Best 2024 quotes in «violence quotes» category

I think movies glamorize violence, in the sense that they make it in a way that it's either cool or funny.

I think one has to be aware that a change needs to be made to improve one's life and then there will always be alternatives and choices that can lead you away from a life of violence.

I think people are propelled towards violence, and what propels them is much more interesting than the actual act of violence itself.

I think that all the silence is worse than all the violence

I think that all the silence is worse than all the violence, Fear is such a weak emotion that's why I despise it, We scared of almost everything, afraid to even tell the truth, So scared of what you think of me, I'm scared of even telling you...

I think that just as we're in the nuclear era we're also in an era of non-violence. It's undefeatable.

I think there's a certain numbness in modern society, that accepts certain kinds of violence, but represses other kinds of violence.

I think there's a natural system in your own head about how much violence the scene warrants. It's not an intellectual process, it's an instinctive process.

I think violence is counter-productive and it is bad in democratic societies.

I think violence can never be justified. At the same time, nobody’s culture or beliefs should be insulted, that’s not something I can accept either. But I cannot justify or accept any violence at all.

It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.

I think violence begets violence. I don't think a way to solve any sort of conflict is with violence because nothing ever ends up solved, that way.

I think violence has always been popular, way before movies started being made.

It is bad for the soul to know itself a coward, it is apt to take refuge in mere wordy violence.

It is a sound interpretive rule...that anything that cannot be accomplished except with the aid of threats or the actual exercise of violence against unoffending persons cannot be beneficial to one and all.

It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.

It is difficult to judge, when both sides are employing weapons of violence, which side 'deserves' to succeed.

It is claimed for satyagraha that it is a complete substitute for violence or war.

It is clear that no one will achieve any kind of objective through the force of violence, and that no one will make Spaniards yield to threats of guns, whoever may be holding them

It is possible, I suppose, that we are returning to a Dark Age. What is frightening is that violence is not only represented by nations, but everywhere walks among us freely.

It is not tricks of sense But the time's fright within me which distracts Least fancies into violence

It is my belief that the problem of bringing peace to the world on a supranational basis will be solved only by employing Gandhi's method on a larger scale.

It is no non-violence if we merely love those that love us. It is non-violence only when we love those that hate us.

It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

It's a bad thing that happens to women, but when you look at that term 'violence against women,' nobody is doing it to them. It just happens to them. Men aren't even a part of it.

It is the madness of folly, to expect mercy from those who have refused to do justice; and even mercy, where conquest is the object, is only a trick of war; the cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf.

It is the quietest and meekest people who are often capable of the most sudden and unexpected violences for the reason that when their control does snap, it goes entirely. (Hercule Poirot)

It may be that there is so much ambiguity and ideology attached to the term 'terrorism' that it is best to avoid its use altogether, as it is likely to be twisted in public discourse to demonise the enemies of the established order, while exempting state violence from legal and moral scrutiny.

It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.

It is through truth & non-violence that I can have some glimpse of God. Truth & non-violence are my God. They are the obverse and reverse of the same coin.

It's amazing to me that no matter what city, what state, no matter where I am, a woman will come up to me and say "Thank you, thank you" for writing the 1994 Violence Against Women Act, which funds services for victims and pushes to put more assailants behind bars.

It seems that the only gun violence some leftists approve of is gun violence aimed at cops and other groups they see as oppressive or racist.

It seems evident that the basis for civil safety is homogeneity. A culture which is socially uniform is pretty well devoid of informal violence.

It's Ethan Hawke and John Travolta [in Valley of Violence]. It's awesome. They're awesome.

Its [Communism's] unfortunate association with violence encourages a certain evil tendency in human beings.

It seems disingenuous to ask a writer why she, or he, is writing about a violent subject when the world and history are filled with violence.

It's pure Black Label. It's about violence and booze. That's all it is. There is no plan

It’s impossible to say who has guns in Gaza anymore. The ballots are the only thing that can stop the violence at this point.

It's not enough just to treat women well. We have to work to make sure all men treat women well.

It's not that the film is violent, it's that people have an issue with violence right now.

It's one thing to say, 'I don't like what you said to me and I find it rude and offensive,' but the moment you threaten violence in return, you've taken it to another level, where you lose whatever credibility you had.

It's so weird that I play this woman who pretty much deals with violence on a daily basis, and I'm such a wimp in who I am.

It's not the violence of the few that scares me, it's the silence of the many

It's one of those things, when you look back on it, you'd go, "Oh, I could've done without that. If I could go back in time, I would do it different." That's the thing with violence in general.

It's odd how violence and humor so often go together, isn't it?

It's possible to disagree with someone about the ethics of non-violence without wanting to kick his face in.

It's so effortless to let my loneliness defeat me, make me mold myself to whatever would (in some way - but not wholly) relieve it. I must never forget it... I want sensuality and sensitivity, both... Let me never deny that... I want to err on the side of violence and excess, rather than to underfill my moments.

It was a step forward to charge Pinochet with terrorism, and to acknowledge that the essence of the crime is the use of political violence to induce great fear in society and against those who are innocent, and not just such violence that is directed against the state by opposition groups.

It takes four generations to recover from every act of violence.

It was clear to me that if we allowed the Freedom Ride to stop at that point, just after so much violence had been inflicted, the message would have been sent that all you have to do to stop a nonviolent campaign is inflict massive violence.