Violence Quotes and Sayings
Violence is a condition when a human becomes offensive. Violence is often used to describe the destructive action. It is a force which makes human behavior to injure or abuse the other person.
Violence Quotes and Sayings
American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc.
- Katherine Dunn
And so, to the end of history, murder shall breed murder, always in the name of right and honor and peace, until the gods are tired of blood and create a race that can understand.
- George Bernard Shaw
But it struck me that the extreme violence and cruelty of the English Civil War had gone understated.
- Simon Schama
Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.
- Abraham Lincoln
He who loves the bristle of bayonets only sees in the glitter what beforehand he feels in his heart. It is avarice and hatred; it is that quivering lip, that cold, hating eye, which built magazines and powder-houses.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it. Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind.
- George Bernard Shaw
If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.
- Indira Gandhi
Man’s destructive hand spares nothing that lives; he kills to feed himself, he kills to clothe himself, he kills to adorn himself, he kills to attack, he kills to defend himself, he kills to instruct himself, he kills to amuse himself, he kills for the sake of killing.
- Josef de Maistre
Nonviolence doesn’t always work - but violence never does.
- Madge Micheels
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
So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private citizens will occasionally kill theirs.
- Elbert Hubbard
Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.
- M.k. Gandhi
Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.
- John Frederick Boyes
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
- Isaac Asimov
We challenge the culture of violence when we ourselves act in the certainty that violence is no longer acceptable, that it’s tired and outdated no matter how many cling to it in the stubborn belief that it still works and that it’s still valid.
- Gerard Vanderhaar
Why are sex and violence always linked? I’m afraid they’ll blur together in people’s minds - sexandviolence - until we can’t tell them apart. I expect to hear a newscaster say, “The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex.”
- Dick Cavett