Violence Quotes

The world today is so full of violence, obscenity, war, the failure of political systems. I try to make movies that make people a bit more confident. But that doesn't mean being sugary.

When I was a kid, my mother's parenting style teetered between benign neglect and intense bouts of violence.

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

We really are creatures of a violent world, biologically speaking - watching violence and learning about it is one of our cognitive drives.

Birth is violent, and out of that violence is our only chance of rebirth.

I don't like gratuitous violence. I don't like the 'Saw' movies. I don't like the 'Hostel' movies. I don't like anything that is violence for violence's sake.

Well before September 11, it was understood that with modern technology, the rich and powerful will lose their near monopoly of the means of violence and can expect to suffer atrocities on home soil.

Science, as opposed to technology, does violence to common sense.

Technology, ideology, and social and cultural changes periodically throw out new forms of violence for humanity to contend with.

Poverty does not cause violence and terrorism. Lack of education does not cause terrorism.

One effect of an individualistic culture that's poor at instilling mutual respect is that people jump more quickly to anger or violence.

Fear generates anger, and fear generates violence, and those were part of what built the Saudi state.

Violence is not more efficient than non-violence.

Mental violence is as bad as physical violence. You don't see that very often in movies, so it was a good subject to tackle.

My random acts of violence weren't random. They were premeditated.

We need to do something about gun violence in America. But every time one of these things happen, we say the same thing, and then we don't seem to be able to do anything. And that needs to change.

So we have the toughest laws, and you have tremendous gun violence.

Women initiate most domestic violence.

Domestic violence isn't funny, especially if you live together.

I don't like violence in movies, I'm not a kind of Tarantino fan. But sometimes it's necessary.

I think violence in movies, for it to work, you have to use it smartly. People get numb very fast. If you have too much violence in the beginning, it gets to a point where you don't feel it.

It seems that the only gun violence some leftists approve of is gun violence aimed at cops and other groups they see as oppressive or racist.

Violence against women is clearly not solved, not at all solved, and the reasons for it, which are controlling women's bodies in order to control reproduction, are definitely not solved.

We need to take violence against women seriously. It is the biggest indicator of whether a country is violent inside itself, and whether it will be militarily violent against another country.

Violence against women is as American as apple pie. I know, not only as a legislator, but from personal experience.

We have to tackle the plague of gun violence, which is a big contributor to a lot of the problems that we're seeing today.

Heaven, the seat of bliss, Brooks not the works of violence and war.

I was shocked [of Sarah Palin ], because beating up, you know, your girlfriend, your spouse, or acts of violence aren't one of the core symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder.

The most brutal form of domestic violence is the violence against unborn children, and this particular bill would prohibit abortions after the fetus feels pain, which is 20 weeks and older.

There is a problem here in America when it comes to police violence and gun violence, that I believe is being ignored by not giving the proper resources to communities.

The attention of the media is only caught by acts of violence... so I must perform this act of violence against myself.

Physical violence is the basis of authority.

I represent an affluent district, but when I worked to form my county's first battered-women's shelter, some nights there were no beds left. Violence against women crosses all economic lines.

If we know how much passive violence we perpetrate against one another, we will understand why there is so much physical violence plaguing societies and the world.

It is no non-violence if we merely love those that love us. It is non-violence only when we love those that hate us.

What senseless violence does is to prolong the lease of life of the British or foreign rule.

The truth is that cowardice itself is violence of a subtle type and therefore dangerous and far more difficult to eradicate than the habit of physical violence.

Random violence is incredibly infectious

There's no such thing as "just a domestic".

Let no one consider themselves to be the 'armour' of God while planning and carrying out acts of violence and oppression!

I would never condone violence against women in any form, and for all of those I offended, I am sincerely sorry.

Bullys are the small group who should perish not by voilence, but by non violence, words not fists, thats the awnser to our problem.

When you see violence in movies in general, it's very quick and painless, which isn't what it's like.

Violence breeds violence. Acts of violence committed in "justice" or in affirmation of "rights" or in defense of "peace" do not end violence. They prepare and justify its continuation.

No, General. I'm not your subordinate. And what I'm coming dangerously close to is violence. -General Wedge Antilles

Obama repeatedly has condemned Hamas as a terrorist organization that should be isolated until it renounces violence and recognizes Israel.

But, I don't know, the violence, I can't even talk about. We don't do a lot of violent shows. When I started in television, breaking a pencil was a violent act.

For anybody who's ever been on the other end of, like, racial violence logic is not something that can be used.

[Uniting workers should not] lead to a war upon property, or the owners of property.

The violence and injustice of the rulers of mankind is an ancient evil, for which, I am afraid, the nature of human affairs can scarce admit a remedy.