Violence Quotes · Page 83

I sometimes go for the strongest, most vivid colour on the palette, which in the case of movies is violence.

— Brian De Palma

I think that art is an act of violence, and the more emotionally engaged you are in a piece of art, the…

— Nicolas Winding Refn

It definitely could have been a horror story [Valley of Violence], oh my God, if the dog was impossible. So could the…

— Ti West

I am deeply disturbed by the senseless violence instigated by some leaders in pursuit of their personal political agenda.

— Mwai Kibaki

I think there are other alternatives there than hitting a child, striking the child.

— Sean Hannity

When I first ran for mayor in 2005, I made a pledge to confront the epidemic of gun violence in Braddock.

— John Fetterman

Art should cause violence to be set aside and it is only art that can accomplish this.

— Leo Tolstoy

Sex and violence was never really my cup of tea; I was always more into sax and violins.

— Wim Wenders

It was the seventh of November, 1918. The war was finally over. Maybe it would be declared a holiday and named War's…

— Claire Holden Rothman

In 'The Insider,' I had violence - lethal, life-taking aggression - all happening psychologically, all with people talking to other people.

— Michael Mann

The maltreatment of the natural world and its impoverishment leads to the impoverishment of the human soul. It is related to the…

— Raisa Gorbacheva

The Bible tells us, for instance, that there is going to be a cashless society. The Bible tells us that there is…

— Greg Laurie

May the God of peace arouse in all an authentic desire for dialogue and reconciliation. Violence cannot be overcome with violence. Violence…

— Pope Francis

“My worst fear is that people will feel unheard, even if their opinions aren’t desirable. When people think of themselves as unheard,…

— Seth Daniel Parker

“The desire to be loved, to feel loved, is behind every diet, pill, surgery, and lie. It is behind each act of…

— Vironika Tugaleva

Nothing in our society-with the exception of violence and fear-has been more effective in keeping women in their place than the degradation…

— Christiane Northrup

The obvious types of American fascists are dealt with on the air and in the press. These demagogues and stooges are fronts…

— Anonymous

It makes you realize how basically everything we do comes down to a) mating or b) competing for resources. It’s just like…

— Deb Caletti

People want poetry and need it - we need what's not honored by the corporate mentality that has taken over. It gives…

— Joan Larkin

A symptomatic example of the way in which violence has saturated everyday life can be seen in the increased acceptance of criminalizing…

— Henry Giroux

“These are people who take up mass violence as a personal assertion or political statement to compensate for their own hopelessness, pathos,…

— John E. Douglas

If they wanted to end the violence and war between them and if they wanted Jews and Palestinians to live in peace,…

— Muammar al-Gaddafi

If I go out of public life with one feeling, with one conviction, it is this : a deep regret for many…

— Henri Bourassa

I'm concerned about a better world. I'm concerned about justice; I'm concerned about brotherhood; I'm concerned about truth. And when one is…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

there were moments in life when violence was necessary to save lives

— Nicholas Sparks

The best genius is that which absorbs and assimilates everything without doing the least violence to its fundamental destiny.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Pressure or violence will ever move us to relinquish our honor or our equality of rights.

— Adolf Hitler

Crime and violence are a threat to the freedom and liberty people should enjoy and to our orderly way of life.

— Priti Patel

Peace needs and takes time, it needs and takes caution, it needs and takes patience after 30 years of terrorism and violence.

— Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

I have recognized that the nation has the right, if it so wills, to vindicate her freedom even by actual violence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

It is bad for the soul to know itself a coward, it is apt to take refuge in mere wordy violence.

— Radclyffe Hall

“Hostility and violence doesn't solve anything. It solves everything.”

— David Ricker

Show me pornography which promotes violence against women, and I'll buy it.

— Jim Goad

There's some basic ideals that we should be able to agree on as Americans: We don't tolerate violence on our streets.

— Ted Wheeler

If you intend to use our beautiful city to cause mayhem, disturb the peace, create fear and commit violence, you are not…

— Ted Wheeler

“Wherever farming took root, violence emerged as a more important feature of social life.”

— James Dale Davidson

Had dad chosen to use violence he would have been immediately annihilated.

— Martin Luther King III

Pornography and violence are by-products of societies in which private identity has been ... destroyed by sudden environmental change.

— Marshall McLuhan

Liberating Iraq from a legacy of violence and putting it on the path to peace and prosperity will take time.

— George Voinovich

Every act of violence is also a message that needs to be understood. (23-24)

— Jean Vanier