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I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.

Quotes by Mandy Patinkin

My people have been sucked into the violence because some feel they have to retaliate, and some feel they have to protect themselves.

Quotes by Mangosuthu Buthelezi

I never supported violence. Before the formation of TMC, I was a member of the Congress Party. Gandhi's Congress. Non-violence is a philosophy that runs deep.

Quotes by Mamata Banerjee

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

Quotes by Malcolm X

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Mahatma Gandhi

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Mahatma Gandhi

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

Mahatma Gandhi

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Mahatma Gandhi

The PLO and the Palestinian people adhere to the renouncement of violence and rejection and condemning of terrorism in all its forms, especially State terrorism, and adhere to all agreements signed between the Palestine Liberation Organization and Israel.

Quotes by Mahmoud Abbas

I don't ever believe in violence as a kind of medicine.

Quotes by Maggie Nelson

I interviewed dozens and dozens of African women who had endured more hardship and trauma than most Westerners even read about, and they ploughed on. I often openly cried during interviews, unable to process this violence and hatred towards women I was witnessing.

Quotes by Lynsey Addario

The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.

Quotes by Lucretius

I will also continue to fight to provide better economic security for victims of domestic violence.

Quotes by Lucille Roybal-Allard

It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.

Quotes by Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them.

Quotes by Louise Bogan

Take away the violence and who will hear the men of peace?

Quotes by Lorraine Hansberry

The answer is never violence. Rather, the answer, our answer, all our answer must be action. Calm, peaceful, collaborative and determined action.

Quotes by Loretta Lynch

Fortune blinds men when she does not wish them to withstand the violence of her onslaughts.

Quotes by Livy

The worst violence we can do to each other often is psychological, especially in families. I dwell a lot on domestic danger. That's the backdrop of most of my novels - what kind of damage is done without ever lifting a finger.

Quotes by Lisa Unger

Kids shouldn't see all the violence they do these days. But the industry just doesn't care.

Quotes by Linda Blair

Their prejudice allowed white Southerners to look the other way when blacks were denied their most basic human rights, and it encouraged the worst of them to engage in unspeakable acts of cruelty and violence.

Quotes by Linda Chavez

We're showing a situation that these kids are caught in and being forced to do but the violence is not glorified. Most of the kids in there are not wanting to be doing it.

Quotes by Liam Hemsworth

Telling the truth about domestic violence - and those who shield it - should not be punished.

Quotes by Letitia James

For generations America and its institutions have refused to acknowledge the true severity of the harm that domestic violence imposes on our society.

Quotes by Letitia James

Like with all other crime, we must, of course, treat the perpetrators of these actions as the criminals they are. But unlike with the vast majority of other crime, justice is not delivered simply by punishing the perpetrator. This is because the harm associated with domestic violence extends far beyond the point of contact.

Quotes by Letitia James

Children of domestic violence, of course, suffer terrible consequences.

Quotes by Letitia James

Domestic abuse happens only in intimate, interdependent, long-term relationships - in other words, in families - the last place we would want or expect to find violence.

Quotes by Leslie Morgan Steiner

Family violence is a criminal act; perpetrators, while often former victims themselves, need to accept culpability.

Quotes by Leslie Morgan Steiner

This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.

Quotes by Leonard Bernstein

Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.

Leo Tolstoy

Does our culture have a need for violence? I don't know. I guess it's a personal thing.

Quotes by Lena Headey

Sex should not be in the movies and should be in the home, and violence should be in the movies and not in the home.

Quotes by Lee Tamahori

Extraneous violence is totally wrong. 'Robocop' was violence for violence's sake - you don't shoot somebody's arm off.

Quotes by Lee Rich

We shall not yield to violence. We shall not be deprived of union freedoms. We shall never agree with sending people to prison for their convictions.

Quotes by Lech Walesa

There's been an increase in the number of Iraqis in training, but more Americans are dying and violence is increasing.

Quotes by Lawrence Korb

We need to do something about the culture of violence.

Quotes by Laurence Tribe

Two things I do well in books are sex and violence, but I don't want gratuitous sex or violence. The sex and violence are only as graphic as need be. And never included unless it furthers the plot or character development.

Quotes by Laurell K. Hamilton

Stop the normalisation of political violence against the Right!

Quotes by Laura Loomer

I'm not telling people what to do, but I also wish people would not only condemn political violence against the Right but also anti-Semitism.

Quotes by Laura Loomer

I was watching the Danish version of 'The Killing' when I got the audition for 'The Fall,' and I loved it; it was so original. I approached 'The Fall' with that in mind. I'd no problem with the violence - it was very clear from the script how horrifying the crimes were and that had to be shown, without going to extremes.

Quotes by Laura Donnelly

Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.

Quotes by Lao Tzu

We tried to make a movie that had sex and violence because we like sex and violence.

Quotes by Lana Wachowski

I personally believe that violence against women in our society is not going anywhere.

Quotes by Laeta Kalogridis

Violence in drama is an external contextualization of internal conflicts.

Quotes by Laeta Kalogridis

Extremists and populist movements are exploiting people's fear of those who are not like us. We can see the consequences in the form of terrorism and racially motivated violence.

Quotes by Kjell Magne Bondevik

The rumors of Frank Sinatra's violence and his ties to organized crime were such that journalists joked in print about me ending up in concrete boots and sleeping with the fishes if I proceeded to write his biography.

Quotes by Kitty Kelley

America and its allies are engaged in a war against a terrorist movement that spans all corners of the globe. It is sparked by radical ideologues that breed hatred, oppression, and violence against all of their declared enemies.

Quotes by Kenny Marchant

The power which establishes a state is violence; the power which maintains it is violence; the power which eventually overthrows it is violence.

Quotes by Kenneth Kaunda

We used to flock to watch gladiators, public torture and executions. In more recent times, our appetite for mortal violence has been sublimated in sports, photorealistic video games, film and literature.

Quotes by Kenneth Oppel

There are so many things going on in this world that are unbelievable. A lot of gun violence and police brutality.

Quotes by Kemba Walker

I believe that restricting the rights of law-abiding gun owners will not prevent a deranged individual or criminal from obtaining and misusing firearms to commit violence.

Quotes by Kelly Ayotte

During two decades, on and off, reporting in Russia and the post-Soviet states - in the turbulent '90s, the wealthy but depressing aughts and, finally, during the eruption of violence in Ukraine - I occasionally heard people talk about how 'the Americans' wanted this or that political outcome.

Quotes by Keith Gessen

Paul Verhoeven is one of my favourite directors. I love his ability to mash extreme violence with humour and satire.

Quotes by Kayvan Novak

Donald Trump has advocated violence - I saw him do it several times on the campaign trail.

Quotes by Katy Tur

I think violence in a cinematic context can be, if handled in a certain way, very seductive.

Quotes by Kathryn Bigelow

So many women have experienced horrific forms of male violence throughout their lives, and why isn't there a song about how you get depressed because of it?

Quotes by Kathleen Hanna

The intense campaigns against domestic violence, rape, sexual harassment, and inequity in the schools all too often depend on an image of women as weak and victimized.

Quotes by Katherine Dunn

Here is the dirty little secret about anti-abortion violence: It works.

Quotes by Katha Pollitt

I know what it feels like to be a victim of domestic violence.

Quotes by Kate Brown

I've always been interested in violence, even as a teenager. I loved 'Helter Skelter' and books like that.

Quotes by Karin Slaughter

Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to fester without a resolution, religion got sucked into the escalating cycle of violence and became part of the problem.

Quotes by Karen Armstrong

To the youth who have taken up guns, I urge them to return to their parents and shun violence.

Quotes by Kapil Sibal

Ever since Modi became prime minister, he has given a free rein to his ministers and BJP functionaries to create an environment of communal tension and violence.

Quotes by Kapil Sibal

The BJP, undoubtedly, is a party with a mission. Spreading hatred and religious discord, indulging in state-sponsored violence and fake encounter killings, and resorting to divisive politics have been integral to this mission.

Quotes by Kapil Sibal

Sedition involves sloganeering with incitement. It may be anti-national, but not a crime, unless you incite violence or communal tension.

Quotes by Kapil Sibal

Sometimes we equate anger to destructive physical violence, but anger need not be martial.

Quotes by Kamal Haasan

I'm not a violent person; I'm not interested in violence.

Quotes by Justin Kurzel

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

Quotes by Justin Sane

Violence and nonviolence are, after all, two different forms of theater. They both depend and thrive on the response of an audience.

Quotes by Julia Bacha

As a Jew, I was taught that it was ethically imperative to speak up and to speak out against arbitrary state violence. That was part of what I learned when I learned about the Second World War and the concentration camps.

Quotes by Judith Butler

Gun-related violence and murders are concentrated among blacks and Latinos in big cities.

Quotes by Juan Williams

It seems disingenuous to ask a writer why she, or he, is writing about a violent subject when the world and history are filled with violence.

Quotes by Joyce Carol Oates

Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies.

Quotes by Joseph Addison

How can I make a movie about the violence of the police if the police aren't going to let me film it?

Quotes by Jose Padilha

In the case of Iraq, notwithstanding the violence there at the moment, the very fact that a hideous regime - responsible for genocide, for the use of chemical and biological weapons, aggression against two neighbors - has been removed in itself is a positive development.

Quotes by Jose Ramos-Horta

The forces of violence and oppression don't care about the innocent.

Quotes by Joni Ernst

Under current law, there is no additional penalty for someone who enters the United States illegally and then commits either a crime of violence or a drug trafficking offense. They simply come under the same penalty as we have in current law.

Quotes by John Shadegg

I've written films that are violent. I'm not big on sitting and watching violence.

Quotes by John Ridley

Poverty does not cause violence and terrorism. Lack of education does not cause terrorism.

Quotes by John O. Brennan

The violence had broken out in both sides, but our philosophy as a party was very, very clear.

Quotes by John Hume

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.

Quotes by John Hume

There is a capacity for violence we all harbour, and under certain circumstances, it comes out.

Quotes by John Hillcoat

Violence is always the last option, but if that time comes, it is the ONLY option.

Quotes by John Gilmour

Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence.

Quotes by John Foster Dulles

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.

Quotes by John Conyers

Once the violence has ceased, the US should immediately call on the World Bank and other international institutions to convene a donors conference to rebuild Lebanon's shattered infrastructure.

Quotes by John Conyers

I am opposed to war, to killing people, to any kind of hatred and violence.

Quotes by John Boyne

The aggressive, unprovoked acts of violence against Israel by Hezbollah and Hamas are revealing. It is clear they don't want peace, but rather seek the ultimate destruction of Israel.

Quotes by John Boehner

If the adjustment made by a court can be accepted or not, it will be refused whenever the men can gain more by continuing the strike, with whatever of violence that involves.

Quotes by John Bates Clark

So, these political activities will create friction in and of themselves, and in this environment of friction there'll be additional violence.

Quotes by John Abizaid

The power to prevent violence is a power that no police force seems to have anywhere in the United States.

Quotes by John Abizaid

While we have entertained the contention that a deed may make more propaganda than hundreds of speeches, thousands of articles, and tens of thousands of pamphlets, we have held that an arbitrary act of violence will not necessarily have such an effect.

Quotes by Johann Most

However, the combination of civil resistance, of large-scale mass activities and strikes, with a certain degree of revolutionary violence, could provoke a crisis in the enemy's camp that would ultimately lead to essential changes.

Quotes by Joe Slovo

Ending gun violence isn't political. This is personal.

Quotes by Joe Kennedy III

We were raised with that discussion about violence and non-violence, and we all pretty much came up on the side of non-violence. That became my foundation with politics and my livelihood.

Quotes by Joan Baez

The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence.

Quotes by Joan Baez

Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence.

Quotes by Joan Baez

Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence.

Quotes by Jim Morrison

I think America is going to have to think through whether it wants to uplift the political dialogue or advance an approach that divides and, frankly, can lead to violence.

Quotes by Jim Leach

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