Violence Quotes

People use location as a language in films, and Quentin uses action as a language in his films. There's really not a lot of violence. It's more of an emotional beat than it is a physical beat.

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.

Violence is a calm that disturbs you.

The Middle East is ailing. The malady stems from pervasive violence, shortages of food, water and educational opportunities, discrimination against women and - the most virulent cause of all - the absence of freedom.

I do not like violence.

Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.

We tried to make a movie that had sex and violence because we like sex and violence.

If an adult uses violence on a child, the child will naturally assume that he too, has the right to use it on one smaller or weaker.

The violence in the world comes about because we human beings are forever creating barriers between men who are like us and men who are not like us.

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.

Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and justice should understand that it is not terrifically important to us that they learn to cry; it is important to us that they stop the crimes of violence against us.

Violence against judges and threats of violence against Judges is on the rise and it is no laughing matter. When leaders attempt to rationalize this violence, it only makes the problem worse.

To be reserved, secretive, with a passionate violence that causes suffering.

As we're bombarded with the imagery that we are and now, post 9-11, it's hard not to get hardened by the world and the amount of violence that's allowed to be shown to kids these days.

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.

Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.

Violence was almost an aphrodisiac for me.

What postmodernism gives us instead is a multicultural defense for male violence - a defense for it wherever it is, which in effect is a pretty universal defense.

Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.

I've talked to law enforcement officials at the state and local level who say that violence against women is going up. In any case, we think that it's an important issue whether it's going up or not. And we are determined to stop it.

Mental violence is as bad as physical violence. You don't see that very often in movies, so it was a good subject to tackle.

A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends.

Resorting to violence and the use of force at holy sites is unacceptable, whatever the reason might be.

Abortion is the ultimate violence.

Over 120 Aboriginal communities run their own health services - some have been doing so for 30 years. They struggle with difficult medical problems. They also try to deal with counselling, stolen generations issues, family relationships, violence, suicide prevention.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

With the adoption of the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, the international community sent out a clear message that gender based violence will not be tolerated.

The copycat effects of media violence, similar to those previously attributed to westerns, radio serials and comic books, are easy to exaggerate.

I don't support violence, period.

Violence may be a good focus to organize around, but we have to look at women's lives in our entirety.