V Quotes
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“Violence begets violence, you know. And you can't kill off all the violent people or all the murderers. We'd have to kill off the government.”
“Violence begins where knowledge ends.”
“Violence begins with the fork.”
“Violence breeds violence. Acts of violence committed in "justice" or in affirmation of "rights" or in defense of "peace" do not end violence. They prepare and justify its continuation.”
“Violence brings only temporary victories; violence, by creating many more social problems than it solves, never brings permanent peace.”
Source: Strength to Love
“Violence by the defenders will be used by the putschists to justify overwhelming repression which they want to use anyhow. It will be used to CLAIM that the putschists are saving the country from terrorism or #civil war, and are preserving "law and order”
“Violence can behave like a disease. That insight gives a different frame of reference that is designed to take the judgment out of it, to take the good-versus-bad-people view out of it.”
“Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.”
“Violence can only be effectively met by nonviolence. This is an old established truth.”
Source: The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi
“Violence can succeed, as Americans know well from the conquest of the national territory. But at terrible cost. It can also provoke violence in response, and often does.”
Source: Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance
“Violence cannot be revolution. Either you can have violence or you can have revolution.”
“Violence cannot destroy the body of the Goddess, for Her body is the world itself.”
Source: The Body of the Goddess: Sacred Wisdom in Myth, Landscape and Culture
“Violence comes from the belief that other people cause our pain and therefore deserve punishment.”
“Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.”
Source: Letters of Ellen Glasgow
“Violence diminishes our humanity.”
“Violence does even justice unjustly.”
Source: Past and Present
“Violence does not always take visible form, and not all wounds gush blood.”
Source: 1Q84
“Violence does not and cannot flourish by itself; it is inevitably intertwined with lying.”
“Violence does not necessarily take people by the throat and strangle them. Usually it demands no more than an ultimate allegiance from its subjects. They are required merely to become accomplices in its lies.”
“Violence does not solve violence.”
“Violence does not transform the word (or information) spoken by someone into a truth or a lie. Time will prove the accuracy of the word.”
“Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.”
Source: The Sherlock Holmes Archives (incl. The Truth About Sherlock Holmes)
“Violence doesn't equal strength.”
Source: Finale
“Violence doesn't have a race, a class, a religion, or a nationality, but it does have a gender.”
Source: Men Explain Things to Me: And Other Essays
“Violence doesn't seem to bother people anymore - they're inured to it. And I think it has a lot to do with the violence in movies and video games - it doesn't bother people as much. I'm not so sure it evokes a reaction anymore.”
“Violence ends up defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.”
Source: Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story
“Violence, especially if you are a woman, is not something spoken about with ease.”
Source: An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
“Violence ever defeats its own ends. Where you cannot drive you can always persuade. A gentle word, a kind look, a god-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles. There is a secret pride in every human heart than revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.”
“Violence existed before our music was even suggested.”
“Violence from protesters themselves is extremely rare, but has been made into a talking point by those who stand to benefit from breaking the perceived legitimacy of organized protest and resistance. Organized, disciplined nonviolent resistance is alive and well, and we see it all around us in cities across the country.”
“Violence generates more violence; hatred produces more hatred. Peace cannot be conquered. Peace cannot be the result of violence. Peace comes to us only when we dissolve the Ego, when we destroy within us all those psychological factors that produce war.”
“Violence harms the one who does it as much as the one who receives it. You could cut down a tree with an axe. The axe does violence to the tree, and escapes unharmed. Is that how you see it? Wood is soft compared to steel, but the sharp steel is dulled as it chops, and the sap of the tree will rust and pit it. The mighty axe does violence to the helpless tree, and is harmed by it. So it is with men, though the harm is in the spirit.”
“Violence has always been implied by previous US presidents: That is to say, if North Korea launched an attack, or crossed certain red lines, they would be met by devastating force. And this has been said even by people in the Obama administration very recently. But the kind of rhetoric that Trump is using is different, and I think probably not helpful, because it just provokes the North Koreans to ratchet up their rhetoric as well. At this point, it seems that we urgently need calmer heads on both sides, and we're not getting that.”
“Violence has been a necessary component of every serious liberation struggle...Violence is not the only path to liberation, but likely an indispensable one...the Press Office would like to be clear on this matter: we support all the liberationists from the graffiti artists and ALF liberator to the Animal Rights Militia, Justice Department and Revolutionary Cells.”
“Violence has been a part of storytelling forever and there's obviously a reason for it. Fairy tales are really violent, the original ones. I think there's something cathartic about having kids live through their fears through a book or any kind of story.”
“Violence has been Nicaragua's most important export to the world.”
Source: The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan
“Violence has never prospered, you can't remake the world in a day. Anyone who promises to change everything for you all at once is either a fool or a rogue!”
“Violence has no constitutional sanction; and every government from the beginning has moved against it. But where grievances pile high and most of the elected spokesmen represent the Establishment, violence may be the only effective response.”
“Violence has not really been an issue. Even in my wildest hopes, I wasn't trying to get violence in.”
“Violence has reasons, that reason itself cannot know”
Source: Fifteen Dogs
“Violence has to end. And Israelis have a bright to defend themselves against any violence that is attacking innocent people with a knife in the old city in Jerusalem or elsewhere. No country should be under siege like that.”
“Violence,' he says softly, 'did Aetos touch you after I told you about Athebyne?'
'What?' My brow furrows, and I shove an errant strand of hair out of my face as the wind swirls around us.
'Like this.' He lifts his hands to my cheek. 'His power requires touching someone's face. Did he touch you like this?'
My lips part. 'Yes, but that's how he always touches me. He would n-never...' I sputter. 'I would know if he read my memories.'
Xaden's face falls, and his hand slips downward, cradling the back of my neck. 'No, Violence. Trust me, you wouldn't.' There's no accusation in his tone, just a resignation that hurts what's left of my heart.
'He wouldn't.' I shake my head. Dain is a lot of things, but he would never violate me like that, never take something I hadn't offered. Except he tried once.”
Source: Fourth Wing
“Violence in any form is a tragic expression of our unmet needs.”
“Violence in any form is evil and to kill innocent animals in tantamount to blatant savagery.”
“Violence in our society has reached epidemic proportions. ... Violence in the media for entertainment purposes has been established as a major contributing factor.”
“Violence in real life is terrible; violence in movies can be cool. It's just another colour to work with.”
“Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.”
“Violence is a calm that disturbs you.”
Source: The selected writings of Jean Genet
“Violence is a choice a man makes and he alone is responsible for it.”
“Violence is a cleansing force. It frees the native from his inferiority complex and from his despair and inaction; it makes him fearless and restores his self-respect”
Source: Damnés de la terre