Best 2024 quotes in «violence quotes» category

Political violence is organized violence on the top which creates individual violence at the bottom.

Politics is a substitute for violence.

Pornography and violence are by-products of societies in which private identity has been ... destroyed by sudden environmental change.

Power exercised with violence has seldom been of long duration.

Poverty breeds despair. We know this. Despair breeds violence. We know this. In turbulent times, isn't it cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than to defend yourself against them later?

Poverty does not cause violence and terrorism. Lack of education does not cause terrorism.

Preaching nonviolence on principle reproduces the existing institutionalized violence.

Random violence is incredibly infectious

Prophets have a way of dying by violence.

Preventing radicalization that leads to violence here in America is part of our larger strategy to decisively defeat al Qaeda.

Really, I wanted to make a movie [Valley Of Violence] about: How does violence affect people? This is a take from me on how violence affects people.

Revenge tries to solve the problem of vulnerability. If I strike back, I transfer vulnerability from myself to the other. And yet by striking back I produce a world in which my vulnerability to injury is increased by the likelihood of another strike. So it seems as if I'm getting rid of my vulnerability and instead locating it with the other, but actually I'm heightening the vulnerability of everyone and I'm heightening the possibility of violence that happens between us.

Refraining from harm, not out of fear, but out of concern for others, their well-being and out of respect is non-violence.

Sarah Palin's whole family got into a drunken public fistfight. Something police are calling a 'tragic case of trash-on-trash violence.'

Satyagraha has been designed as an effective substitute for violence.

Rather than bring peace and harmony, the EU will cause insurgency and violence.

Rome has betrayed itself. It knew the truth and chose violence, it knew humaneness and it chose tyranny.

Sanitised violence in movies has been accepted for years. What seems to upset everybody now is the showing of the consequences of violence.

Saving Private Ryan was probably the illest, sickest movie I've ever watched, and I didn't see anybody criticizing that one for violence.

Science, as opposed to technology, does violence to common sense.

Revolt, it will be said, implies violence; but this is an outmoded, an incompetent conception of revolt. The most effective form of revolt in this violent world we live in is non-violence.

Sexual assault and domestic violence are difficult things to talk about. Talk about them anyway.

Sex, action, special effects, and violence sell.

Seeing the similarity to oneself, one should not use violence or have it used.

Since the primitive times, the wealth of the popes was exposed to envy, their powers to opposition, and their persons to violence.

She knew that she could not have reached this white serenity except as the sum of all the colors, of all the violence she had known.

Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.

Society had grown cruel. People who felt they were unwanted or unwelcome in their own country, reacted with aggression. There was no such thing as meaningless violence. Every violent act had a meaning for the person who committed it. Only when you dared accept this truth could you hope to turn society in another direction.

So many women have experienced horrific forms of male violence throughout their lives, and why isn't there a song about how you get depressed because of it?

Social media and the Internet haven't changed our capacity for social interaction any more than the Internet has changed our ability to be in love or our basic propensity to violence, because those are such fundamental human attributes.

Sometimes violence cannot be stopped no matter what we do. But the more peaceful we are, the better chance we have of bringing out the peace in those around us.

Sometimes when we're incensed by the rancid tide of injustice, the impulse is to attack. We must avoid this. We have learned that violence as a means is always unsuccessful.

Slavery is what slavery's always been: About one person controlling another person using violence and then exploiting them economically, paying them nothing. That's what slavery's about

Somebody said to me, in a very well-meaning way, at a screening, "We love the movie but it's too violent. If you tone down the violence you could reach a great audience of kids.".

So, these political activities will create friction in and of themselves, and in this environment of friction there'll be additional violence.

Sometimes you want to have a talk about race, about police violence. It's very hard to get through to somebody. Everyone's got their side staked out. They don't want to talk about it. But you can break the ice with a little humor.

Sovereignty and the right to rule cannot be conferred on anyone no matter who ... as a result of an academic discussion. Sovereignty is acquired by force and power and violence.

States have invested themselves with the right to legitimise violence - so who gets criminalised and delegitimised? Only - or well that's excessive - usually, the resistance.

Success will be measured by change in the appallingly high levels of violence directed at women online and in the physical world, and change in the low levels of women's participation in public life.That change will require collective action, just as the changes so far have taken collective action.

Symbolic violence is violence wielded with tacit complicity between its victims and its agents, insofar as both remain unconscious of submitting to or wielding it.

Take away the violence and who will hear the man of peace?

Technology, ideology, and social and cultural changes periodically throw out new forms of violence for humanity to contend with.

So we have the toughest laws, and you have tremendous gun violence.

Terrorism: deadly violence against humans and other living things, usually conducted by government against its own people.

terrorism is interesting to a novelist because it's a crime that's driven by an idea, as opposed to some kind of base materialist impulse. It's not like stealing from someone's house, or even assassinating someone. There are very complex ideological reasons behind these almost abstract acts of violence.

"Terrorism" is what we call the violence of the weak, and we condemn it; "war" is what we call the violence of the strong, and we glorify it.

That is a lie. I'm not for wanton violence, I'm for justice.

The absence and suppression of justice can only open the way for extremists to exploit such a condition to perpetrate acts of violence against innocents.

The aggressive, unprovoked acts of violence against Israel by Hezbollah and Hamas are revealing. It is clear they don't want peace, but rather seek the ultimate destruction of Israel.

The American formal position has been that we oppose violence by governments against their people. That principle should not be abandoned.