Best 2024 quotes in «violence quotes» category

[In response to the question "Do you think that you underestimated the insurgency's strength?"] I think so. I guess if I look back on it now, I don't think anybody anticipated the level of violence that we've encountered.

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.

In the application of the method of non-violence, one must believe in the possibility of every person, however depraved, being reformed under humane and skilled treatment.

In the city, a lot of crime happens, a lot of violence happens from time to time.

Intolerance is a species of violence and therefore against our creed.

In times of violence, personal predilections for niceties of colour and form seem irrelevant. All primitive expression (like the myths) reveals the constant awareness of powerful forces, the immediate presence of terror and fear.

I often close my eyes because I can't tolerate violence.

I read what I like to write: romantic suspense. I also love thrillers and novels of suspense, but I can't handle extreme violence and torture.

I recognize no empire of this present age.

I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie.

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

I sometimes go for the strongest, most vivid colour on the palette, which in the case of movies is violence.

Islam does not preach hatred and violence and destruction.

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.

I think people are propelled towards violence, and what propels them is much more interesting than the actual act of violence itself.

I suppose, I hoped, by setting a particularly brutal ancient rite in the present and in my own village to shock the story's readers with a graphic dramatization of the pointless violence and general inhumanity in their own lives.

I think American audiences are quite interesting in that they can handle almost any amount of violence, but the moment the violence becomes sexual violence it immediately becomes an issue.

I think I tend to feel discomfort more when I anticipate or arrive upon moments in which I need to be careful. As a gay person, there's the fear of violence, and we're not making that up.

I think one has to be aware that a change needs to be made to improve one's life and then there will always be alternatives and choices that can lead you away from a life of violence.

I think that all the silence is worse than all the violence

Is this something new, having people stomp on you? Is it what I need to do for your pleasure?

I still care deeply about so many thing. And so I'm going to be engaged. I'm going to be out there as - with a platform to talk about the things that I care about: foreign policy and, you know, violence against women, you know, the inequity in the tax structure.

I think movies glamorize violence, in the sense that they make it in a way that it's either cool or funny.

I think that all the silence is worse than all the violence, Fear is such a weak emotion that's why I despise it, We scared of almost everything, afraid to even tell the truth, So scared of what you think of me, I'm scared of even telling you...

I think that just as we're in the nuclear era we're also in an era of non-violence. It's undefeatable.

I think violence is counter-productive and it is bad in democratic societies.

I think there's a certain numbness in modern society, that accepts certain kinds of violence, but represses other kinds of violence.

I think there's a natural system in your own head about how much violence the scene warrants. It's not an intellectual process, it's an instinctive process.

I think violence can never be justified. At the same time, nobody’s culture or beliefs should be insulted, that’s not something I can accept either. But I cannot justify or accept any violence at all.

I think violence begets violence. I don't think a way to solve any sort of conflict is with violence because nothing ever ends up solved, that way.

I think violence has always been popular, way before movies started being made.

It is bad for the soul to know itself a coward, it is apt to take refuge in mere wordy violence.

It is a sound interpretive rule...that anything that cannot be accomplished except with the aid of threats or the actual exercise of violence against unoffending persons cannot be beneficial to one and all.

It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.

It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.

It is claimed for satyagraha that it is a complete substitute for violence or war.

It is clear that no one will achieve any kind of objective through the force of violence, and that no one will make Spaniards yield to threats of guns, whoever may be holding them

It is difficult to judge, when both sides are employing weapons of violence, which side 'deserves' to succeed.

It is through truth & non-violence that I can have some glimpse of God. Truth & non-violence are my God. They are the obverse and reverse of the same coin.

It is no non-violence if we merely love those that love us. It is non-violence only when we love those that hate us.

It is not tricks of sense But the time's fright within me which distracts Least fancies into violence

It is possible, I suppose, that we are returning to a Dark Age. What is frightening is that violence is not only represented by nations, but everywhere walks among us freely.

It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.

It is my belief that the problem of bringing peace to the world on a supranational basis will be solved only by employing Gandhi's method on a larger scale.

It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

It is the madness of folly, to expect mercy from those who have refused to do justice; and even mercy, where conquest is the object, is only a trick of war; the cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf.

It is the quietest and meekest people who are often capable of the most sudden and unexpected violences for the reason that when their control does snap, it goes entirely. (Hercule Poirot)

It may be that there is so much ambiguity and ideology attached to the term 'terrorism' that it is best to avoid its use altogether, as it is likely to be twisted in public discourse to demonise the enemies of the established order, while exempting state violence from legal and moral scrutiny.

It's amazing to me that no matter what city, what state, no matter where I am, a woman will come up to me and say "Thank you, thank you" for writing the 1994 Violence Against Women Act, which funds services for victims and pushes to put more assailants behind bars.

It's a bad thing that happens to women, but when you look at that term 'violence against women,' nobody is doing it to them. It just happens to them. Men aren't even a part of it.