Violence Quotes

We were raised with that discussion about violence and non-violence, and we all pretty much came up on the side of non-violence. That became my foundation with politics and my livelihood.

~ Joan Baez

Politics for me started in violence.

~ Marine Le Pen

Computer games tend to be boys' games, warlike games with more violence. We have not spent enough time thinking through how to encourage more girls to be involved in computing before coming to college so they can see a possible career in information technology.

~ Freeman A. Hrabowski Iii

Well before September 11, it was understood that with modern technology, the rich and powerful will lose their near monopoly of the means of violence and can expect to suffer atrocities on home soil.

~ Noam Chomsky

Science, as opposed to technology, does violence to common sense.

~ Richard Dawkins

Technology, ideology, and social and cultural changes periodically throw out new forms of violence for humanity to contend with.

~ Steven Pinker

The decline of violence isn't a steady inclined plane from an original state of maximal and universal bloodshed. Technology, ideology, and social and cultural changes periodically throw out new forms of violence for humanity to contend with.

~ Steven Pinker

Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.

~ Leo Tolstoy

Education is the vaccine for violence.

~ Edward James Olmos

Poverty does not cause violence and terrorism. Lack of education does not cause terrorism.

~ John O. Brennan

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

~ Julian Bond

For myself, I think that those who cultivate wisdom and believe themselves able to instruct their fellow-citizens as to their interests are least likely to become partisans of violence. They are too well aware that to violence attach enmities and dangers, whereas results as good may be obtained by persuasion safely and amicably.

~ Xenophon

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.

~ Bayard Rustin

I'm just hoping that people understand that Islam is peace and not violence.

~ Muhammad Ali

People respond in accordance to how you relate to them. If you approach them on the basis of violence, that's how they'll react. But if you say, 'We want peace, we want stability,' we can then do a lot of things that will contribute towards the progress of our society.

~ Nelson Mandela

Revenge only engenders violence, not clarity and true peace. I think liberation must come from within.

~ Sandra Cisneros

Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.

~ Dorothy Thompson

Take away the violence and who will hear the men of peace?

~ Lorraine Hansberry

You may gain temporary appeasement by a policy of concession to violence, but you do not gain lasting peace that way.

~ Anthony Eden

Instead of a man of peace and love, I have become a man of violence and revenge.

~ Hiawatha

The myth of redemptive violence - Caesar, peace, and victory - is in people's bones so deeply, we aren't even aware of it. You crush the opposition; that's how we bring peace.

~ Rob Bell

We will stand up for our friends in the world. And one of the most important friends is the State of Israel. My administration will be steadfast in support Israel against terrorism and violence, and in seeking the peace for which all Israelis pray.

~ George W. Bush

What is real is that adultery destroys tens of thousands of families every year across America. What is real is that adultery scars tens of thousands of children emotionally and psychologically every year. What is real is that adultery is an open wound in a relationship which more often than not overflows into domestic violence or worse.

~ Mike Pence

To me, one of the big silver linings of the Simpson trial is the advances we've made in understanding domestic violence as a lethal problem. Before that trial, I think there was a widespread sense that it was a family affair, a normal part of a relationship, not really a crime. The reality is that it's very much a crime, and a very serious one.

~ Marcia Clark

I think that when we have a better educated society, when there is less violence in our cities, when people get back into the workforce and have the opportunity to take care of themselves and their families - that for me really is the kind of success and the kind of America that I think most of us still want, we aspire to.

~ Michael Nutter

Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

~ Norman O. Brown

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.

~ George Orwell

Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men.

~ Pope John Paul Ii

You have to understand the Newark Riots - a lot of people understand that the pain was the initial explosion of anger and alienation, but after that, the response, sending the National Guard troops - a lot of violence was carried out and perpetrated by those who were allegedly coming here to protect residents.

~ Cory Booker

A theme that has always interested me is how women express anger, how women express violence. That is very much part of who women are, and it's so unaddressed. A vast amount of literature deals with cycles of violence about men, antiheroes. Women lack that vocabulary.

~ Gillian Flynn

The modern progressive movement believes that dissenting language is objectionable, which then removes the brakes between anger and violence.

~ Greg Gutfeld

It angers me to see armed defenders at the bottom of Lost Cause statues, adding a renewed threat of violence to icons that are themselves part of an ideology of violence and intimidation.

~ Ryan Holiday

One effect of an individualistic culture that's poor at instilling mutual respect is that people jump more quickly to anger or violence.

~ Geoff Mulgan

I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older it narrowed down to a more specific focus on individual violence. I'm just trying to understand where it came from.

~ Caleb Carr

Fear generates anger, and fear generates violence, and those were part of what built the Saudi state.

~ Robert Lacey

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.

~ Burning Spear

It seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does not change the world and if it does, then only temporarily.

~ Martin Scorsese

The democracy process provides for political and social change without violence.

~ Aung San Suu Kyi

The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose.

~ Edward Coke

No matter how civilized we are and how much society has curbed violent behavior. Human beings still have the same genes they had 10,000 years ago. Our bodies are designed to have a certain amount of physical stress and violence in them. We're designed to run from jaguars and fight to defend our territory.

~ Joe Rogan