Violence Quotes

One must do no violence to nature, nor model it in conformity to any blindly formed chimera.

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.

The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.

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.

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.

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.

We live in an age, in an era where there is so much negativity, there is so much violence in the world, there is so much unrest and people are at war, that I wanted to promote the word love and red signifies love.

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.