Top Violence Quotes

On the opening day of law school at Yale, I always counsel my first-year students never to support a law they are not willing to kill to enforce. Usually they greet this advice with something between...

In light of all the gun violence in the USA, I'd prefer my democracy unleaded.

Violence Definition

(n.) The quality or state of being violent; highly excited action, whether physical or moral; vehemence; impetuosity; force.

(n.) Injury done to that which is entitled to respect, reverence, or observance; profanation; infringement; unjust force; outrage; assault.

(n.) Ravishment; rape; constupration.

(v. t.) To assault; to injure; also, to bring by violence; to compel.

For the Wife Beater's WifeWith blue irises her face is blossomed. BlueCircling to yellow, circling to brown on her cheeks.The long bone of her jaw untrackedShe hides in our kitchen.He sleeps it off ne...

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

We really are creatures of a violent world, biologically speaking - watching violence and learning about it is one of our cognitive drives.

There have been some gains made in terms of more equality for women in the workplace and in the way the legal system deals with issues of violence against women.

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

Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.

Architecture must not do violence to space or its neighbors.

A leader or president that never rebukes violence, is like one that takes utter pride in it's rage

A freeze response (dissociation, collapse, numbing, paralysis, deadness) during the incident that threatened your life or limb. Sometimes it's difficult for people to understand that this is really su...

New Rule: The White House doesn't have to release the dead Bin Laden photos, but don't pretend we can't take it. We've seen pictures of Britney Spears's vagina getting out of a car. Television has des...

The fury of those nativists advocating wholesale slaughter was what struck Nadia most, and it struck her because it seemed so familiar, so much like the fury of the militants in her own city. She wond...

War or violence never can destroy enemies, only forgiveness can do that.

Despite all the sadness, violence and misery, I still believe in universal peace, goodness, and beauty of humanity.

All children are born to grow, to develop, to live, to love, and to articulate their needs and feelings for their self-protection.

One tended to lose one’s bearings in the presence of willful and persistent acts of craziness, and the more gentle the act, the crazier it seemed, as if rage and violence, being closer to the norm, we...

If we can use an H-bomb--and as you said it's no checker game; it's real, it's war and nobody is fooling around--isn't it sort of ridiculous to go crawling around in the weeds, throwing knives and may...

Rape is a crime against sleep and memory; it's after image imprints itself like an irreversible negative from the camera obscure of dreams. Though their bodies would heal, their souls had sustained a...

A new type of superstition has got hold of people's minds, the worship of the state. People demand the exercise of the methods of coercion and compulsion, of violence and threat. Woe to anybody who do...