Violence Quotes

Violence represents the worst kind of conformism.

Films don't cause violence, people do. Violence defines our existence. To shield oneself is more dangerous than trying to reflect it.

I smacked her, cracked her, put her in a full nelson.

In the 21st Century, I'd like to think women have the right to live lives free of both sexual violence and daily harassment, as well as any other form of inequality.

Screwed-up people settle fights through violence. Screwed-up people start wars that could kill millions. Normal people settle fights through cookies, cakes, and pies. Normal people are fat.

Wherever arms flow, violence follows. Bullets replace ballots as the solution to political disputes.

An hour of violin lessons in Berlin is an hour where you get the child interested in music. An hour in a violin lesson in Palestine is an hour away from violence, is an hour away from fundamentalism.

Modern capitalist nations are the fruit of a history of slavery, genocide, violence and exploitation every bit as abhorrent as Mao's China or Stalin's Soviet Union.

Today, together, let us repeat as our slogan that all trace of violence must disappear from this earth, then the sun will be honey-colored and music good to hear.

I ain't never liked violence.

Taking away the peace of a people, committing every act of violence, or consenting to such acts, especially when directed against the weakest and defenseless, is a profoundly grave sin against God.

Monsters exist because we create them, through war and violence, and distortion, and the way we handle people and so on.

The dictatorship of the Communist Party is maintained by recourse to every form of violence.

You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.

A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.

I hate violence, yes I do. It's kind of a dilemma, huh?.

I don't see any violence at Trump rallies.

Conflicts and factions, violence and upheavals are caused by the neglect of human values in daily life.

The violence we do to ourselves in order to remain faithful to the one we love is hardly better than an act of infidelity.

Those who 'abjure' violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf.

If there is violence, it will certainly be crushed because violence can only end in a disgraceful rout.

People use location as a language in films, and Quentin uses action as a language in his films. There's really not a lot of violence. It's more of an emotional beat than it is a physical beat

Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

A weapon does not decide whether or not to kill. A weapon is a manifestation of a decision that has already been made.

Violence won't solve a thing. It makes it more challenging to solve, though.

You have to give everybody another recourse as some means other than violence, no matter how distasteful it may be to have to deal with them and what they represent.

War is...a trinity of violence, chance, and reason.

What you get with violence can be maintained only with violence

And once you're unafraid with death, I think your capacity for violence is immediately increased. Once you're unafraid of death, you are a very, very dangerous adversary

From the heart, there is no place in America for hatred or acts of prejudice or violence or anti-Semitism.

However much I may sympathise with and admire worthy motives, I am an uncompromising opponent of violent methods even to serve the noblest of causes.

The creation of today's market society was not the result of a sequence of spontaneous events but rather of state interference and violence.

Great anger and violence can never build a nation.

Violence is like money in the bank; it's only helpful if you don't have to use it.

In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.

Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.

Timothy McVeigh was a coward. Violence is the stupid way out. It'll discredit any real legitmate movement.

The nation cannot be kept on the nonviolent path by violence.

What we have to continue to remind ourselves is that violence is a choice.

It seems to me that violence against women has been tolerated for so long that the world has become numb to it.

There's a hollowness to civilized life. It doesn't appeal to people, and some people react with extreme violence.

War is not the answer. Violence is not the solution. A more peaceful world is possible.

I don't mean to romanticise the struggle, that leads to all kinds of terrible violence and absurdities that are even worse than the perverse immediate gratification.

What is magnificent about humans is when they decide to turn and stand. If they respond with non-violence on principle and hold their ground, they are really magnificent.

Alcohol removes inhibitions. It doesn't trigger criminal violence where there was none before.

The time when domestic violence is the most lethal is when the person is trying to leave the situation.

Violence in real life is terrible; violence in movies can be cool. It's just another colour to work with.

If you want peace, you won't get it with violence.

If the numbers we see in domestic violence were applied to terrorism or gang violence, the entire country would be up in arms, and it would be the lead story on the news every night.