Top 1200 Gang Violence Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

If I do not respond to some situation, my conscience kills me. I believe in permissible violence, not necessarily non-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 faced with a choice between violence and cowardice, always choose violence

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

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

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

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.

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

For me, the toughest thing for kids to deal with is when the parents are fighting. It's not violence on them - it's the feeling of violence in the family.

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

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

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

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.

I think there are so many children being brought up in some form of violence, be it violence of poverty or sexism or racism or homophobia or transphobia. That violence takes a life to transform or overcome. I don't think people should be spending their lives dealing with that. I think people should be thriving, playing, creating, evolving.

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.

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

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

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

Football is controlled violence, but it is violence, which people have loved to watch since the gladiatorial contests in ancient Rome.

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

The true strength of the Christian is the power of truth and love, which leads to the renunciation of all violence. Faith and violence are incompatible.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

They call me "a teacher, a fomenter of violence." I would say point blank, "That is a lie. I'm not for wanton violence, I'm for justice."

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

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

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

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

The more children see of violence, the more numb they are to the deadly consequences of violence. Now, video games like 'Mortal Kombat,' 'Killer Instinct,' and 'Doom,' the very game played obsessively by the two young men who ended so many lives in Littleton, make our children more active participants in simulated violence.

The grand irony, however, is that Southern segregation was not brought to an end, nor redneck violence dramatically reduced, by violence.

I am profoundly fascinated by cruelty, fear, horror and death. My films show my preoccupation with violence, the pathology of violence.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

I think we can see violence in a whole range of realms. We certainly see it in the media, where extreme violence is now so pervasive that people barely blink when they see it, and certainly raise very few questions about what it means pedagogically and politically. Violence is the DNA, the nervous system of this system's body politic.

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

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