Best 2024 quotes in «violence quotes» category

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

The natives of England are closing their doors to relationships with Asians and Africans or, for that matter, Turks and Spaniards. While the Africans and Asians on their part are increasingly closing their doors too and resentment at both sides is increasing. This trend can be dangerous. It can lead, sooner or later, to violence - even in this country, which is traditionally an opponent of violence.

The Norwegian response to violence is more democracy, more openness and greater political participation.

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.

The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of nonviolence has been the organization of violence.

The only way to end a culture of violence is to proactively create a culture of peace.

The oppressed always learned from and copied the oppressor. When the tables were turned, the stage was set for another round of revenge and violence -- roles reversed. And reversed and reversed ad nauseam.

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.

The pornography of violence of course far exceeds, in volume and general acceptance, sexual pornography, in this Puritan land of ours.

The praise of a civilized world is justly due to Christianity;—war, by the influence of the humane principles of that religion, has been stripped of half its horrors. The French renounce Christianity, and they relapse into barbarism;—war resumes the same hideous and savage form which it wore in the ages of Gothic and Roman violence.

The question is no longer between violence and non-violence it is between non-violence and non-existence.

The power to prevent violence is a power that no police force seems to have anywhere in the United States.

The problem to me is violence. It's not cool to kill somebody or hurt people.

There are many causes I would die for. There is not a single cause I would kill for.

There are fewer Arabs in Tel Aviv, one of the largest cities in the Middle East, than there are in Chicago, the largest city in the American Midwest. How do you accomplish such a remarkable feat of social engineering without massive violence?

There are many difficult challenges in Afghanistan. And we still have Taliban. We still have terrorist organizations there, and we will see violence and we will see conflict there also in the coming years,.

There is a great streak of violence in every human being. If it is not channeled and understood, it will break out in war or in madness.

There is a direct connection between violence against the Earth and violence against women.

There are situations in life to which the only satisfactory response is a physically violent one. If you don't make that response, you continually relive the unresolved situation over and over in your life.

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

There is a cultural factor promoting violence which nowadays undoubtedly is highly effective is the mass media. And particularly everything that enters our minds through pictorial media.

There is a need for subjects who find intense pleasure in commodification of violence and a culture of cruelty.

There is no reason to live in fear of crime and violence. There is however reason to take reasonable precautions. And in doing so, you will have deterred most criminals from choosing you as their victim.

There is no lasting hope in violence, only temporary relief from hopelessness.

There is no greater violence than to deny the dreams of our children.

There is no shame in being a survivor of sexual violence. The shame is on the aggressor.

There is nothing in anything that I have ever written that could be reasonably construed as an incitement to violence against anyone.

There is no such thing as defeat in non-violence.

There is nothing more American than brutal violence. The country was built on it, revels in it and shows every evidence of clinging to it with the crazed, destructive strength of an obsessive lover.

There's always been violence in movies, and there will always be violence in movies. Whether it lends to the one psychotic that's out there, thinking the worst thoughts you could possibly thing, is always going to be a mystery.

There is the emergence of a militarized society that now organizes itself for the production of violence. A society in which the range of acceptable opinion inevitably shrinks.

There's an economy of violence. It's sexy. It's being exploited.

There's an incredible fascination for that and that goes with violence and everything else in pictures.

There is so much history of this racist violence that simply to bring one person to justice is not going to disturb the whole racist edifice.

There's less violence in the world when people are using Hula-Hoops.

There’s less violence in my world compared to yours,” she insisted. Spade sighed. “No, darling. There are only different reasons for it.

There's more danger in the violence you don't face.

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

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

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

There's no such thing as "just a domestic".

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

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

The rise of Hamas is a product of the failures of political will in the international community, of the absence of the peace process, of the increase in violence and ideology.

The role of the intellectual cannot be to excuse the violence of one side and condemn that of the other.

The schizoid man is the natural product of the technological man. It is one way to live and is increasingly utilized and it may explode into violence.

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

The solution to violence in America is the acceptance of reality

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

These days, our senses are bombarded with aggression. We are constantly confronted with global images of unending, escalating war and violence.