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Violence can range from being a minor altercation between two people to one causing millions of deaths. It is to be kept in mind that violence is not physical force only. Extreme and abusive verbal disagreements also count as aggression or abuse. There has been a huge debate whether or not violence is inherent in humans. Countries have been taking precautionary measures against the breakout of violence – worldwide and domestic. Among all the sections of society, youth has been rated as most indulgent offense. Read more for some violence and aggression quotations and sayings!

Pranab Mukherjee

No problems are ever resolved by violence. It only aggravates the pain and the hurt on every side.

Pain Problems Hurt
Pranab Mukherjee
Plutarch

Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.

Togetherness Persistence
Plutarch
Malcolm X

Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.

Advice Peace Residency Respect
Malcolm X
Jamie Foxx

We cannot turn our back and say that violence in films or anything that we do doesn't have a sort of influence. It does.

Influence
Jamie Foxx

What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? No martyr's cause has ever been stilled by an assassin's bullet. No wrongs have ever been righted by riots and civil disorders. A sniper is only a coward, not a hero; and an uncontrolled or uncontrollable mob is only the voice of madness, not the voice of the people.

People
Robert Kennedy
Martin Sheen

We think of violence as being conflict and fighting and wars and so forth, but the most ongoing horrific measure of violence is in the horrible poverty of the Third World... and the poverty in the United States as well.

Poverty World Fighting
Martin Sheen
Eva Mendes

We seem okay with violence, but nudity we race to criticize and censor.

Race
Eva Mendes
Salvador Dali

Let my enemies devour each other.

Sad Love Bitterness Darkness Demolition
Salvador Dali
Adolf Hitler

Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.

Battles Purpose Wars Fighting
Adolf Hitler
Malcolm X

I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man's problem just to avoid violence.

Aggression America Attitude Power
Malcolm X
Malcolm X

I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.

Guts Caution Safety Security
Malcolm X

I grew up in an environment where it was permittable to use violence to solve a problem. But it was not permittable ever to call the police under any circumstances. That was the kind of doctrine of my household. My dad was a career-long criminal, and you weren't calling the police for any reason.

Police
Charlie Hunnam
Quentin Tarantino

Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.

Things Fun
Quentin Tarantino
Adolf Hitler

Generals think war should be waged like the tourneys of the Middle Ages. I have no use for knights; I need revolutionaries.

Age Guts Revolt Revolution
Adolf Hitler
Gavin McInnes

I want violence. I want punching in the face. I'm disappointed in Trump supporters for not punching enough.

Face
Gavin McInnes
Antony Starr

There are some people that just attract violence to them. No matter where they go, they'll find a fight.

People
Antony Starr
Alexander Skarsgard

In some people's eyes, nudity is so much more dangerous than violence. I never really understood that.

People Eyes
Alexander Skarsgard
Cate Blanchett

Violence and racism are bad. Whenever they occur they are to be condemned and we should not turn a blind eye to them.

Racism
Cate Blanchett

No matter how civilized we are and how much society has curbed violent behavior. Human beings still have the same genes they had 10,000 years ago. Our bodies are designed to have a certain amount of physical stress and violence in them. We're designed to run from jaguars and fight to defend our territory.

Society
Joe Rogan
Isaac Asimov

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

Anger
Isaac Asimov
Malcolm X

Nonviolence is fine as long as it works.

Opinion Peace Compassion Silence
Malcolm X
Steve Irwin

No matter where you go and what you do in America, you turn the tele on and you're confronted with violence.

Steve Irwin
Roman Polanski

You have to show violence the way it is. If you don't show it realistically, then that's immoral and harmful. If you don't upset people, then that's obscenity.

People
Roman Polanski
Roger Moore

Of course I am frustrated with regard to extreme poverty, to violence that never seems to cease.

Poverty
Roger Moore
Liam Hemsworth

We're showing a situation that these kids are caught in and being forced to do but the violence is not glorified. Most of the kids in there are not wanting to be doing it.

Liam Hemsworth
Patrick Jake O'Rourke

Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.

Christianity Religion Aggression Unkindness
Patrick Jake O'Rourke
Adolf Hitler

Strength lies not in defence but in attack.

Attitude Protests Strength Support
Adolf Hitler
Jim Morrison

We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.

Pain Fear
Jim Morrison
Mahatma Gandhi

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

Politics
Mahatma Gandhi
Thomas More

I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.

Pollution Protests Reason Safety
Thomas More
Mahatma Gandhi

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

Good Wickedness
Mahatma Gandhi
Candace Owens

We say it all the time: the leftist media is inciting violence and hate by calling everybody a racist and a white supremacist.

Time Hatred Media
Candace Owens
Theodore Roosevelt

The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.

Penalty / Chastisement Crime Unkindness Justice
Theodore Roosevelt
Thomas Jefferson

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.

Warning Penalty / Chastisement Satire Country
Thomas Jefferson
Neymar

My opinion is that protesting, there's no problem with it, as long as it is peaceful without violence, without vandalism.

Opinion
Neymar
Don DeLillo

People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.

People Power
Don DeLillo
Dan Bilzerian

I don't believe in violence against women.

Women
Dan Bilzerian
George Carlin

Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.

Peace Comparisons Example Fighting
George Carlin
Dr. Dre

Mission accomplished, we didn't have any problems as far as violence goes.

Problems
Dr. Dre
Guy Ritchie

I think there's a natural system in your own head about how much violence the scene warrants. It's not an intellectual process, it's an instinctive process.

Guy Ritchie
Robert Kennedy, Jr.

There's many, many people who have been through a lot worse things than I went through. I lost my dad when I was 14 and to violence.

People
Robert Kennedy, Jr.
Woody Harrelson

Violence was almost an aphrodisiac for me.

Woody Harrelson
Ryan Gosling

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.

Ryan Gosling
Jackie Chan

I hate violence, yes I do. It's kind of a dilemma, huh?.

Hatred
Jackie Chan
Jim Morrison

Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence.

Wickedness Infatuation
Jim Morrison
Steven Seagal

I myself am a very nonviolent person and only resort to violence when I absolutely have to.

Steven Seagal
Martin Luther

Nothing good ever comes of violence.

Nothing Good
Martin Luther
Ryan Gosling

I just sort of feel like John Hughes movies are perfect, but they're missing violence. If they just had some violence, they'd be perfect.

Movies
Ryan Gosling
Giancarlo Esposito

I'm not someone who is a fan of a lot of violence.

Giancarlo Esposito
Joseph Addison

Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies.

Justice
Joseph Addison
Pele

In 1962, my injury wasn't because of violence; I just kicked the ball and it happened. And that was OK because Brazil won; I didn't have any difficulty in accepting that. I still got a medal because I'd played two games.

Pele
Dick Van Dyke

A lot of violence, a lot of gore in it, and I just didn't want to do that kind of thing.

Dick Van Dyke
Elie Wiesel

When language fails, violence becomes a language; I never had that feeling.

Feelings Language
Elie Wiesel
Paul Walker

I'm not affected by violence the way some people are. I don't know why, but I enjoy that intensity.

People
Paul Walker
Toni Morrison

Black people are victims of an enormous amount of violence. None of those things can take place without the complicity of the people who run the schools and the city.

People
Toni Morrison
Ilhan Omar

I was a teenager when 9/11 happened. And I really was uncomfortable with many members of our community feeling like they had to strip themselves of their identity in order to mitigate the violence and the fears that they were feeling.

Community Feelings
Ilhan Omar
Mark Ruffalo

The problem to me is violence. It's not cool to kill somebody or hurt people.

Cool People
Mark Ruffalo
Chloe Grace Moretz

I'm not up for violence, just for fun.

Fun
Chloe Grace Moretz
Bill Maher

Maybe every other American movie shouldn't be based on a comic book. Other countries will think Americans live in an infantile fantasy land where reality is whatever we say it is and every problem can be solved with violence.

Reality
Bill Maher
Sonia Sotomayor

No matter how liberal I am, I'm still outraged by crimes of violence. Regardless of whether I can sympathize with the causes that lead these individuals to do these crimes, the effects are outrageous.

Sonia Sotomayor
Noam Chomsky

You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.

Noam Chomsky
Elie Wiesel

Language failed me very often, but then, the substitute for me was silence, but not violence.

Silence Language
Elie Wiesel
Abraham Lincoln

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.

Work
Abraham Lincoln
Gloria Steinem

From pacifist to terrorist, each person condemns violence - and then adds one cherished case in which it may be justified.

Gloria Steinem
George Washington

War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.

Wars
George Washington
Denis Villeneuve

When I use violence in a movie, it's just to express the power, the impact of it.

Power
Denis Villeneuve
Virginia Woolf

Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?

Heart
Virginia Woolf
Mahatma Gandhi

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Poverty
Mahatma Gandhi
Mark Ruffalo

As we're bombarded with the imagery that we are and now, post 9-11, it's hard not to get hardened by the world and the amount of violence that's allowed to be shown to kids these days.

World
Mark Ruffalo
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Almost half of the population of the world lives in rural regions and mostly in a state of poverty. Such inequalities in human development have been one of the primary reasons for unrest and, in some parts of the world, even violence.

Poverty World
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Daniel Craig

There's more than one way to sense violence.

Daniel Craig
Anurag Kashyap

In 'Gangs of Wasseypur,' I wanted to take violence forward and play it up.

Play
Anurag Kashyap
Mark Ruffalo

We'll engage in pretty extreme violence in the world but, you know, the one thing that comes to humans as easily as eating or breathing or sleeping, is sex.

World
Mark Ruffalo
David Harbour

One of the things I've been interested in my whole career is exploring masculinity and what it means to be a man. The sensitivity of a man, but also the violence and power that goes along with it.

Power Things
David Harbour
Lao Tzu

Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.

Lao Tzu
Salma Hayek

Every woman who thinks she is the only victim of violence has to know that there are many more.

Salma Hayek
Donald Trump

As your president, I will do everything in my power to protect our LGBTQ citizens from the violence and oppression of a hateful foreign ideology.

Power
Donald Trump

The Gross National Product includes the destruction of the redwoods and the death of Lake Superior. It grows with the production of napalm and missiles and nuclear warheads... It includes... the broadcasting of television programs which glorify violence to sell goods to our children.

Death Children
Robert Kennedy
Martin Scorsese

Some of my films are known for the depiction of violence. I don't have anything to prove with that any more.

Martin Scorsese
Gloria Steinem

I'm not saying that women leaders would eliminate violence. We are not more moral than men; we are only uncorrupted by power so far. When we do acquire power, we might turn out to have an equal impulse toward aggression.

Power Women
Gloria Steinem
Chuck Palahniuk

The only thing I shy away from is non-consensual violence. I can't write a story where someone is a simple victim because it's boring.

Chuck Palahniuk
Sigmund Freud

A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.

Sigmund Freud
Gavin McInnes

The Right isn't violent; the Left is. By allowing these sociopaths to shut down free speech with violence, you are all but demanding a war.

Wars
Gavin McInnes
Muhammad Ali

I'm just hoping that people understand that Islam is peace and not violence.

Peace People Islam
Muhammad Ali

The vast majority of murdered whites are murdered by other whites. That's why there's no national outrage when a white person is killed by a black person: it's not evidence of some underlying black violence problem directed against white people.

People
Ben Shapiro
Vanessa Hudgens

Violence has been a part of films since the beginning of time. It's been a form of entertainment.

Time Entertainment
Vanessa Hudgens
Stellan Skarsgard

I don't know - personally, I don't watch many films where the violence itself is the main entertainment, because I find them boring.

Entertainment
Stellan Skarsgard
Alice Walker

Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.

Writing
Alice Walker

As a tactic, violence is absurd. No one can compete with the Government in violence, and the resort to violence, which will surely fail, will simply frighten and alienate some who can be reached, and will further encourage the ideologists and administrators of forceful repression.

Government
Noam Chomsky
Billy Graham

Auschwitz stands as a tragic reminder of the terrible potential man has for violence and inhumanity.

Possible
Billy Graham

The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.

Power Control
Robert Frost
Elie Wiesel

I never felt any attraction towards violence. I never tried to express myself through violence. Violence is a language.

Language
Elie Wiesel
Narendra Modi

Peace can only thrive when the climate is right. We remain open to bilateral dialogue with Pakistan on all outstanding issues in an environment free from terrorism and violence.

Peace
Narendra Modi
Viggo Mortensen

I like a twisted sense of humour. On 'A History of Violence,' David Cronenberg and I would be doing the grimmest scenes and laugh a lot.

History
Viggo Mortensen
Mahatma Gandhi

Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.

Spirit Growth
Mahatma Gandhi
Alec Baldwin

My brothers were funny, and there was a lot of shtick and comedy and nastiness and violence and fighting and sports.

Funny Sports Fighting
Alec Baldwin
George Michael

I was brought up when media still kept totally away from violence when it came to children. I don't think it would have made me scared of violence, but I find it repulsive.

Media Children
George Michael
Barack Obama

Of course, violence will not end with our combat mission. Extremists will continue to set off bombs, attack Iraqi civilians and try to spark sectarian strife. But ultimately, these terrorists will fail to achieve their goals.

Goals
Barack Obama
Albert Camus

Violence is both unavoidable and unjustifiable.

Albert Camus
Ronda Rousey

I'm very anti-domestic violence.

Ronda Rousey