Violence Quotes

There is a violence that liberates, and a violence that enslaves; there is a violence that is moral and a violence that is immoral.

Benito Mussolini

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

Jim Morrison

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.

Hannah Arendt

If the anti-abortion movement took a tenth of the energy they put into noisy theatrics and devoted it to improving the lives of children who have been born into lives of poverty, violence, and neglect, they could make a world shine.

Michael Jay Tucker

Liberty is to be free from restraint and violence from others

John Locke

Hypocrite: Someone who complains that there is too much sex and violence on his VCR.

Unknown

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

Isaac Asimov

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.

George Orwell

Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest of violence.

Francis Jeffrey

When people say there is too much violence in [my books], what they are saying is there is too much reality in life.

Joyce Carol Oates

Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

Thomas Alva Edison

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

Bill Cosby

There is a great streak of violence in every human being. If it is not channeled and understood, it will break out in war or in madness.

Sam Peckinpah

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

Jean Genet

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Henri Nouwen
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