Violence Quotes · Page 47

Violence in real life is terrible; violence in movies can be cool. It's just another colour to work with.

— Quentin Tarantino

Violence against women is an appalling human rights violation. But it is not inevitable. We can put a stop to this.

— Nicole Kidman

I believe there's a huge conflict of interest when local prosecutors investigate cases of police violence within their own communities.

— Franchesca Ramsey

“As labor strife increased and the economy faltered, the general level of violence rose.”

— Erik Larson

Resorting to violence and the use of force at holy sites is unacceptable, whatever the reason might be.

— Ahmet Necdet Sezner

You remember the night that you left me, you put me in my place. Got you in a stranglehold now baby, gonna…

— Ted Nugent

True liberty does violence to self and, like Christ, who disregarded that he was sovereign becomes a slave to serve others.

— Oscar Romero

Ignorance leads to fear, fear leads to hate, and hate leads to violence. This is the equation.

— Averroes

Take a ride through the city man tell me what you witness. Poverty, richness, crooked cops and misfits, violence, hatred, real devastation,…

— JCole

I call for a march from exploitation to education, from poverty to shared prosperity, a march from slavery to liberty, and a…

— Kailash Satyarthi

I saw Quentin Tarantino's 'Django Unchained,' and you could say a lot of things against it, but it was incredible fun. I…

— Salman Rushdie

We who formerly hated and murdered one another now live together and share the same table. We pray for our enemies and…

— Justin Martyr

I'M FRUSTRATED, because pop culture, music and movies glorify these types of police citizen altercations and promote an invincible attitude that continues…

— Benjamin Watson

Those are the movies that we [with Evan Goldberg] always wanted to make. Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, the kind of movies where…

— Seth Rogen

I was raised in Washington, DC, very violent place. I grew up with violence. My introduction to music was violent. The years…

— Henry Rollins

“People have been stabbed over spicy chicken sandwiches. The duck farm industry could benefit from that kind of violence to help increase…

— Jarod Kintz

If you give in to the threat of violence, if you give in to bullying, what you know is that there will…

— Salman Rushdie

“Hi. I'm here to enlist. You can't. You aren't human. You see, little fella, we don't do sociological stuff like "interspeciated workplaces."…

— Howard Tayler

I found that my wounds begin to heal when the voices of those endangered by silence are given power. The silence of…

— Janice Mirikitani

terrorism is interesting to a novelist because it's a crime that's driven by an idea, as opposed to some kind of base…

— Karan Mahajan

“Property taxes' rank right up there with 'income taxes' in terms of immorality and destructiveness. Where 'income taxes' are simply slavery using…

— Larken Rose

Let's think about Mexican streets: they're unsafe because of violence, so people stay at home. Does that make streets more or less…

— Emiliano Salinas

“Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. famously said: The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very…

— Liz Wiseman

As a young victim of bullying and then, later, a vindictive perpetrator of violence myself, I've known both sides of this experience,…

— Andre Dubus

Colombia has been the leading western recipient of U.S. arms and training as violence has grown through the '90s.

— Noam Chomsky

Little minds try to solve the matters through violence and darkness; great minds try to solve the matters through love and light!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Violence is never THE answer, first its words, then violence, then Fire, and lastly hide the body.

— Alexandria Anderson

Nothing will ever bring back George Floyd, or any of the thousands of others we have lost to racist police violence.

— Jamaal Bowman

“Wild with laughter, Twelfth Night is nevertheless almost always on the edge of violence.”

— Harold Bloom

Protection of children from violence and abuse has always been my main activity or campaign.

— Sinead O'Connor

“I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out of me with steel pipes.”

— Patton Oswalt

The State calls its own violence, law; but that of the individual, crime

— Max Stirner

The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence.

— Ayn Rand

Football is controlled violence, but it is violence, which people have loved to watch since the gladiatorial contests in ancient Rome.

— Michael Mandelbaum

The only defense against evil, violent people is good people who are more skilled at violence.

— Rory Miller

Is this something new, having people stomp on you? Is it what I need to do for your pleasure?

— Frank Zappa

When an audience does not complain, it is a compliment, and when it does, it is a compliment, too, if unaccompanied by…

— Mark Twain

A little bit of gratuitous violence in a well-thought-out story is fine.

— Ray Wise

Violence is a part of the world and life, and you shouldn't have to take it out of stories.

— Jane Levy

To live... in any sense of the word... is to reject others; to accept them, one must renounce, do oneself violence.

— Emile M. Cioran