The East Timorese government does not believe that we should consider compensation for the victims because there are tens of thousands of people who were, in one way or another, affected by the violence either...

Remember, I’m the only person her who’s paid to be nice to you. But not too nice. Give me any lip and I’ll break your face. OK?

Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.

Mentioning violence to Bruce was like mentioning chocolate sauce to a six-year-old.

Violence and resistance are the only answer. Empire has to feel pain or it will never stop devouring you. It is only when a gun is put in a person’s face that anything changes

Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.

Violence is the most popular political commodity. Politicians are the wholesalers of violence. Ruling elites are the main beneficiary of violence and working classes are the innocent and silent victims of violence. When politician and...

They say we live in hard times. They say the world is full of suffering and pain and ignorance and violence. But is that not better than helpless, grinned and beared mediocrity? Is this not...

As long as we do violence to other animals, we’ll keep on doing violence to ourselves.

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 next door.Her...

We have been trained by a culture of violence and we are all agents of passive violence.

We are all a part of a culture of violence that dominates every aspect of our lives.

GUNS ARE NOT THE ISSUE. WE ARE.

What sparks wars? The will to power, the backbone of human nature. The threat of violence, the fear of violence, or actual violence, is the instrument of this dreadful will. You can see the will...

wrong believers” who not infrequently they saw themselves justified in the killing.

The people who burned witches at the stake never for one moment thought of their act as violence; rather they thought of it as an act of divinely mandated righteousness. The same can be said...

I wasn’t around when Kennedy got shot. Not being born yet is a pretty good alibi. Still, if the cops ask where I was, tell them I was with you.

There are 1.6 billion Muslims in the world. If, for the sake of argument, 1 million are violent, that’s a mere .000625 percent of them. I wonder who among you wants to be judged on...

The dark-haired girl behind Winston had begun crying out: ‘Swine! Swine! Swine!’, and suddenly she picked up a heavy Newspeak dictionary and flung it at the screen.

Knocking on a door is so violent. Talk on the door. Try to get it to open up through communication, not violence.

Hi. I’m here to enlist.You can’t. You aren’t human.You see, little fella, we don’t do sociological stuff like “interspeciated workplaces.” We’re a crack company of space mercenaries. We do “hurting people” and “breaking things.”Sounds like...

He was known to hit low, drive upward from the hips, and flip other boys over his shoulder and onto their backs, knocking the wind out of them on the glass-littered asphalt, sometimes causing a...

In certain situations, manifesting anger is the right attitude; in others it is not the right thing to manifest because it will only add to the violence. In the first case, anger unblocks the conflict...

He, who thought it necessary to maintain himself in her good graces, strove to console her under her disappointment by committing a little violence upon truth.

Racism and violence were non-existent in this world, When people were aware to fight for identity’- Terzanelle for Octavia Estelle Butler, Poem by Marieta Maglas

Everyone who is not happy must be shot.

All breathing, existing, living, sentient creatures should not be slain, nor treated with violence, nor abused, nor tormented, nor driven away.

We are not yet in a civil war. But if the ongoing violence is not contained, it will turn into an Iraqi-Iraqi war.

Whatever your objective in life may be, never use violence to get it! Violence belongs to the Land of Evil; once you enter there, your face and your heart is forever sealed with the devilish...

Studies conducted in a city in Zimbabwe found that half of reported rape cases involve girls less than 15 years of age and that girls are most vulnerable to sexual abuse by male relatives, neighbors...

There is a very simple relationship between increased socioeconomic rifts in the society and increased violence, criminality, war, increased lack of trust between people, health problems and social exclusion – but it seems to be...

The violence seems to be diminishing. They’ve stared into the abyss a bit. I think they’ve all concluded that further violence… is not in their interests.

Make sure your fun is not mocking someone’s pain and your enjoyment is not another’s suffering. The melody of your ears must not be the cries of a powerless.

It’s not that the film is violent, it’s that people have an issue with violence right now.

Claiming that you have got the truth wrapped up does breed violence and intolerance.

What can bombs know of the illuminated fields so golden with heaven in your heart’s sacred lands?

If anyone hits me, they can expect to be hit back, and harder. I never turn the other cheek because in my experience that doesn’t work.

We don’t like security rules and laws, but without them men will be animals, perhaps the most dangerous animals.

…robots pencil prescriptions for acid gas sunsets

It’s just logical, so long as there is violence, it’s very hard for both parties to engage in meaningful political talks.

Implicit in the stare of those eyes, the power of those knobbly hands, was labor’s historic threat of violence against capital.

If I am to die tonight, let me die a fighter.

I collect human skin. I keep it all on the bumper of my car.

Isn’t it amazing that, historically, the “Prince of Peace” has most often been introduced to new cultures through extreme violence? European and American colonialists bring this disparity to light in a way that makes me...

Totalitarianism is never content to rule by external means, namely, through the state and a machinery of violence; thanks to its peculiar ideology and the role assigned to it in this apparatus of coercion, totalitarianism...

I am very much concerned that American Negroes achieve their freedom here in the United States. But I am also concerned for their dignity, for the health of their souls, and must oppose any attempt...

I was not frightened as they were, for the very violence of his threats showed how weak he was.

Violence does not always take visible form, and not all wounds gush blood.

Guns are like thermometers, only instead of measuring body temperatures they measure our fear.

Well, you know, the violence is mostly in Mexico itself, at least the violence that people are worried about. And so we want to make sure that violence does not spill over into our communities...