Violence Quotes

Hate is your enemy; you must defeat it! Anger is your enemy; you must defeat it! Violence is your enemy; you must defeat it! Death is your enemy; you must defeat it! Know well your real enemies!

If a man is not peaceful and non-violent, whichever religion he belongs to, he is not a man! Violence degrades man to a low-degree creature!

Yes, violence begets more violence, but historically this has been the way of the world.

Misuse of the Koran to provide legitimacy for violence is common, particularly in Europe, where terrorists tend not to be well-educated Muslims.

Women are secretaries of state and prime ministers - but people still don't expect women to be involved in violence.

My moral compass swings far to the left, but when it comes to gratuitous violence, I have trouble.

You'll see more violence in any television crime series than you will in my films Art is there to have a stimulating effect, if it earns its name. You have to be honest, that's the only thing.

Look at the violence in Pakistan and the presence of U.S. troops in Afghanistan: the more troops we put in the more violent Pakistan becomes.

Football is controlled violence, but it is violence, which people have loved to watch since the gladiatorial contests in ancient Rome.

There's no violence coming from the Occupy protesters.

Middle class jobs prevent crime and violence.

We are getting used to levels of violence, we are getting used to seeing these horrific things going on all the time. I think it's tough. It's rough.

Tortures are a dangerous invention, and seem to be a test of endurance rather than of truth.

As the father of six children, I want to know that when my wife or I drop our kids off at school they will be safe from predators, crime and violence.

Ideally, peace means the absence of violence. It is an ethical value.

There are things that can be accomplished only by violence. Physical love is unthinkable without violence.

Camera and eye are together a time machine with which the mind and human being can do the same kind of violence to time and space as dreams.

Violence has not really been an issue. Even in my wildest hopes, I wasn't trying to get violence in.

I find it really weird that sexuality is still so taboo in films and violence isn't. It really bewilders me.

I do feel that movies and music do have the power to slightly influence a person's decision. I believe that if violence is not in a person, then the film is not going to encourage them.

I will try to be non-violent one more day this morning, waking the world away in the violent day.

Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes

When it comes to the declared death of Bin Laden, Egypt is against all kinds of violence. The Egyptian government does not have a comment.

Citizens who live or work near protest sites or marches have every right to be free of violence from protesters, and they should never be subjected to destruction of property.

Truth, Peace and Non-violence form the central tenets of the 'Idea of India'!

I condemn all incidents of violence where religious minorities were targeted, no religious group can incite violence ... my government will ensure there is complete freedom of faith.

[A.J. Muste] never engaged in violence but he believed, as [Mahatma] Gandhi did - and he knew Gandhi slightly - he believed that a pacifist had to be active in the community.

I am against anybody who uses violence to make their points.

Malcolm X made it very clear that if somebody goes after you - whether it's cops or not - you have to defend yourself. But he was not an advocate for violence the way the Black Panthers were.

Taboos are always going to be interesting.Our [ with Michael Dumontier] style has its range and there is room for explicitness in violence, but not at the expense of our classy, highbrow image.

I mean I grew up in Ireland, so one would have to be consciously blinkered not to have reflected on the issue of political violence because that was the story since I was 19 years old or 20.

Where choice is set between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence ... I prefer to use arms in defense of honor rather than remain the vile witness of dishonor.

But the hard facts were that fifty years of non-violence had brought the African people nothing but more and more repressive legislation, and fewer and fewer rights.

Force is the only language the imperialists can hear, and no country became free without some sort of violence.

Hey ladies, I'm willing to do my part to end domestic violence by posting a selfie online. Some might call me a hero

To be free, first of all, is to be free from wrong views that are the foundation of all kinds of suffering and fear and violence.

there were moments in life when violence was necessary to save lives

Most screen violence is tedious.

I don't think movies are the reason why this violence exists, I think it's going to happen whether movies are there or not.

Violence is the first means and the last resort to pacify a people, and thus is something we need to continue to consider after the gunfire has ended.

We're seeing that women continue to make less money, they continue to face violence.

The threat and use of violence is stimulating nuclear proliferation along with jihadi terrorism.

My speculation is that the U.S. does not want to establish the principle that it has to defer to some higher authority before carrying out the use of violence.

Colombia has been the leading western recipient of U.S. arms and training as violence has grown through the '90s.

Violence can succeed, as Americans know well from the conquest of the national territory. But at terrible cost. It can also provoke violence in response, and often does.

The level of destruction and terror and violence carried out by the powerful states far exceeds anything that can imaginably can be done by groups that are called terrorists and subnational groups.

It's an entire industry focusing on young male viewers that want action and violence. They sell us something that isn't valid. They're selling films like a product.

People were excited by violence. What, after all, was the sexual act but a voluntarily endured assault, a momentary death?

We have to have films about action and violence and special effects. That's the sad part, but you know what? It's not me doing it.

I'm not a pacifist. I think the suffering of innocent people can be a catalyst for moral action. But empathy puts too much weight on the scale in favor of war. Empathy can really lead to violence.