Top 1200 Physical Violence Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

At physical death man loses his consciousness of the flesh and becomes conscious of his astral body in the astral world. Thus physical death is astral birth. Later, he passes from the consciousness of luminous astral birth to the consciousness of dark astral death and awakens in a new physical body. Thus astral death is physical birth. These recurrent cycles of physical and astral encasements are the ineluctable destiny of all unenlightened men.

All things which have a directing force here in the physical world cease to exist when one arrives in the imaginative world. If, on the physical plane, you imagine yourself to have done something you actually have not done, you will soon be persuaded by the facts of the physical world that this is not so. This is not the case in astral space.

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.

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

Non-violence is backed by the theory of soul-force in which suffering is courted in the hope of ultimately winning over the opponent. But what happens when such an attempt fail to achieve the object? It is here that soul-force has to be combined with physical force so as not to remain at the mercy of tyrannical and ruthless enemy.

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

Violence produces only something resembling justice, but it distances people from the possibility of living justly, without violence.

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

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

I don't feel comfortable with violence, and I'm not sure that I film violent scenes properly, and it's something I'm reticent to do, and yet violence is sort of in all of my films.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

In 1994, the bipartisan Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) was signed into law to prevent and combat domestic violence.

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

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

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.

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

It's actually as simple as this. New authors, building their customer base, need physical bookshops. Physical bookshops are lovely tactile, friendly, expert, welcoming places. Physical books, which can only be seen and handled in physical bookshops, are lovely, tactile things. Destroy those bookshops, and the very commercial and cultural base to the book industry is destroyed. Once and for all. Like Humpty Dumpty, it can never be put together again.

No other form of violence is legitimate. It is never acceptable to use violence to solve a problem. Whether personal or political.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute. The spirit lies dormant in the brute, and he knows no law but that of physical might. The dignity of man requires obedience to a higher laws - to the strength of the spirit.

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

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.

All of the physical universes put together, stretching out endlessly, are only a fraction of the totality of reality. In other words, all of the physical universes are only part of the physical dimensional plane, and there are thousands of dimensional planes.

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

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

I've never liked talking about my personal life, ever. Ever since I was 20, I've lived in a kind of public arena; and there have been stalkers, blackmailers, death threats, physical violence and threats to friends of mine, colleagues of mine, to myself.

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

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