Violence In Society Quotes

“Violence is the only lever big enough to move the world”
― Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys

“Violence isn't a Democrat or Republican problem. It's an American problem, requiring an American solution.”
― DaShanne Stokes

“Those who incite violence have no business lecturing others about unity.”
― DaShanne Stokes

“When we allow violence against some, we enable violence against all.”
― DaShanne Stokes

“There's no room for hate and violence in this world. We must learn to be more kind, compassionate, empathetic, and sympathetic to humanity.”
― Germany Kent

“We did not create societies for men, we created them to stop men.”
― Dennis Kelly, Carey Mulligan, Girls & Boys

“The unspoken rule of democracy : three stupid ones will always outvote two smart ones.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land

“Reducing economic inequality and helping victims of domestic violence and child abuse are critical if we want to cut violence and crime.”
― Bruce D. Perry, The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook

“A president who has incited violence inspires citizens towards hate and violence.”
― DaShanne Stokes

“When you say lone gunman, everyone talks about loners and guns, but not about men”
― Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me

“Just to be clear...

Violence is never okay
Attacking another person is not cool
It is morally wrong and offensive to hit another person
If you support the actions of abuse then you condone the behavior”
― Germany Kent

“You see, deep in their hearts they’re convinced that a colonization that doesn't end in a seditious movement and massacres is not a successful colonization. Perhaps they’re right, in a way.”
― Romain Gary, The Roots of Heaven

“Violence does not solve violence.”
― Jaclyn Johnston

“Unfortunately, in this unruly world, a man of peace would be a pauper, for violence was the only currency that mattered.”
― Rehan Khan, A Tudor Turk

“Violence is the type of possession.”
― Arif Naseem

“[T]he life of a person does not first leave when the heart weakens and ceases to beat. The life of a person first leaves when they are witness to the violence of man.”
― Kelleen Goerlitz, The Complete Works of a Lost Girl

“VIOLENCE IS NEVER A JUSTICE”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“White American Christians can begin to look to and learn from the expressions of Christianity among the marginalized throughout history to find a new way forward, one that does not rely on violence in order to protect power over others and assuage the fear of losing what we consider ours.”
― Andrew L. Whitehead, American Idolatry: How Christian Nationalism Betrays the Gospel and Threatens the Church

“Originally, we are all inclined to injustice and violence, because our needs, desires, anger, and hatred immediately enter consciousness and thus have the jus primi occupantis”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, The Basis of Morality

“Covetousness gives birth to violence, while violence gives birth to oppression.”
― Sunday Adelaja, The Mountain of Ignorance

“John thought about nearly dying in Chicago and
this first time firing a gun, causing a realization to come to him; video games are not accurate depictions of real-world violence.
Were there a few fractured souls who lost their minds to the game and couldn't tell the difference between what was real and what was fake? Sure. But a sane mind could tell, and a sane mind shouldn't be able to kill in cold blood after five hours of Halo.
Those people had an underlying problem before they picked up a controller.”
― Hew J. La France, A F K

“But what when there [is] not enough? Then force entered in; might making right; power, and it’s tool, violence, and its most devoted ally, the averted eye.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

“I had known that I would not find Morel alone. I knew that Africa still had plenty of those adventurers always ready to jump at a chance to break the law — to rob, pillage, and in general live a life of freedom.’ Our continent has not yet lost all its attraction for men who feel free only with a gun in their hand.”
― Romain Gary, The Roots of Heaven

“I’m coming round to the belief that colonialism hasn’t been a harsh enough school for them, that it hasn’t taught them enough about things — that French colonialism has, in spite of everything, treated nature with a certain respect. They’ve still got a lot to learn, and French people don’t give that kind of lesson. The men of their own race will take care of that. One day they’ll have their Stalins, their Hitlers, and their Napoleons, their Fuhrers and their Duces, and then their very blood will cry out to demand respect for nature. That day they will understand.”
― Romain Gary, The Roots of Heaven

“Maybe the Nazis told the truth about us. Maybe the Nazis were the truth. We shouldn't forget the truth. The rest, just beautiful tiful lies about ourselves. Perhaps do — to sing another beautiful lie.”
― Romain Gary

“In Europe you see movies from many different countries. They're all unique in their own way. The unique thing Europeans notice about American movies: hyper-violence.”
― Oliver Markus Malloy, Inside The Mind Of An Introvert

“Non-violence is the insurance against violence.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“One of the best ways to fight poverty and end violence is through education.”
― Nitin Namdeo

“Physical and verbal violence are just the tip of the iceberg. Its bottom is called nonverbal violence.”
― Safir Kassim Boudjelal

“I don't like it. I don't like the fact that we don't even see what's going on in our own back yard. L.A. is trying as honorably as a president can try in a world which has become so blunted by dishonor and violence that people casually take it for granted.”
― Madeline L'Engle, Madeline Engle's Time Quintet (A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Titling Planet, An Acceptable Time)