Violence Quotes
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Boxing is made for film - there is corruption, violence, tragedy and the chance that the underdog can catch the champion with one lucky punch. (Violence Quotes)
In Japan, violence isn’t as controversial as it is in the West. Pornography is more restricted, but it’s not hard to make a crazy, extremely violent film. (Violence Quotes)
The moral angle to the foreclosure crisis - and, of course, in capitalism we’re not supposed to be concerned with the moral stuff, but let’s mention it anyway - shows a culture that is slowly giving in to a futuristic nightmare ideology of computerized greed and unchecked financial violence. (Violence Quotes)
In rural areas of America, there is a growing increase in poverty, homelessness and hunger. You cannot separate these factors from domestic violence ?- a mother with three kids and no financial security is going to stiffen her lip and take the abuse, because not only does she have nowhere else to go, she has three children depending on her for survival. (Violence Quotes)
A teacher of fear can’t bring peace on earth. We have been trying to do it that way for thousands of years. The person who turns inner violence around, the person who finds peace inside and lives it, is the one who teaches what true peace is. We are waiting for just one teacher. You’re the one. (Violence Quotes)
I’ve always been very interested in political violence. When I finished high school, I did a small dissertation about political violence and fascism in Italy. (Violence Quotes)
Violence is inevitable in crime novels, but there are many different ways to tell a story. I use my characters’ reactions to illustrate the worst moments rather than let readers witness them at first hand. (Violence Quotes)
Faced with today’s problems and disappointments, many people will try to escape from their responsibility. Escape in selfishness, escape in sexual pleasure, escape in drugs, escape in violence, escape in indifference and cynical attitudes. I propose to you the option of love, which is the opposite of escape. (Violence Quotes)
The man who coerces another not to eat fish commits more violence than he who eats it (Violence Quotes)
Naked violence repels like the naked skeleton shorn of flesh, blood and the velvety skin (Violence Quotes)
We Americans claim to be a peace-loving people. We hate bloodshed; we are opposed to violence. Yet we go into spasms of joy over the possibility of projecting dynamite bombs from flying machines upon helpless citizens. (Violence Quotes)
The good news from the U.S. military survey of focus groups is that Iraqis do accept the Nuremberg principles. They understand that sectarian violence and the other postwar horrors are contained within the supreme international crime committed by the invaders. (Violence Quotes)
Rather than following through on the proven crime and violence prevention techniques that work, we are back to tough-talking sound byte policies that have been proven to not only fail to reduce crime but actually increase crime, waste taxpayers’ money and discriminate against minorities. (Violence Quotes)
Whenever you have war, you often have more deaths because the medical system and the food system breaks down, than you have directly through violence. (Violence Quotes)
There’s more violence in one football game than there is in an entire hockey season, and nobody ever talks about that. (Violence Quotes)
Of course I am for stopping violence against women. It is unfortunate that the Senate Democrats are making the current re-authorization of Violence Against Women bill into a political football. The Republicans are offering an improved version of the reauthorization bill and I want to review it. (Violence Quotes)
When people access the use of force for the threat of violence they have, by definition, a new political power. An unwanted political power. (Violence Quotes)
Foreign audiences are used to seeing Mexico in other sorts of movies. ‘Casi divas’ is a step toward a more commercially successful cinema, without the violence, blood and exaggerations. The movie reflects a more human Mexico, while remaining a chick flick, although it is not a romantic comedy. (Violence Quotes)
Over the last few years they have done a superb job in their fight against al-Qaida. As you may recall, our embassy in Jedda (in Saudi Arabia) was overrun some four years ago and a number of foreign workers went home because of violence against them. (Violence Quotes)
I may not remember the name of a book’s author, but let it be clear, what I will not forget is the violence, the poverty and the desperation that Mexico is living through. (Violence Quotes)
There shouldn’t be any violence in hip-hop. You’re getting free clothes. Basically, it’s free money. (Violence Quotes)
All women and girls have the fundamental right to live free of violence. This right is enshrined in international human rights and humanitarian law. And it lies at the heart of my UNiTE to End Violence against Women campaign. (Violence Quotes)
I’m telling Palestinians, Don’t use violence. We’re going to use the civilized means of international law to achieve our goals, our independence, our freedom. (Violence Quotes)
Violence is always an effort toward greater freedom or love. Openness is freedom and love. Even the most violent or self-destructive emotions are rooted in the heart’s need for openness, to be free, to give and receive love. (Violence Quotes)
The only violence was when these so-called ‘freedom fighters’ terrorized the poor Africans in the villages... They were told what to do and who to support. (Violence Quotes)
The plan was always to come to America, because Pakistan’s a scary place. They don’t have religious freedom. It’s very poor, and there’s a lot of violence and corruption. (Violence Quotes)
I come from where Mike Tyson came from. I come from right across the street from Jay-Z. I didn’t have a pond in my backyard. I saw violence. (Violence Quotes)
Calling gender violence a women’s issue is part of the problem. It gives a lot of men an excuse not to pay attention. (Violence Quotes)
I personally don’t enjoy films that bring black people down. I find that a majority of the films that black people are starred in nowadays, are ones focused on gang violence or dancing. (Violence Quotes)
You know in my own area of Waltham Forest, we’ve had many murders as a result of the gang violence and often innocent bystanders get caught up in it. (Violence Quotes)