Violence Quotes

I'm not affected by violence the way some people are. I don't know why, but I enjoy that intensity.
Paul Walker

Enjoy, Why, Intensity

Over 120 Aboriginal communities run their own health services - some have been doing so for 30 years. They struggle with difficult medical problems. They also try to deal with counselling, stolen generations issues, family relationships, violence, suicide prevention.
Malcolm Fraser

Family, Health, Medical

There is a cultural factor promoting violence which nowadays undoubtedly is highly effective is the mass media. And particularly everything that enters our minds through pictorial media.
Alva Myrdal

Everything, Through, Minds

In reality, we can prove that the incidents of drug, alcohol abuse and violence have dropped dramatically among professional athletes - but the problem is it would be impossible to convince than fans, because of what they read on the AP wire.
Leigh Steinberg

Reality, Impossible, Problem

The intense campaigns against domestic violence, rape, sexual harassment, and inequity in the schools all too often depend on an image of women as weak and victimized.
Katherine Dunn

Women, Often, Against

We think of violence as being conflict and fighting and wars and so forth, but the most ongoing horrific measure of violence is in the horrible poverty of the Third World... and the poverty in the United States as well.
Martin Sheen

Fighting, Poverty, United

I think violence, cynicism, brutality and fashion are the staples of our diet. I think in the grand history of story-telling, going back to people sitting around fires, the dark side of human nature has always been very important. Movies are part of that tradition.
Eric Stoltz

Nature, History, Movies

In violence, we forget who we are.
Mary McCarthy

I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.
Jean Genet

Give, Name, Danger

Well, one hopes that if you're really related to the core of your particular culture, you have profound commitments to it, and that you are aware of how much you can strain it before you do violence to its essential nature.
Chaim Potok

Nature, Before, Culture

In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival.
Andrew Young

Change, Achieve, Survival

Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture.
Charlotte Bunch

Cannot, Culture, Changing

I'm not up for violence, just for fun.
Chloe Moretz

The violence had broken out in both sides, but our philosophy as a party was very, very clear.
John Hume

Philosophy, Broken, Both

I was grateful for the opportunity to make a difference. The political violence really started in 1970-1971. The political difficulties start a little bit beyond that.
John Hume

Political, Grateful, Start

They believed that Britain was in Ireland defending their own interests, therefore the Irish had the right to use violence to put them out. My argument was that that type of thinking was out of date.
John Hume

Thinking, Put, Irish

I'm not someone who is a fan of a lot of violence.
Giancarlo Esposito

I think violence can never be justified.
Abbas Kiarostami

There is violence in real life but I would never impose violence in a film just to attract the audience.
Abbas Kiarostami

Life, Real, Film

I maintain that nothing useful and lasting can emerge from violence.
Shirin Ebadi

Nothing, Useful, Lasting

Random violence is incredibly infectious.
Nicholas D. Kristof

Random, Infectious, Incredibly

No wonder we have a lot of violence in Rio: the corrupt and violent policemen meet the violent criminals in the streets. What else is going to happen?
Jose Padilha

Happen, Else, Wonder

So, these political activities will create friction in and of themselves, and in this environment of friction there'll be additional violence.
John Abizaid

Political, Themselves, Create

I think you will see a lot of strains develop in the political process that will result in violence everywhere in the country - but it's controllable, it's workable and it will lead to a much better future for these people.
John Abizaid

Future, Political, Country

In the city, a lot of crime happens, a lot of violence happens from time to time.
Victor Cruz

Time, Happens, Crime

There's no way to escape the fact that we've grown up in a violent culture, we just can't get away from it, it's part of our heritage. I think part of it is that we've always felt somewhat helpless in the face of this vast continent. Helplessness is answered in many ways, but one of them is violence.
Sam Shepard

Away, Fact, Face

I can think of films that I'm producing right now that are extremely hard-hitting, graphic films, that nobody necessarily wants to see, graphic in terms of violence, of adult content and racial and historical subject matter.
Aaron Eckhart

Matter, Nobody, Wants

In Canadian comedy, you'll almost never see guns. If you bring a gun into a scene, it's like, 'Whoa! Wow, how are we going to deal with that!' Guns in an American comedy are a given. Violence in America is used in a much more cavalier way.
Scott Thompson

America, American, Used

Gay culture is surviving and thriving. Some activists believe the recent rise in homophobic violence might be a gauge of the success of positive gay images.
Lance Loud

Success, Positive, Gay

The great Chinese classics have always said that it's better not to fight; that the clever man achieves his ends without violence; that a battle delayed is better than a battle fought.
John Keegan

Great, Fight, Battle

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