Violence Quotes

Violence is a common part of far too many women's lives.

Now [after election] where it goes into violence, I have a zero tolerance for riots.

Sometimes when we're incensed by the rancid tide of injustice, the impulse is to attack. We must avoid this. We have learned that violence as a means is always unsuccessful.

I run; I am a coward at heart. I swear, when I smell violence or aggression the coward comes out in me. I have no desire to fight anybody except myself.

Violence would be a huge gift to those who want a divided Lebanon.

The situation is getting worse, and people are losing hope. That despair stokes violence.

We want you to express your point of view but without violence.

I think anybody who has been abused as a kid - and I was abused as a kid, by various people - will say it's irrational because violence is irrational.

My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.

I hate violence. That has never prevented me from using it in my films.

He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavors after it by false merit, has to fear, not only the violence of the storm, but the leaks of his vessel.

The violence of war admits no distinction; the lance, that is lifted at guilt and power, will sometimes fall on innocence and gentleness.

Of what violences, murders, depredations, have not the epic poets, from all antiquity, been the occasion, by propagating false honor, false glory, and false religion?

We know violence isn’t the answer. When we take up our arms, we’re talking about our vote.

Deep within I'm shaken by the violence of existing for only you.

HIV-positive people can lose custody of their children, lose their housing, and face intimate partner violence.

No violence, No competition, No Groups, No Chiefs.

Power exercised with violence has seldom been of long duration.

Those are the movies that we [with Evan Goldberg] always wanted to make. Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, the kind of movies where violence and comedy and characters kind of work together really well.

The violence at the end is about personal torture.

By choosing to be kind instead of cruel, we can break the karmic chain of reacting to violence with more violence, contributing to a more peaceful future for everyone.

As a parent, I don't really want my child to know about all this horrible violence that people seem to be wanting to tell them every time they go to buy some candy.

Violence is always the last option, but if that time comes, it is the only option.

People don't understand that you can actually lose your life going to jail. There's more violence in the jail-house than there is on the streets.

I don't go for films that exalt violence. I don't want them in my house. Sometimes my children see them. But nowadays they do it so truthfully and with so much passion that you are shocked.

Like most human behavior, violence has meaning: it only seems 'senseless' or 'meaningless' to the extent we are unable-or unwilling-to decode it.

The idea that America exists in a culture of violence is bullshit. What America exists in is a culture of Kardashian.

Superhero movies and comic books teach a lesson that runs directly counter to the culture-of-violence idea: guns are for bad guys too cowardly to fight like men.

Violence can behave like a disease. That insight gives a different frame of reference that is designed to take the judgment out of it, to take the good-versus-bad-people view out of it.

The human moral sense can excuse any atrocity in the minds of those who commit it, and it furnishes them with motives for acts of violence that bring them no tangible benefit.

As women are empowered, violence can come down, for a number of reasons. By all measures, men are the more violent gender.

I think that communism was a major force for violence for more than 100 years, because it was built into its ideology - that progress comes through class struggle, often violent.

Novelists who treat violence and cruelty as something to be exploited for their effect, or to enjoy the pleasure of an evacuation, are carriers of a singularly unpleasant disease.

That even an apocalypse can be made to seem part of the ordinary horizon of expectation constitutes an unparalleled violence that is being done to our sense of reality, to our humanity.

The one thing in my films, I only kill people who need to be killed, or killers killing killers. And I believe that the violence is very justifiable.

Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.

Violence against embassies and civilians must be categorically condemned. At the same time, we must attempt to understand why such events occur.

Only thought which does violence to itself is hard enough to shatter myth.

He who achieves power by violence does not truly become lord or master.

The man whose silent daysIn harmless joys are spent,Whom hopes cannot delude,Nor sorrow discontent:That man needs neither towersNor armour for defence,Nor secret vaults to flyFrom thunder's violence.

It's not that the film is violent, it's that people have an issue with violence right now.

Truth and reason are eternal. They have prevailed. And they will eternally prevail; however, in times and places they may be overborne for a while by violence, military, civil, or ecclesiastical.

Where words prevail not, violence prevails.

Violence is essentially wordless. and it can begin only where thought and rational communication have broken down.

Of course, we talked about Westerns we like with [James Ransone in Valley of Violence] , but it was always thematically in relation to the movie and what the themes of the movie were.

One of my favorite scenes of the movie [Valley of Violence] is when Ethan Hawke is sitting at the campfire with the dog.

Really, I wanted to make a movie [Valley Of Violence] about: How does violence affect people? This is a take from me on how violence affects people.

Jumpy is the most incredible animal of all time. The movie [Valley of Violence] is the tamest example of what that dog is capable of.

Sometimes I look at it [Valley of Violence] and go, "How did we do that?" But it's a credit to Ethan [Hawke], he had done White Fang, so Ethan is like, "Oh God, that's right."

It definitely could have been a horror story [Valley of Violence], oh my God, if the dog was impossible. So could the horses.