Best Violence Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I think anybody who has been abused as a kid - and I was abused as a kid, by various people - will say it's irrational because violence is irrational.”

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Author:Samantha Morton

“My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.”

Mind Children Today Violence Amount Today's Society

Author:Samantha Morton

“I'm not going to appeal to violence or aggression - of course not.”

Courses Violence Appeals Aggression

Author:Alexei Navalny

“Well, you know, the violence is mostly in Mexico itself, at least the violence that people are worried about. And so we want to make sure that violence does not spill over into our communities that are along the border.”

People Knows Want Wells Doe Community Violence Worried Borders Mexico Our Community Spills

Author:Janet Napolitano

“Yes, violence begets more violence, but historically this has been the way of the world.”

World Way Has Beens Violence Begets

Author:Meshell Ndegeocello

“I think that when we have a better educated society, when there is less violence in our cities, when people get back into the workforce and have the opportunity to take care of themselves and their families - that for me really is the kind of success and the kind of America that I think most of us still want, we aspire to.”

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Author:Michael Nutter

“I don't support violence, period.”

Support Violence Periods

Author:Edward James Olmos

“In college I studied '60s and '70s radicalism, student activism, forms of political violence, groups like the Weathermen, the Black Panthers, the Symbionese Liberation Army, the New Left.”

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Author:Marisha Pessl

“Caroline says as she gets up from the floor, you can hit me all you want to, but I don't love you anymore.”

Want Violence Love You Get Up Violence Against Women I Don't Love You Don't Love You Anymore I Don't Love You Anymore

Author:Lou Reed

“Don't you wanna grow up to be just like me, I slap women and eat mushrooms then OD.”

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Author:Eminem

“He lies right at you, you know you hate this game. He slaps you once in a while and you live and love in pain.”

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Author:Alice Cooper

“I ain't the type for begging, I am not the type to plead. If she don't change those evil ways, I'm gonna make her bleed.”

Ifs Way Evil Violence Type Begging Don't Change Violence Against Women

Author:Frank Zappa

“I eat innocent meat, the house wife I will beat, the prolife I will kill. What you won't do, I will.”

House Wife Violence Beats Innocent Meat Violence Against Women Prolife

Author:Marilyn Manson

“I got reckless baby, put you in your place. Next time, maybe rearrange your face.”

Faces Next Violence Baby Your Face Next Time Reckless Violence Against Women

Author:Bryan Adams

“I hit you and I beat you and I told you that I love you.”

Violence Love You Beats Violence Against Women

Author:Frank Zappa

“I smacked her, cracked her, put her in a full nelson.”

Violence Cracked Violence Against Women Nelson

Author:Redman

“I'm ready to fight, I've been looking for my baby all night. If I get her in my sight, boom, boom, out go the lights.”

Ifs Light Night Fighting Violence Ready Baby Sight All Night Violence Against Women My Baby

Author:Little Walter

“Is this something new, having people stomp on you? Is it what I need to do for your pleasure?”

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Author:Frank Zappa

“You can beat her, but don't mistreat her. Oh, don't believe that woman please.”

Believe Violence Please Beats Don't Believe Violence Against Women Mistreat

Author:Elton John

“You remember the night that you left me, you put me in my place. Got you in a stranglehold now baby, gonna crush your face.”

Remember Faces Night Left Violence Baby Crush Your Face Violence Against Women You Left Me

Author:Ted Nugent

“Nonviolence is an unchangeable creed. It has to be pursued even in face of violence raging around you.”

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Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“So much of contemporary crime fiction is painful to read and obsessed with violence, particularly against women, and I can't read that.”

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Author:Donna Leon

“I think America is going to have to think through whether it wants to uplift the political dialogue or advance an approach that divides and, frankly, can lead to violence.”

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Author:Jim Leach

“A lot of people say, 'I always knew Lucky Luciano as a very smooth, very elegant, very powerful man.' All the accounts of him as an older man were that he was very genteel but he still had the look of smothered violence behind his eyes.”

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Author:Vincent Piazza

“Women like to be scared, but they don't like the blood and the gore, and especially movies that have violence and torture involving women. Women don't want to see that, I can tell you for damn sure right now.”

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Author:Cassandra Peterson

“I don't know where people think I'm from, but I'm from Chicago. It's really just that. People wanna romanticize it and say, 'There's two sides to it, and it's a beautiful love/hate story of violence and music.' But it's really just a very scummy place where people don't have respect for other people's lives.”

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Author:Chance the Rapper

“A majority of Americans oppose partial-birth abortion, and Judge Hamilton's decision flies in the face of Congress passing and President Bush signing legislation banning such horrible acts of violence.”

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Author:Marc Racicot

“I think violence has always been popular, way before movies started being made.”

Thinking Way Made Violence Movie Star

Author:Norman Reedus

“All the violence in videos and movies, you can't tell me that that wouldn't influence a disturbed person.”

Persons Violence Influence Video Disturbed

Author:Alana Stewart

“You just have to open the newspapers in most Western news to see real violence.”

Real Violence News Western Newspapers

Author:Ray Stevenson

“I think violence, cynicism, brutality and fashion are the staples of our diet. I think in the grand history of story-telling, going back to people sitting around fires, the dark side of human nature has always been very important. Movies are part of that tradition.”

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Author:Eric Stoltz

“A nation that combines the America predilection towards violence, the American stockpile of weapons and the American lack of empathy for the earth's humiliated peoples is a dangerous nation.”

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Author:Vincent Harding

“The imbalance I speak of in the world, which we see manifested in wars, violence, poverty and other depressed social conditions stems from a lack of knowledge.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war.”

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Author:Anatole France

“When I was a student, I studied philosophy and religion. I talked about being patient. Some people say I was too hopeful, too optimistic, but you have to be optimistic just in keeping with the philosophy of non-violence.”

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Author:John Lewis

“Violence always seems to me the worst form of tyranny. It deprives people of their rights, including the right to live.”

People Seems Form Rights Violence Worst Including Tyranny

Book:The Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness

Source: The Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness

“Even today we raise our hand against our brother... We have perfected our weapons, our conscience has fallen asleep, and we have sharpened our ideas to justify ourselves as if it were normal we continue to sow destruction, pain, death. Violence and war lead only to death.”

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Book:Embracing the Way of Jesus: Reflections from Pope Francis on Living Our Faith

Source: Embracing the Way of Jesus: Reflections from Pope Francis on Living Our Faith

“I don't go to things because I want to see violence, I go to things because I want to see them handled well.”

Want Wells Violence

Author:Jhonen Vasquez

“I do not like violence.”

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Author:Abdurrahman Wahid

“Over the centuries, and even today, the Bible and Christian theology have helped justify the Crusades, slavery, violence against gays, and the murder of doctors who perform abortions. The words themselves are latent, inert, harmless - until they aren't.”

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Author:Amy Waldman

“Do not ever threaten an Afghan with violence. We will rise as one and we will face every threat the way we have taken on thousands of previous armies and conquerors.”

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Author:Ashraf Ghani

“We live in a world that is dominated by war, hate, violence and suspicion. Those are the things that come naturally in this world. So you have to will something else.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you pursue meditation with a non-competitive attitude, with a hopeful and helpful attitude, without violence, then you will find that you will become a very benign and powerful being, one who is at peace with himself and the universe.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Parents are the most likely to be victims of the violence of their mentally ill children.”

Children Parent Violence Victim Ill Mentally Ill

Author:Rich Lowry

“One thing that I noticed is having met some former Taliban is even they, as children, grew up being indoctrinated. They grew up in violence. They grew up in war. They were taught to hate. They were, they grew up in very ignorant cultures where they didn't learn about the outside world.”

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Author:Greg Mortenson

“I was proud to be an original cosponsor of the Violence Against Women Act when Congress passed it in 1994, and was proud to support the previous renewals in 2000 and 2005. These bills always enjoyed large, bipartisan support.”

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Author:Carolyn Maloney

“The violence in society, I'm afraid, is perpetrated by the people at the top.”

People Violence

Author:S. Robson Walton

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