Violence Quotes
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So many people seem to prefer my silver-screenings of movie stars to the rest of my work. It must be the subject matter that attracts them, because my death and violence paintings are just as good. (Violence Quotes)
Jamaica’s a country of great dichotomy. On the one hand you have a tourist industry with great beaches and resorts, but on the other you have such great poverty and the violence that goes along with that. (Violence Quotes)
Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves the insects are eating each other; violence is a part of life. (Violence Quotes)
Despite all the sadness, violence and misery, I still believe in universal peace, goodness, and beauty of humanity. (Violence Quotes)
In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing of beauty. (Violence Quotes)
When you try to bring about behavioral change by an effort of will, you actually do violence to yourself, and the chances are very good that you will not succeed. This is so universally true that you can actually make money from it. (Violence Quotes)
Victims of domestic violence need assistance and deserve justice, I commend the crime unit’s efforts to put offenders behind bars and reach out to victims. (Violence Quotes)
What leads to peace is not violence but peaceableness, which is not passivity, but an alert, informed, practiced, and active state of being. (Violence Quotes)
In football, you’re taught to react by being aggressive, taught to react with violence. If you can’t separate that on the field and off the field, you’re going to be in a lot of trouble in your life. (Violence Quotes)
For the mob, habituated to feed at the expense of others, and to have its hopes of a livelihood in the property of its neighbors, as soon as it has got a leader sufficiently ambitious and daring, being excluded by poverty from the sweets of civil honors, produces a reign of mere violence. (Violence Quotes)
I think I’ve always had these two currents, equally strong, of wanting to change the world and make the world better and fight injustices and fight violence, and then being an artist, which is a very different strain. (Violence Quotes)
There is enough treachery , hatred violence absurdity in the average human being to supply any given army on any given day (Violence Quotes)
I don’t advocate senseless violence of any human being. I’m the one who’s been beat down. But I will not be a victim again. (Violence Quotes)
I think there’s something very dark in the South African psyche. I think we live a lot of the time in a state of a very low-grade civil war; the levels of violence in South Africa are extremely high. In a way, the civil war that never happened is being played out in a covert way, so we live with a lot of very ugly things. (Violence Quotes)
The world today is so full of violence, obscenity, war, the failure of political systems. I try to make movies that make people a bit more confident. But that doesn’t mean being sugary. (Violence Quotes)
The book is called ‘A House in the Sky’ because during the very, very darkest times, that was how I survived. I had to find a safe place to go in my mind where there was no violence being done to my body and where I could reflect on the life I had lived and the life that I still wanted to live. (Violence Quotes)
We’re showing a situation that these kids are caught in and being forced to do but the violence is not glorified. Most of the kids in there are not wanting to be doing it. (Violence Quotes)
As legislators and as Members of Congress, it is our obligation to speak up for those who are being ignored in our society. The Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) does just that. (Violence Quotes)
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. (Violence Quotes)
Our work in Britain suggests that radicalization is driven by an ideology which claims that Muslims around the world are being oppressed and - and this is the key bit of the argument - which then legitimizes violence in their supposed defense. (Violence Quotes)
Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don’t see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence. (Violence Quotes)
It’s something that I am going over in my head about the whole video game thing, and whether you support violence by being in a film like this. I mean, to me, it’s incredibly unreal and it’s all about the action, and just explosions. (Violence Quotes)
As much as they deny it, I think people want to be scared. It’s a phenomenon, why people want to be scared when there is so much violence and craziness in the world. People still really enjoy being scared. It’s a conundrum to me. It’s hard to explain. It’s an unconscious thing, really, why people like that so much. (Violence Quotes)
LGBT youth face a much higher risk of violence and homelessness after being rejected by their family of origin. (Violence Quotes)
[While] the primary responsibility, as we all acknowledge, (falls) with the family, ... Our homes, our families, our children’s minds are being flooded by a tide of violence. (Violence Quotes)
Since the human mind is the primary weapon of the human being, it is also therefore the primary and most significant instrument of violence. (Violence Quotes)
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? (Violence Quotes)
If you belonged to a political party or a social club that was tied to as much bigotry, misogyny, homophobia, violence, and sheer ignorance as religion is, you’d resign in protest. (Violence Quotes)
The former colonies, in Latin America in particular, have a better chance than ever before to overcome centuries of subjugation, violence and foreign intervention, which they have so far survived as dependencies with islands of luxury in a sea of misery. (Violence Quotes)
Women have a better chance to secure freedom and protect themselves from violence, from abuse, from injustice, if they are well-educated and know their rights. (Violence Quotes)