Quotes about violence

"The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal in domestic affairs, specifically in the matter of revolution."

Arendt, Hannah on violence   

"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."

Arendt, Hannah on violence   

"Perhaps violence, like pornography, is some kind of an evolutionary standby system, a last-resort device for throwing a wild joker into the game?"

Ballard, J. G. on violence   

"I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if we do not stop being violent we have no future."

Bond, Edward on violence   

"They are not following dharma who resort to violence to achieve their purpose. But those who lead others through nonviolent means, knowing right and wrong, may be called guardians of the dharma."

Buddha on violence   

"We are supposed to be the children of Seth; but Seth is too much of an effete nonentity to deserve ancestral regard. No, we are the sons of Cain, and with violence can be associated the attacks on sound, stone, wood and metal that produced civilization."

Burgess, Anthony on violence   

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan on violence   

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"Men are rewarded for learning the practice of violence in virtually any sphere of activity by money, admiration, recognition, respect, and the genuflection of others honoring their sacred and proven masculinity. In male culture, police are heroic and so are outlaws; males who enforce standards are heroic and so are those who violate them."

Dworkin, Andrea on violence   

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

Gandhi, Mahatma on violence
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"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."

Hardin, Salvor on violence
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"Violence was almost an aphrodisiac for me."

Harrelson, Woody on violence
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"Cause a man with a briefcase can steal more money than any man with a gun"

Henley, Don on violence
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"There are situations in life to which the only satisfactory response is a physically violent one. If you don't make that response, you continually relive the unresolved situation over and over in your life."

Hoban, Russell on violence   

"A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the football field, or in the conduct of its business, cannot help making celebrities of the people who would destroy it."

Lapham, Lewis H. on violence   

"In America all too few blows are struck into flesh. We kill the spirit here, we are experts at that. We use psychic bullets and kill each other cell by cell."

Mailer, Norman on violence   

"In the whole vast dome of living nature there reigns an open violence, a kind of prescriptive fury which arms all the creatures to their common doom: as soon as you leave the inanimate kingdom you find the decree of violent death inscribed on the very frontiers of life."

Maistre, Joseph De on violence   

"If violence is wrong in America, violence is wrong abroad. If it is wrong to be violent defending black women and black children and black babies and black men, then it is wrong for America to draft us, and make us violent abroad in defense of her. And if it is right for America to draft us, and teach us how to be violent in defense of her, then it is right for you and me to do whatever is necessary to defend our own people right here in this country."

Malcolm X on violence
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"In violence we forget who we are."

Mccarthy, Mary on violence
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"If human beings are to survive in a nuclear age, committing acts of violence may eventually have to become as embarrassing as urinating or defecating in public are today."

Miedzian, Myriam on violence   

"Violence is my last option."

Norris, Chuck on violence   

"The imposition of stigma is the commonest form of violence used in democratic societies."

Pinker, R. A. on violence   

"If you strike a child, take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk of maiming it for life. A blow in cold blood neither can nor should be forgiven."

Shaw, George Bernard on violence   

"Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence. Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle."

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander on violence
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"Rambo isn't violent. I see Rambo as a philanthropist."

Stallone, Sylvester on violence   

"If a man is pictured chopping off a woman's breast, it only gets a R rating, but if, God forbid, a man is pictured kissing a woman's breast, it gets an X rating. Why is violence more acceptable than tenderness?"

Struthers, Sally on violence   

"Under all conditions well-organized violence seems to him the shortest distance between two points."

Trotsky, Leon on violence   

"Non violence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence."

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