All Quotes

Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.
‐‐ Ellen Glasgow

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

Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.
‐‐ Lao Tzu

Violence has been a part of films since the beginning of time. It's been a form of entertainment.
‐‐ Vanessa Hudgens

Violence has been Nicaragua's most important export to the world.
‐‐ Ronald Reagan

Violence in Darfur is cataclysmic.
‐‐ Emmanuel Jal

Violence in Mexico has its origins in the lack of development and corruption.
‐‐ Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador

Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.
‐‐ Henry George Bohn

Violence is a big problem. Too many children are dying. Too many children. We must do something.
‐‐ Gabrielle Giffords

Violence is a calm that disturbs you.
‐‐ Jean Genet

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.
‐‐ Spike Lee

Violence is a part of the world and life, and you shouldn't have to take it out of stories.
‐‐ Jane Levy

Violence is a problem we all want to solve. I want to make sure that kids learn to deal with anger by learning how to talk with people to solve problems. Here in the United States Senate I want to make sure we have safe schools, safe neighborhoods and good things for kids to do after school!
‐‐ Patty Murray

Violence is a tool of the ignorant.
‐‐ Flip Wilson

Violence is a very ugly thing. Violence is often so casual on film, and made to look so cool and so sexy, but violence is a repulsive, repugnant act that human beings inflict on each other. It shouldn't seem to be cool and sexy, ever really.
‐‐ James Purefoy

Violence is absolutely not our method.
‐‐ Pope Shenouda III

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

Violence is always the last option, but if that time comes, it is the ONLY option.
‐‐ John Gilmour

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

Violence is both unavoidable and unjustifiable.
‐‐ Albert Camus

Violence is for mugs. War is for mugs.
‐‐ Mark Roberts

Violence is hidden within democratic structures because they are not radically democratic - Western democracy is merely a domestic convenience of consumerism.
‐‐ Edward Bond

Violence is inevitable in crime novels, but there are many different ways to tell a story. I use my characters' reactions to illustrate the worst moments rather than let readers witness them at first hand.
‐‐ Michael Robotham

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

Violence is man re-creating himself.
‐‐ Frantz Fanon

Violence is my last option.
‐‐ Chuck Norris

Violence is never a solution in my plays, just as ultimately violence is never a solution in human affairs.
‐‐ Edward Bond

Violence is not a constitutionally protected right. Damaging property is not a constitutionally protected right; inciting violence is not a constitutionally protected right.
‐‐ Francis G. Slay

Violence is not more efficient than non-violence.
‐‐ Andrew Young

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.
‐‐ Rowan Williams

Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.
‐‐ Quentin Tarantino

Violence is the first refuge of the violent.
‐‐ Aaron Allston

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
‐‐ Isaac Asimov

Violence is the repartee of the illiterate.
‐‐ Alan Brien

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.
‐‐ Jake Lloyd

Violence is very much with us, and we like to see it. I doubt if you can change that, and I'm not sure you should want to. I have occasionally been very upset by something I was writing, but it's quite rare: I keep my writing very separate from my life.
‐‐ Ruth Rendell

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

Violence isn't really my thing.
‐‐ Nick Nolte

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

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

Violence ravaged my life. I was a victim of hatred, and I have dedicated my life to reversing that hatred.
‐‐ Michelle Bachelet

Violence would be a huge gift to those who want a divided Lebanon.
‐‐ Saad Hariri

Violent anger makes me physically ill.
‐‐ Langston Hughes

Violent behavior exists in one's psychological makeup much deeper than the level that receives information from television or movies.
‐‐ Richard King

Violent cities, people who live in violent cities, find a way - as New Yorkers did 30 or 40 years ago - they find a way to just carry on. But you're stressed out. You're worried, you know.
‐‐ Mohsin Hamid

Violent crime is a solved problem - all they have to do is repeal the laws that keep those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women from arming themselves, and violent crime evaporates like dry ice on a hot summer day.
‐‐ L. Neil Smith

Violent crime rates fell steadily from 1993 to 2002, and this nearly coincides with the establishment of the community policing program known as the COPS program under the Clinton administration.
‐‐ Alan Mollohan

Violent drama has been a hallmark of every great civilization. It is not the cause of the disease - it is an immunizing factor. People go to the theater to experience emotions like fear and loathing. Violent drama shows us where we come from. It makes us face our hypocrisy.
‐‐ Michael Moriarty

Violent extremism is going viral, but our response to it is moving at bureaucratic, sluggish speed.
‐‐ Mike McCaul