Quotessence
Home / Topics / Violence Quotes

Violence Quotes

Browse 5467 quotes about Violence.

Related topics

PeopleIfsWorldThinkingMenWarWayHumansViolentDomestic ViolenceNon ViolenceChildrenKnowsWantMeanShouldNeedsKindDoeProblemCountryStatesPeacePoliticalBelieveHas BeensUseForceTryingViolence Against WomenNonviolenceGunLawPersonsWellsMayRealHatredSexCrimeAmericaEndsActs Of ViolenceHateGovernmentSufferingFormLongFirstsCommunityHeartReasonTodayCultureFightingLooksCausesGivingStillsYearsActionAbuseMindVictimFacesEvilHomeTerrorismJusticeThreatSeemsFilmSometimesFactsFeelsMadeSelfHelpingOrderDoneHuman BeingsTogetherConflictIdeasNationsPovertyRightsHappensShowsTwoDifferentRealityHandsImportantStoriesWholeLittlesMatterMoralUsedmore

Violence Quotes

“During my eleven years as a New York City public school teacher, I saw firsthand the impact that poverty has on the classroom. In low-income neighborhoods like Sunset Park, where I taught, students as young as five years old enter school affected by the stresses often created by poverty: domestic violence, drug abuse, gang activity.”

YearsSchoolYoungCitiesPovertyFiveSawsTeacherViolenceNew YorkStudentsTaughtDrugActivityLowsAbuseStressImpactIncomeParksFive YearsSunsetNeighborhoodAffectedNew York CityClassroomDomestic ViolenceGangPublic SchoolElevenFive Year OldsSchool TeachersDrug AbuseLow Income
Author:Sal Albanese
Create image

“Indeed, it may be laid down as a general principle, that the more extended the ancestry, the greater the amount of violence and vagabondism; for in ancient days those two amusements, combining a wholesome excitement with a promising means of repairing shattered fortunes, were at once the ennobling pursuit and the healthful recreation of the Quality of this land.”

MayMeanTwoFunnyQualityPrinciplesGreaterViolenceLandAmountHumorousFortuneAncientPursuitExcitementAmusementShatteredRecreationAncestryCombiningRepairing
Book:The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit
Create image

“And if I'm guilty of having gratuitous sex, then I'm also guilty of having gratuitous violence, and gratuitous feasting, and gratuitous description of clothes, and gratuitous heraldry, because very little of this is necessary to advance the plot. But my philosophy is that plot advancement is not what the experience of reading fiction is about. If all we care about is advancing the plot, why read novels? We can just read Cliffs Notes.”

IfsWritingLittlesPhilosophyCareReadingSexFictionNovelViolenceClothesNotesGuiltyDescriptionPlotAdvancementCliffsAdvancingFeastingReading Fiction
Author:George R. R. Martin
Create image

“Let me be very blunt: the heterosexual transmission of AIDS is, in Africa, a function of truly pathological promiscuity. So this is really a violence issue - not the same violence we deal with in Boston, where teenagers stab and shoot each other, but the violence of African men who are killing themselves, and killing African women and children, with pathological promiscuity.”

MenChildrenDealsIssuesViolenceLet MeFunctionKillingScaryAidsTeenagerBostonBluntTransmissionPromiscuityAfrican Women
Author:Eugene Rivers
Create image

“The time has also come to recognize the painful truth that traditional Judeo-Christian moral values of pain and pleasure in human relationships have contributed substantially to child abuse and to the prevalence of physical violence in Western civilization.... The religious system upon which our culture is based holds that pain, suffering and deprivation are moral and necessary to save one's soul and make one a 'good person.' The crucifixion and scourging of Christ are examples.”

HumansChildrenPersonsSoulChristianPainSufferingValuesCultureChristReligiousPleasureMoralViolenceExampleCivilizationAbuseWesternPainfulScaryTraditionalChild AbuseGood PersonHuman RelationsHuman RelationshipsDeprivationWestern CivilizationCrucifixionPain And PleasureMoral ValuesPhysical ViolencePain SufferingPainful Truth
Author:James W. Prescott
Create image

“If we were going to address what involves the biggest number of women, reproductive freedom is a fundamental human right - like freedom of speech, the most basic right. Freedom from violence, since women worldwide are still like 70% at least of all victims of violence. Equality in the family, democracy in the family, since the family is the microcosm of everything else, so if you have inequality and violence in the family, it normalizes it in the street, for foreign policy, for every place else.”

IfsHumansStillsNumbersDemocracyViolenceStreetsPolicySpeechVictimFundamentalsInequalityAddressesForeign PolicyFreedom Of SpeechMicrocosm
Author:Gloria Steinem
Create image

“Violence is sometimes a very practical solution but I don't think it is the ultimate solution. Owning a gun is not OK for me. But I could argue both sides. Why shouldn't people own them? I'm not fundamentally against citizens having access to a weapon but I think it has complications. It's probably not the wisest idea. Obviously, it has consequences. Personally, I do not own a weapon.”

PeopleThinkingIdeasSometimesSidesViolenceCitizensWeaponsSolutionsGunConsequenceUltimateAccessArguingPracticalsBoth SidesWisestComplication
Author:Keanu Reeves
Create image

“There's the 5% of the people that are wise and righteous and I'd definitely be amongst them, building, communicating, and continuing to try and figure out how we can awaken the 85%. The 85% are walking around [like] cattle, not realizing the things we do, the violence we do; you see people falling victim to all sorts of unnecessary things because they just don't know the way and nobody is showing them the way.”

PeopleKnowsWayTryingFallRealizingWiseViolenceFiguresBuildingWalkingVictimCommunicateRighteousContinuingUnnecessaryCattleUnnecessary Things
Author:RZA
Create image

“Since men do not really respect anything unless it was established long ago and has developed slowly over time, those who want tokeep on living after their death must take worry not only about their future generations but even more about their past: that is why tyrants of all kinds (including tyrannical artists and politicians) like to do violence to history, so that it will appear as a preparation and stepladder to themselves.”

MenWantKindLongPastArtistWorryViolenceGenerationsPoliticianIncludingAll KindsPreparationTyrantsLong AgoFuture Generation
Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
Create image

“What drivel it all is!... A string of words called religion. Another string of words called philosophy. Half a dozen other stringscalled political ideals. And all the words either ambiguous or meaningless. And people getting so excited about them they'll murder their neighbours for using a word they don't happen to like. A word that probably doesn't mean as much as a good belch. Just a noise without even the excuse of gas on the stomach.”

PeopleMeanPhilosophyHappensPoliticalBeliefHalfViolenceIdealsMurderExcuseExcitedNoiseIdeologyGasStringsStomachMeaninglessDozenNeighbourAmbiguousDrivel
Book:After Many a Summer
Create image

“Can you understand why the Congress, most states and most cities refuse to pass legislation requiring the registration and licensing of any and all guns? For the life of me, I can't. We must register our cars and be licensed to drive. In many places we must get licenses for dogs and even bicycles. Being required to register firearms and show the competence and capacity to handle them hardly seems unreasonable, hardly seems an infringement of freedom. What is it that blocks such legislation? Why do they block it? How are they able to block it?”

I CanStatesShowsSeemsAbleCitiesViolenceDogCarGunCapacityCongressRefuseHandleBlockLegislationLicenseCompetenceBicycleRegisterUnreasonableFirearmsRegistrationLicensingInfringementLicenses
Author:Malcolm Forbes
Create image

“Bodies of holy men and women exude Miraculous oil, odour of violet. But under heavy loads of trampled clay Lie bodies of the vampires full of blood; Their shrouds are bloody and their lips are wet.”

MenBodyTruthLyingViolenceBloodHolyMen And WomenLipsHeavyOilVampireWetLoadBloodyVioletClayMiraculousShroudsHoly ManHeavy Loads
Book:The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume I: The Poems: Revised Second Edition
Create image

“It is easier for an artful Man, who is not in Love, to persuade his Mistress he has a Passion for her, and to succeed in his Pursuits, than for one who loves with the greatest Violence. True Love hath ten thousand Griefs, Impatiencies and Resentments, that render a Man unamiable in the Eyes of the Person whose Affection he sollicits.”

MenLovePersonsEyePassionGriefViolenceEasierThousandSucceedTenAffectionPursuitResentmentMistressCourtship
Book:The spectator
Create image

“All gentle cant and philosophizing to the contrary notwithstanding, no people in this world ever did achieve their freedom by goody-goody talk and moral suasion: it being immutable law that all revolutions that will succeed, must begin in blood.”

PeopleWorldLawFreedomMoralViolenceBloodAchieveThis WorldRevolutionSucceedContraryGentleCant
Book:The Complete Novels of Mark Twain (Illustrated): 12 American Classics & Author’s Biography: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn, A Horse’s Tale, The Prince and the Pauper, The American Claimant, The Mysterious Stranger…
Create image

“... we've allowed a youth-centered culture to leave us so estranged from our future selves that, when asked about the years beyondfifty, sixty, or seventy--all part of the average human life span providing we can escape hunger, violence, and other epidemics--many people can see only a blank screen, or one on which they project fear of disease and democracy.”

PeopleYearsHumansSelfCultureFearDemocracyViolenceYouthDiseaseProjectsHungerAverageScreensHuman LifeOur FutureProvidingSixtyBlankSeventiesEpidemicsLife SpanFuture Self
Book:Passion, Politics, and Everyday Activism: Collected Essays: Moving Beyond Words; Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions; and Revolution from Within
Create image

“Much is made of the accelerating brutality of young people's crimes, but rarely does our concern for dangerous children translateinto concern for children in danger. We fail to make the connection between the use of force on children themselves, and violent antisocial behavior, or the connection between watching father batter mother and the child deducing a link between violence and masculinity.”

PeopleChildrenDoeMadeUseYoungMotherFatherForceViolenceFailingDangerousCrimeDangerBehaviorConcernConnectionsViolentLinksMasculinityBrutalityAntisocialUse Of ForceAntisocial Behavior
Book:Family politics: love and power on an intimate frontier
Create image

“In the history of the world the prize has not gone to those species which specialized in methods of violence, or even in defensive armor. In fact, nature began with producing animals encased in hard shells for defense against the ill of life. But smaller animals, without external armor, warm-blooded, sensitive, alert, have cleared those monsters off the face of the earth.”

WorldHardFactsEarthFacesAnimalGoneViolenceMethodSpeciesIllWarmDefenseMonstersSensitivePrizeShellsWorld HistoryArmor
Author:Alfred North Whitehead
Create image

“Prostitution thrives in the United States. We focus in this country on punishing the girls. For every brothel owner or pimp or male customer, there are 50 girls who are arrested for being prostitutes. Other countries have tried the other way around, and it works beautifully...they bring the charges against the brothel owners and the pimps and the male customers, and they do not prosecute the girls, who quite often are brought into that trade involuntarily. It works quite well, by the way.”

WayWellsCountryStatesRealityGirlPoliticsCommunityJusticeUnitedClassHistoryUnited StatesFocusViolencePolicyEthicsTradeStrategyMalesHuman RightsCustomersIdeologyThriveOwnersOther CountriesProstitutionArrestedPimpBrothels
Author:Jimmy Carter
Create image