Top 1200 Family Violence Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas

Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak... Non-violence is hard work.

Violence begets violence, and then you get leaders who are violent men. And you don't want that.

It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas.

Where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence.

Violence maims not only the body but also the mind and spirit. As Pierre Bourdieu has argued, it lies "on the side of belief and persuasion." If we are to counter violence by offering young people ways to think differently about their world and the choices before them, they must be empowered to recognize themselves in any analysis of violence, and in doing so to acknowledge that it speaks to their lives meaningfully.

I think violence should be a bit much sometimes because I don't like glorifying violence.

Those who 'abjure' violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf.

Answer violence with violence. If one of us falls today, five of them must fall tomorrow.

Violence in real life is terrible; violence in movies can be cool. It's just another colour to work with.

I believe actual violence scars children much more than violence in storybooks.

Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.

I'm concerned about a better world. I'm concerned about justice; I'm concerned about brotherhood; I'm concerned about truth. And when one is concerned about that, he can never advocate violence. For through violence you may murder a murderer, but you can't murder murder. Through violence you may murder a liar, but you can't establish truth. Through violence you may murder a hater, but you can't murder hate through violence. Darkness cannot put out darkness; only light can do that.

We all come from different levels, and I think every human has their own relationship to violence, athletic violence and fighting.

There is violence in real life but I would never impose violence in a film just to attract the audience.

When faced with a choice between violence and cowardice, always choose violence

The Oriental approach to violence is a much more aesthetic and poetic approach, whereas in the western world, violence is put in because you can't solve the problem. Violence is always the last solution, but unfortunately, in cinema, it's the first solution, because it's easy. And it's often too easy.

Practically every violent conflict or social change has proved that violence unleashes violence in return.

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.

The world is ruled by violence, or at least the imminent threat of violence. It always has been.

Violence has not really been an issue. Even in my wildest hopes, I wasn't trying to get violence in.

One bleeding-heart type asked me in a recent interview if I did not agree that 'violence begets violence.' I told him that it is my earnest endeavor to see that it does. I would like very much to ensure - and in some cases I have - that any man who offers violence to his fellow citizen begets a whole lot more in return than he can enjoy.

Abortion is violence; a deep, desperate violence inflicted by a woman upon, first of all, herself.

Non-violence should be a tactic - not an ideology preached from the sidelines to victims of massive violence.

There are things that can be accomplished only by violence. Physical love is unthinkable without violence.

I've always been terrified of violence which is probably why I keep making violent films - I'm trying to exorcise some demons or something. My mum ended up bringing me up on the edge of a big estate in south London, so I was on the periphery of violence - a lot of football violence and stuff because I was a Millwall supporter. So I've always had a very healthy fear of it, yet at the same time a fascination. I think in all of my films that's a really strong subtext... people who are terrified by violence but are yet compelled by it as well.

Civil disobedience does not admit of any violence or countenancing of violence directly or indirectly.

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

Yes, violence begets more violence, but historically this has been the way of the world.

We've never advocated violence; violence is inflicted upon us. But we do believe in self-defense for ourselves and for black people.

Not violence, nor untruth but non-violence and Truth are the laws of our being.

In some cases non-violence requires more militancy than violence.

I have a deep-seated skepticism about the morality of violence. Violence is almost always morally corrosive.

Of course, I write crime stories, and I have to describe violence and the aftermath of violence.

The violence associated with the A.N.C. is minimal, infinitesimal next to the violence of the apartheid regime.

No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence in the end is rewarded.

I want the violence among young people in this country to stop - particularly gang violence.

If there is violence, it will certainly be crushed because violence can only end in a disgraceful rout.

My philosophy is that one shall not resort to violence unless one is resolved to become the subject of violence at any time.

Violence - look, we live in a violent world, man. This country was founded on violence. Who's kidding who?

I don't know specifically what scenes I'd like to see violence in - I crave violence when I'm watching a John Hughes movie.

This is what terrorism is occupied with as well: making real, palpable violence surface in opposition to the invisible violence of security.

The attention of the media is only caught by acts of violence... so I must perform this act of violence against myself.

The sexist perception that violence by anyone against only women is anti-woman while violence by a woman against only men is just generic violence creates a political demand for laws that are even more protective of women.

That's violence, terrible violence, to tell a woman to sit down and shut up.

We recognize that violence is a learned behavior. One of the best classrooms for learning violence is in the home.

If you disapprove of violence, then you can't think there is any age when violence is appropriate.

If I do not respond to some situation, my conscience kills me. I believe in permissible violence, not necessarily non-violence.

Mankind has to get out of violence only through non-violence.

Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.

What is gained by violence must be lost before superior violence.

I know, it's disturbing that gentle looking people have such violence, but I believe we all have a penchant for violence in us.

When a rap song glorifies violence, death and sadness and loss is inflicted because of the violence.

I think, personally, nothing comes from violence other than more violence.

Violence does not resolve. It always leads to more violence.

Violence is the gold standard, the reserve that guarantees order. In actuality, it is better than a gold standard, because violence has universal value. Violence transcends the quirks of philosophy, religion, technology, and culture. () It's time to quit worrying and learn to love the battle axe. History teaches us that if we don't, someone else will.

For me popular violence is as much an obstruction in our path as the Government violence.

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

We try to show that violence has a consequence - when you create violence, it turns against you.

The violence seems to be diminishing. They've stared into the abyss a bit. I think they've all concluded that further violence... is not in their interests.