Violence Quotes

We decry violence all the time in this country, but look at our history. We were born in a violent revolution, and we've been in wars ever since. We're not a pacific people.

Violence is the repartee of the illiterate.

Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.

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

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

Something is wrong here, and it's more than easy access to guns or violence on TV. It's about lack of love and attachment to loving people early in life.

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

The causes of youth violence are working parents who put their kids into daycare, the teaching of evolution in the schools, and working mothers who take birth control pills.

Where I'm from, there is no violence, pretty much.

We don't have any rules about how we depict violence, or how much violence is in a movie. It's a calibration on a case-by-case basis.

Kids shouldn't see all the violence they do these days. But the industry just doesn't care.

Here we will solve with laws and dollars, problems that too many people around the world still must solve with violence and civil war.

First of all, my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because religion serves as the soul of community, it gets drawn into the fracas and turns up the heat.

I think the last one would have to be The Godfather because it was such a powerful story. There was lots of violence in it but I could take it because I thought there was a reality to it. It wasn't gratuitous, it was just these guys' story.

Their prejudice allowed white Southerners to look the other way when blacks were denied their most basic human rights, and it encouraged the worst of them to engage in unspeakable acts of cruelty and violence.

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.

It is the great sadness of our species that we have not found a way to eliminate the conflict and to eliminate violence as a device to resolve our conflicts throughout the entire history of the human race.

Violence is a part of America. I don't want to single out rap music. Let's be honest. America's the most violent country in the history of the world, that's just the way it is. We're all affected by it.

I have never made a threat. I've never made a threat, never expressed a threat, never - I've never - I would never threaten violence ever, because I am a man of peace, dedicated to peace.

The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the initiation of violence.

Tragedy occurs when a human soul awakes and seeks, in suffering and pain, to free itself from crime, violence, infamy, even at the cost of life. The struggle is the tragedy - not defeat or death.

There's an incredible fascination for that and that goes with violence and everything else in pictures.

How a society channels male aggression is one of the greatest questions as to whether that society will survive. That's why I am not against violence in the media, I am against the glorification of immoral violence.

In the book, America had already been weakened by bio terror plagues before waves of selfish violence took down the rest. But the real enemy was the kind of male human being who nurses fantasies of violent glory at the expense of his fellow citizens.

Of course, I write crime stories, and I have to describe violence and the aftermath of violence.

I myself am a very nonviolent person and only resort to violence when I absolutely have to.

Liberating Iraq from a legacy of violence and putting it on the path to peace and prosperity will take time.

Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.

Americans love to read about violence.

Wars such as those which have occurred in Iraq only allow hatred, violence and terror to proliferate.