Violence Quotations | Page 3

A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.

I do not hold to non-violence for moral reasons, but for political and practical reasons.

I like a twisted sense of humour. On 'A History of Violence,' David Cronenberg and I would be doing the grimmest scenes and laugh a lot.

Nonviolence is fine as long as it works.

No matter how liberal I am, I'm still outraged by crimes of violence. Regardless of whether I can sympathize with the causes that lead these individuals to do these crimes, the effects are outrageous.

There's no violence coming from the Occupy protesters.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

The origins of violence against women by men are not biological. If that were the case, it would exist in every culture. And it doesn't exist in every culture.

Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.

Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.

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

Judge Afiuni has suffered enough. She has been subject to acts of violence and humiliations to undermine her human dignity. I am convinced that she must be set free.

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

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.

The same way that racism is a white person's problem, violence against women is a men's problem.

Working conditions for me have always been those of the monastic life: solitude and frugality. Except for frugality, they are contrary to my nature, so much so that work is a violence I do to myself.

The role of the intellectual cannot be to excuse the violence of one side and condemn that of the other.

Violence can succeed, as Americans know well from the conquest of the national territory. But at terrible cost. It can also provoke violence in response, and often does.

Could it be that violence is as much a part of the American identity as the Constitution, and a vital component to its economic stability?

We are at a very critical point, ... If Arafat gives a clear final order to stop the violence, and the violence really, totally stops, then everything is open again for resumption of the talks.

There are concerns that if we do not make progress ... desperate people will resort to violence again,

there is no link between the end of violence and the question of the settlements. That issue has to be discussed later on between the parties.

When we have those incidents, when there is a threat of violence, we take it very seriously.

Unless the commitments necessary to end the violence are carried out in a way that is sustainable and mutually reinforcing, it will be difficult for the parties to change the realities on the ground,

Using violence isn't the only way to solve a problem.

working to promote a culture of peace and to reject violence and eliminate its causes.

We reject violence to punish anyone who harms us.

Yes, I'm a bit bored ... there is no need of protests and violence to induce someone to leave. The desire to do it already exists.

With violence spiraling out of control, we felt we had to do something to reverse the direction of society,

Ulster (Northern Ireland) and the Balkans have already shown how difficult it is to split cities, and with Iraq's centralized and failing infrastructure, and impoverished economy, violence and economics cannot be separated.

Veganism has given me a higher level of awareness and spirituality, primary because the energy associated with eating has shifted to other areas. If you’re violent to yourself by putting [harmful] things into your body that violate its spirit, it will be difficult not to perpetuate that [violence] onto someone else.

What is debt anyway? A debt is just the perversion of a promise. It is a promise corrupted by both math and violence.

If history shows anything, it is that there's no better way to justify relations founded on violence, to make such relations seem moral, than by reframing them in the language of debt—above all, because it immediately makes it seem that it's the victim who's doing something wrong.

All politics is a struggle for power; the ultimate kind of power is violence.

Clarity moves much more efficiently than violence or stress.

When you get to the fourth, fifth and sixth years of a show, it's really good to have held back, so that you have somewhere to go. That also applies to levels of violence, levels of humor, levels of production value.

We remain in the Romantic cycle initiated by Rousseau: liberal idealism canceled by violence, barbarism, disillusionment and cynicism.

Despite hundreds of studies, cause-and-effect relationship between pornography and violence has never been satisfactorily proved. ?

If you see the blood, then there's an easy association of the violence. The violence that happens when there isn't blood is actually much more subversive and unsettling.

A bonus, being a writer, is that the true-life source material is fabulously bizarre. There's so much corruption, violence and free-floating depravity that the well never runs dry, whether you're a novelist, a journalist, or both.

Would you describe yourself as prone to violence?

Would I be dumb enough to do something like that? ... I always think violence is the last means and the last resort. I never advocate violence.

We have scraped together the $9,500 to keep the doors open until March 31. We need a miracle to save our domestic violence program, and in turn, save women and children.

We want participation from each of the 11 states in the original Confederacy. We invite all those committed to carrying the South out of the dark past of racial violence and conflict, away from fear and segregation and impoverishing lifestyles to share this journey with us.

For anybody who's ever been on the other end of, like, racial violence logic is not something that can be used.

We were basically spying with one arm tied behind our back. These restrictive limitations on not being able to recruit people who have some violence in their past as spies were ridiculous.

Jane! will you hear reason?' (he stooped and approached his lips to my ear) 'because, if you won't, I'll try violence.

It is not violence that best overcomes hate -- nor vengeance that most certainly heals injury.

The fact of the matter is, we need to have a very clear message. We haven't had that from the current president [Barack Obama]. And you've seen the violence in his home city of Chicago. This is just another example.

Hillary Rodham Clinton was America's chief diplomat. So let's look around at the violence and danger in our world today in every region of the world that has been infected with her flawed judgment.

I'm going to be specific so you can render your verdict. Let's go to North Africa, she was the chief engineer of the disastrous overthrow of [Muamar] Qaddafi in Libya. Libya today after Hillary Clinton's grand strategy? Their economy's in ruins. There's death and violence on the streets, and ISIS is now dominating that country.

The message [of Donald Trump] is that that type of thing happening. Let's focus on what happened.What happened was the murder, the murder of this person pushing a stroller, it's unacceptable in an American city to continue to have this level of violence and the level of violence in Chicago is unacceptable.

Until mankind is peaceful enough not to have violence on the news, there's no point in taking it out of shows that need it for entertainment value.

When I'm describing wartime activities or violence I don't want to be too ornate, to prettify the picture. Once we trace them to the present, the prose becomes denser.

Sarah Palin's whole family got into a drunken public fistfight. Something police are calling a 'tragic case of trash-on-trash violence.'

We are all sickened by these continual random acts of violence that are sweeping our country,

Women, who enjoyed a high social status and levels of education under Saddam, saw terrible setbacks as Iraq fell into civil war. As a result of the sectarian violence from 2005-2007, women retreated to their homes and fell from public view.

In attempting to explain geological phenomena, the bias has always been on the wrong side; there has always been a disposition to reason á priori on the extraordinary violence and suddenness of changes, both in the inorganic crust of the earth, and in organic types, instead of attempting strenuously to frame theories in accordance with the ordinary operations of nature.

Glorifying violence is terrible. Simulating sex is nothing - it's something so impersonal really.

Non violence is not a thing that comes easily. You have to learn how to be non-violent

I don't support violence, period.

Education is a vacine for violence

Education is a vaccine for violence.

So natural to man is the practice of violence that our indulgence allows the slightest provocation, the most disputable right, as a sufficient ground of national hostility.

Since the primitive times, the wealth of the popes was exposed to envy, their powers to opposition, and their persons to violence.

Jealousy is a painful passion; yet without some share of it, the agreeable affection of love has difficulty to subsist in its full force and violence.

As a woman, you accept the situation, adapt to it, and do your best, whereas men would choose violence.

You can't answer violence with counter violence ... The answer is love. The best sabotage is love.

We abhor crime, abuse and violence against anyone, but under the current proposal do not support elevating one group as a protected class over another and support the concept of equal protection under the law for all.

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

Most Americans would say that they disapproved of violence. But what they really mean is that they believe it should be the monopoly of the state.

Not only do most people accept violence if it is perpetuated by legitimate authority, they also regard violence against certain kinds of people as inherently legitimate, no matter who commits it.

Violence recoils on the violent.

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.

Violence is sometimes a duty.

There is nothing to be gained by being unnecessarily nasty. Violence begets violence.

Non-violence is a piece of theatre. You need an audience. What can you do when you have no audience?

The hatred of truth is the taproot of violence.

I will never be by violence constrained to do anything.

Hopefully we'll get to a point where people realize movies don't cause violence. It just reflects the violence going on in the culture.

All the copycat movies were always PG-13 and people said: "Nobody wants violence."

When I go see an R-rated horror movie, I want lots of violence.

Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.

As a Mark brand ambassador, I became extremely cognizant of the devastating statistics about dating abuse and partner violence via the mPowerment campaign and knew I wanted to help change those statistics. mPowerment by Mark and the Avon Foundation for Women funded the No More study, which explored dating abuse, partner violence, and sexual assault. I was honored to be part of it and report the results of the survey in a Capitol Hill briefing.

Violence is stupid. Even as a last resort, it only ever begets more of the same.

When a man carries an instrument of violence, he'll always find the justification to use it.

Keep violence in the mind Where it belongs (Barefoot in the Head)

Actual violence has no attraction for me at all.

The refugees flee to protect their families from violence; the Europeans, on the other hand, fear for their jobs that they need to feed their families.

We cannot turn our back and say that violence in films or anything that we do doesn't have a sort of influence. It does.

This will not help us reach our target of stopping the violence and to reviving the peace process,

We are hopeful our nation's Fourth of July celebration this year will not be tarnished by the removal of a child from this land of freedom, to a land of gross violence and extensively documented human rights' violations.

We did not choose violence, but there is no other path.

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.

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

America has become numb to violence because it just drowns in it, day in and day out.

At the same time as we clearly condemn actions of violence by groups in Palestinian against Israel.

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.

The onus of that task falls on the armed forces and the police force in East Timor and they haven't done a good job in recent times. It's important that they perform more effectively and do everything they can to stop the violence and move to disarm the two sides -- the paramilitaries and the pro-independence side,

The only way to stop the violence is to rescind the expulsion orders.