Violence Quotes

We must all take care to resist the tendency to focus too much attention on the role that criminals and prior offenders play in gun violence.

I hate violence, and I didn't plan to write horror; it just poured out of me.

Violence is what people do when they run out of good ideas.

If we go as far as we can into the darkness, regardless of the consequences, I believe a midnight truth will free us from our bondage to violence and bring us to the light of peace.

Actual violence has no attraction for me at all.

The refugees flee to protect their families from violence; the Europeans, on the other hand, fear for their jobs that they need to feed their families.

Some people say, therefore, that violence and war are inevitable. I say rubbish: Our brains are fully capable of controlling instinctive behavior.

Violence is a part of the world and life, and you shouldnt have to take it out of stories.

Eliminating wickedness is a different project from eliminating violence. Eliminating violence - the destruction associated with wickedness - is a practical program that I'm very willing to pursue.

What does it matter if, by chance, a little vile blood be spilled?

There’s less violence in my world compared to yours,” she insisted. Spade sighed. “No, darling. There are only different reasons for it.

Silence creates it's own violence.

People have to carry on because if you don't the violence wins. We need to keep incentivising our youths to stop this vicious cycle.

I am personally not advocating violence. I am simply saying that it is a morally acceptable tactic and it may be useful in the struggle for animal liberation. I don't know.

I think that violence and nonviolence are not moral principles, they’re tactics.

You can justify, from a political standpoint, any type of violence you want to use.

Conflict exists only when there are two opposing things: fear and non-fear, violence and non-violence.

A man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind.

I was exposed to violence while I was still in the womb - my father punched my mother in the stomach while she was pregnant with me.

I think America is going to have to think through whether it wants to uplift the political dialogue or advance an approach that divides and, frankly, can lead to violence.

The foundation of my beliefs is the same as it was when I was 10. Non-violence.

The internet has made possible a frightening practice of threats and intimidation - threats of unspeakable violence and death.

We have to change the culture of mass violence we have.

The best genius is that which absorbs and assimilates everything without doing the least violence to its fundamental destiny.

Every decided colour does a certain violence to the eye, and forces the organ to opposition.

The power to prevent violence is a power that no police force seems to have anywhere in the United States.

Violence against judges and threats of violence against Judges is on the rise and it is no laughing matter. When leaders attempt to rationalize this violence, it only makes the problem worse.

So the more things remained the same, the more they changed after all. Nothing endures. Not love, not a tree, not even a death by violence.

[While] the primary responsibility, as we all acknowledge, (falls) with the family, ... Our homes, our families, our children's minds are being flooded by a tide of violence.

I've written films that are violent. I'm not big on sitting and watching violence.

A kind of second childhood falls on so many men. They trade their violence for the promise of a small increase of life span. In effect, the head of the house becomes the youngest child.

We all come from different levels, and I think every human has their own relationship to violence, athletic violence and fighting.

The Rolling Stones are violence. Their music penetrates the raw nerve endings of their listeners and finds its way into the groove marked 'release of frustration.'

Boxing is strange to watch. It's impossible to take your eyes off of it. Part of our brains like to watch violence. At the same time, it's horrifying to watch two men try to knock each other out.

His experience and training should have taught him that families are the cauldrons in which violence is brewed. (144)

I would never ever condone any violence of any kind. But in the theater of fiction, blood is delightful.

Zealots: Wild eyed persons afflicted with incurable certainty about the workings of the world, a certainty that can lead to violence when the world doesn't fit.

Peace needs and takes time, it needs and takes caution, it needs and takes patience after 30 years of terrorism and violence.

It is clear that no one will achieve any kind of objective through the force of violence, and that no one will make Spaniards yield to threats of guns, whoever may be holding them

How can I make a movie about the violence of the police if the police aren't going to let me film it?

No wonder we have a lot of violence in Rio: the corrupt and violent policemen meet the violent criminals in the streets. What else is going to happen?

It seems disingenuous to ask a writer why she, or he, is writing about a violent subject when the world and history are filled with violence.

When people say there is too much violence in my books, what they are saying is there is too much reality in life.

The thing about secrets is they keep you in a prison. Once you share, WHOOSH, there is a release.

I was perhaps one of the few people that were not part of [Pablo Escobar] group of yes-men because I was not a direct beneficiary of the violence that his actions generated.

I argued constantly with my father [Pablo Escobar] because I never liked all the violence that he created.

I think one has to be aware that a change needs to be made to improve one's life and then there will always be alternatives and choices that can lead you away from a life of violence.

Gun-related violence and murders are concentrated among blacks and Latinos in big cities.

Apparently, the heart of opposition to new gun regulations is in the white community. Yet white people face far less daily violence with guns.

You know, violence, I think, knocks on everyone's door.