Violence Quotes

It's Ethan Hawke and John Travolta [in Valley of Violence]. It's awesome. They're awesome.

It's not the plot [of Valley of Violence] - the plot is the reason to get all these things to happen, all these character moments to happen. It was always meant to have these two perspectives.

With my horror movies or with this movie [Valley of Violence], same thing. The subtext of this movie is what to take away from it. Plot is never something that's been my driving force as a filmmaker.

It is a very classic Western [Valley of Violence], and if you like Westerns, you'll like this movie, but there's a tone to it that's all its own that I think is unique and memorable.

[Valley of Violence] was written for James Ransone. PJ's a friend of mine, I've known him for a long time, he's always like, "Dude, when are we going to make a movie together?" I finally called him.

It's one of those things, when you look back on it, you'd go, "Oh, I could've done without that. If I could go back in time, I would do it different." That's the thing with violence in general.

No-one wants to see violence of any kind on our streets, certainly not any violence that's justified by extreme nationalist ideas or that targets people because of their religion.

All the Abrahamic faiths are marked by violence.

Poverty is curable, but it’s just not done, because it's not profitable. And that is the kind of violence that's perpetuated on humanity.

I only included things that everybody likes, like violence, flowers, children, women, friendship and death.

I've never really been a fan of violence. I'm more into the characters and their journey and those kinds of movies don't really allow for that. It's a different focus.

I've never really been a fan of violence.

I think people are getting more and more -unfortunately - inured to violence. People are less sensitive to things they should wake up about.

I'm not a hateful person and don't condone any kind of violence against others.

Domestic violence was a way of life in my home growing up, my brother and I watched helplessly numerous times as my mother was beaten and knocked unconscious while we dialed 911.

Violence [in Palestina] is part of the resistance to occupation. The basic fact is not the violence; the basic fact is the occupation.

I understand people who believe that without violence they will not achieve anything at all.

My position does not give me the liberty to exclude anything, but my mood tells me there will not be violence.

I like a twisted sense of humour. On 'A History of Violence,' David Cronenberg and I would be doing the grimmest scenes and laugh a lot.

Art should be appreciated with passion and violence, not with a tepid, depreciating elegance that fears the censoriousness of a common room.

Violence was just as much about WHAT was happening as it was how it happened.

The rules of sexism do not free men from the terror of violence; they only keep men from complaining about it.

One hundred percent of the time, no plea bargain, no bail, you're going to the penitentiary - that will change the atmosphere in this culture of violence the president talks about.

What leads to peace is not violence but peaceableness, which is not passivity, but an alert, informed, practiced, and active state of being.

We have become blind to the alternatives to violence.

Is there anything more useless than a crouton? I sometimes wake up in the small hours with a start and realise that what's roused me is an overpowering urge to visit violence on its originator.

Crime and violence are the easiest emotions to reenact.

The common breeds the common, A lout begets a lout, So when I take on half a score I knock their heads about.

There's violence in my culture [from America's South].

Our glorification of violence is ripping society apart. I don't want my children exposed to it.

I loved Batman, don't get me wrong, but that kind of mindless violence is not good for young children.

It started with the Godfather, this operatic violence. I don't know.

But think of the violence, it could happen to your kids.

I get very sad when I think about Vietnam where there seems to be no choice but violence. This violence goes on for centuries perpetuating itself.

All I’m saying is that perhaps we can make a revolution without violence.

The world feels overwhelming to me on every level. Just the number of organisms that live on this planet. Our politics, our violence, psychology, emotions; there's just a lot going on, right?

Whatever makes a man a beast also renders him pitiable. But it behoves us to be wary of these besti*l men despite our compassion, for they frequently turn on their friends.

For every fatal shooting, there were roughly three non-fatal shootings. And, folks, this is unacceptable in America.

An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.

Live simply so others may simply live

Violence can only breed more violence and suffering. Our struggle must remain non-violent and free of hatred.

Why should the killers of the world be "the future" and not us?

I am never proud to participate in violence, yet I know that each of us must care enough for ourselves that we can be ready and able to come to our own defense when and wherever needed.

Revenge easily descends into an endless cycle of hate and violence. The Bible says never repay evil with evil.

Some werewolves are hairy on the inside.

Through violence you may murder the hater, but you cannot murder hate.

The dark-haired girl behind Winston had begun crying out: 'Swine! Swine! Swine!', and suddenly she picked up a heavy Newspeak dictionary and flung it at the screen.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevit

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat for it is momen

All beings tremble before violence.All fear death.All love life.See yourself in others.Then whom can you hurt?What harm can you do?