Best 2024 quotes in «violence quotes» category

Art should cause violence to be set aside and it is only art that can accomplish this.

As an actor you're only as good as the things you're offered. And there just weren't any female directors offering me things. So when you dissect that, you realize there aren't women offering you things because they don't have the opportunities. I work to raise money for women's cancers; I use my voice for violence against women.

As boys without bonds to their fathers grow older and more desperate about their masculinity, they are in danger of forming gangs in which they strut their masculinity for one another, often overdo it, and sometimes turn to displays of fierce, macho bravado and even violence.

As the State is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence.

As for sex, well, I mean sex is a perfectly respectable subject as far as Shakespeare is concerned. I mean, all history is love and violence.

As you become more conscious of your cruelty, of your violence, gross and subtle, you start becoming more and more compassionate. Not that you cultivate compassion. Just by becoming aware of your cruelty, violence, ugliness... the very awareness brings new changes in you. And the energy that was involved in cruelty, in violence, starts changing. The same energy becomes purified, the same energy becomes compassion.

As the welfare state is hollowed out, a culture of compassion is replaced by a culture of violence, cruelty and disposability.

At Ohio State University, to avoid being guilty of 'sexual assault' or 'sexual violence,' you and your partner now apparently have to agree on the reason WHY you are making out or having sex. It's not enough to agree to DO it, you have to agree on WHY: there has to be agreement 'regarding the who, what, where, when, why, and how this sexual activity will take place.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

As women are empowered, violence can come down, for a number of reasons. By all measures, men are the more violent gender.

At the same time as we clearly condemn actions of violence by groups in Palestinian against Israel.

Auschwitz stands as a tragic reminder of the terrible potential man has for violence and inhumanity.

Because of the influence of the cinema, most reports or stories of violence are so pictorial that they lack content or meaning. The camera brings them to our eyes, but does not settle them in our minds, nor in time.

Because people see violence on the movie screen, they're not going to go out and hold up a liquor store and kill somebody. It really doesn't correlate.

Because the twentieth century was a century of violence, let us make the twenty-first a century of dialogue.

Because we hold it for 'a fundamental and undeniable truth', that religion or 'the duty which we owe to our Creator' and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence.

A vast majority of Republicans are on the record saying that they believe the Violence Against Women Act should be reauthorized. Let me be clear: I believe that Violence Against Women Act must be reauthorized.

Being offended by freedom of speech should never be regarded as a justification for violence.

Belief in non-violence is based on the assumption that human nature in the essence is one and therefore unfailingly responds to the advances of love.

Being vegan provides us with the peace of knowing that we are no longer participants in the hideous violence that is animal exploitation.

Better be secure under one king, than exposed to violence from twenty millions of monarchs, though oneself be one of them.

Better than cowardice is killing and being killed in battle.

Birth is violent, whether it be the birth of a child or the birth of an idea.

Birth is violent, and out of that violence is our only chance of rebirth.

Being a Southerner, Im interested in sex, violence, religion and all the things that make life interesting.

Bullying and violence that exists in someone can also be inherent in a nation without us knowing it.

Black Power If the motive is good, and there are no other possibilities, then seen most deeply it [violence] is nonviolence, because its aim is to help others.

But does that mean that war and violence are inevitable? I would argue not because we have also evolved this amazingly sophisticated intellect, and we are capable of controlling our innate behavior a lot of the time.

But I can't bear it when somebody who some man made a pass at - to call that violence seems to me absurd and insulting to women who've really met violence, who've been raped or bashed.

Bush and bin Laden are really on the same side: the side of faith and violence against the side of reason and discussion. Both have implacable faith that they are right and the other is evil.

But, I don't know, the violence, I can't even talk about. We don't do a lot of violent shows. When I started in television, breaking a pencil was a violent act.

But I don't think there has ever been anything written on the nature of violent man as deep and as thorough as Shakespeare's Titus. I think it puts all modern movies and modern exploitations of violence to shame.

Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.

By ending catch-and-release on the border, we will end the cycle of human smuggling and violence. Illegal border crossings will go down. We will stop it. It won't be happening very much anymore. Believe me.

By choosing to be kind instead of cruel, we can break the karmic chain of reacting to violence with more violence, contributing to a more peaceful future for everyone.

But transitions from the politics of violence to democratic compromise are always messy.

By what standard of morality can the violence used by a slave to break his chains be considered the same as the violence of a slave master?

Citizens who live or work near protest sites or marches have every right to be free of violence from protesters, and they should never be subjected to destruction of property.

Caroline says as she gets up from the floor, you can hit me all you want to, but I don't love you anymore.

Christians appeal to those who wrong them and make them friendly to themselves; they are eager to do good to their enemies; they are mild and conciliatory.

Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.

Circumcision is where sex and violence meet for the first time.

Civil disobedience does not admit of any violence or countenancing of violence directly or indirectly.

Classifying and judging people promotes violence.

Civil disobedience is the only nonviolent escape from the soul-destroying heat of violence.

Colombia has been the leading western recipient of U.S. arms and training as violence has grown through the '90s.

Comparison is an act of violence against the self.

Comparison leads to violence.

Conflict exists only when there are two opposing things: fear and non-fear, violence and non-violence.

Conflicts are fueled by the tendency of the powerful to exploit the power and the anger and frustration of the powerless, which turns into violence. International Solidarity Movement activists are attempting to confront the exploitation of power and to bring back hope to the powerless.