Violence Quotes

We're warriors, this culture, and we're very puritanical about sex and very embracing about violence and I don't know why that is.

Man has an innate capacity for violence, but can only justify it in the name of justice.

Claiming that you have got the truth wrapped up does breed violence and intolerance.

It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas.

Football is violence and cold weather and sex and college rye.

The civil unrest of recent days must come to an end, and the healing process must begin for the future of the community. We will provide assistance both in ending the violence and enabling the healing process in Benton Harbor.

Hatred, intolerance, poor hygienic conditions and violence all have roots in illiteracy, so we're trying to do something to help the poor and the needy.

I think there's a natural system in your own head about how much violence the scene warrants. It's not an intellectual process, it's an instinctive process.

My door will always be open to those who genuinely renounce violence and seek peaceful accommodation into our nascent democracy.

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

The power which establishes a state is violence; the power which maintains it is violence; the power which eventually overthrows it is violence.

Violence is always the last option, but if that time comes, it is the ONLY option.

Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.

This October, we renew the fight against domestic violence and abuse in America. Together, we can eliminate domestic violence from homes across the country and ensure that our children grow up in healthy, peaceful communities.

Maybe every other American movie shouldn't be based on a comic book. Other countries will think Americans live in an infantile fantasy land where reality is whatever we say it is and every problem can be solved with violence.

This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.

It seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does not change the world and if it does, then only temporarily.

Europeans are familiar with terrorism and violence. We have not experienced a true conflict on our soil in a hundred years, and especially not one that involved 3,000 dead.

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 have this problem with violence. I've only done one movie in almost 20 years where I killed people. It's called Perdita Durango. It's a Spanish movie. I'm very proud of the movie, but I felt weird doing that.

If you feel your school is failing you, the question is why. Is it a lack of parental involvement, large classes, school violence, poor learning environment? Are there any standards to determine where problems are? Are there tutoring or mentoring programs? If the school is still failing after 3 years then what are your options?

I do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation and oppression of my people by the whites.

What opera isn't violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can't.

The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence.

America and its allies are engaged in a war against a terrorist movement that spans all corners of the globe. It is sparked by radical ideologues that breed hatred, oppression, and violence against all of their declared enemies.

It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.

Gay culture is surviving and thriving. Some activists believe the recent rise in homophobic violence might be a gauge of the success of positive gay images.

The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.

My view is when you use violence on your people, that never ends well.

I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older it narrowed down to a more specific focus on individual violence. I'm just trying to understand where it came from.