Best 2024 quotes in «violence quotes» category

We live in a society where manhood is all about conquering and violence. And what we don't realize is that ultimately that kind of manhood ultimately kills you.

Well I don't think sex and violence have ever stopped a movie from being mainstream.

We may never understand what leads anybody to terrorize their fellow human beings. Such violence, such evil is senseless. It's beyond reason.

We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.

We must choose between the violence of adults and the smiles of children.

We must talk about how sexism and patriarchy operate in conjunction with state violence. Until we're honest about that, and do something to resist, we're complicit in the persistence of oppression.

We need to do something about gun violence in America. But every time one of these things happen, we say the same thing, and then we don't seem to be able to do anything. And that needs to change.

We need to take violence against women seriously. It is the biggest indicator of whether a country is violent inside itself, and whether it will be militarily violent against another country.

We really are creatures of a violent world, biologically speaking - watching violence and learning about it is one of our cognitive drives.

We're fascinated by things that scare us, and one of the things that scares us is violence. Violence exists. It's a real part of our lives. We are obsessed with what we're scared of, but it certainly doesn't define us.

We remember when women were spoken of differently. I don't mean that we didn't speak of women sexually - that happened. It was never this crude: there wasn't the connotations, the violence. I think there's got to be a relationship between the coarsening of the culture, of which pornography was a piece of the puzzle.

We remain in the Romantic cycle initiated by Rousseau: liberal idealism canceled by violence, barbarism, disillusionment and cynicism.

We're warriors, this culture, and we're very puritanical about sex and very embracing about violence and I don't know why that is.

We're the most violent nation on earth. There's no getting away from that. But you've got to look at it on a broader level.

We seem okay with violence, but nudity we race to criticize and censor.

We shall not bind ourselves by treaties. We shall not allow ourselves to be entangled by treaties. We reject all clauses on plunder and violence, but we shall welcome all clauses containing provisions for good-neighbourly relations and all economic agreements; we cannot reject these.

We see violence to forcibly seize land, at any price, murders and corruption.

We shall not yield to violence. We shall not be deprived of union freedoms. We shall never agree with sending people to prison for their convictions.

We should all have greater freedoms to define and pursue our lives without pathologization, de-realization, harassment, threats of violence, violence, and criminalization. I join in the struggle to realize such a world.

We set ourselves the ultimate aim of abolishing the state, i.e., all organized and systematic violence, all use of violence against people in general.

We talk about how many women were raped last year, not about how many men raped women.

We wake, if we ever wake at all, to mystery, rumors of death, beauty, violence.

We were raised with that discussion about violence and non-violence, and we all pretty much came up on the side of non-violence. That became my foundation with politics and my livelihood.

What I have set down in a moment of ardour I must then critically examine. Sometimes I must do myself violence before I can mercilessly erase things thought out with love.

We want you to express your point of view but without violence.

What bothers me most about today is that we're getting used 2 it. ENOUGH. 2nd amendment must go. Violence has 2 stop. Culture MUST change.

What a vast difference there is between the barbarism that precedes culture and the barbarism that follows it.

What does it matter if, by chance, a little vile blood be spilled?

What is debt anyway? A debt is just the perversion of a promise. It is a promise corrupted by both math and violence.

What is gained by violence must be lost before superior violence.

What is the meaning of it, Watson? said Holmes solemnly as he laid down the paper. "What object is served by this circle of misery and violence and fear? It must tend to some end, or else our universe is ruled by chance, which is unthinkable. But what end? There is the great standing perennial problem to which human reason is as far from an answer as ever.

What is magnificent about humans is when they decide to turn and stand. If they respond with non-violence on principle and hold their ground, they are really magnificent.

What is wanted is a deliberate giving up of violence out of strength.

What's one more meaningless act of violence on that zoo of a planet? It would be appropriate. When in Rome; burn it.

What postmodernism gives us instead is a multicultural defense for male violence - a defense for it wherever it is, which in effect is a pretty universal defense.

What senseless violence does is to prolong the lease of life of the British or foreign rule.

What's most troubling about this witless mishmash of whiny, infantile philosophizing and bone-crunching violence is the increasing realization that it actually thinks it's saying something of significance.

When an argument is over, how many weighty reasons does a man recollect which his heat and violence made him utterly forget?

What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?

When activists need a pretext to justify their violence, they always find it.

When a man carries an instrument of violence, he'll always find the justification to use it.

When an audience does not complain, it is a compliment, and when it does, it is a compliment, too, if unaccompanied by violence.

When a trans woman gets called a man, that is an act of violence.

Whenever you have war, you often have more deaths because the medical system and the food system breaks down, than you have directly through violence.

Whenever we engage in consumption or production patterns which take more than we need, we are engaging in violence.

When I am abused online I take snapshots for evidence, I report it to the social media platform and I ban the abuser. If I am threatened with violence I report the abuser to the police. It is vital to remember that threatening violence online is just as illegal as it is offline. Know your rights and the reporting procedures of any online platform you use.

When I first started doing the quieter, more acoustic material in Swans, there was a lot of derision and outright hatred from the audience and press, just as in the early days of Swans when we were rejected outright because of the bludgeoning, single-minded violence of the music.

When I go see an R-rated horror movie, I want lots of violence.

When I'm describing wartime activities or violence I don't want to be too ornate, to prettify the picture. Once we trace them to the present, the prose becomes denser.

When you practice a life of non-violence you no longer need seek the truth, the truth finds you.