Violence Quotes

Where men come to and women come together most intimately in sexuality in the home has become suffused with violence.

I think if we could raise one generation of kids without violence and shaming, we don't know what might be possible.

The violence is the violence. I understand that we're sometimes squeamish about it, but I think that strength needs to be called on once in awhile, and sometimes that's the only thing that will work.

I did the David Cronenberg film, A History of Violence, with Viggo Mortensen and I played a real sociopath. For the next seven years, I played the psycho-of-the-week.

The Bible tells us, for instance, that there is going to be a cashless society. The Bible tells us that there is going to be global instability and excessive violence in the End Times.

The ban on assault weapons has decreased gun violence in Baltimore not one iota. That's because few, if any, of the shootings were done with assault weapons.

Somebody said to me, in a very well-meaning way, at a screening, "We love the movie but it's too violent. If you tone down the violence you could reach a great audience of kids.".

I certainly don't think Donald Trump suggesting violence in any way.

Violence can always destroy power; out of the barrel of a gun grows the most effective command, resulting in the most instant and perfect obedience. What never can grow out of it is power.

the fateful equating of power with violence, of the political with government, and of government with a necessary evil has begun.

The extreme form of power is All against One, the extreme form of violence is One against All.

In fact I didn't think about fear much at the time. I felt angry about everything that was happening around me: the violence of the dictatorship and the violence of society.

But I can't bear it when somebody who some man made a pass at - to call that violence seems to me absurd and insulting to women who've really met violence, who've been raped or bashed.

The American formal position has been that we oppose violence by governments against their people. That principle should not be abandoned.

They who are continually shocked by slavery have some right to be shocked by the violent death of the slaveholder, but no others.Such will be more shocked by his life than by his death.

The violence of love is as much to be dreaded as that of hate.

There is the emergence of a militarized society that now organizes itself for the production of violence. A society in which the range of acceptable opinion inevitably shrinks.

Violence now becomes the only tool by which we can actually mediate social problems that should be dealt with in very different ways.

There is a need for subjects who find intense pleasure in commodification of violence and a culture of cruelty.

I also think that one of the things we often fail to realize is that that kind of violence is now legitimated in multiple public spheres.

Certainly I think the state is more than willing to not only attempt to change the consciousness of people, but to employ violence in ways that make people quite fearful.

We need to remember that education can be both a basis for critical thought and a site for repression, which destroys thinking and leads to violence.

Once ignorance is weaponized, violence seems to be a tragic inevitability.

Violence comes in many forms and can be particularly disturbing when confronted in an educational setting if handled dismissively or in ways that blame victims.

The architecture of war and violence is now matched by a barrage of goods parading as fashion.

As the welfare state is hollowed out, a culture of compassion is replaced by a culture of violence, cruelty and disposability.

Could it be that violence is as much a part of the American identity as the Constitution, and a vital component to its economic stability?

My whole access into culture was violent. Violence is something I understand. Don't like it, don't condone it, but I sure understand where it comes from.

I was raised in Washington, DC, very violent place. I grew up with violence. My introduction to music was violent. The years I've spent on tours, some of that was extremely violent.

I see violence in myself; I've done some pretty violent things in my lifetime and I've been around some pretty severe violence all the way up to homicide.

Through baseball we channel boys desire for exercise and let off their explosive violence without letting them get into the police court.

Better be secure under one king, than exposed to violence from twenty millions of monarchs, though oneself be one of them.

Violence toward women isn't cultural; it's criminal.

I am going to ensure that LGBTQ Americans have full equality under the law and address the urgent crisis of violence against transgender women of color.

I will take on the epidemics of gun violence and campus sexual assault, so that everyone in America is safe and respected, no matter who they are, where they live, or who they love.

Refraining from violence is not a sign of weakness in one's faith but a sign that one's faith is unshakeable

There are things we can do [with violence], and we ought to do it in a bipartisan way.

If you see violence, condemn it.

What's one more meaningless act of violence on that zoo of a planet? It would be appropriate. When in Rome; burn it.

Structures can be manipulated for ill as well, especially when people are dealing with issues of power, or control, or violence.

He gave an impression of coiled power, a contained violence that if released, would explode with terrifying intensity.

I finally realized the source of your mutual attraction," Saiman said, his voice dry. "You both think violence is foreplay.

It was his eyes. When you looked into them, you saw chained violence baring teeth and claws back at you.

Abuse is the means in which violence retards love.

During the 1960s, the Shanghai of my childhood seemed a portent of the media cities of the future, dominated by advertising and mass circulation newspapers and swept by unpredictable violence.

The suburbs dream of violence.

I don't feel comfortable with violence, and I'm not sure that I film violent scenes properly, and it's something I'm reticent to do, and yet violence is sort of in all of my films.

Violence is used to portray what happens in a film. It only helps portray the actors and what they do. I think it is more about the story, when you have something to play off of.

Lawyers will always buckle under to something, whether its bribes, violence, court orders, or the weight of their own bullshit.

Violence is the most elemental truth of life. It's the central shaper of history, the ultimate determiner of whether A or B is going to get his way.