Best 2024 quotes in «violence quotes» category

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

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.

Is this something new, having people stomp on you? Is it what I need to do for your pleasure?

I still care deeply about so many thing. And so I'm going to be engaged. I'm going to be out there as - with a platform to talk about the things that I care about: foreign policy and, you know, violence against women, you know, the inequity in the tax structure.

I think American audiences are quite interesting in that they can handle almost any amount of violence, but the moment the violence becomes sexual violence it immediately becomes an issue.

I think I tend to feel discomfort more when I anticipate or arrive upon moments in which I need to be careful. As a gay person, there's the fear of violence, and we're not making that up.

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.

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 absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Islam does not preach hatred and violence and destruction.

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

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

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.

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

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 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 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'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'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.

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

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

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.