
Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time: the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love. Votes: 3 Martin Luther King, Jr.
The president welcomes peaceful protests - it is a time-honored tradition. The president agrees violence is not the answer in Iraq, and that's why he hopes Saddam Hussein will disarm. Votes: 1 Ari Fleischer
People use location as a language in films, and Quentin uses action as a language in his films. There's really not a lot of violence. It's more of an emotional beat than it is a physical beat. Votes: 2 Lucy Liu
Nothing gets us down more than watching violence on television or reading about war and brutality in the newspaper. The truth is, there's a massive reduction in the amount of violence around the world. Votes: 3 Peter Diamandis
There is one-and only one-way to end the violence in Latin America. There is one-and only one-way to terminate the drug gangs. That way is by legalizing drugs. Legalizing drugs today would put an immediate end to the drug gangs and the drug-war violence. Votes: 3 Jacob G. Hornberger
Violence is one of the most fun things to watch. Votes: 1 Quentin Tarantino