V Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with V. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Violence is a common part of far too many women's lives.”
“Violence is a concession to human weakness, satyagraha is an obligation.”
Source: Collected Works
“Violence is a crime against humanity, for it destroys the very fabric of society.”
Source: Pilgrimage of peace: the collected speeches of John Paul II in Ireland and the United States
“Violence is a dark contrast to what so many of us still believe in -- love.”
Source: 'Till Death Do Us Part: Love, Marriage, and the Mind of the Killer Spouse
“Violence is a disease, a disease that corrupts all who use it regardless of the cause.”
“Violence is a form of cinematic entertainment. Asking me about violence is like going up to Vincente Minnelli and asking him to justify his musical sequences.”
“Violence is a last resort -- one you don't use without thinking! -- And if you think, you can find another way...!”
Source: Amazing Adventures #14
“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.”
“Violence is a part of the world and life, and you shouldnt have to take it out of stories.”
“Violence is a personal necessity for the oppressed...It is not a strategy consciously devised. It is the deep, instinctive expression of a human being denied individuality.”
“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!”
“Violence is a self-perpetuating rabbit hole that exaggerates problems and rarely solves them. It is a reaction to a situation and not a thought process. You and your supposed enemy may wash in each other's blood, but once the bloodlust passes, all that remains is a determination to prevent the next generation from inheriting the sins of their fathers. Then the search for peace finally begins.”
“Violence is a social and political problem, not just a biological and psychological one. Nonetheless, the phenomena we call ‘social’ and ‘political’ are not external happenings that mysteriously affect human affairs… they are shared understandings among individuals at a given time and place.”
Source: The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
“Violence is a symptom of impotence.”
“Violence is a tool of the ignorant.”
“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.”
“Violence is almost an everyday occurrence in some Muslim lands: it should not be exacerbated by revenge attacks on more innocent families and communities.”
“Violence is always an effort toward greater freedom or love. Openness is freedom and love. Even the most violent or self-destructive emotions are rooted in the heart's need for openness, to be free, to give and receive love.”
Source: Blue Truth: A Spiritual Guide to Life and Death and Love and Sex
“Violence is always the last option, but if that time comes, it is the only option.”
“Violence is an admission that one's ideas and goals cannot prevail on their own merits.”
“violence is an evil thing, but when the guns are all in the hands of the men without respect for human rights, then men are really in trouble.”
Source: The Daybreakers and Sackett (2-Book Bundle)
“Violence is anything that denies human integrity, and leads to hopelessness and helplessness.”
“Violence is as much a part of what is means to be poor as being hungry, sick, homeless, or jobless. In fact, as we shall see, violence is frequently the problem that poor people are most concerned about. It is one of the core reasons they are poor in the first place, and one of the primary reasons they stay poor. Indeed, we will simply never be able to win the battle against extreme poverty unless we address it.”
Source: The Locust Effect: Why the End of Poverty Requires the End of Violence
“Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education.”
“Violence is both unavoidable and unjustifiable.”
“Violence is bound sooner or later to exhaust itself but peace cannot issue out of such exhaustion.”
Source: Collected Works
“Violence is central to patriarchy, and the forms of systemic violence are interconnected in Western societies. Recognizing similarities across forms of oppression (such as racism, child abuse, speciesism, and sexism, for example) is essential.”
Source: Sister Species: Women, Animals and Social Justice
“Violence is central to patriarchy, and Western society’s various forms of systemic violence
are interconnected. Recognizing similarities across forms of oppression such as racism, child abuse, speciesism, and sexism, for example, is essential . . . . We can curb this tendency only if all forms of violence are exposed and challenged—rape and slaughter, rodeos and brothels. We cannot expect to put
out the fire by removing only one coal.”
Source: Sister Species: Women, Animals and Social Justice
“Violence is essentially wordless. and it can begin only where thought and rational communication have broken down.”
Source: Gandhi on Non-violence
“Violence is fomented by the imposition of singular and belligerent identities on gullible people, championed by proficient artisans of terror.”
Source: Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny
“Violence is for those who have lost their imagination.”
Source: The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical
“Violence is fun, man.”
“Violence is good for those who have nothing to lose.”
Source: Essays in Aesthetics
“Violence is hidden within democratic structures because they are not radically democratic - Western democracy is merely a domestic convenience of consumerism.”
“Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love. It destroys community and makes brotherhood impossible. It leaves society in monologue rather than dialogue. Violence ends by defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.”
Source: The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr
“Violence is in our DNA, so is Peace. It’s our will that determines which one comes to action.”
Source: When Humans Unite: Making A World Without Borders
“Violence is Inevitable.”
Source: Archangel
“Violence is initiated by those who oppress, who exploit, who fail to recognize others as people - not by those who are oppressed, exploited, and unrecognized. It is not the unloved who initiate disaffection, but those who cannot love because they love only themselves. It is not the helpless, subject to terror, who initiate terror, but the violent, who with their power create the concrete situation which begets the 'rejects of life.' It is not the tyrannized who initiate despotism, but the tyrants. It is not those whose humanity is denied them who negate humankind, but those who denied that humanity (thus negating their own as well). Force is used not by those who have become weak under the preponderance of the strong, but by the strong who have emasculated them.”
Source: Pedagogy of the Oppressed
“Violence is interesting. This is a great obstacle to world peace and also to more thoughtful television programming.”
Source: All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty
“Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.”
“Violence is just, where kindness is vain.”
“Violence is like a weed - it does not die even in the greatest drought.”
“Violence is like money in the bank; it's only helpful if you don't have to use it.”
Source: Sacred cows-- and other edibles
“Violence is man re-creating himself.”
“Violence is my last option.”
“VIOLENCE IS NEVER A JUSTICE”
“Violence is never a solution in my plays, just as ultimately violence is never a solution in human affairs.”
“Violence is never ever a choice that a man should make.”
“Violence is never random.”
“Violence is never the answer but sometimes, like with cockroaches, it is the only possible response.”
Source: Blood Trail