Best 2024 quotes in «violence quotes» category

I maintain that nothing useful and lasting can emerge from violence.

I'm a strong person, but I'd never resort to violence.

I'm a student of violence because I'm a student of the human heart.

I'm a very great non-violent character. I would never resort to violence to change anything.

I'm concerned about justice. I'm concerned about brotherhood. I'm concerned about truth. And when one is concerned about these, he can never advocate violence.

I'm doing an over-the-shoulder shot on a dog. I'm putting the camera behind the dog's shoulder. This is craziness. You just accept it in the movie [Valley of Violence], but when you make the movie, it's the weirdest thing. There's dog coverage, like it's a person.

I'm not advocating violence but I think somebody should shoot Simon Cowell.

I'm not going to appeal to violence or aggression - of course not.

I'm not affected by violence the way some people are. I don't know why, but I enjoy that intensity.

I'm not a hateful person and don't condone any kind of violence against others.

I'm not up for violence, just for fun.

I'm not someone who ever enjoys violence against women or children.

I'm not someone who is a fan of a lot of violence.

I'm very disturbed by violence against women when it is violence.

I'm really interested in violence. And I think there's an inevitably cinematic property that violence brings to the moviegoing experience. But one still has to be thoughtful and mature about how you depict it and how you think it through. You have to think about the effects that violence has on audiences, and it's deployed so casually that I think it's losing its meaning. And when things like violence and murder and the dehumanization of other people lose their meaning, then we're really kind of in a place where we have to reexamine and take a hard look at ourselves.

I'm sure all of us agree that we need to overcome violence, but we first need to examine whether it has any value. From a strictly practical perspective, on certain occasions violence appears to be useful. We can solve a problem quickly by force. But this success is often at the expense of the rights and welfare of others. Although one problem has been solved, the seed of another has been planted.

I'm very careful about violence in games. I'm not interested in creating violent effects.

I myself am a very nonviolent person and only resort to violence when I absolutely have to.

In 1963 ... The Vatican condemned Dr. No as a 'dangerous mixture of violence, vulgarity, sadism and sex.' Ka-ching!

I'm so sick of seeing guns in movies, and all this violence; and if there was going to be violence in Pines, I wanted it to actually be narrative violence. I wasn't interested in fetishizing violence in any way of making it feel cool or slow-motion violence. I wanted it to be just violence that affected the story.

In all these situations, there was not enough violence against them to take it beyond the category of sex; they were not coerced enough.

In all places, and in all times, those religionists who have believed too much have been more inclined to violence and persecution than those who have believed too little.

In defense of our persons and properties under actual violation, we took up arms. When that violence shall be removed, when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, hostilities shall cease on our part also.

In attempting to explain geological phenomena, the bias has always been on the wrong side; there has always been a disposition to reason á priori on the extraordinary violence and suddenness of changes, both in the inorganic crust of the earth, and in organic types, instead of attempting strenuously to frame theories in accordance with the ordinary operations of nature.

In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence.

In a world built on violence, one must be a revolutionary before one can be a pacifist.

Indeed the very word, nonviolence, a negative word, means that it is an effort to abandon the violence that is inevitable in life.

India's freedom will not be won by violence but only by the purest suffering without retaliation.

In England ... education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and would probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.

In many instances violence - which obviously inflicts tremendous trauma on victims - also inflicts trauma on the perpetrator. Radical evil takes a lot of preparation, not just from an organizational point of view, but from brainwashing, psychological preparation and the legitimization of violence.

In fact, violence as a symbol of our growing irrationality has had an increasing role in activity for its own sake, when no possible justification could be made that the activity was seeking to resolve a problem.

In far Eastern Russia, there's just some towns that time has forgotten. I guess they used to maybe be industrial or something that are now there's just lots of rusty hulks of buildings and a lot of people wandering around, a lot of alcoholism and violence because people have got nothing to do and no work. Yet people were very generous.

In my film "Benny's Video," I depicted violence but I failed to say all that I had to say, so I wanted to continue the dialog and that's why I did "Funny Games." The irony is that after I shot "Funny Games," but it hadn't been released at all anywhere.

In non-violence the cause has to be just and clear as well as the means.

In my religion I really cannot think of cases where violence is justified.

Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them.

[In response to the question "Do you think that you underestimated the insurgency's strength?"] I think so. I guess if I look back on it now, I don't think anybody anticipated the level of violence that we've encountered.

In the city, a lot of crime happens, a lot of violence happens from time to time.

In the 21st Century, I'd like to think women have the right to live lives free of both sexual violence and daily harassment, as well as any other form of inequality.

In the application of the method of non-violence, one must believe in the possibility of every person, however depraved, being reformed under humane and skilled treatment.

Intolerance is a species of violence and therefore against our creed.

In times of violence, personal predilections for niceties of colour and form seem irrelevant. All primitive expression (like the myths) reveals the constant awareness of powerful forces, the immediate presence of terror and fear.

I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie.

I read what I like to write: romantic suspense. I also love thrillers and novels of suspense, but I can't handle extreme violence and torture.

I recognize no empire of this present age.

I often close my eyes because I can't tolerate violence.

I sometimes go for the strongest, most vivid colour on the palette, which in the case of movies is violence.

Islam does not preach hatred and violence and destruction.

I smacked her, cracked her, put her in a full nelson.

Is there anything more useless than a crouton? I sometimes wake up in the small hours with a start and realise that what's roused me is an overpowering urge to visit violence on its originator.