Violence Quotes
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How can I make a movie about the violence of the police if the police aren’t going to let me film it? (Violence Quotes)
The only defense against evil, violent people is good people who are more skilled at violence (Violence Quotes)
To the ideal of high consumption and the downgrading of spiritual values corresponds a conception of injustice that centers exclusively on the problem of consumption; and equality in consumption cannot be achieved except by violence (Violence Quotes)
So, those who hate, those who are violent in nature, live in a world of hate and fear and violence inside themselves, inside their minds, inside their awareness (Violence Quotes)
The trade agreement itself does have labor and environmental protections, but we have to stand for human rights and we have to make sure that violence isn’t being perpetrated against workers who are just trying to organize for their rights (Violence Quotes)
The violence is the violence. I understand that we’re sometimes squeamish about it, but I think that strength needs to be called on once in awhile, and sometimes that’s the only thing that will work (Violence Quotes)
A dissolute character is more dissolute in thought than in deed. And the same is true of violence. Our violence in word and deed is but a feeble echo of the surging violence of thought in us (Violence Quotes)
I believe that the very effort to convert anybody is violence, it is interfering in his individuality, in his uniqueness, into his freedom (Violence Quotes)
Degeneracy follows every autocratic system of violence, for violence inevitably attracts moral inferiors. Time has proven that illustrious tyrants are succeeded by scoundrels (Violence Quotes)
When an audience does not complain, it is a compliment, and when it does, it is a compliment, too, if unaccompanied by violence (Violence Quotes)
The man who submits to violence is debased by his compliance; but when he submits to that right of authority which he acknowledges in a fellow creature, he rises in some measure above the person who give the command (Violence Quotes)
It is organized violence on top which creates individual violence at the bottom. It is the accumulated indignation against organized wrong, organized crime, organized injustice, which drives the political offender to act (Violence Quotes)
Every authentic poem contributes to the labour of poetry... to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart (Violence Quotes)
Violence in any form is evil and to kill innocent animals in tantamount to blatant savagery (Violence Quotes)
Conflicts and factions, violence and upheavals are caused by the neglect of human values in daily life (Violence Quotes)
Obasanjo has openly endorsed violence as a means of governance, embraced and empowered individuals whose avowed declarations, confessions and acts are cynically contrary to the mandate that alone upholds the legitimacy and dignity of his office (Violence Quotes)
I was a barbarian, tender and full of violence. I translated by instinct, without any method, not merely an artistic truth but above all a human one (Violence Quotes)
I sometimes go for the strongest, most vivid colour on the palette, which in the case of movies is violence (Violence Quotes)
This is no time to let down our guard on youth violence. Research demonstrates that appropriate interventions made during or prior to adolescence can direct young people away from violence toward healthy and constructive lives (Violence Quotes)
I have in the past declared that in order to achieve a real, just and durable peace, I would be willing to make painful compromises. But we cannot make any compromise on the security of our citizens and their right to live without the threat of terrorism and violence (Violence Quotes)
At least in my country, we have come to accept the flags burning, but what we cannot accept is violence, burning of embassies and intimidations, and there is no excuse for that (Violence Quotes)
The fundamentalist violence is, so is it, an attempt to increase the stakes, i.e. to discourage the potential desertions by showing that defection will cost them dear, that those who adopt other values will be persecuted or even killed (Violence Quotes)
See how it’s a philosophy that’s been handed to you by a bunch of men who were afraid. So instead, they overcompensate with hatred and violence and repression (Violence Quotes)
Cats are oppressed, dogs terrify them, landladies starve them, boys stone them, everybody speaks of them with contempt. If they were human beings we could talk of their oppressors with a studied violence, add our strength to theirs, even organize the oppressed and like good politicians sell our charity for power (Violence Quotes)
I think that people are going to find more interest in the human condition, especially with them being weaned on so much reality television. They want character driven stuff along with real violence. Cage fighting is very popular with the kids right now. They see and know what one punch can do to someone’s face. You can’t give someone five hundred punches in a film anymore (Violence Quotes)
The older I get, the more I can’t stand violence and have a hard time with seeing people die in horrific ways. It gets harder and harder to watch and deal with that stuff (Violence Quotes)
The rush and pressure of modern life are a form, perhaps the most common form, of contemporary violence. To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything, is to succumb to violence. The frenzy of our activity neutralizes our work for peace. It destroys our own inner capacity for peace. It destroys the fruitfulness of our own work, because it kills the root of inner wisdom which makes work fruitful (Violence Quotes)
When a nation becomes obsessed with the guns of war, it loses its social perspective... There is something about a war like this that makes people insensitive. It dulls the conscience. It strengthens the forces of reaction, and it brings into being bitterness and hatred and violence (Violence Quotes)
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 (Violence Quotes)
Violence against women isn’t cultural, it’s criminal. Equality cannot come eventually, it’s something we must fight for now (Violence Quotes)