Violence Quotes

If ambitious fantasies make people blush, and sexual fantasies make people blush and feel guilty, fantasies of violence and death may make people blush and feel guilty-and frightened too.

Violence and nonviolence are, after all, two different forms of theater. They both depend and thrive on the response of an audience.

It's sad, but a relief as well, to know that two things so closely bound together can separate with so little violence.

The idea that all violence in movies is okay simply because it happens is bull. Directors and writers have a responsibility.

Health systems usually deal with the consequences of violence. We normally, in the health system, don't have the tools to prevent it, because these require policy interventions in every arena.

People need to understand that hip-hop that has gun talk is just for entertainment; similar to if you were watching a movie. Film schools don't have anything against movies with violence.

When a rap song glorifies violence, death and sadness and loss is inflicted because of the violence.

When violence becomes imbedded in a region, then this affects everything. It affects your dreams, your fantasies and relationships, and your religion becomes violent, too.

Many entire nations are marginalised by the more powerful nations. That is causing imbalance, violence and terror. Women must do their best to introduce another perspective.

I think it's very important what young people see in pictures or on TV or in magazines. Drugs, violence, anorexia. All of the things that I absolutely do not reference in my photos.

There's just so much lazy violence directed at women. But beyond that, lazy violence directed at humans generally. Just lazy violence.

I have never been attracted to any kind of violence.

I wouldn't be a part of anything that had acts of violence toward children. I don't think I would do a horror film, either. That just doesn't sit well on my soul.

It's so weird that I play this woman who pretty much deals with violence on a daily basis, and I'm such a wimp in who I am.

When I first started out I actually was trying to use music to promote feminist ideas and at certain points, anti-violence against women and girls-type causes I was involved in.

I have come to think of violence as a self-perpetuating mania of the power of the aggressive over those less strong.

There's more violence in one football game than there is in an entire hockey season, and nobody ever talks about that.

If you like capitalism, you will positively love depressions, because they are one and the same, like manic-depressives and their cycles, like spouse-abusers and their storms of violence.

I feel like I barely survived Django (Unchained) emotionally - the violence, hearing the N-word every day. It cost me a lot psychologically, but it was worth it to tell that story.

I'm a strong person, but I'd never resort to violence.

If one does not like the crime, cruelty, injustice and violence of this society, he CAN do something about it.

The more weapons of violence, the more misery to mankind. The triumph of violence ends in a festival of mourning.

That's a very, very touchy subject, domestic violence. I think women don't realize is it's something that's very prevalent. It goes on, on a daily basis.

The poet resists the pressures of reality, including the pressures of violence, in making, in forming, the poem. The tension is in the resistance - the poem is an act of resistance.

It was not the violence of our enemies [in World War I] that would undo us, I thought, but our own spiritual weakness, the shallowness of our convictions.

I am obliged to renounce violence, and abstain from it altogether.

Art should cause violence to be set aside and it is only art that can accomplish this.

I don't think that movies are too violent. But I do think that popcorn is too expensive, and this can often lead to violence.

The maternal impulse in animals to protect their young - that kind of instinct and subsequent violence is quite beautiful. Mythic even.

I didn't meddle. If I did meddle there wouldn't be all this violence. All this horrible sexism in games.

Kids shouldn't see all the violence they do these days. But the industry just doesn't care.

Fortune blinds men when she does not wish them to withstand the violence of her onslaughts.

Pregnant women are more likely to die from homicide by domestic violence than any other cause of death.

Caroline says as she gets up from the floor, you can hit me all you want to, but I don't love you anymore.

The currents rage so deep upon us, this is the age of video violence.

To help break the cycle of domestic violence, we must allow survivors to take time off from work without fear of losing their job, to go to court, to see a doctor or to find a safe place to live.

... the unnatural ways we substitute for the natural prove not enough and soon there must be more and more unnaturalness, more and more violence.

I've had horror movies thrown at me and I just don't want to do any because violence isn't really good for society.

I think it is obvious that people repeat acts that are shown on the television or the screen and I wouldn't want to inspire any violence on anyone.

I don't ever believe in violence as a kind of medicine.

Non-violence does not signify that man must not fight against the enemy, and by enemy is meant the evil which men do, not the human beings themselves.

The rishis, who discovered the law of nonviolence in the midst of violence, were greater geniuses than Newton.

A civilization based on nonviolence must be different from that organized for violence.

The votaries of nonviolence cannot harbour violence even in thought, let alone the question of doing it.

An unjust law in itself is an act of violence.

Violence always thrived on counter violence.

I isolate this non-co-operation from Sinn Feinism, for it is so conceived as to be incapable of being offered side by side with violence.

If it is by force that we wish to achieve Swaraj, let us drop nonviolence and offer such violence as we may.

Democracy and violence can ill go together.

It is my conviction that nothing enduring can be built on violence. The only safe way to overcome an enemy is to make of that enemy a friend.