Violence Quotes

Cinema has only been around for about 100 years. Has all of the world's violence towards women taken place only within the past 100 years?

What will it profit this country if we... put our man on the Moon by 1970 and at the same time you can't walk down Woodward Avenue in this city without fear of some violence?

American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc.

Nearly one in four women will experience domestic violence during her lifetime. And slightly more than half of female victims of domestic violence live in households with children under age 12.

If you and I are having a single thought of violence or hatred against anyone in the world at this moment, we are contributing to the wounding of the world.

Though there is growing division among the Ukrainian military ranks as to loyalty in this revolution, the possibility of violence looms over the entire situation.

Education is a vacine for violence.

Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.

If we go back in the history of different nations, violence and the use of force are part of their heritage. These are the traditions of mankind.

I have never seen a connection between cinematic violence towards women and actual violence towards women in society.

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.

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.

Violence against women is as American as apple pie.

The Food Network and the Cooking Channel have so many viewers. And, because there's no violence, some of that audience is children. So, I think we have a responsibility to educate parents how to produce healthy meals for their families.

It's not an anti-sex trip. Like, we're taking sex, which is probably another half of American entertainment, sex and violence, and we're projecting it, and we're saying this is the way everything is right now.

The only violence was when these so-called 'freedom fighters' terrorized the poor Africans in the villages... They were told what to do and who to support.

Timothy McVeigh was a coward. Violence is the stupid way out. It'll discredit any real legitmate movement.

Actual violence has no attraction for me at all.

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.