Violence Quotes
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My holy of holies is the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love, and the most absolute freedom imaginable, freedom from violence and lies, no matter what form the latter two take. Such is the program I would adhere to if I were a major artist.
Anton Chekhov
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I cannot believe that violence depicted onscreen actually causes people to act out violently. That's oversimplifying the issue. If somebody commits a violent act after seeing violence in a movie, I think the question that needs to be asked is: would that person still have committed the act if he had not seen a violent film?
Park Chan-wook
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What is the point of all this violence? Nothing is being proven, nothing is being won. Just a massive waste of life. God help us. Love>death
Amy Lee
Evanescence
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'Preacher' - what it's saying is not just blasphemy and good, fun violence. It's asking, 'Where is God?' If he is there, what's he doing?
Joe Gilgun
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I really believe in non-violence, but I also believe in a short of resistance that has to be respectful.
Alexandra Paul
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Violence may be a good focus to organize around, but we have to look at women's lives in our entirety.
Patricia Ireland
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I did some research into domestic violence, and there were some stories that will stay me with forever.
Liane Moriarty
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The fateful equating of power with violence, of the political with government, and of government with a necessary evil has begun.
Hannah Arendt
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Last chances in the Middle East have been two a dirham since the 1950s. Each year the enmities are more profound, the despots more bloodthirsty and clownish, the violence more extreme, and the conditions of ordinary existence more ghastly.
James Buchan
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We don't need no more danger, we don't need no more difficulties, we don't need no more misunderstanding, and we don't need no more violence. We need the people to see each other and know of each other, feel each other, touch each other, share with each other, and change hearts with each other.
Burning Spear
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What's more American than violence?' Hayduke wanted to know. 'Violence, it's as American as pizza pie.
Edward Abbey
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In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted to carry weapons, to swat an insect or speak an angry word, a discipline that introduced them to a new way of living.
Karen Armstrong
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Jim Crow laws stripped blacks of basic rights. Despite landmark civil rights laws, many public schools were still segregated, blacks still faced barriers to voting, and violence by white racists continued. Such open racism is mostly gone in America, but covert racism is alive and well.
Bob Beckel
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In a world built on violence, one must be a revolutionary before one can be a pacifist.
A. J. Muste
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...In the past, as now, [Hollywood] was a stamping ground for tastelessness, violence, and hyperbole, but once upon a time it turned out a product which sweetened the flavor of life all over the world.
Anita Loos
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I think it's very easy to disgust the reader with violence on the page - that's incredibly easy - but it's far harder to make a reader care about a character.
Mark Billingham
