Best 2024 quotes in «violence quotes» category

I have never made a threat. I've never made a threat, never expressed a threat, never - I've never - I would never threaten violence ever, because I am a man of peace, dedicated to peace.

I have never intended in any of my films to sell violence or to glorify it. Even in the most intense action sequences in my films, there is a message about how evil violence is.

I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.

I have no secret methods. I know no diplomacy save that of truth. I have no weapon but non-violence.

I have not seen anyone assume that all the citizens of New York are guilty of murder, violence, robbery, perjury, or writing proprietary software.

I have recognized that the nation has the right, if it so wills, to vindicate her freedom even by actual violence.

I hold that the world is sick of armed rebellions.

I hit you and I beat you and I told you that I love you.

I honestly never understood how violence against women became a women's issue. 95 percent of the violence men are doing to women.

I isolate this non-co-operation from Sinn Feinism, for it is so conceived as to be incapable of being offered side by side with violence.

I know the usual answer of Christ using violence to get the sellers out of the temple, but to me this was impatience rather than violence.

I lived in Complexo do Alemao until I was 12, dealt with domestic violence in my childhood and faced difficulties in life.

I like a twisted sense of humour. On 'A History of Violence,' David Cronenberg and I would be doing the grimmest scenes and laugh a lot.

I'm a strong person, but I'd never resort to violence.

I loved Batman, don't get me wrong, but that kind of mindless violence is not good for young children.

I maintain that nothing useful and lasting can emerge from violence.

I'm a very great non-violent character. I would never resort to violence to change anything.

I'm a student of violence because I'm a student of the human heart.

I'm concerned about justice. I'm concerned about brotherhood. I'm concerned about truth. And when one is concerned about these, he can never advocate violence.

I'm not advocating violence but I think somebody should shoot Simon Cowell.

I'm doing an over-the-shoulder shot on a dog. I'm putting the camera behind the dog's shoulder. This is craziness. You just accept it in the movie [Valley of Violence], but when you make the movie, it's the weirdest thing. There's dog coverage, like it's a person.

I'm not affected by violence the way some people are. I don't know why, but I enjoy that intensity.

I'm not a hateful person and don't condone any kind of violence against others.

I'm so sick of seeing guns in movies, and all this violence; and if there was going to be violence in Pines, I wanted it to actually be narrative violence. I wasn't interested in fetishizing violence in any way of making it feel cool or slow-motion violence. I wanted it to be just violence that affected the story.

I'm not someone who ever enjoys violence against women or children.

I'm not someone who is a fan of a lot of violence.

I'm really interested in violence. And I think there's an inevitably cinematic property that violence brings to the moviegoing experience. But one still has to be thoughtful and mature about how you depict it and how you think it through. You have to think about the effects that violence has on audiences, and it's deployed so casually that I think it's losing its meaning. And when things like violence and murder and the dehumanization of other people lose their meaning, then we're really kind of in a place where we have to reexamine and take a hard look at ourselves.

I'm sure all of us agree that we need to overcome violence, but we first need to examine whether it has any value. From a strictly practical perspective, on certain occasions violence appears to be useful. We can solve a problem quickly by force. But this success is often at the expense of the rights and welfare of others. Although one problem has been solved, the seed of another has been planted.

I'm not going to appeal to violence or aggression - of course not.

I'm not up for violence, just for fun.

I'm very disturbed by violence against women when it is violence.

I'm very careful about violence in games. I'm not interested in creating violent effects.

I myself am a very nonviolent person and only resort to violence when I absolutely have to.

In attempting to explain geological phenomena, the bias has always been on the wrong side; there has always been a disposition to reason á priori on the extraordinary violence and suddenness of changes, both in the inorganic crust of the earth, and in organic types, instead of attempting strenuously to frame theories in accordance with the ordinary operations of nature.

In all these situations, there was not enough violence against them to take it beyond the category of sex; they were not coerced enough.

In 1963 ... The Vatican condemned Dr. No as a 'dangerous mixture of violence, vulgarity, sadism and sex.' Ka-ching!

In all places, and in all times, those religionists who have believed too much have been more inclined to violence and persecution than those who have believed too little.

In a world built on violence, one must be a revolutionary before one can be a pacifist.

In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence.

Indeed the very word, nonviolence, a negative word, means that it is an effort to abandon the violence that is inevitable in life.

In defense of our persons and properties under actual violation, we took up arms. When that violence shall be removed, when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, hostilities shall cease on our part also.

In England ... education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and would probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.

India's freedom will not be won by violence but only by the purest suffering without retaliation.

In far Eastern Russia, there's just some towns that time has forgotten. I guess they used to maybe be industrial or something that are now there's just lots of rusty hulks of buildings and a lot of people wandering around, a lot of alcoholism and violence because people have got nothing to do and no work. Yet people were very generous.

In fact, violence as a symbol of our growing irrationality has had an increasing role in activity for its own sake, when no possible justification could be made that the activity was seeking to resolve a problem.

In my film "Benny's Video," I depicted violence but I failed to say all that I had to say, so I wanted to continue the dialog and that's why I did "Funny Games." The irony is that after I shot "Funny Games," but it hadn't been released at all anywhere.

In many instances violence - which obviously inflicts tremendous trauma on victims - also inflicts trauma on the perpetrator. Radical evil takes a lot of preparation, not just from an organizational point of view, but from brainwashing, psychological preparation and the legitimization of violence.

In my religion I really cannot think of cases where violence is justified.

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.

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.