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Quotes About Violence

We would never ask any other faith community to stand up and condemn acts of violence committed by people within their groups. The fact that this is only directed at the Muslim community is something that I personally can't accept.
~ Linda Sarsour
It is a sad reality that active shooter drills are a standard way of life for kids as young as pre-school.
~ John Hickenlooper
Again, when it comes to enforcement of our community standards, we support people's rights to demonstrate, but we don't care about who you are or your politics are. If you engage in violence in this city, you will be held accountable.
~ Ted Wheeler
I decry all domestic violence behavior; to condone violence against women would violate all standards of decency, run counter to my commitment to end domestic violence, and violate my core values!
~ Eric Adams
In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.
~ Alfred Hitchcock
Constipation was one of the things she hated most in the world, on par with despicable men who commit domestic violence and narrow-minded religious fundamentalists.
~ Haruki Murakami
When you're in a broken family and your role model is a violent male, boys grow up believing that's the way they're supposed to act. And girls think that's an accepted way men will treat them.
~ Jim Costa
Anytime you tell a man to turn the other cheek or to be nonviolent in the face of a violent enemy, you're making that man defenseless. You're robbing him of his God-given right to defend himself.
~ Malcolm X
I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man's problem just to avoid violence.
~ Malcolm X
You can't talk to a man, with a shotgun in his hand.
~ Carole King
We talk about how many women were raped last year, not about how many men raped women.
~ Jackson Katz
The only thing my old man ever gave me was a beating.
~ Sonny Liston
A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life.
~ Thomas Hobbes
A very beautiful honey blonde, Sharon Tate, looked into the eyes of the man who the evidence shows just four and a half months later would order her tragic and violent death.
~ Vincent Bugliosi
The misfortune of the man of color is having been enslaved. The misfortune and inhumanity of the white man are having killed man somewhere.
~ Frantz Fanon
Everlasting peace will come to the world when the last man has slain the last but one.
~ Adolf Hitler
There is only one way fit for a man - Heroism, or Master-Morality, or Violence. All the other people in between are ploughing the sand.
~ C. S. Lewis
When the phone rang, Parker was in the garage, killing a man.
~ Donald E. Westlake
You cannot have a rational discussion with a man who prefers shooting you to being convinced by you.
~ Karl Popper
A man that will go along with six killings is making his escape a little slow.
~ Larry McMurtry
If young men have jobs - or the prospects of jobs - they are less likely to take up arms, they are less likely to join the resistance.
~ Niall Ferguson
We've seen many Black men lose their life over the past couple of years. Not only just heard about it.
~ Sterling K. Brown
It's such a tragedy that man endures in killing his brother and his own kind, putting him in jail and insane asylums, letting him lay out in the street.
~ Sun Ra
In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.
~ B. H. Liddell Hart