1,621 Quotes About Violence

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

Through TV people turn their family living rooms into meditative dens of death and violence worship.

We are what we think about and meditate on. Look around people! America is a buffet of violence; a total immersion.

I, on the other hand, interrupt people because my thoughts fly out of my mouth. My handbag's full of rubbish. And I want to do something that matters with my life. Right now I'd like to write plays, sing in musicals, and/or rid the world of poverty, violence, cruelty, and right-wing conservative politics.

In an age of bombsguzzling blood, skylarks merge peacewith thought and action.

A violent order is disorder; and a great disorder is an order.These two things are one.

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 very difficult for people to understand this simple relationship.

Our age not only does not have a very sharp eye for the almost imperceptible intrusions of grace, it no longer has much feeling for the nature of the violences which precede and follow them.

Covetousness gives birth to violence, while violence gives birth to oppression.