Best 2024 quotes in «violence quotes» category

One effect of an individualistic culture that's poor at instilling mutual respect is that people jump more quickly to anger or violence.

One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible. It may or may not be possible to turn the US around through nonviolent revolution. But one thing favors such an attempt: the total inability of violence to change anything for the better

One must do no violence to nature, nor model it in conformity to any blindly formed chimera.

One of my favorite scenes of the movie [Valley of Violence] is when Ethan Hawke is sitting at the campfire with the dog.

One of the things you don't have in Haiti is you don't have anybody on crack doing something completely out of - that's unpredictable. Even at the worst times in Haiti, the violence that had happened, the lack of security that happened, was largely predictable because it was politically tied.

One thing, however, I know with certainty: violence, or the direct threat of violence, of the kind we have seen in the past few days, is totally unjustified as a response to any published word or image.

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 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 aim is not to do things by violence to opponents.

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 silence is deafening and deadly.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth and violence

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

People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.

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

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

Pornography and violence are by-products of societies in which private identity has been ... destroyed by sudden environmental change.

Politics is a substitute for violence.

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?

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

Power exercised with violence has seldom been of long duration.

Random violence is incredibly infectious

Preaching nonviolence on principle reproduces the existing institutionalized violence.

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

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

Prophets have a way of dying by 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.

Sanitised violence in movies has been accepted for years. What seems to upset everybody now is the showing of the consequences of violence.

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

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.

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.'

Saving Private Ryan was probably the illest, sickest movie I've ever watched, and I didn't see anybody criticizing that one for violence.

Science, as opposed to technology, does violence to common sense.

Satyagraha has been designed as an effective substitute for violence.