Best 2024 quotes in «violence quotes» category

One who, while seeking happiness, oppresses with violence other living beings who also desire happinesss, will not find happiness hereafter.

Only reverence can restrain violence - reverence for human life and the environment.

Only thought which does violence to itself is hard enough to shatter myth.

On this International Day of Peace, let us dare to imagine a world free of conflict and violence

[O]rganized violence punctuated by committee meetings.

Or will it take some cataclysmic act of violence on U.S. soil to finally awaken our gamesmen to the costs of global hegemony?

Our aim is not to do things by violence to opponents.

Our emotions may cry for vengeance in the wake of a horrible crime, but we know that killing the criminal will not undo the crime, will not prevent similar crimes by others, does not benefit the victim, destroys human life and brutalizes society. If we are to still violence, we must cherish life. Executions cheapen life.

Our first responsibility in the midst of violence is to prevent it from destroying us.

Our glorification of violence is ripping society apart. I don't want my children exposed to it.

Our job as writers and thinkers in the time is how to bring about the occasions that let people have that first-person experience - or the metaphoric experience that allows them to see human continuity as opposed to total threat, total willingness to do violence.

Our Lord God doesn't do great things except by violence, as they say

Our silence is deafening and deadly.

PANTOMIME, n. A play in which the story is told without violence to the language. The least disagreeable form of dramatic action.

Peace needs and takes time, it needs and takes caution, it needs and takes patience after 30 years of terrorism and violence.

Passion is all but soft, it's not tender, it's violence to which you get hooked by pleasure.

Peace isn't the mere absence of violence; peace must come from inner peace. And inner peace comes from taking others’ interests into account.

Parents are the most likely to be victims of the violence of their mentally ill children.

Peace is not just the absence of violence,peace is when the flowers bloom.

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

Personally, I can't stand violence. In any standard American mainstream movie, there's 20 times more violence than in any one of my films, so I don't know why those directors aren't asked why they're such specialists for violence.

People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.

Permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth and violence

Personally, I don't like watching violence. I'd much rather see more skin.

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.

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

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?

Preaching nonviolence on principle reproduces the existing institutionalized violence.

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.

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

Prophets have a way of dying by violence.

Random violence is incredibly infectious

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Satyagraha has been designed as an effective substitute 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.

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

Sex, action, special effects, and violence sell.

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

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.

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.