Violence Quotes

• Violence must be inflicted once for all; people will then forget what it tastes like and so be less resentful. Benefits must be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • People
  • Forget
  • Tastes

• Within a mere five months however, the mindless violence of 2002 had dealt us another unexpected blow. Innocents were killed. Families rendered helpless. Property built through years of toil destroyed. Still struggling to get back on its feet from the natural devastation, this was a crippling blow to an already shattered and hurting Gujarat.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Violence
  • Blow

• We know we can't stop every act of violence, every act of evil in the world, but maybe we could try to stop one act of evil, one act of violence.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Trying
  • Stop

• If you hate what you're seeing, you call it sex and violence. If you like it, you call it 'romance and adventure.'

  

  Joe Bob Briggs
  • Hate
  • Sex
  • Adventure

• What is magnificent about humans is when they decide to turn and stand. If they respond with non-violence on principle and hold their ground, they are really magnificent.

  

  James Cromwell
  • Violence

• No kids should see that kind of violence where Batman is killing as many people as the bad guys.

  

  Burt Ward
  • People
  • Kids
  • Bad

• Violence is a form of cinematic entertainment. Asking me about violence is like going up to Vincente Minnelli and asking him to justify his musical sequences.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Up
  • Violence

• Yiddish, the language which will ever bear witness to the violence and murder inflicted on us, bear the marks of our expulsions from land to land, the language which absorbed the wails of the fathers, the laments of the generations, the poison and bitterness of history, the language whose precious jewels are the undried, uncongealed Jewish tears.

  

  I. L. Peretz
  • History
  • Father
  • Tears

• There are a great number of peoples who need more than just words of sympathy from the international community. They need a real and sustained commitment to help end their cycles of violence, and launch them on a safe passage to prosperity.

  

  Kofi Annan
  • Great
  • Real
  • Help

• Violence against women and lack of intervention and man's inhumanity to man and this kind of atrocities are going on. These are big issues of our times, we must speak about them, we must learn how to better understand how these things happen so we can address them.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Men
  • Women
  • Kind

• The truth of the matter is movies are a reflection of life and violence is a real part of life. I don't think you could make movies exclusively where there was no violence.

  

  Christopher McQuarrie
  • Life
  • Real
  • Truth

• There is a cultural factor promoting violence which nowadays undoubtedly is highly effective is the mass media. And particularly everything that enters our minds through pictorial media.

  

  Alva Myrdal
  • Violence

• This October, we renew the fight against domestic violence and abuse in America. Together, we can eliminate domestic violence from homes across the country and ensure that our children grow up in healthy, peaceful communities.

  

  Lucille Roybal-Allard
  • Up
  • Country
  • Children

• Violence is totally accepted in this country.

  

  Jay Chandrasekhar
  • Country
  • Violence

• I have this problem with violence. I've only done one movie in almost 20 years where I killed people. It's called Perdita Durango. It's a Spanish movie. I'm very proud of the movie, but I felt weird doing that.

  

  Javier Bardem
  • People
  • Done
  • Movie

• Perhaps there is such a thing as obscene sex, but I know that violence is always obscene. So I don't get it, that you can disembowel a woman but you can't see her tits. Who made that up? That's sick!

  

  William H. Macy
  • Sex
  • Knows
  • Sick

• Though violence is not lawful, when it is offered in self-defense or for the defense of the defenseless, it is an act of bravery far better than cowardly submission. The latter befits neither man nor woman. Under violence, there are many stages and varieties of bravery. Every man must judge this for himself. No other person can or has the right.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Judge
  • Self-Defense
  • Varieties

• It is time to think about the future, and how this ongoing conflict will breed further hate, violence and terror across the world. How can we fight the ideological battle, if we do not chart the way forward towards Palestinian-Israeli peace? Our countries, united, must provide the momentum and chart the way forward towards a final, comprehensive settlement.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Time
  • World
  • Future

• The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise they will win and the decent people will loose.

  

  James Earl Jones
  • People
  • World
  • Law

• We cannot stop every act of senseless violence. We cannot know every evil that lurks in troubled minds. But if we can prevent even one tragedy like this, save even one life, spare other families what these families are going through, surely we've got an obligation to try.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Life
  • Stop
  • Evil

• The world soffers a lot. Not because the violence of bad people. But because of the silence of the good people.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Violence
  • Silence
  • Soffers

• Well, one hopes that if you're really related to the core of your particular culture, you have profound commitments to it, and that you are aware of how much you can strain it before you do violence to its essential nature.

  

  Chaim Potok
  • Nature
  • Culture
  • Profound

• Propaganda is to a democracy what violence is to a dictatorship.

  

  William Blum
  • Life
  • Democracy
  • inspirational

• Violence, whether spiritual or physical, is a quest for identity and the meaningful. The less identity, the more violence.

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • Spiritual
  • Identity
  • Meaningful

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