Violence Quotes

Well I don't think sex and violence have ever stopped a movie from being mainstream.

We can't allow domestic violence to become a campaign issue.

The more you focus on sex without love, and drugs and violence, lifestyle of intimidation and recycling, the less energy you spend on opening up the big tent.

There are certain things that they say you can't do, there are all these secret people behind the scenes who make things available for you to do. That's why you have so much crime and violence.

War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Violence against women is as American as apple pie. I know, not only as a legislator, but from personal experience.

It's odd how violence and humor so often go together, isn't it?

Black people are victims of an enormous amount of violence. None of those things can take place without the complicity of the people who run the schools and the city.

The grand irony, however, is that Southern segregation was not brought to an end, nor redneck violence dramatically reduced, by violence.

Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture.

It's so weird that I play this woman who pretty much deals with violence on a daily basis, and I'm such a wimp in who I am.

Let us reject violence and selfishness which could destroy our country's unity.

This is a formidable enemy. To dismiss it as a bunch of 'cowards' perpetuating 'senseless acts of violence' is complacent nonsense. People willing to kill thousands of innocents while they kill themselves are not cowards. They are deadly vicious warriors and need to be treated as such.

Men are distinguished from women by their commitment to do violence rather than to be victimized by it.

Last chances in the Middle East have been two a dirham since the 1950s. Each year the enmities are more profound, the despots more bloodthirsty and clownish, the violence more extreme, and the conditions of ordinary existence more ghastly.

I'm not up for violence, just for fun.

Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them.

I think violence in a cinematic context can be, if handled in a certain way, very seductive.

So many women have experienced horrific forms of male violence throughout their lives, and why isn't there a song about how you get depressed because of it?

The East Timorese government does not believe that we should consider compensation for the victims because there are tens of thousands of people who were, in one way or another, affected by the violence either directly or indirectly.

I have always been vitally interested in physical conditioning. I have long believed that athletic competition among people and nations should replace violence and wars.

My earnest hope is that what we started in terms of building partnerships with communities across America will continue, that we will continue our efforts to reduce crime and violence.

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.

The appalling crackdown that we witnessed in Hama and other Syrian cities on 30 and 31 July only erode the regime's legitimacy and increase resentment. In the absence of an end to the senseless violence and a genuine process of political reform, we will continue to pursue further EU sanctions.

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.