Violence Quotes

• Do you directly target the violence because it so discourages any kind of economic development? Or do you bring in jobs and rehab homes, knowing that with a sense of opportunity the violence will diminish?

  

  Alex Kotlowitz
  • Violence
  • Development
  • Diminish

• I love a good harsh horror movie, when it's done well. But there are times when it feels cynical. You can tell when a filmmaker loves the genre, and you can tell when someone's just cashing in a paycheck. Then it becomes a dumbing down - a fetishisation of violence that I react very strongly against.

  

  Drew Goddard
  • Good
  • Done
  • Movie

• In 1962, my injury wasn't because of violence; I just kicked the ball and it happened. And that was OK because Brazil won; I didn't have any difficulty in accepting that. I still got a medal because I'd played two games.

  

  Pele
  • Violence

• There is one universal truth, applicable to all countries, cultures and communities: violence against women is never acceptable, never excusable, never tolerable.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Women
  • Truth
  • Violence

• There will be no peace until the violence is done. Peace is inaccessible without the violence, because violence is righteousness in action.

  

  Adam Nicolson
  • Peace
  • Action
  • Violence

• Plus fait douceur que violence.

  

  Jean de La Fontaine
  • Violence

• Whenever the true message of the cross is abolished, the anger of hypocrites and heretics ceases.. and all things are in peace. This is a sure token that the devil is guarding the entry to the house, and that the PURE doctrine of God's Word has been taken away. The Church then, is in the BEST state when Satan assaileth it on every sideboth with subtle sleights, and outright violence. And likewise, it is in the WORST state when it is most at peace!

  

  Martin Luther
  • Church
  • Taken
  • Message

• Police violence is the tip of the iceberg when it relates to the conditions overall of black people across the globe.

  

  Alicia Garza
  • People
  • Black
  • Police

• I am a steadfast follower of the doctrine of non-violence which was first preached by Lord Buddha, whose divine wisdom is absolute.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • War
  • Peace
  • Wisdom

• I always knew that the violence would be something that would be probably be brought up, but actually it's nothing to do with the movie. The first two minutes are all about establishing fear, that something horrible is going to happen. It [the violence] was done really quickly, and it wasn't like pornography where you can like dwell over it, you know. It had to be done, we had to kill some people.

  

  Paul McGuigan Oasis
  • Movie
  • Fear
  • Pornography

• I'm more alarmed by people reacting violently to the violence in my films than I am by the violence in films.

  

  George A. Romero
  • People
  • Violence

• Since the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School three years ago, we have lost over 90,000 Americans to gun violence. This is a manmade crisis that needs to be treated as the public health epidemic it has become.

  

  Elizabeth Esty
  • School
  • Lost
  • Health

• I do not oppose violence simply because it is counterproductive. I oppose it because it betrays animal rights philosophy. Those who resort to such tactics really have not understood that animal rights is about the extension of moral concern to all sentient beings--humans obviously included.

  

  Andrew Linzey
  • Violence
  • Philosophy
  • Animal Rights

• The forces of violence and oppression don't care about the innocent.

  

  Joni Ernst
  • Violence
  • Innocent

• Weapons are the tools of violence;all decent men detest them.Weapons are the tools of fear;a decent man will avoid themexcept in the direst necessityand, if compelled, will use themonly with the utmost restraint.Peace is his highest value.If the peace has been shattered,how can he be content?His enemies are not demons,but human beings like himself.He doesn't wish them personal harm.Nor does he rejoice in victory.How could he rejoice in victoryand delight in the slaughter of men?He enters a battle gravely,with sorrow and with great compassion,as if he were attending a funeral.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Victory
  • Sorrow
  • Weapons

• In my humble opinion, non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good. But in the past, non-cooperation has been deliberately expressed in violence to the evildoer. I am endeavoring to show my countrymen that violent non-cooperation only multiplies evil and that evil can only be sustained by violence. Withdrawal of support of evil requires complete abstention from violence. Non-violence implies voluntary submission to the penalty for non-cooperation with evil.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Support
  • Opinion
  • Cooperation

• Men are rewarded for learning the practice of violence in virtually any sphere of activity by money, admiration, recognition, respect, and the genuflection of others honoring their sacred and proven masculinity.

  

  Andrea Dworkin
  • Men
  • Money
  • Respect

• We shall not yield to violence. We shall not be deprived of union freedoms. We shall never agree with sending people to prison for their convictions.

  

  Lech Walesa
  • People
  • Violence

• We had violence directed at us by the growers themselves, trying to run us down by cars, pointing rifles at us, spraying the people when they were on the picket line with sulfur.

  

  Dolores Huerta
  • People
  • Trying
  • Violence

• And violence is impractical, because the old eye for an eye philosophy ends up leaving everybody blind .. It is immoral because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for everybody. Means and ends are inseparable. The means represent the ideal in the making; in the long run of history destructive means cannot bring about constructive ends.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • History
  • Philosophy
  • Destruction

• Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence.

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors
  • Evil
  • Violence
  • Infatuation

• Many original occupiers believe the political system has become so corrupt that even participating in it, engaging with it, corrupts the movement. I understand what they are saying. But often, change does come more quickly from the inside rather than the outside. My advice: try both. But don't try violence.

  

  Jennifer Granholm
  • Believe
  • Political
  • Advice

• Perhaps violence, like pornography, is some kind of an evolutionary standby system, a last-resort device for throwing a wild joker into the game?

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Game
  • Games
  • Lasts

• Gabby Giffords deserves a vote. The families of Newtown deserve a vote. The families of Aurora deserve a vote. The families of Oak Creek, and Tucson, and Blacksburg, and the countless other communities ripped open by gun violence - they deserve a simple vote.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Community
  • Simple
  • Gun

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