Best 2024 quotes in «violence quotes» category

I don't advocate senseless violence of any human being. I'm the one who's been beat down. But I will not be a victim again.

I don't advocate violence; but if a man steps on my toes, I'll step on his.

I don't feel comfortable with violence, and I'm not sure that I film violent scenes properly, and it's something I'm reticent to do, and yet violence is sort of in all of my films.

I don't ever believe in violence as a kind of medicine.

I don't initiate violence, I retaliate.

I don't like gratuitous violence. I don't like the 'Saw' movies. I don't like the 'Hostel' movies. I don't like anything that is violence for violence's sake.

I don't like to go to the movies to see violence or some kind of spy thing with all kinds of information you have to assimilate to understand the plot.

I don't mean to romanticise the struggle, that leads to all kinds of terrible violence and absurdities that are even worse than the perverse immediate gratification.

I don't require movies to be about good people, and I don't reject screen violence.

I don't think movies are the reason why this violence exists, I think it's going to happen whether movies are there or not.

I don't think that movies are too violent. But I do think that popcorn is too expensive, and this can often lead to violence.

I'd seen too many shrines in South Central and thought it was worth asking where the first bullet came from that started all this violence.

I express preference for a chronological sequence of events which precludes a violence.

If a man is not peaceful and non-violent, whichever religion he belongs to, he is not a man! Violence degrades man to a low-degree creature!

I felt sometimes too responsible as an actor because people promote violence or weird things that I don't want to be part of.

If a movie isn't a hit right out of the gate, they drop it. Which means that the whole mainstream Hollywood product has been skewed toward violence and vulgar teen comedy.

I feel perhaps I didn't deal with the question of violence in depth.

If God holds me to be a pure instrument for the spread of nonviolence in place of the awful violence now ruling the earth, He will give me the strength and show me the way.

If I do not respond to some situation, my conscience kills me. I believe in permissible violence, not necessarily non-violence.

If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.

If I had a large amount of money I should certainly found a hospital for those whose grip upon the world is so tenuous that they can be severely offended by words and phrases and yet remain all unoffended by the injustice, violence and oppression that howls daily about our ears.

If intellect plays a large part in the field of violence, I hold that it plays a larger part in the field of nonviolence.

If it is by force that we wish to achieve Swaraj, let us drop nonviolence and offer such violence as we may.

If I speak of Islamic violence, I must speak of Catholic violence.

If somebody's in prison for non-violence, drug usage, and never committed a hard crime, they should be pardoned and let out.

If non-violence is the Law of our being, the future is with Women.

I found a religion that blended scientific reason with spiritual reality in a unifying faith far removed from the headlines of violence, destruction and terrorism.

If one does not like the crime, cruelty, injustice and violence of this society, he CAN do something about it.

If the adjustment made by a court can be accepted or not, it will be refused whenever the men can gain more by continuing the strike, with whatever of violence that involves.

If there are sound reasons or bases for the points you demand, then there is no need for violence. On the other hand, when there is no sound reason that concessions should be made to you but mainly your own desire, then reason cannot work and you have to rely on force. Thus using force is not a sign of strength but rather a sign of weakness.

If the most important revolutionary part of the George W. Bush Doctrine is that states that harbor terrorists are terrorist states, what do we conclude from that? We conclude exactly what Kissinger was kind enough to say: These doctrines are unilateral. They are not intended as doctrines of international law or doctrines of international affairs. They are doctrines that grant the U.S. the right to use force and violence and to harbor terrorists, but not anyone else.

If violence wasn't your last resort, you failed to resort to enough of it.

If you check back through human history, you will find that three things, more than any others, have produced social transformation: violence, knowledge and wealth - and the greatest of these is wealth!

If we know how much passive violence we perpetrate against one another, we will understand why there is so much physical violence plaguing societies and the world.

If you are not vegan, please consider going vegan. It’s a matter of nonviolence. Being vegan is your statement that you reject violence to other sentient beings, to yourself, and to the environment, on which all sentient beings depend.

If you like capitalism, you will positively love depressions, because they are one and the same, like manic-depressives and their cycles, like spouse-abusers and their storms of violence.

If you give in to the threat of violence, if you give in to bullying, what you know is that there will be more bullying. There will not be less bullying. If you appease the bully, you make sure that he will bully you some more. Not less. It doesn't solve the problem. It makes the problem worse.

If you have Palestinians who have no hope, who don't have a job, who've used up all their resources, the notion of getting rid of violence is a dream.

If you're young and inexperienced you might accept what people tell you, that everything's going to be fine, it's okay. It's usually other young people saying that, who don't know any better. It's good to have a survival instinct because increasingly, especially in the whole Arab Spring sort of violence, you're mostly with young people who have not experienced what they're doing before.

If you speak [ about violence against Israelis], you are in an unspeakable place, have become a Nazi or its moral equivalent (if there is a moral equivalent). It certainly terrifies, but perhaps also it is a linguistic permutation of state terrorism, an assault that stops one in one's tracks, and secures the continuing operation of the regime and its monopoly on politically intelligible speech.

If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.

I grew up with a very quick temper, and the language of violence is a language that I'm very familiar and comfortable with.

I hate violence. That has never prevented me from using it in my films.

I hate violence, yes I do. It's kind of a dilemma, huh?.

I hate violence, and I didn't plan to write horror; it just poured out of me.

I have always felt that violence was the last refuge of the incompetent, and empty threats the last sanctuary of the terminally inept.

I have an implicit faith ... that mankind can only be saved through non-violence, which is the central teaching of the Bible, as I have understood the Bible.

I have experienced jealousy, possessiveness, verbal abuse and violence from men, but I have also experienced jealousy, possessiveness, verbal abuse and violence from women, usually when I failed to respond to their advances.

I have a violence in me that is hot as death-blood.

I have mastered the principles of several religions. They have all shocked me by the violence which I should have to do to my reason to accept the dogmas of any one of them.