Violence Quotes

Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and justice should understand that it is not terrifically important to us that they learn to cry; it is important to us that they stop the crimes of violence against us.

Violence against judges and threats of violence against Judges is on the rise and it is no laughing matter. When leaders attempt to rationalize this violence, it only makes the problem worse.

To be reserved, secretive, with a passionate violence that causes suffering.

As we're bombarded with the imagery that we are and now, post 9-11, it's hard not to get hardened by the world and the amount of violence that's allowed to be shown to kids these days.

If you have Palestinians who have no hope, who don't have a job, who've used up all their resources, the notion of getting rid of violence is a dream.

Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.

Violence was almost an aphrodisiac for me.

What postmodernism gives us instead is a multicultural defense for male violence - a defense for it wherever it is, which in effect is a pretty universal defense.

Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.

If a movie isn't a hit right out of the gate, they drop it. Which means that the whole mainstream Hollywood product has been skewed toward violence and vulgar teen comedy.

I've talked to law enforcement officials at the state and local level who say that violence against women is going up. In any case, we think that it's an important issue whether it's going up or not. And we are determined to stop it.

One must do no violence to nature, nor model it in conformity to any blindly formed chimera.

Abortion is the ultimate violence.

Over 120 Aboriginal communities run their own health services - some have been doing so for 30 years. They struggle with difficult medical problems. They also try to deal with counselling, stolen generations issues, family relationships, violence, suicide prevention.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

With the adoption of the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, the international community sent out a clear message that gender based violence will not be tolerated.

The copycat effects of media violence, similar to those previously attributed to westerns, radio serials and comic books, are easy to exaggerate.

I don't support violence, period.

Drama lives on conflict. If you're trying to deal with social issues seriously, there's no way of avoiding violence, which is so present in society.

Violence may be a good focus to organize around, but we have to look at women's lives in our entirety.

I am committed to the principle that violence is never justified as a means of ameliorating a grievance.

All religions have based morality on obedience, that is to say, on voluntary slavery. That is why they have always been more pernicious than any political organization. For the latter makes use of violence, the former - of the corruption of the will.

If any fall by the hand of violence, others will continue the blessed work.

The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information.

Violence against women in this country is not levied against just Democrats, but Republicans as well... not just rich people or poor people. It knows no gender, it knows no ethnicity, it knows nothing.

I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.

In a world which is armed to its teeth with nuclear weapons, every quarrel or difference of opinion may lead to violence of a kind quite different from what is possible today.

As a human rights issue, the effort to end violence against women becomes a government's obligation, not just a good idea.

What holds an Arab leader in power is a mixture of violence and prestige. Both President Assad and King Hussein were felt to have defended Arab interests against the world. That, in the end, is more important than what they wear on their head.

At the same time as we clearly condemn actions of violence by groups in Palestinian against Israel.