300 Quotes on Violence

• Wars such as those which have occurred in Iraq only allow hatred, violence and terror to proliferate.

  Author: Jose Zapatero

• I don't like to go to the movies to see violence or some kind of spy thing with all kinds of information you have to assimilate to understand the plot.

  Author: Pia Zadora

• In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival.

  Author: Andrew Young

• To cure the violence, we must identify and heal the causes of hatred and violence. If we don't deal with the causes we will never be safe.

  Author: Peter Yarrow

• It's pure Black Label. It's about violence and booze. That's all it is. There is no plan.

  Author: Zakk Wylde

• Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?

  Author: Virginia Woolf

• Violence is a tool of the ignorant.

  Author: Flip Wilson

• Violence - look, we live in a violent world, man. This country was founded on violence. Who's kidding who?

  Author: Bruce Willis

• May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.

  Author: Marianne Williamson

• Violence is not to be undertaken by private persons. If a state or administration acts without due and visible attention to agreed international process, it acts in a way analogous to a private person. It purports to be judge of its own interest.

  Author: Rowan Williams

• Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings.

  Author: George Will

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

  Author: Simon Wiesenthal

• The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.

  Author: E. White

• These days, our senses are bombarded with aggression. We are constantly confronted with global images of unending, escalating war and violence.

  Author: Margaret Wheatley

• The white man's victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder.

  Author: Ida Wells

• I have always been vitally interested in physical conditioning. I have long believed that athletic competition among people and nations should replace violence and wars.

  Author: Johnny Weissmuller

• War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.

  Author: George Washington

• No kids should see that kind of violence where Batman is killing as many people as the bad guys.

  Author: Burt Ward

• The violence in society, I'm afraid, is perpetrated by the people at the top.

  Author: Rob Walton

• Too late, the ordinary German realized that the violence which before had been directed against 'other' people could now equally land on him.

  Author: William Waller

• The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information.

  Author: Henry Wallace

• A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends.

  Author: Henry Wallace

• Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.

  Author: Alice Walker

• I think that the enormous emphasis on violence and sex, and in particular violent sex, may not make rapists of us all, but it predisposes us to accept a kind of world in which these things happen.

  Author: Alexander Walker

• We shall not yield to violence. We shall not be deprived of union freedoms. We shall never agree with sending people to prison for their convictions.

  Author: Lech Walesa

• I do not like violence.

  Author: Abdurrahman Wahid

• I told the students that we can exert pressure without resorting to violence, and that we can move towards democracy without violence; that way, God will allow it.

  Author: Abdurrahman Wahid

• We tried to make a movie that had sex and violence because we like sex and violence.

  Author: Larry Wachowski

• Liberating Iraq from a legacy of violence and putting it on the path to peace and prosperity will take time.

  Author: George Voinovich

• In my rational mind, I know... that is a very simplistic way of looking at it, but when there is violence of that kind, it challenges my faith. I still can't say that I totally understand why - why that is allowed to happen.

  Author: Linda Vester

• Wrestling is ballet with violence.

  Author: Jesse Ventura

• I think movies glamorize violence, in the sense that they make it in a way that it's either cool or funny.

  Author: Matthew Vaughn

• Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.

  Author: Lao Tzu

• From a viable economy to the full funding of Headstart, from a clean environment to true equality for women, from a strong military to a commitment to racial brotherhood, from schools that are honored to streets free of excessive violence.

  Author: Paul Tsongas

• Refrain at all times from such Foods as cannot be procured without violence and oppression.

  Author: Thomas Tryon

• We think that Kosovo will continue to serve as a centre of violence and regional instability in future.

  Author: Boris Trajkovski

• All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

  Author: Leo Tolstoy

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

  Author: Leo Tolstoy

• We took an approach, supported by the Prime Minister, the Home Secretary and the Mayor for London, that we had very real fears of violence and damage being caused across the streets of London.

  Author: Michael Todd

• 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.

  Author: Dorothy Thompson

• But I don't think there has ever been anything written on the nature of violent man as deep and as thorough as Shakespeare's Titus. I think it puts all modern movies and modern exploitations of violence to shame.

  Author: Julie Taymor

• Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.

  Author: Quentin Tarantino

• If any fall by the hand of violence, others will continue the blessed work.

  Author: Lewis Tappan

• My door will always be open to those who genuinely renounce violence and seek peaceful accommodation into our nascent democracy.

  Author: Jalal Talabani

• 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?

  Author: Sally Struthers

• The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime.

  Author: Max Stirner

• 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.

  Author: Cat Stevens

• Violence is almost an everyday occurrence in some Muslim lands: it should not be exacerbated by revenge attacks on more innocent families and communities.

  Author: Cat Stevens

• From pacifist to terrorist, each person condemns violence - and then adds one cherished case in which it may be justified.

  Author: Gloria Steinem

• In reality, we can prove that the incidents of drug, alcohol abuse and violence have dropped dramatically among professional athletes - but the problem is it would be impossible to convince than fans, because of what they read on the AP wire.

  Author: Leigh Steinberg

• Man has an innate capacity for violence, but can only justify it in the name of justice.

  Author: Ralph Steadman

• Love soothes wounds, while hatred and violence deepen them.

  Author: Willie Stargell

• But, I don't know, the violence, I can't even talk about. We don't do a lot of violent shows. When I started in television, breaking a pencil was a violent act.

  Author: Aaron Spelling

• I was offered one of the roles in a big project that shall remain nameless. I thought the whole thing encouraged violent sex crimes toward women. It made horrible, ghastly rape violence seem sexy. I just didn't want to sign my name to it.

  Author: Mira Sorvino

• Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.

  Author: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

• Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.

  Author: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

• Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.

  Author: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

• 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.

  Author: Alexander Solzehnitsyn

• The only violence was when these so-called 'freedom fighters' terrorized the poor Africans in the villages... They were told what to do and who to support.

  Author: Ian Smith

• First of all, my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because religion serves as the soul of community, it gets drawn into the fracas and turns up the heat.

  Author: Huston Smith

• However, the combination of civil resistance, of large-scale mass activities and strikes, with a certain degree of revolutionary violence, could provoke a crisis in the enemy's camp that would ultimately lead to essential changes.

  Author: Joe Slovo

• It is vital that Iraq and the United States together send the clearest possible signal that those who commit acts of violence against American military forces and American civilians will not be rewarded with amnesty.

  Author: Ike Skelton

• It's odd how violence and humor so often go together, isn't it?

  Author: Dan Simmons

• I think the suffering, violence and cruelty and Guantanamo and the rest is going to go on and on in Iraq.

  Author: Clare Short

• Obviously this is the world descending into worse and worse standards of targeting civilians both in state violence in Iraq, Gaza and so on and the terrorist retaliation.

  Author: Clare Short

• With the adoption of the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, the international community sent out a clear message that gender based violence will not be tolerated.

  Author: Jenny Shipley

• We think of violence as being conflict and fighting and wars and so forth, but the most ongoing horrific measure of violence is in the horrible poverty of the Third World... and the poverty in the United States as well.

  Author: Martin Sheen

• Under current law, there is no additional penalty for someone who enters the United States illegally and then commits either a crime of violence or a drug trafficking offense. They simply come under the same penalty as we have in current law.

  Author: John Shadegg

• The Muslim world is deeply hurt by the campaign of violence initiated against our Palestinian brothers.

  Author: Ahmet Sezner

• It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.

  Author: Lucius Seneca

• Europeans are familiar with terrorism and violence. We have not experienced a true conflict on our soil in a hundred years, and especially not one that involved 3,000 dead.

  Author: Brent Scowcroft

• I certainly wasn't able to get it when I was a kid growing up on the Lower East Side; it was very hard at that time for me to balance what I really believed was the right way to live with the violence I saw all around me - I saw too much of it among the people I knew.

  Author: Martin Scorsese

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

  Author: Martin Scorsese

• Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.

  Author: Albert Schweitzer

• A fair observer only has to ask: If there is violence, who profits?

  Author: Jack Schwartz

• Most dramatically, and perhaps least noticed, is the violence inside Saudi Arabia itself.

  Author: Michael Scheuer

• 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.

  Author: Jan Schakowsky

• Though there is growing division among the Ukrainian military ranks as to loyalty in this revolution, the possibility of violence looms over the entire situation.

  Author: Bob Schaffer

• I am committed to the principle that violence is never justified as a means of ameliorating a grievance.

  Author: Justin Sane

• If an adult uses violence on a child, the child will naturally assume that he too, has the right to use it on one smaller or weaker.

  Author: Dora Russell

• As we're bombarded with the imagery that we are and now, post 9-11, it's hard not to get hardened by the world and the amount of violence that's allowed to be shown to kids these days.

  Author: Mark Ruffalo

• We're warriors, this culture, and we're very puritanical about sex and very embracing about violence and I don't know why that is.

  Author: Mark Ruffalo

• We'll engage in pretty extreme violence in the world but, you know, the one thing that comes to humans as easily as eating or breathing or sleeping, is sex.

  Author: Mark Ruffalo

• The problem to me is violence. It's not cool to kill somebody or hurt people.

  Author: Mark Ruffalo

• I ain't never liked violence.

  Author: Sugar Robinson

• Violence is for mugs. War is for mugs.

  Author: Mark Roberts

• I think there's a natural system in your own head about how much violence the scene warrants. It's not an intellectual process, it's an instinctive process.

  Author: Guy Ritchie

• It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.

  Author: Rainer Rilke

• My earnest hope is that what we started in terms of building partnerships with communities across America will continue, that we will continue our efforts to reduce crime and violence.

  Author: Janet Reno

• We want to continue the efforts against domestic violence and spread the drug courts, and develop real effective means of providing treatment for drug abusers without having to have them arrested.

  Author: Janet Reno

• Violence has been Nicaragua's most important export to the world.

  Author: Ronald Reagan

• I have never made a threat. I've never made a threat, never expressed a threat, never - I've never - I would never threaten violence ever, because I am a man of peace, dedicated to peace.

  Author: Feisal Rauf

• Claiming that you have got the truth wrapped up does breed violence and intolerance.

  Author: Timothy Radcliffe

• All the Abrahamic faiths are marked by violence.

  Author: Timothy Radcliffe

• The unutterable violence of the Holocaust shook our confidence in the possibility of telling any story of faith at all.

  Author: Timothy Radcliffe

• No Arab ruler will consider the peace process seriously so long as he is able to toy with the idea of achieving more by the way of violence.

  Author: Yitzhak Rabin

• So instead of talking about theoretical ways of ending the war and violence, I say that we have to get rid of the individual asholes in each office and situation.

  Author: Colin Quinn

• Victory Over Violence is an organization that was created to help fund shelters for women and children.

  Author: Victoria Principal

• 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.

  Author: Dennis Prager

• The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.

  Author: Ezra Pound

• Well, one hopes that if you're really related to the core of your particular culture, you have profound commitments to it, and that you are aware of how much you can strain it before you do violence to its essential nature.

  Author: Chaim Potok

• You have to show violence the way it is. If you don't show it realistically, then that's immoral and harmful. If you don't upset people, then that's obscenity.

  Author: Roman Polanski

• 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?

  Author: Letty Pogrebin

• Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.

  Author: Plutarch

• Men who have been raised violently have every reason to believe it is appropriate for them to control others through violence; they feel no compunction over being violent to women, children, and one another.

  Author: Frank Pittman

• It's something that I am going over in my head about the whole video game thing, and whether you support violence by being in a film like this. I mean, to me, it's incredibly unreal and it's all about the action, and just explosions.

  Author: Rosamund Pike

• Answer violence with violence. If one of us falls today, five of them must fall tomorrow.

  Author: Evita Peron

• The Reform Bill has destroyed the ancient conduits and strainers, and brings Public Opinion to act upon the government with the rapid, turbulent, and uncertain violence of a flood!

  Author: Robert Peel

• Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.

  Author: Pope Paul II

• Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men.

  Author: Pope Paul II

• Legitimate use of violence can only be that which is required in self-defense.

  Author: Ron Paul

• The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the initiation of violence.

  Author: Ron Paul

• It was exactly the same on the South Park movie really too. There's lots of violence in that too, but it always came down to anything sexual... They don't care about anything else.

  Author: Trey Parker

• Body language is essential for an actress, even if you don't use your body in an athletic way. Just to be free, to use it like your voice. A body can be small and have incredible violence. A body talks.

  Author: Anne Parillaud

• Armageddon is not around the corner. This is only what the people of violence want us to believe. The complexity and diversity of the world is the hope for the future.

  Author: Michael Palin

• Sometimes in the dark of night I begin to think. And I wonder if Lee started all this violence.

  Author: Marina Oswald

• 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.

  Author: George Orwell

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

  Author: George Orwell

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

  Author: George Orwell

• Education is a vacine for violence.

  Author: Edward Olmos

• I don't support violence, period.

  Author: Edward Olmos

• Education is the vaccine for violence.

  Author: Edward Olmos

• Of course, violence will not end with our combat mission. Extremists will continue to set off bombs, attack Iraqi civilians and try to spark sectarian strife. But ultimately, these terrorists will fail to achieve their goals.

  Author: Barack Obama

• Violence is my last option.

  Author: Chuck Norris

• The violence or the vaudeville style of comedy is a technique all by itself. You get up there, and you are a comedian, and you're doing one thing. That is, you're going to make the audience laugh.

  Author: Leslie Nielsen

• War is an attempt of one group to impose its will upon another group by armed violence.

  Author: Scott Nearing

• Let me be very clear: We monitor the risks of violent extremism taking root here in the United States. We don't have the luxury of focusing our efforts on one group; we must protect the country from terrorism whether foreign or homegrown, and regardless of the ideology that motivates its violence.

  Author: Janet Napolitano

• Well, you know, the violence is mostly in Mexico itself, at least the violence that people are worried about. And so we want to make sure that violence does not spill over into our communities that are along the border.

  Author: Janet Napolitano

• 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.

  Author: Alva Myrdal

• Philosophers are people who do violence, but have no army at their disposal, and so subjugate the world by locking it into a system.

  Author: Robert Musil

• Islam teaches tolerance, not hatred; universal brotherhood, not enmity; peace, and not violence.

  Author: Pervez Musharraf

• We shall continue to work for a Middle East that is free of strife and violence, living in harmony without the threat of terrorism or the dangers of weapons of mass destruction.

  Author: Hosni Mubarak

• While we have entertained the contention that a deed may make more propaganda than hundreds of speeches, thousands of articles, and tens of thousands of pamphlets, we have held that an arbitrary act of violence will not necessarily have such an effect.

  Author: Johann Most

• 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.

  Author: Toni Morrison

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

  Author: Jim Morrison

• Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence.

  Author: Jim Morrison

• Of course I am frustrated with regard to extreme poverty, to violence that never seems to cease.

  Author: Roger Moore

• I think American audiences are quite interesting in that they can handle almost any amount of violence, but the moment the violence becomes sexual violence it immediately becomes an issue.

  Author: Mark Millar

• 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.

  Author: Myriam Miedzian

• Violence and irrationality were so long and thoroughly cultivated among the Irish, and so perfectly ingrained into their nature, that modern civilization has as yet been unable to extract the virus.

  Author: Thomas Mellon

• The proposition that we should encourage wickedness and violence by exposing one side of the face to blows because we have been beaten on the other is too great an absurdity.

  Author: Thomas Mellon

• 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.

  Author: Carrie Meek

• In violence, we forget who we are.

  Author: Mary McCarthy

• Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what is most truly is is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps.

  Author: Willie Mays

• America and its allies are engaged in a war against a terrorist movement that spans all corners of the globe. It is sparked by radical ideologues that breed hatred, oppression, and violence against all of their declared enemies.

  Author: Kenny Marchant

• I always thought the real violence in Hollywood isn't what's on the screen. It's what you have to do to raise the money.

  Author: David Mamet

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

  Author: Malcolm Malcolm X

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

  Author: Malcolm Malcolm X

• It started with the Godfather, this operatic violence. I don't know.

  Author: William Macy

• What postmodernism gives us instead is a multicultural defense for male violence - a defense for it wherever it is, which in effect is a pretty universal defense.

  Author: Catharine MacKinnon

• 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?

  Author: Hugh Mackay

• The copycat effects of media violence, similar to those previously attributed to westerns, radio serials and comic books, are easy to exaggerate.

  Author: Hugh Mackay

• Nothing good ever comes of violence.

  Author: Martin Luther

• The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.

  Author: Lucretius

• Gay culture is surviving and thriving. Some activists believe the recent rise in homophobic violence might be a gauge of the success of positive gay images.

  Author: Lance Loud

• Violence is used to portray what happens in a film. It only helps portray the actors and what they do. I think it is more about the story, when you have something to play off of.

  Author: Jake Lloyd

• Fortune blinds men when she does not wish them to withstand the violence of her onslaughts.

  Author: Titus Livius

• Any time you do physical stuff, violence, it is controlled. It's a little bit like you block the move.

  Author: Ron Livingston

• 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.

  Author: Lucy Liu

• Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.

  Author: Abraham Lincoln

• I think "Hero" is not a real martial arts movie; it is not about violence, or formula.

  Author: Jet Li

• Violence is a part of America. I don't want to single out rap music. Let's be honest. America's the most violent country in the history of the world, that's just the way it is. We're all affected by it.

  Author: Spike Lee

• The trafficking of sex and violence is comes after the demand for ratings.

  Author: Norman Lear

• We are a country of excess. So it's not the violence, per se, but the exacerbation and constant repetition.

  Author: Norman Lear

• The violence in the world comes about because we human beings are forever creating barriers between men who are like us and men who are not like us.

  Author: Edmund Leach

• The drop of rain maketh a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.

  Author: Hugh Latimer

• Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.

  Author: R. Laing

• We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.

  Author: R. Laing

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

  Author: Aung Kyi

• Random violence is incredibly infectious.

  Author: Nicholas Kristof

• This is a formidable enemy. To dismiss it as a bunch of 'cowards' perpetuating 'senseless acts of violence' is complacent nonsense. People willing to kill thousands of innocents while they kill themselves are not cowards. They are deadly vicious warriors and need to be treated as such.

  Author: Charles Krauthammer

• There's been an increase in the number of Iraqis in training, but more Americans are dying and violence is increasing.

  Author: Lawrence Korb

• I have to admit that when I watch a movie in which there is no moral context for the violence - I find that offensive. I think that's potentially damaging to society.

  Author: Dean Koontz

• Because people see violence on the movie screen, they're not going to go out and hold up a liquor store and kill somebody. It really doesn't correlate.

  Author: Dean Koontz

• In my books, I never portray violence as a reasonable solution to a problem. If the lead characters in the story are driven to it, it's at the extreme end of their experience.

  Author: Dean Koontz

• If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.

  Author: Edward Koch

• I have never seen a connection between cinematic violence towards women and actual violence towards women in society.

  Author: Richard King

• Cinema has only been around for about 100 years. Has all of the world's violence towards women taken place only within the past 100 years?

  Author: Richard King

• If a violent act towards a woman takes place, and the inspiration for that act is violence in cinema, the inspiration for that act would have come from somewhere else if movies didn't exist.

  Author: Richard King

• For as long as the power of America's diversity is diminished by acts of discrimination and violence against people just because they are black, Hispanic, Asian, Jewish, Muslim or gay, we still must overcome.

  Author: Ron Kind

• Let us reject violence and selfishness which could destroy our country's unity.

  Author: Mwai Kibaki

• Hatred, intolerance, poor hygienic conditions and violence all have roots in illiteracy, so we're trying to do something to help the poor and the needy.

  Author: Abdul Khan

• If you look beyond the short term violence and instability, you do see significant activities on the part of the Iraqi people that indicate they understand the commitment necessary to govern themselves. It's not clear how they will do it, but it never is.

  Author: Bob Kerrey

• It is my contention that most people are not mugged every day, that most people in this world do not encounter violence every day. I think we prepare people for violence, and I think just as importantly we prepare people for the definition of being gentle.

  Author: Bob Keeshan

• The great Chinese classics have always said that it's better not to fight; that the clever man achieves his ends without violence; that a battle delayed is better than a battle fought.

  Author: John Keegan

• The power which establishes a state is violence; the power which maintains it is violence; the power which eventually overthrows it is violence.

  Author: Kenneth Kaunda

• They are always very lax about putting restrictions on violence for children's movies, which I think is much more harrowing than sexuality for children.

  Author: Philip Kaufman

• Football is violence and cold weather and sex and college rye.

  Author: Roger Kahn

• In a world which is armed to its teeth with nuclear weapons, every quarrel or difference of opinion may lead to violence of a kind quite different from what is possible today.

  Author: Herman Kahn

• The violence and burnings in Lebanon were the work of Syrian soldiers and workers dressed in civilian clothes.

  Author: Walid Jumblatt

• I mean I grew up in Ireland, so one would have to be consciously blinkered not to have reflected on the issue of political violence because that was the story since I was 19 years old or 20.

  Author: Neil Jordan

• We do not deride the fears of prospering white America. A nation of violence and private property has every reason to dread the violated and the deprived.

  Author: June Jordan

• The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise they will win and the decent people will loose.

  Author: James Jones

• I'm a strong person, but I'd never resort to violence.

  Author: Kristen Johnston

• Now they have come to the place where their faith can no longer feed on the bread of repression and violence. They ask for the bread of liberty, of public equality, and public responsibility. It must not be denied them.

  Author: Mordecai Johnson

• To be reserved, secretive, with a passionate violence that causes suffering.

  Author: Gwen John

• Janet Reno, during her confirmation hearings, said she would come down harder on porno, and lately she's talked about how violence on television has an effect on violence in the real world.

  Author: Penn Jillette

• The fact is that violence gives you a rush.

  Author: Penn Jillette

• It's an entire industry focusing on young male viewers that want action and violence. They sell us something that isn't valid. They're selling films like a product.

  Author: Norman Jewison

• We must have our say, not through violence, aggression or fear. We must speak out calmly and forcefully. We shall only be able to enter the new world era if we agree to engage in dialogue with the other side.

  Author: Tahar Jelloun

• In defense of our persons and properties under actual violation, we took up arms. When that violence shall be removed, when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, hostilities shall cease on our part also.

  Author: Thomas Jefferson

• All that violence in the world, we need to stop that.

  Author: Wyclef Jean

• It's not that the film is violent, it's that people have an issue with violence right now.

  Author: Thomas Jane

• The motives of these parents vary, many parents don't like the curriculum being taught to their kids, or are wary of the threat of peer pressure or the presence of drugs or violence lurking in too many of our schools today.

  Author: Ernest Istook

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

  Author: Steve Irwin

• We have to stop this violence. We have to make the political nature of the violence clear, that the violence we experience in our own homes is not a personal family matter, it's a public and political problem. It's a way that women are kept in line, kept in our places.

  Author: Patricia Ireland

• We always knew when we took on the issue of violence against women that somehow our opposition would come after us.

  Author: Patricia Ireland

• I know that it isn't just violence against women, it's how do we support ourselves and our families, how do we deal with health care for ourselves and our families? It's a bigger picture.

  Author: Patricia Ireland

• Violence may be a good focus to organize around, but we have to look at women's lives in our entirety.

  Author: Patricia Ireland

• I've talked to law enforcement officials at the state and local level who say that violence against women is going up. In any case, we think that it's an important issue whether it's going up or not. And we are determined to stop it.

  Author: Patricia Ireland

• The Violence Against Women Act is so important. It provides money to train the cop on the beat, to train the judges that this is a new day, that we won't tolerate this violence and to know how to deal with it.

  Author: Patricia Ireland

• I don't think any of our lyrics have ever been erotic in a sexual term, because I haven't really written, touched on, that subject too often. But, uh... I mean, I suppose they could point the finger at us for violence maybe in certain songs.

  Author: Scott Ian

• The absence and suppression of justice can only open the way for extremists to exploit such a condition to perpetrate acts of violence against innocents.

  Author: King Hussein I

• Yes, he wanted me to do Funny Games before, which I didn't want to do because the film was very theoretical - the way people experience violence on screen. There was very little space for fiction, it was more like a sacrifice for the actors than anything else.

  Author: Isabelle Huppert

• We see violence to forcibly seize land, at any price, murders and corruption.

  Author: Claudio Hummes

• I was grateful for the opportunity to make a difference. The political violence really started in 1970-1971. The political difficulties start a little bit beyond that.

  Author: John Hume

• 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.

  Author: John Hume

• The violence had broken out in both sides, but our philosophy as a party was very, very clear.

  Author: John Hume

• We improved the environment in which our children live, learn and play by decreasing crime and clamping down on abuse and violence in the home and on the streets.

  Author: Jane Hull

• What I intended to accomplish was to rouse the student body, not by means of an organization, but solely by my simple words; to urge them, not to violence, but to moral insight into the existing serious deficiencies of our political system.

  Author: Kurt Huber

• Disarm, disarm. The sword of murder is not the balance of justice. Blood does not wipe out dishonor, nor violence indicate possession.

  Author: Julia Howe

• In the case of Iraq, notwithstanding the violence there at the moment, the very fact that a hideous regime - responsible for genocide, for the use of chemical and biological weapons, aggression against two neighbors - has been removed in itself is a positive development.

  Author: Jose Horta

• The East Timorese government does not believe that we should consider compensation for the victims because there are tens of thousands of people who were, in one way or another, affected by the violence either directly or indirectly.

  Author: Jose Horta

• I don't believe in using too much graphic violence, although I've done it. It's better to be suggestive and to allow the viewer to fill in the blanks in their minds.

  Author: Tobe Hooper

• Futurism: This was a movement of intellectuals who wanted to replace tradition with the modern world of machinery, speed, violence, and public relations. It proves that we should be careful what intellectuals wish for, because we might get it.

  Author: Brad Holland

• If we go back in the history of different nations, violence and the use of force are part of their heritage. These are the traditions of mankind.

  Author: Harri Holkeri

• The very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence.

  Author: Adolf Hitler

• All religions have based morality on obedience, that is to say, on voluntary slavery. That is why they have always been more pernicious than any political organization. For the latter makes use of violence, the former - of the corruption of the will.

  Author: Alexander Herzen

• There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors.

  Author: Frank Herbert

• Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire.

  Author: Heraclitus

• I had seen so many injustices done in the court by well-meaning people. I had lost fourteen clients to gang violence in only seven years. I was angry at a system I thought had failed my clients, and I was part of it.

  Author: Richard Helms

• Every woman who thinks she is the only victim of violence has to know that there are many more.

  Author: Salma Hayek

• 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.

  Author: Salma Hayek

• The actions of the terrorist organizations, Hezbollah, in Lebanon, and Hamas, in Gaza, against Israel are unconscionable. Instead of working towards peace, these terrorist organizations have chosen to perpetuate the violence.

  Author: Alcee Hastings

• At the same time as we clearly condemn actions of violence by groups in Palestinian against Israel.

  Author: Jane Harman

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

  Author: Lorraine Hansberry

• Two things I do well in books are sex and violence, but I don't want gratuitous sex or violence. The sex and violence are only as graphic as need be. And never included unless it furthers the plot or character development.

  Author: Laurell Hamilton

• The violence seems to be diminishing. They've stared into the abyss a bit. I think they've all concluded that further violence... is not in their interests.

  Author: Stephen Hadley

• The civil unrest of recent days must come to an end, and the healing process must begin for the future of the community. We will provide assistance both in ending the violence and enabling the healing process in Benton Harbor.

  Author: Jennifer Granholm

• I think that when we're talking about youth violence, we're talking about kids who don't have opportunities, so they're engaged in a certain degree of lawlessness, because we as a society have failed them.

  Author: Matt Gonzalez

• The stones tear like flesh, rather than breaking. Although what happens is violent, it is a violence that is in stone. A tear is more unnerving than a break.

  Author: Andy Goldsworthy

• One of the main purveyors of violence in this world has been this country.

  Author: Danny Glover

• I feel like there is just as much violent programming in other countries and there is not the same incidence of factors. I think there are other factors contributing to violence in this country and not the media.

  Author: Sara Gilbert

• Yet the march toward freedom is not without its hazards or its casualties and the threats of violence aimed at Iraqis who participate in the election will be dealt with accordingly.

  Author: Jim Gerlach

• I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.

  Author: Jean Genet

• Violence is a calm that disturbs you.

  Author: Jean Genet

• But I can't bear it when somebody who some man made a pass at - to call that violence seems to me absurd and insulting to women who've really met violence, who've been raped or bashed.

  Author: Helen Garner

• I'm very disturbed by violence against women when it is violence.

  Author: Helen Garner

• Poverty is the worst form of violence.

  Author: Mohandas Gandhi

• An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

  Author: Mohandas Gandhi

• The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

  Author: Mohandas Gandhi

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

  Author: Mohandas Gandhi

• Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.

  Author: Mohandas Gandhi

• Poverty doesn't imply necessarily violence.

  Author: Alberto Fujimori

• The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.

  Author: Robert Frost

• Violence is not funny.

  Author: William Friedkin

• A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.

  Author: Sigmund Freud

• Over 120 Aboriginal communities run their own health services - some have been doing so for 30 years. They struggle with difficult medical problems. They also try to deal with counselling, stolen generations issues, family relationships, violence, suicide prevention.

  Author: Malcolm Fraser

• From a parent's right to know what their children are doing, to protecting citizens across the country from the growing threat of gang violence, the House Democrat leadership is simply out to lunch.

  Author: Virginia Foxx

• You know, 20 years... the films of television when it started, the literature, radio in communist countries, they're clean as a whistle; there was no violence, no sex, no drugs, nothing.

  Author: Milos Forman

• I visited the Pentagon a few days after September 11, and I still remember so vividly the smell of terror surrounding the entire building and complex. I was angry that such a brutal act of violence was committed against innocent people.

  Author: Randy Forbes

• 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.

  Author: Ari Fleischer

• The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility.

  Author: John Fisher

• However, don't let these statistics mislead you, gang violence is not limited to California and or big urban areas - that might have been true a while ago but it is no longer the case today.

  Author: Bob Filner

• I think the last one would have to be The Godfather because it was such a powerful story. There was lots of violence in it but I could take it because I thought there was a reality to it. It wasn't gratuitous, it was just these guys' story.

  Author: Bobby Farrelly

• Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

  Author: Ralph Emerson

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

  Author: Anthony Eden

• I can think of films that I'm producing right now that are extremely hard-hitting, graphic films, that nobody necessarily wants to see, graphic in terms of violence, of adult content and racial and historical subject matter.

  Author: Aaron Eckhart

• If a movie isn't a hit right out of the gate, they drop it. Which means that the whole mainstream Hollywood product has been skewed toward violence and vulgar teen comedy.

  Author: Roger Ebert

• Without democracy there is no freedom. Violence, no matter who is using it, is always reactionary.

  Author: Friedrich Ebert

• I maintain that nothing useful and lasting can emerge from violence.

  Author: Shirin Ebadi

• Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that's better left unsaid.

  Author: Bob Dylan

• A lot of violence, a lot of gore in it, and I just didn't want to do that kind of thing.

  Author: Dick Dyke

• So I think we're kind of an alternate choice for people who have had it with sex and violence.

  Author: Dick Dyke

• Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and justice should understand that it is not terrifically important to us that they learn to cry; it is important to us that they stop the crimes of violence against us.

  Author: Andrea Dworkin

• In our struggle to restrain the violence and contain the damage, we tend to forget that the human capacity for aggression is more than a monstrous defect, that it is also a crucial survival tool.

  Author: Katherine Dunn

• American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc.

  Author: Katherine Dunn

• The intense campaigns against domestic violence, rape, sexual harassment, and inequity in the schools all too often depend on an image of women as weak and victimized.

  Author: Katherine Dunn

• The more potent, unasked question is how society at large reacts to eager, voluntary violence by females, and to the growing evidence that women can be just as aggressive as men.

  Author: Katherine Dunn

• Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence.

  Author: John Dulles

• Mission accomplished, we didn't have any problems as far as violence goes.

  Author: Dr. Dre

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

  Author: Arthur Doyle

• We have not always agreed, but I have said repeatedly and publicly many times that Al Sharpton has never counseled violence, but he gets blamed for a whole lot of that.

  Author: David Dinkins

• Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.

  Author: Denis Diderot

• Personally, I don't like watching violence. I'd much rather see more skin.

  Author: Cameron Diaz

• Glorifying violence is terrible. Simulating sex is nothing - it's something so impersonal really.

  Author: Bo Derek

• There's an incredible fascination for that and that goes with violence and everything else in pictures.

  Author: Bo Derek

• While many hackers have the knowledge, skills, and tools to attack computer systems, they generally lack the motivation to cause violence or severe economic or social harm.

  Author: Dorothy Denning

• It's always difficult to play a scene of physical violence because you're always afraid that you don't know your own strength and might hurt someone.

  Author: Catherine Deneuve

• People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.

  Author: Don DeLillo

• Those most likely to be raped or sexually assaulted are young women between the ages of 16 and 24, women with their whole lives ahead of them. This one act of violence will alter their lives forever.

  Author: Rosa DeLauro

• Of course, I write crime stories, and I have to describe violence and the aftermath of violence.

  Author: Jeffery Deaver

• We can't answer King's assassination with violence. That would be the worst tribute we could pay him.

  Author: Sammy Davis, Jr.

• Our society has gotten to the point where we might soon become less and less shocked by any kind of violence.

  Author: Stanley Crouch

• The grand irony, however, is that Southern segregation was not brought to an end, nor redneck violence dramatically reduced, by violence.

  Author: Stanley Crouch

• Well I don't think sex and violence have ever stopped a movie from being mainstream.

  Author: David Cronenberg

• No one will expect the British Government or the Government of India to give way to threats of violence, disorder and chaos; and, indeed, representatives of large sections of Indian opinion have expressly warned us that we must not do so.

  Author: Stafford Cripps

• You can't change the system through violence.

  Author: Alex Cox

• The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.

  Author: Bill Cosby

• It's not an anti-sex trip. Like, we're taking sex, which is probably another half of American entertainment, sex and violence, and we're projecting it, and we're saying this is the way everything is right now.

  Author: Alice Cooper

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