Violence Quotes

Please be peaceful. We believe in law and order. We are not advocating violence, I want you to love your enemies... for what we are doing is right, what we are doing is just -- and God is with us.

I do not like violence.

Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation.

My view is when you use violence on your people, that never ends well.

We must not believe the Evil One when he tells us that there is nothing we can do in the face of violence, injustice and sin.

Film seems to be a medium designed for betrayal and violence.

Let us pray for the many Christians in the world who still suffer persecution and violence. May God grant them the courage of fidelity.

There's more danger in the violence you don't face.

To imitate the hatred and violence of tyrants and murderers is the best way to take their place.

The traits of our sexual culture are still speechlessness, loneliness, violence and not enough desire and love.

As a child I perceived violence as a sort of natural law. In the totalitarian Soviet Union, oppression held everything together. It was the sinister energy of our country.

The efforts of Black Lives Matter to bring attention to the all-too-frequent instances of unjustified violence being used by policemen may not be paying off as quickly as some might hope.

Victory Over Violence is an organization that was created to help fund shelters for women and children.

Laws against things like drugs are inhumane, and create an inhumane society and inhumane law enforcement. I know whats causing violence in America - the damn drug laws.

Violence is anything that denies human integrity, and leads to hopelessness and helplessness.

We have to tackle the plague of gun violence.

I'm telling Palestinians don't use violence. We're going to use the civilized means of international law to achieve our goals, our independence, our freedom.

Obsession with a consumerist lifestyle, above all when few people are capable of maintaining it, can only lead to violence and mutual destruction.

It's a bad thing that happens to women, but when you look at that term 'violence against women,' nobody is doing it to them. It just happens to them. Men aren't even a part of it.

I don't ever want anyone to hear my music and look at it as just gratuitous violence, or hustling and money-getting - I try to tell the perspective of the woman, the man, the mind, why.

Spaghetti Westerns are really brutal and operatic with a surreal quality to the violence.

You got two black folk representing us through the Sixties. One of them was for violence, one was against it, and they both are dead.

No form of violence can ever be excused in a society that wishes to call itself decent

I'm not someone who ever enjoys violence against women or children.

I felt sometimes too responsible as an actor because people promote violence or weird things that I don't want to be part of.

I have always felt that violence was the last refuge of the incompetent, and empty threats the last sanctuary of the terminally inept.

There are many women in their late teens and early twenties who have either experienced violence in a relationship or have witnessed it at home in their childhood.

The problem with hatred and violence is that they intensity the fears of the white majority, and leave them less ashamed of their prejudices toward Negroes.

The use of violence in movies is a subject that's worth addressing. I'm not standing on a soapbox or wagging a finger, but I'm interested in those subjects for sure.

But transitions from the politics of violence to democratic compromise are always messy.

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

I have not seen anyone assume that all the citizens of New York are guilty of murder, violence, robbery, perjury, or writing proprietary software.

Feeling sympathy and searching for explanations isn't the same as believing that the violence is justified.

Violence is never the answer but sometimes, like with cockroaches, it is the only possible response.

The right things to do are those that keep our violence in abeyance; the wrong things are those that bring it to the fore.

It fills me with dismay sometimes when you look at the scripts that do come to you that are primarily focused on violence. There are so many other things to play around with.

No violent extreme endures.

When you think about going back to the States you start to become more aware of the violence there and how we pollute the Earth more than the New Zealanders.

Girls often feel very powerless in their lives and their families, and they kind of mimic the male violence as a way to try and get some of that male power that they see lacking in their own lives.

There is a pervasive form of contemporary violence to which the idealist fighting for peace by nonviolent methods most easily succumbs; activism and overwork.

The hardest animal was the vulture. But the horses were great, the dog was great [in Valley of Violence]. It was really easy.

The golden beams of truth and the silken cords of love, twisted together, will draw men on with a sweet violence, whether they will or not.

I do have an intense respect for pacifists, because I believe that ultimately, if we are to have a truly humanistic as well as libertarian society, violence will have to be banished on this planet.

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

Gun violence is not something that appears just in a bad neighborhood or in another part of the world. It appears right here, right outside your door.

You either approve of violence or you don't, and nothing on earth is more violent or extreme than the meat industry.

There is a subconscious way of taking violence as a way of expression, as a normality, and it has a lot of effects in the youth in the way they absorb education and what they hope to get out of life.

Every creative act is an act of hypocrisy and violence. You may have to think about it for a while, but I am sure you can discover your own.

Crowds of people moved through the streets with a dream-like violence.

I've been trying to get away from physical violence; it's too easy; it doesn't satisfy me artistically to work with it. Dramatic violence is much more interesting, but it's much more difficult.