Violence Quotes

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I get it,' said the prisoner. 'Good Cop, Bad Cop, eh?'If you

I get it,' said the prisoner. 'Good Cop, Bad Cop, eh?'If you like.' said Vimes. 'But we're a bit short staffed here, so if I give you a cigarette would you mind kicking yourself in the teeth?

Terry Pratchett

Humor Funny Violence Police Interrogation

Violence is not only impractical but immoral.

Violence is not only impractical but immoral.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Violence Nonviolence

It is not right, my fellow-countrymen, you who know very wel

It is not right, my fellow-countrymen, you who know very well all the crimes committed in our name, it

JeanPaul Sartre, from the prefac

Violence

The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they

The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.

Martin Luther King, Jr., The Tru

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Who has not hopedTo outrage an enemy's dignity?Who has not b

Who has not hopedTo outrage an enemy's dignity?Who has not been sweptBy the wish to hurt?And who has not thought that the impersonal worldDeserves no better than to be destroyedBy one fabulous sign of his displeasure?

Jacob Bronowski, The Face of Vio

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Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is

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

Ellen Glasgow, Letters of Ellen

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Violence was almost an aphrodisiac for me.

Violence was almost an aphrodisiac for me.

Woody Harrelson

Violence

If you strike a child, take care that you strike it in anger

If you strike a child, take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk of maiming it for life. A blow in cold blood neither can nor should be forgiven.

George Bernard Shaw

Violence

Edward had a personal horror of violence and never endorsed

Edward had a personal horror of violence and never endorsed or excused it, though in a documentary he made about the conflict he said that actions like the bombing of pilgrims at Tel Aviv airport 'did more harm than good,' which I remember thinking was (a) euphemistic and (b) a slipshod expression unworthy of a professor of English.

Christopher Hitchens

Violence Edward Said Euphemism Tel Aviv

If violence is wrong in America, violence is wrong abroad. I

If violence is wrong in America, violence is wrong abroad. If it is wrong to be violent defending black women and black children and black babies and black men, then it is wrong for America to draft us, and make us violent abroad in defense of her. And if it is right for America to draft us, and teach us how to be violent in defense of her, then it is right for you and me to do whatever is necessary to defend our own people right here in this country.

Violence

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because r

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

Men People Violence Sleep Police Beds Military

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be at

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Peace Understanding Violence

Nothing good ever comes of violence.

Nothing good ever comes of violence.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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Violence is good for those who have nothing to lose.

Violence is good for those who have nothing to lose.

JeanPaul Sartre, The Devil and t

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The imposition of stigma is the commonest form of violence u

The imposition of stigma is the commonest form of violence used in democratic societies.

Violence

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make viol

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

John F. Kennedy

Government American Violence President

Methink'st thou art a general offence and every man should b

Methink'st thou art a general offence and every man should beat thee.

William Shakespeare

Violence Insults

He that is pushing his predecessors into the gulf of obscuri

He that is pushing his predecessors into the gulf of obscurity, cannot but sometimes suspect, that he must himself sink in like manner, and, as he stands upon the same precipice, be swept away with the same violence

Violence Manners

Under all conditions well-organized violence seems to him th

Under all conditions well-organized violence seems to him the shortest distance between two points.

Violence

The cost of growth is always a small act of violence.

The cost of growth is always a small act of violence.

Violence Growth