Violence Quotes

No kids should see that kind of violence where Batman is killing as many people as the bad guys.

People are disturbed enough by serial killers, but the whole notion of female violence, particularly maternal violence - the idea of mothers who kill - really unnerves people.

I would say I'm pretty much the exact same as the stereotypical American kid. I mean I'm really lazy, I play a lot of video games, I like girls. I like, you know, the violence and action type thing.

I cannot speak adequately, especially considering my race and my privilege, to the violence of the NYPD or the police in racial terms. That is something that I cannot speak adequately to.

In non-violence the cause has to be just and clear as well as the means.

When I'm describing wartime activities or violence I don't want to be too ornate, to prettify the picture. Once we trace them to the present, the prose becomes denser.

For what are the triumphs of war, planned by ambition, executed by violence, and consummated by devastation? The means are the sacrifice of many, the end, the bloated aggrandizement of the few.

Even before the election I was saying that the rhetoric used by Trump was going to cause violence before and after the election. That was easy to predict.

When we empower Iran, then get ready for more unrest and more murder and more violence in the Middle East.

Islam does not preach hatred and violence and destruction.

The anti-gun-violence movement was essentially asleep from 1994 to 2012, and during that time, the gun lobby built up enormous political power.

Learn how to cook. Read books that will educate you. Get an education. Get a career. And support yourself. And live in a section of town that isn't conducive to violence.

It's important for someone who's dealt with violence to be able to talk to someone, no matter who it is. So I'm vocal about how I feel. That's how I've worked through a lot of my problems.

I often close my eyes because I can't tolerate violence.

We've got a lot of violence in the world right now, a lot of upheaval in America with this election coming up, and a lot of unrest will come up from that.

We have to understand (this is another key piece) that there are some individuals who still need that drama, that experience of violence.

It's possible to disagree with someone about the ethics of non-violence without wanting to kick his face in.

The violence in the Bible is appalling.

The reason that people in the intellectual community argue that football is dangerous is because there's now a large swath of society that has no relationship to physicality or potential violence.

I think people's relationship with the concept of violence changes, and that to me might be a little more interesting.

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.

I also believe that US backing for Israeli policies of expansion of the Israeli state and oppression of the Palestinian people is the major cause of bitter division and violence in the world.

When people access the use of force for the threat of violence they have, by definition, a new political power. An unwanted political power.

The only way to address terrorism is to deal with the issues that create terrorism, to resolve them where possible, and where that's not possible to ensure that there is an alternative to violence.

I think people are propelled towards violence, and what propels them is much more interesting than the actual act of violence itself.

When you help the poorest in the world, you start to move them up an economic and social ladder, and they're not going to be moving toward violence or terrorism of the kind that we worry about.

You can't get away from violence in drama. If you do not have conflict, you do not have drama.

Terrorism is about magnifying one mediagenic act of violence into one hundred billion acts of terrorized authoritarian idiocy.

Murder, considered a crime when people commit it singly, is transformed into a virtue when they do it en masse.

Refraining from harm, not out of fear, but out of concern for others, their well-being and out of respect is non-violence.

Firstly, as a Buddhist monk, I hold that violence is not good. Secondly, I am a firm believer in the Gandian ethic of passive resistance. And thirdly, in reality, violence is not our strength.

Humanity happy, I get benefit. Humanity in state of trouble, or violence, I cannot escape from that.

I could justify violence only in this extreme case, to save the last living knowledge of Buddhism itself.

The antidote to hatred in the heart, the source of violence, is tolerance.

Although under particular circumstances, the violence method - any method - can be justified, nevertheless once you commit violence, then counterviolence will be returned.

We don't need to respond with desperate violence.

Government is violence masquerading as answers to strangers' problems using other peoples' money.

It's odd how violence and humor so often go together, isn't it?

All violence flows from the same source ... the need for power. Power is the only true morality ... the only deathless god, and the appetite for violence is its only commandment.

You treat violence as an aberration ... when in truth it is the norm. It is the very essence of the human condition.

The weapons-violence hypothesis is far too simplistic a basis on which to base sound public policy.

I think I am a very kind person. I think I'm joyful, but I could be kinder and I could be more joyful. I do believe peace is a state of grace, and not the absence of violence.

There are no free and democratic and wealthy countries in the world that have US rate of gun violence. We have to worry about loners and alienated people. We have to do better on mental health.

Government has a monopoly on the legal use of force and violence.

What is debt anyway? A debt is just the perversion of a promise. It is a promise corrupted by both math and violence.

When you take away the violence from the market, even it starts shifting into something else - not exactly paradise, but it doesn't become the market in the way we see it now.

The cruelty, war and violence, this is evil, wrong and dark and that's what we should hide from the children, not a human body!

There has, indeed, been very substantial progress in Iraq over the past year - violence is down by 80 percent, civilian deaths by about the same, and so on.

The 'terrorist' behavior of petitioners is remarkably similar to the conspiracy of violence and intimidation carried out by the Ku Klux Klan.

I have to admit that when I watch a movie in which there is no moral context for the violence - I find that offensive. I think that's potentially damaging to society.