Best 2024 quotes in «violence quotes» category

To destroy a man is difficult, almost as difficult as to create one: it has not been easy, nor quick, but you Germans have succeeded. Here we are, docile under your gaze; from our side you have nothing more to fear; no acts of violence, no words of defiance, not even a look of judgment.

To kill these (rabid) dogs, in my opinion, amount to himsa, but I believe it to be inevitable if we are to escape much greater himsa.

To live fixated on the future is to engage in psychological denial. It is a form of psychic violence that prepares us to accept the violence needed to ensure the maintenance of imperialist, future-oriented society.

Tortures are a dangerous invention, and seem to be a test of endurance rather than of truth.

To the ideal of high consumption and the downgrading of spiritual values corresponds a conception of injustice that centers exclusively on the problem of consumption; and equality in consumption cannot be achieved except by violence.

True nonviolence is mightier than the mightiest violence.

Trust your intuition, rather than technology, to protect you from violence.

Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realizing Him.

Universal violence compels the language to be mute . . . . Silence is not only a metaphor of Hemingway's work; it is also the source of its formal excellence, its integrity.

Turning a human being into a thing is almost always the first step towards justifying violence against that person.

Under the interlocking regimes of neoliberal power, violence appears so arbitrary and thoughtless that it lacks the need for any justification, let alone claims to justice and accountability. It is truly as limitless as it appears banal.

Turning a human being into a thing, an object, is almost always the first step towards justifying violence against that person. It is very difficult, perhaps impossible, to be violent to someone we think of as an equal, someone we have empathy with, but it is very easy to abuse a thing

Under all conditions, well-organized violence seems to him the shortest distance between two points.

Unfortunately part of pulp is that there is sex, there is violence. It's not a kids' show. It's an 18-and-over audience - like anything cable. I see some things in Game of Thrones that turn my hair gray. It's the way the industry has gone.

Unfortunately, man, a lot of places in America have to deal with unnecessary violence. Somebody like me who knows it firsthand and could relate... I had a best friend killed, plenty other friends killed. I been through it. I seen it.

Until we eliminate the mentality of violence, we will not find the harmony within ourselves we're looking for.

Until you can love what is - everything, including the apparent violence and craziness - you're separate from the world, and you'll see it as dangerous and frightening.

Users of marijuana become STIMULATED as they inhale the drug and are LIKELY TO DO ANYTHING. Most crimes of violence in this section, especially in country districts are laid to users of that drug.

[Uniting workers should not] lead to a war upon property, or the owners of property.

[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.

Violence against women is as American as apple pie. I know, not only as a legislator, but from personal experience.

Vehemence without feeling is but rant.

Very slight violence will break that which has once been cracked.

Violence against embassies and civilians must be categorically condemned. At the same time, we must attempt to understand why such events occur.

Violence against women in all its forms is a human rights violation. It's not something that any culture, religion or tradition propagates.

Violence begins with the fork.

Violence can only be effectively met by nonviolence. This is an old established truth.

Violence does even justice unjustly.

Violence generates more violence; hatred produces more hatred. Peace cannot be conquered. Peace cannot be the result of violence. Peace comes to us only when we dissolve the Ego, when we destroy within us all those psychological factors that produce war.

Violence has never prospered, you can't remake the world in a day. Anyone who promises to change everything for you all at once is either a fool or a rogue!

Violence [in Palestina] is a symptom; the occupation is the disease - a mortal disease for everybody concerned, the occupied and the occupiers. Therefore, the first responsibility is to put an end to the occupation.

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

Violence is a calm that disturbs you.

Violence is a form of cinematic entertainment. Asking me about violence is like going up to Vincente Minnelli and asking him to justify his musical sequences.

Violence is a personal necessity for the oppressed...It is not a strategy consciously devised. It is the deep, instinctive expression of a human being denied individuality.

Violence is essentially wordless. and it can begin only where thought and rational communication have broken down.

Violence is not completely fatal until it ceases to disturb us.

Violence is sometimes a duty.

Violence is stupid. Even as a last resort, it only ever begets more of the same.

Violence never brings permanent peace. It solves no social problem: it merely creates new and more complicated ones.

Violence against women is still treated as a lesser crime. Armed groups turn it into a weapon of choice because of near total impunity.

Violence and wrong enclose all who commit them in their meshes and do mostly recoil on him from whom they begin.

Violence cannot destroy the body of the Goddess, for Her body is the world itself.

Violence comes in many forms and can be particularly disturbing when confronted in an educational setting if handled dismissively or in ways that blame victims.

Violence diminishes our humanity.

Violence doesn't solve anything? World War I. World War II. Star Wars. Every Super Bowl. Who says violence doesn't solve anything?

Violence in any form is a tragic expression of our unmet needs.

Violence is good for those who have nothing to lose.

Violence is not a catalyst but a diversion.

Violence is the sign of temporary weakness.