Violence Quotes · Page 63

People are sort of numb to watching violence, but sexual activity is still as strong as it ever was in terms of…

— Steven Soderbergh

I think people's relationship with the concept of violence changes, and that to me might be a little more interesting.

— Chuck Klosterman

I do not regard killing or assassination or terrorism as good in any circumstances whatsoever.

— Mahatma Gandhi

We're seeing that women continue to make less money, they continue to face violence.

— Niki Ashton

I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.

— Malcolm X

I would do a sort of violence to myself if I didn't express myself in the directly creative ways of writing, both…

— Stephen Hough

Lord, with so much violence in Iraq, may we persevere in our prayer and generosity.

— Pope Francis

Our glorification of violence is ripping society apart. I don't want my children exposed to it.

— William H. Macy

I think the last one would have to be The Godfather because it was such a powerful story. There was lots of…

— Bobby Farrelly

I'm trying not to let the anger and the violence that erupt take over my life. I guess it comes with the…

— Martin Scorsese

“But my father could be dark too. He was attracted to violence, to the basic beauty of fighting, the way it turned…

— Jesmyn Ward

A theme that has always interested me is how women express anger, how women express violence. That is very much part of…

— Gillian Flynn

Gaming is our cultural bogeyman - we blame it for everything from child obesity to violence to short attention spans. But any…

— Naomi Alderman

Ramadan typically brings a spike in violence in Middle East. I get grumpy when I don't eat - but I don't blow…

— Katie Hopkins

All forms of violence, especially war, are totally unacceptable as means to settle disputes between and among nations, groups and persons.

— Dalai Lama

Perhaps all our troubles - all the violence, obesity, illness, depression, and greed we can't overcome - began when we stopped living…

— Christopher McDougall

Looked at objectively, it is clear that the overwhelming majority of civilian deaths resulting from political violence are produced by what should…

— Richard A. Falk

The child who is permitted to torment, or destroy, the minutest object in creation, who will wantonly tread upon a worm, or…

— Laetitia Pilkington

When I am abused online I take snapshots for evidence, I report it to the social media platform and I ban the…

— Tara Moss

A diet of violence or pornography dulls the senses, and future exposures need to be rougher and more extreme. Soon the person…

— Marvin J. Ashton

“Not surprisingly, the all-powerful evocation of terrorism is reserved only for those acts that threaten the government-sponsored status quo, but not that…

— Henry A. Giroux

Surely there are common-sense reforms that we should, and must, take in order to keep our children and our communities safe. I…

— Paul Tonko

We're exposing our minors to abuse by the fact that they leave the radio on in the car and let them listen…

— Sinead O'Connor

If you read Martin Luther King speeches and sermons in the last two years of his life - you might want to…

— Bill Ayers

“Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined, Viking, Nueva York, 2011; posiciones 3279-3282 (Kindle).”

— Anonymous

I'm especially interested in helping to give visibility to the pandemic of violence against women

— Nicole Kidman

Violence is violence. Trauma is trauma. And we are taught to downplay it, even think about it as child's play.

— Tarana Burke

'Honour'-based violence is a form of domestic violence. Domestic violence is a broad category.

— Deeyah Khan

To imitate the hatred and violence of tyrants and murderers is the best way to take their place.

— Pope Francis

Two days overdue, THE WORLD'S WORK has not reached me. Pray make a note of this. I would rather not have to…

— Mark Twain

“Sure, the story kicks off with the deaths of thousands of people, but god forbid there be cussing in it, right?”

— Amie Kaufman

If [George] Zimmerman had been arrested for domestic violence, Trayvon Martin might still be alive.

— Gloria Steinem

In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.

— Park Chan-wook

Violence in drama is an external contextualization of internal conflicts.

— Laeta Kalogridis

I don't care what the reason is, or who started what. It doesn't matter. Physical violence should never be the answer.

— Cynthia Bailey

Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.

— Anonymous

There is no shame in being a survivor of sexual violence. The shame is on the aggressor.

— Angelina Jolie

The big thrillers may make people aware of the violence in the society, and I guess that serves a purpose.

— Diane Ladd

“From the violence on TV to the over-stimulation from our phones, we are constantly fueled by fight-or-flight energy.”

— Shawn Wells

The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence.

— Joan Baez