Quotes About Violence

America seemed insecure, violent, and wayward; and President Obama appeared detached and indecisive.

Here at Sudan the students humiliated their teachers,' she said. 'But in the high schools it was not unknown for students to beat their teachers to death.

Some people were born unsupplied with a human conscience and those people needed killing.

Matar, matar, matar... Verbo transitivo exigindo objeto direto ensanguentado.

A family is fragile. It is destroyed by this kind of violence. The things a child needs - really needs - must be actively, attentively sought. Listening. Patience. Deep time.

demands the utmost in wisdom, in attack, in endurance. Violence is simple and easy, it is the sword of the stupid and dull-witted, and it always leaves chaos. To carry on a positive revolution without violence—ah, that is a challenge to intelligence!

That is exactly what teenagers of ass sexualities need: ongoing discussion and education that addresses pleasure, mutuality, safety, love, intimacy, and self-discovery. They need to understand the potential to either be the perpetrator or the victim of intimate partner violence and sexual assault. They need to have agency over their bodies. And for all of them, adult denial puts them at risk of physical and emotional trauma.

When we hold on to our opinions with aggression, no matter how valid our cause, we are simply adding more aggression to the planet, and violence and pain increase. Cultivating nonaggression is cultivating peace.

Working with polarization and dehumanization won't put an immediate end to the ignorance, violence, and hatred that plague this world. But every time we catch ourselves polarizing with our thoughts, words, or actions, and every time we do something to close that gap, we're injecting a little bodhichitta into our usual patterns. We're deepening our appreciation for our interconnectedness with all others.

Fear is dangerous. It sparks violence much faster than anger.

If you think about a child that is born and how it's born, if it has racism in his genes, every child that is raised up to hit or beat someone up with anger and resentments.

And if I see you step foot on my property again, I'll do more than make a phone call, " he says, waving the baseball bat around menacingly.

Revenge and retaliation always perpetuate the cycle of anger, fear and violence.

They believed that Britain was in Ireland defending their own interests, therefore the Irish had the right to use violence to put them out. My argument was that that type of thinking was out of date.

You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.

Most people go through their whole lives without killing anybody. False argument.

Nobody gets killed when they're happy. It always starts with an argument, or a debt.

We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it.

A gun is not an argument.

Argument closes off the doors of the senses. It always masks violence. Continued too long, argument always leads to violence.

Art is violent. To be decisive is violent. ... To place a chair at a partial angle on the stage destroys every other possible choice, every other option.

A wall is a very big weapon. It's one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with.

Art, in fact, can be nothing but violence, cruelty and injustice.

I don't believe that art makes people violent in any way. I don't. But I do believe art can show people how to be violent and that's much more dangerous in a way.