Quotes About Violence

I do not know, my friend. It seems wrong somehow that the success of a race be measured by its ability to do violence.

We all come from different levels, and I think every human has their own relationship to violence, athletic violence and fighting.

My commitment originated in my own story and my own relationship to violence.

From what I've been told, the scariest part of being part of a domestic abuse relationship is the idea that you cannot escape and you cannot get help, that feeling of being stuck.

Muslim leaders should ask themselves what exactly their relationship is to a political movement that encourages young men to kill and maim on religious grounds.

No religion is responsible for terrorism. People are responsible for violence and terrorism.

That cannot be a true religion which needs carnal weapons to uphold it.

We have a choice. We have two options as human beings. We have a choice between conversation and war. That's it. Conversation and violence. And faith is a conversation stopper.

And yet when you take Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, whatever, their combined killings in the name of religion -- well, that would be zero.

In every religion, there are those who would drape themselves in the mantle of belief and faith only to distort it's most sacred teachings - preaching intolerance and resorting to violence.

Radical Muslims fly planes into buildings. Radical Christians kill abortion doctors. Radical Atheists write books.

The trouble with Islam is deeply rooted in its teachings. Islam is not only a religion. Islam (is) also a political ideology that preaches violence and applies its agenda by force.

The position of the Muslim community in the face of all provocations seems to be: Islam is a religion of peace, and if you say that it isn't, we will kill you.

As a species we're fundamentally insane. Put more than two of us in a room, we pick sides and start dreaming up reasons to kill one another. Why do you think we invented politics and religion?

In the name of religion many great and fine deeds have been performed. In the name of religion also, thousands and millions have been killed, and every possible crime has been committed.

What is it the Bible teaches us? -- rapine, cruelty, and murder.

Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion go hand in hand.

Should I act violently in defense of my religion, absolutely.

That religion and that nation will be blotted out of the face of the earth which pins its faith on injustice, untruth or violence.

As long as there are those who are willing to shed blood and take innocent life in the name of religion, the name of God, the world will never know a true and lasting peace.

Atheism, not religion, is the real force behind the mass murders of history.

Dear Religion, This week I safely dropped a man from space while you shot a child in the head for wanting to go to school. Yours, Science.

One cannot offend, make war, kill in the name of one's own religion, that is, in the name of God.

Freedom of religion does not give you the right to physically or verbally assault people.