Best 2024 quotes in «violence quotes» category

What bothers me most about today is that we're getting used 2 it. ENOUGH. 2nd amendment must go. Violence has 2 stop. Culture MUST change.

What a vast difference there is between the barbarism that precedes culture and the barbarism that follows it.

What does it matter if, by chance, a little vile blood be spilled?

What I have set down in a moment of ardour I must then critically examine. Sometimes I must do myself violence before I can mercilessly erase things thought out with love.

What is debt anyway? A debt is just the perversion of a promise. It is a promise corrupted by both math and violence.

What is gained by violence must be lost before superior violence.

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.

What is the meaning of it, Watson? said Holmes solemnly as he laid down the paper. "What object is served by this circle of misery and violence and fear? It must tend to some end, or else our universe is ruled by chance, which is unthinkable. But what end? There is the great standing perennial problem to which human reason is as far from an answer as ever.

What is wanted is a deliberate giving up of violence out of strength.

What postmodernism gives us instead is a multicultural defense for male violence - a defense for it wherever it is, which in effect is a pretty universal defense.

What senseless violence does is to prolong the lease of life of the British or foreign rule.

What's most troubling about this witless mishmash of whiny, infantile philosophizing and bone-crunching violence is the increasing realization that it actually thinks it's saying something of significance.

What's one more meaningless act of violence on that zoo of a planet? It would be appropriate. When in Rome; burn it.

What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?

When a man carries an instrument of violence, he'll always find the justification to use it.

When a trans woman gets called a man, that is an act of violence.

When activists need a pretext to justify their violence, they always find it.

When an audience does not complain, it is a compliment, and when it does, it is a compliment, too, if unaccompanied by violence.

When an argument is over, how many weighty reasons does a man recollect which his heat and violence made him utterly forget?

Whenever you have war, you often have more deaths because the medical system and the food system breaks down, than you have directly through violence.

Whenever we engage in consumption or production patterns which take more than we need, we are engaging in violence.

When there is no desire for fruit, there is also no temptation for untruth or himsa.

When I first started doing the quieter, more acoustic material in Swans, there was a lot of derision and outright hatred from the audience and press, just as in the early days of Swans when we were rejected outright because of the bludgeoning, single-minded violence of the music.

When I'm describing wartime activities or violence I don't want to be too ornate, to prettify the picture. Once we trace them to the present, the prose becomes denser.

When people access the use of force for the threat of violence they have, by definition, a new political power. An unwanted political power.

When there is violence against any person in society, because he or she is different, it threatens us all. Only by speaking out are any of us safe.

When violence against women is no longer societally accepted, no longer kept secret; when everyone understands that even one case is too many. That's when it will change.

When I am abused online I take snapshots for evidence, I report it to the social media platform and I ban the abuser. If I am threatened with violence I report the abuser to the police. It is vital to remember that threatening violence online is just as illegal as it is offline. Know your rights and the reporting procedures of any online platform you use.

When I go see an R-rated horror movie, I want lots of violence.

When we dehumanise and demonise our opponents, we abandon the possibility of peacefully resolving our differences, and seek to justify violence against them.

When you have a nation that is suffering collectively from a situation of injustice - of violence, of imprisonment and closure and checkpoints, from a sense of vulnerability and of hopelessness - attitudes are going to be affected by these measures.

When we speak about a culture of violence in the American society, we're not just talking about the mass killers. We're also talking about that we, as a society, and many of us as individuals accept violence as part of life because we have become numb to it, being so exposed to it in various forms of media.

When we judge others we contribute to violence.

When you have large-scale legitimated violence in a place that is divided as profoundly and bitterly as Kentucky was, the legitimate violence can cause illegitimate violence, a terrible local heartlessness and cruelty that feeds on itself and goes on and on.

When you practice a life of non-violence you no longer need seek the truth, the truth finds you.

Where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence.

When you see violence in movies in general, it's very quick and painless, which isn't what it's like.

When you treat your time as though you are a machine; a doing machine; you are committing violence against the sacredness of life itself.

When you resort to violence to prove a point, you’ve just experienced a profound failure of imagination.

When you take away the violence from the market, even it starts shifting into something else - not exactly paradise, but it doesn't become the market in the way we see it now.

Where violence reigns, reason is weak.

While all other things are uncertain, evanescent, and ephemeral, virtue alone is fixed with deep roots; it can neither be overthrown by any violence or moved from its place.

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.

While many hackers have the knowledge, skills, and tools to attack computer systems, they generally lack the motivation to cause violence or severe economic or social harm.

Within the existing neoliberal historical conjuncture, there is a merging of violence and governance and the systemic disinvestment in and breakdown of institutions and public spheres that have provided the minimal conditions for democracy.

Without democracy there is no freedom. Violence, no matter who is using it, is always reactionary.

With God as witness, I want to proclaim this truth, that the way of violence cannot bring Swaraj, it can only lead to disaster.

Without love, violence will change the world; it will change it into a more violent one.

Without honoring Whores, we cannot truly understand and transcend the dynamics of violence, destruction and ignorance fostered in our cuntfearing society.

Women have a better chance to secure freedom and protect themselves from violence, from abuse, from injustice, if they are well-educated and know their rights.