Violence Quotes

Disapproving and boycotting is the Quranic thing to do, whereas violence and threats are not.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

No violent extreme endures.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Military dictatorship is born from the power of the gun, and so it undermines the concept of the rule of law and gives birth to a culture of might, a culture of weapons, violence and intolerance.

I am much more open about categories of gender, and my feminism has been about women's safety from violence, increased literacy, decreased poverty and more equality.

The violent subjugation of the Palestinians, Iraqis, and Afghans will only ensure that those who oppose us will increasingly speak to us in the language we speak to them—violence.

The most Heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together.

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

I think that it's easy to target a heavy metal band for inciting violence or making kids turn to a cult than it is to actually look at real problems in the real world.

War should we waged without love of violence, cruelty, or enmity.

The blade itself incites to deeds of violence.

The violence in society, I'm afraid, is perpetrated by the people at the top.

The jihadists ideology cannot be wiped out with force much less killed. You know, unless we understand the root causes of this, we're going to perpetuate this violence over and over again.

Everything done by the state is ultimately done by means of aggression, which is to say violence or the threat of violence against the innocent.

What we want is to make sure that people don't go through what I'm going through ... and we have to understand that even since Luke's death, children have been killed.

A lot of women do a lot of harm because they don't control their emotions. But in terms of violence, men seem to have a monopoly

There is no religion in fact that I know that encourages or propagates violence in that its adherents should carry out.

Any time you do physical stuff, violence, it is controlled. It's a little bit like you block the move.

A lot of people think that domestic violence is if someone hits, kicks, [or] punches you.

The violence and sexuality on TV today is exhilarating. You can explore every aspect of society. People's sexual orientations, the violence that goes within that... there are no holds barred.

Belief in non-violence is based on the assumption that human nature in the essence is one and therefore unfailingly responds to the advances of love.

I did not enjoy the violence of boxing so much as the science of it.

Violence is an admission that one's ideas and goals cannot prevail on their own merits.

It's a thing of violence, to whom death would be a merciful release.

Seeing the similarity to oneself, one should not use violence or have it used.

I have no secret methods. I know no diplomacy save that of truth. I have no weapon but non-violence.

Where violence reigns, reason is weak.

We must choose between the violence of adults and the smiles of children.

Courtesy towards opponents and eagerness to understand their view-point is the ABC of non-violence.

I think violence has always been popular, way before movies started being made.

Non -violence is infinitely superior to violence , forgiveness is more manly than punishment. Forgiveness is the ornament.

The devastation of neoliberalism is so multi-fold, whether it's violence against women or desperate economic inequality or the destruction of the planet.

This is what it means to be a slave; to be abused and bear it; compelled by violence to suffer wrong.

Violence is interesting. This is a great obstacle to world peace and also to more thoughtful television programming.

Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves the insects are eating each other; violence is a part of life.

Saving Private Ryan was probably the illest, sickest movie I've ever watched, and I didn't see anybody criticizing that one for violence.

I do not regard killing or assassination or terrorism as good in any circumstances whatsoever.