Violence Quotes

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.

We do not deride the fears of prospering white America. A nation of violence and private property has every reason to dread the violated and the deprived.

Like most Americans, I hope and wish is that there is a peaceful resolution to the Middle East conflict. Unfortunately, there are extremists on both sides who oppose a peaceful resolution and instead choose violence.

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

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.

We shall continue to work for a Middle East that is free of strife and violence, living in harmony without the threat of terrorism or the dangers of weapons of mass destruction.

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.

I think American audiences are quite interesting in that they can handle almost any amount of violence, but the moment the violence becomes sexual violence it immediately becomes an issue.

Our most important task is to transform our consciousness so that violence is no longer an option for us in our personal lives, that understanding that a world of peace is possible only if we relate to each other as peaceful beings, one individual at a time.

It started with the Godfather, this operatic violence. I don't know.

I don't think violence on film breeds violence in life. Violence in life breeds violence in films.

Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.

War is an attempt of one group to impose its will upon another group by armed violence.

In defense of our persons and properties under actual violation, we took up arms. When that violence shall be removed, when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, hostilities shall cease on our part also.

But I can't bear it when somebody who some man made a pass at - to call that violence seems to me absurd and insulting to women who've really met violence, who've been raped or bashed.

You'll see more violence in any television crime series than you will in my films... Art is there to have a stimulating effect, if it earns its name. You have to be honest, that's the only thing.

The trafficking of sex and violence is comes after the demand for ratings.