No Violence Quotes

I don't think I will do a Mafia character again. I want to get away from the violence a little bit, because it is starting to bother me personally.

You must understand that violence in a movie is only a tool. If it's used badly, it will be horrible. If it's used correctly, it can be very interesting. But, essentially, it's just a tool.

I'm very careful about how I portray violence in my films. I do believe that violence, especially violent video games, are not a good thing for young kids.

During the first suffragist wave in this nation, women were possessions, like a table or a chair. So violence toward them was quite condoned. The attitude has diminished, but it's still there.

So many people seem to prefer my silver-screenings of movie stars to the rest of my work. It must be the subject matter that attracts them, because my death and violence paintings are just as good.

Friends that I value most are people who would essentially use physical violence against me at a time when I seem to be teetering on the edge.

Violence does even justice unjustly.

Until we eliminate the mentality of violence, we will not find the harmony within ourselves we're looking for.

My door will always be open to those who genuinely renounce violence and seek peaceful accommodation into our nascent democracy.

I distrust the incommunicable; it is the source of all violence

Nonviolence is fine as long as it works.

The shackles and the chains, the violence and aggression, the pettiness and scorn, the jealousy and hatred, the tempest and discord.

Violence is a tool of the ignorant.

All beings tremble before violence. All love life. All fear death. See yourself in others. Then whom can you hurt? What harm can you do?

Sanitised violence in movies has been accepted for years. What seems to upset everybody now is the showing of the consequences of violence.

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

Everybody against me. Why? Why me? I have not brought violence to you. I have not brought Thug Life to America. I didn't create Thug Life. I diagnosed it.

Look at any country that's plagued with poverty, disease or violence; the antidote is girls. Girls are the antibodies to many of society's ills.

I never want anyone to be sitting where I'm sitting and to have lost their son, because I can never get Luke back.

In the seed and the soil, we find the answers to every one of the crises we face. The crises of violence and war. The crises of hunger and disease. The crisis of the destruction of democracy.

The State practices "violence," the individual must not do so. The state's behavior is violence, and it calls its violence "law"; that of the individual, "crime".

Let's start calling family violence 'terrorism' and then maybe we will start to see that investment of funding applied to where it needs to be.

God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it.

My experiences with violence in schools still echo throughout my life but standing to face the problem has helped me in immeasurable ways.

Violence isn't the only answer, but it is the final answer.

Revolt, it will be said, implies violence; but this is an outmoded, an incompetent conception of revolt. The most effective form of revolt in this violent world we live in is non-violence.

It is bad for the soul to know itself a coward, it is apt to take refuge in mere wordy violence.

We are going to have to do something about all this violence, or people are going to keep buying tickets.

We talk about how many women were raped last year, not about how many men raped women.

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Violence is spiritual junk food, and boredom is spiritual anorexia.

Armageddon is not around the corner. This is only what the people of violence want us to believe. The complexity and diversity of the world is the hope for the future.

Physical aggression by a man toward his partner is abuse, even if it happens only once.

True ahimsa lay in running into the mouth of himsa.

I really believe in non-violence, but I also believe in a short of resistance that has to be respectful.

Gentleness succeeds better than violence.

We live, I am trying to say, in an epidemic of male violence against women.

It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature.

Violence is my last option.

Not only do most people accept violence if it is perpetuated by legitimate authority, they also regard violence against certain kinds of people as inherently legitimate, no matter who commits it.

If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.

Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all.

The path of violence has not yielded anything. Shed guns and adopt the path of peace, unity, goodwill and brotherhood.

Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.

Though there is growing division among the Ukrainian military ranks as to loyalty in this revolution, the possibility of violence looms over the entire situation.

there is enough treachery , hatred violence absurdity in the average human being to supply any given army on any given day

The plan was always to come to America, because Pakistan's a scary place. They don't have religious freedom. It's very poor, and there's a lot of violence and corruption.

I'm very disturbed by violence against women when it is violence.

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

So instead of talking about theoretical ways of ending the war and violence, I say that we have to get rid of the individual asholes in each office and situation.