Top 1200 Random Violence Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

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.

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

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

Rousseau had it backwards. We are NOT born free. We are born in the chains of the random and the reflexive, and are ignorant and unreasonable by simple nature. We must learn to be free, to organize the random and detect the reflexive, to acquire the knowledge of particulars and the powers of reason. The examined life is impossible if we cannot examine, order, classify, define, distinguish, always in minute particulars.

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

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

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.

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

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."

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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.

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.

Violence should not always beget more violence.

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.

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

Time does us violence; it is the only violence.

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

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

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

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

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

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 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.

No violence, gentlemen — no violence, I beg of you! Consider the furniture!

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

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

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

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

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

Our age has need of violence," he writes. And he is violence.

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.

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

Sanitised violence in movies has been accepted for years. What seems to upset everybody now is the showing of the consequences of 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.

Men are so accustomed to maintaining external order by violence that they cannot conceive of life being possible without violence.

There's a difference between action and violence. Violence isn't fun.

Violence will only increase the cycle of violence.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Random questions are the least random of all questions.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

My favorite nights out are the most random ones - when they start at a bowling alley and end up someplace you don't even know where. Those are my favorite - the most random ones that you don't plan, when you meet up with friends, and you're supposed to do something and end up doing something else.

Beware of those who would use violence, too often it is violence they want and neither truth nor freedom.

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

There is a problem here in America when it comes to police violence and gun violence, that I believe is being ignored by not giving the proper resources to communities.