Violence Quotes

You just let your lower self go, and then it takes on all these aspects of the society - the city with horns blowing, the people yelling things at each other, and the all-in-all violence and chaos of the city. Put that on stage with music, and that's what this is.

I was offered one of the roles in a big project that shall remain nameless. I thought the whole thing encouraged violent sex crimes toward women. It made horrible, ghastly rape violence seem sexy. I just didn't want to sign my name to it.

The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility.

God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it.

I wanted to make the violence beautiful in order to heighten our revulsion.

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

All the Abrahamic faiths are marked by violence.

Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that's better left unsaid.

They believed that Britain was in Ireland defending their own interests, therefore the Irish had the right to use violence to put them out. My argument was that that type of thinking was out of date.

You may gain temporary appeasement by a policy of concession to violence, but you do not gain lasting peace that way.

It was exactly the same on the South Park movie really too. There's lots of violence in that too, but it always came down to anything sexual... They don't care about anything else.

Violence in Mexico has its origins in the lack of development and corruption.

Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence.

This is why my art is about violence. Because I was subjected to so much of it as a kid. After that, and a lot of thinking, I became less violent. I realized that there must be other ways. So, I started to pursue them.

Violence has been Nicaragua's most important export to the world.

I don't initiate violence, I retaliate.

To cure the violence, we must identify and heal the causes of hatred and violence. If we don't deal with the causes we will never be safe.

Violence is a calm that disturbs you.

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.