Top 1200 Domestic Violence Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

I think that the war on drugs is domestic Vietnam. And didn't we learn from Vietnam that, at a certain point in the war, we should stop and rethink our strategy, ask ``Why are we here, what are we doing, what's succeeded, what's failed?'' And we ought to do that with the domestic Vietnam, which is the war on drugs.

It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas

Of course, I write crime stories, and I have to describe violence and the aftermath of violence.

It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas.

There is nothing to be gained by being unnecessarily nasty. Violence begets violence.

Non-violence should be a tactic - not an ideology preached from the sidelines to victims of massive violence.

I think violence should be a bit much sometimes because I don't like glorifying violence.

We try to show that violence has a consequence - when you create violence, it turns against you.

Mankind has to get out of violence only through non-violence.

What is gained by violence must be lost before superior violence.

The Oriental approach to violence is a much more aesthetic and poetic approach, whereas in the western world, violence is put in because you can't solve the problem. Violence is always the last solution, but unfortunately, in cinema, it's the first solution, because it's easy. And it's often too easy.

If you look at our domestic scores in T20s, it is generally around 110-120. I think we all need to go back, step up our domestic circuit, take those scores to 140-150. If that is happening then all the batters will come with the same mindset of playing a fearless brand of cricket.

Violence in real life is terrible; violence in movies can be cool. It's just another colour to work with.

I don't know specifically what scenes I'd like to see violence in - I crave violence when I'm watching a John Hughes movie.

Violence does not resolve. It always leads to more violence.

Where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence.

There is violence in real life but I would never impose violence in a film just to attract the audience.

My philosophy is that one shall not resort to violence unless one is resolved to become the subject of violence at any time.

I think there are so many children being brought up in some form of violence, be it violence of poverty or sexism or racism or homophobia or transphobia. That violence takes a life to transform or overcome. I don't think people should be spending their lives dealing with that. I think people should be thriving, playing, creating, evolving.

Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak... Non-violence is hard work.

Violence - look, we live in a violent world, man. This country was founded on violence. Who's kidding who?

The more children see of violence, the more numb they are to the deadly consequences of violence. Now, video games like 'Mortal Kombat,' 'Killer Instinct,' and 'Doom,' the very game played obsessively by the two young men who ended so many lives in Littleton, make our children more active participants in simulated violence.

That's violence, terrible violence, to tell a woman to sit down and shut up.

We recognize that violence is a learned behavior. One of the best classrooms for learning violence is in the home.

Violence begets violence, and then you get leaders who are violent men. And you don't want that.

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

Civil disobedience does not admit of any violence or countenancing of violence directly or indirectly.

If you disapprove of violence, then you can't think there is any age when violence is appropriate.

The violence associated with the A.N.C. is minimal, infinitesimal next to the violence of the apartheid regime.

I think we can see violence in a whole range of realms. We certainly see it in the media, where extreme violence is now so pervasive that people barely blink when they see it, and certainly raise very few questions about what it means pedagogically and politically. Violence is the DNA, the nervous system of this system's body politic.

I think, personally, nothing comes from violence other than more violence.

Violence has not really been an issue. Even in my wildest hopes, I wasn't trying to get violence in.

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.

If there is violence, it will certainly be crushed because violence can only end in a disgraceful rout.

I know, it's disturbing that gentle looking people have such violence, but I believe we all have a penchant for violence in us.

One bleeding-heart type asked me in a recent interview if I did not agree that 'violence begets violence.' I told him that it is my earnest endeavor to see that it does. I would like very much to ensure - and in some cases I have - that any man who offers violence to his fellow citizen begets a whole lot more in return than he can enjoy.

I'm concerned about a better world. I'm concerned about justice; I'm concerned about brotherhood; I'm concerned about truth. And when one is concerned about that, he can never advocate violence. For through violence you may murder a murderer, but you can't murder murder. Through violence you may murder a liar, but you can't establish truth. Through violence you may murder a hater, but you can't murder hate through violence. Darkness cannot put out darkness; only light can do that.

Answer violence with violence. If one of us falls today, five of them must fall tomorrow.

No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence in the end is rewarded.

I have a deep-seated skepticism about the morality of violence. Violence is almost always morally corrosive.

For me, the toughest thing for kids to deal with is when the parents are fighting. It's not violence on them - it's the feeling of violence in the family.

That ‘hundreds and hundreds’ was taken totally out of context. When I was making a point to this person, I was making a point that over my 31 years in the National Football League I’ve seen a lot of changes. There were hundreds and hundreds of things over those years that I’ve seen that have gotten better. Domestic violence is one of those.

This is what terrorism is occupied with as well: making real, palpable violence surface in opposition to the invisible violence of security.

Those who 'abjure' violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf.

Abortion is violence; a deep, desperate violence inflicted by a woman upon, first of all, herself.

For me popular violence is as much an obstruction in our path as the Government violence.

When a rap song glorifies violence, death and sadness and loss is inflicted because of the violence.

If I do not respond to some situation, my conscience kills me. I believe in permissible violence, not necessarily non-violence.

Mental violence is as bad as physical violence. You don't see that very often in movies, so it was a good subject to tackle.

In some cases non-violence requires more militancy than violence.

We've never advocated violence; violence is inflicted upon us. But we do believe in self-defense for ourselves and for black people.

Practically every violent conflict or social change has proved that violence unleashes violence in return.

I want the violence among young people in this country to stop - particularly gang violence.

I believe actual violence scars children much more than violence in storybooks.

We all come from different levels, and I think every human has their own relationship to violence, athletic violence and fighting.

The world is ruled by violence, or at least the imminent threat of violence. It always has been.

Not violence, nor untruth but non-violence and Truth are the laws of our being.

The attention of the media is only caught by acts of violence... so I must perform this act of violence against myself.

When faced with a choice between violence and cowardice, always choose violence

Growing up, I was constantly reminded to not to air our family's dirty laundry. Part of why domestic violence is allowed to continue is because there is often an unwritten rule in many families of abuse: Don't ask. Don't tell. Keeping quiet does no good. I found that sharing my story liberated me from my past. There is power in storytelling and, in that, healing. Owning my truth also empowered me. I will no longer be manipulated or controlled by guilt or shame.