Top 1200 Violence Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mankind has to get out of violence only through 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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."