Acts Of Violence Quotes - Page 3

• The ordinary, utterly mundane reason behind the massacre makes it somehow more terrible, and far more depressing. The word 'senseless' springs to mind, and Idris thwarts it. It's what people always say. A senseless act of violence. A senseless murder. As if you could commit sensible murder.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Depressing, Spring, People

  Khaled Hosseini (2013). “And the Mountains Echoed”, p.150, A&C Black

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• War is an act of violence pushed to its utmost bounds.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Peace, War, Limits

  "On War (Book 1)". Book by Carl von Clausewitz, 1832.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.

  Oscar Wilde

  Ignorance, Upper Class, Gone

  1895 Lady Bracknell. The Importance of Being Earnest, act 1.

  24 Copy quote

  Show source

• Realism; fatalism; phlegm. To live in the Fens is to receive strong doses of reality. The great flat monotony of reality; the wide empty space of reality. Melancholia and self-murder are not unknown in the Fens. Heavy drinking, madness and sudden acts of violence are not uncommon. How do you surmount reality, children? How do you acquire, in a flat country, the tonic of elevated feelings?

  Graham Swift

  Country, Strong, Children

  Graham Swift (1991). “Waterland”, Simon & Schuster

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Not all Muslims become involved in acts of violence. Yet all might be held culpable. THis is because that section of Muslim--in fact, the majority--who are not personally involved, neither disown those members of their community who are engaged in violence, nor even condemn them. In such a case, according to the Islamic Shariah itself, if the involved Muslims are directly responsible, the uninvolved Muslims are also indirectly responsible. (p. 91)

  Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

  Islamic, Community, Majority

  14 Copy quote

• This outrageous and vicious act of violence against the United States is unforgivable.

  Junichiro Koizumi

  September 11, Violence, United States

  "Arafat Horrified by Attacks, but Thousands of Palestinians Celebrate; Rest of World Outraged", www.foxnews.com. September 12, 2001.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• We know that ISIL and other terrorist groups are actively encouraging people, around the world and in our country, to commit terrible acts of violence, oftentimes as lone-wolf actors.

  Barack Obama

  Country, People, Terrorist Groups

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• All sex, even consensual sex between a married couple, is an act of violence perpetrated against a woman.

  Unknown

  Sex, Couple, Radical Feminism

  128 Copy quote

• You cannot cheat with the law of conservation of violence: all violence is paid for, and for example, the structural violence exerted by the financial markets, in the form of layoffs, loss of security, etc., is matched sooner or later in the form of suicides, crime and delinquency, drug addiction, alcoholism, a whole host of minor and major everyday acts of violence.

  Pierre Bourdieu

  Suicide, Loss, Law

  73 Copy quote

• In Macbeth a lady is restrained from the murder of a king by his resemblance of her father as he slept. Should not all men be restrained from acts of violence and even of unkindness against their fellow men by observing in them something which resembles the Savior of the World? If nothing else certainly, a human figure?

  Benjamin Rush

  Kings, Father, Men

  8 Copy quote

• An unjust law in itself is an act of violence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Law, Unjust, Violence

  4 Copy quote

• Muslim leaders around the globe have to continue working with us to decisively and unequivocally reject the hateful ideology that groups like ISIL and al Qaeda promote. To speak out against not just acts of violence, but also those interpretations of Islam that are incompatible with the values of religious tolerance, mutual respect, and human dignity.

  Barack Obama

  Religious, Speaks Out, Leader

  Source: www.msnbc.com

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Taking away the peace of a people, committing every act of violence, or consenting to such acts, especially when directed against the weakest and defenseless, is a profoundly grave sin against God.

  Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople

  Peace, People, Violence

  18 Copy quote

• Any act of violence creates resentment and resistance, because humans were meant to be free.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Resistance, Violence, Were Meant To Be

  7 Copy quote

• By the age of 18, the average child has witnessed 200,000 acts of violence, including 18,000 simulated murders, on television. It is not always easy to provide clear, consistent structure for children, but providing it often helps keep children safe and helps them grow to be responsible adults.

  Jean Illsley Clarke

  Children, Media, Average

  17 Copy quote

• It would not be desirable to include 'terrorism' among international crimes subject to International Criminal Court jurisdiction if defined to apply only to anti-state acts of violence. The failure to include terrorism as a distinct crime was due to the inability to agree upon its proper definition.

  Richard A. Falk

  Agree Upon, Definitions, Violence

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• We know we can't stop every act of violence, every act of evil in the world, but maybe we could try to stop one act of evil, one act of violence.

  Barack Obama

  Evil, Gun Control, Trying

  Source: www.abc.net.au

  32 Copy quote

  Show source

• My random acts of violence weren't random. They were premeditated.

  Christopher Titus

  Violence

  "Titus / Insanity Genetic: Part 2". www.imdb.com. 2002.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Judge Afiuni has suffered enough. She has been subject to acts of violence and humiliations to undermine her human dignity. I am convinced that she must be set free.

  Noam Chomsky

  Judging, Violence, Dignity

  "Noam Chomsky criticises old friend Hugo Chávez for 'assault' on democracy" by Rory Carroll, www.theguardian.com. July 2, 2011.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• If the cross is a personal act of violence perpetrated by God towards humankind but borne by his Son, then it makes a mockery of Jesus' own teaching to love your enemies and to refuse to repay evil with evil.

  Steve Chalke

  Jesus, Love You, Teaching

  "The Lost Message of Jesus". Book by Steve Chalke and Alan Mann, 2003.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Or will it take some cataclysmic act of violence on U.S. soil to finally awaken our gamesmen to the costs of global hegemony?

  Pat Buchanan

  Hegemony, Cost, Soil

  18 Copy quote

• The real damage from terrorist attacks doesn't come from the explosion. The real damage is done after the explosion, by the victims, who repeatedly and determinedly attack themselves, giving over reason in favor of terror... Terrorism is about magnifying one mediagenic act of violence into one hundred billion acts of terrorized authoritarian idiocy.

  Cory Doctorow

  Real, Damage Is Done, Giving

  "BBC Photographer Prevented From Shooting St Paul's Because He Might Be 'Al Qaeda Operative'". boingboing.net. November 30, 2009.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death. Whether it's the mundane violence we do to our bodies by overeating toxic food or drink or the extreme violence of child abuse, domestic warfare, life-threatening poverty, addiction, or state terrorism.

  Bell Hooks

  Children, Addiction, Abuse

  7 Copy quote

• Every state and the federal government have laws that protect people from acts of violence, and those laws should be enforced. What I want to see in America is that if you hurt a human being and you bring pain in their life, that's all we need to know. If you did it illegally, you should be prosecuted.

  Lindsey Graham

  Hurt, Pain, Government

  "Representative Lindsey Graham: George W. Bush’s record in Texas". www.cnn.com. October 25, 2000.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• One act of violence takes four generations to heal.

  Gloria Steinem

  Generations, Four, Violence

  Gloria Steinem (2015). “My Life on the Road”, p.156, Oneworld Publications

  4 Copy quote

  Show source