Top 1200 Senseless Violence Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

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.

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.

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

I would rather suffer with coffee than be senseless.

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

Resistance at all cost is the most senseless act there is.

You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things!

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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."

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

Given the racist and patriarchal patterns of the state, it is difficult to envision the state as the holder of solutions to the problem of violence against women of color. However, as the anti-violence movement has been institutionalized and professionalized, the state plays an increasingly dominant role in how we conceptualize and create strategies to minimize violence against women.

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

That is all very senseless, but this senselessness has a pretty mouth, and it smiles.

All of my life I have stayed away from violence and the instruments of violence, and have seen a legal, democratic struggle as the only means to achieve change.

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

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

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

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

Can the perpetrator of a "senseless" crime use transcendence as a defense?

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

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

We set ourselves the ultimate aim of abolishing the state, i.e., all organized and systematic violence, all use of violence against people in general.

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

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

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

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.

For there is another kind of violence, slower but just as deadly, destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night. This is the violence of institutions; indifference and inaction and slow decay. This is the violence that afflicts the poor, that poisons relations between men because their skin has different colors. This is a slow destruction of a child by hunger, and schools without books and homes without heat in the winter.

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

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

If you love with violence and you hate with violence there is nothing that can be questioned.

Nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger... . Between violence and cowardly flight I can only prefer violence to cowardice.

Time does us violence; it is the only 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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Violence should not always beget more violence.

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

You are thought here to the most senseless and fit man for the job.

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.

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

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

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

I'm very disturbed by violence against women when it is violence.

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

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