Violence Quotes

The PLO and the Palestinian people adhere to the renouncement of violence and rejection and condemning of terrorism in all its forms, especially State terrorism, and adhere to all agreements signed between the Palestine Liberation Organization and Israel.
Mahmoud Abbas

Rejection, Between, State

We have not always agreed, but I have said repeatedly and publicly many times that Al Sharpton has never counseled violence, but he gets blamed for a whole lot of that.
David Dinkins

Said, Whole, Times

Philosophers are people who do violence, but have no army at their disposal, and so subjugate the world by locking it into a system.
Robert Musil

System, Army, Disposal

No problems are ever resolved by violence. It only aggravates the pain and the hurt on every side.
Pranab Mukherjee

Hurt, Pain, Problems

The fact is that violence gives you a rush.
Penn Jillette

Fact, Rush, Gives

I think movies glamorize violence, in the sense that they make it in a way that it's either cool or funny.
Matthew Vaughn

Funny, Movies, Cool

I am in a charity out there to stop violence against women.
Caprice Bourret

Women, Against, Stop

Yes, violence begets more violence, but historically this has been the way of the world.
Meshell Ndegeocello

I think violence has always been popular, way before movies started being made.
Norman Reedus

Movies, Made, Before

I felt sometimes too responsible as an actor because people promote violence or weird things that I don't want to be part of.
Sophie Marceau

Sometimes, Weird, Actor

My door will always be open to those who genuinely renounce violence and seek peaceful accommodation into our nascent democracy.
Jalal Talabani

Democracy, Door, Open

Most dramatically, and perhaps least noticed, is the violence inside Saudi Arabia itself.
Michael Scheuer

Inside, Perhaps, Noticed

Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them.
Louise Bogan

Heart, Feeling, Cannot

Any time you do physical stuff, violence, it is controlled. It's a little bit like you block the move.
Ron Livingston

Time, Stuff, Move

I don't like to go to the movies to see violence or some kind of spy thing with all kinds of information you have to assimilate to understand the plot.
Pia Zadora

Movies, Understand, Kinds

Tragedy occurs when a human soul awakes and seeks, in suffering and pain, to free itself from crime, violence, infamy, even at the cost of life. The struggle is the tragedy - not defeat or death.
Whittaker Chambers

Life, Death, Pain

Their prejudice allowed white Southerners to look the other way when blacks were denied their most basic human rights, and it encouraged the worst of them to engage in unspeakable acts of cruelty and violence.
Linda Chavez

Human, Rights, Worst

Yes, he wanted me to do Funny Games before, which I didn't want to do because the film was very theoretical - the way people experience violence on screen. There was very little space for fiction, it was more like a sacrifice for the actors than anything else.
Isabelle Huppert

Funny, Experience, Sacrifice

People use location as a language in films, and Quentin uses action as a language in his films. There's really not a lot of violence. It's more of an emotional beat than it is a physical beat.
Lucy Liu

Emotional, Action, Language

The myth of redemptive violence - Caesar, peace, and victory - is in people's bones so deeply, we aren't even aware of it. You crush the opposition; that's how we bring peace.
Rob Bell

Peace, Victory, Bring

Violence is always the last option, but if that time comes, it is the ONLY option.
John Gilmour

Time, Last, Option

The United States supports the reintegration of people who have fought with the Taliban into Afghan society provided they: one, renounce al Qaeda, two, lay down their arms and renounce violence, and three, participate in the public political life of the country in accordance with the constitution.
Richard Holbrooke

Life, Society, Political

The violence or the vaudeville style of comedy is a technique all by itself. You get up there, and you are a comedian, and you're doing one thing. That is, you're going to make the audience laugh.
Leslie Nielsen

Laugh, Comedy, Style

This is why my art is about violence. Because I was subjected to so much of it as a kid. After that, and a lot of thinking, I became less violent. I realized that there must be other ways. So, I started to pursue them.
Jack Bowman

Art, Thinking, Why

I'm still very aware of the violence in our culture, more so than other people. I know where it comes from when someone is trying to suppress someone else, sometimes they fight back.
Jack Bowman

Fight, Someone, Trying

Under current law, there is no additional penalty for someone who enters the United States illegally and then commits either a crime of violence or a drug trafficking offense. They simply come under the same penalty as we have in current law.
John Shadegg

Someone, Law, Same

While we have entertained the contention that a deed may make more propaganda than hundreds of speeches, thousands of articles, and tens of thousands of pamphlets, we have held that an arbitrary act of violence will not necessarily have such an effect.
Johann Most

May, While, Act

Mission accomplished, we didn't have any problems as far as violence goes.
Dr. Dre

Problems, Far, Goes

I'm a strong person, but I'd never resort to violence.
Kristen Johnston

Strong, Person, Resort

However, don't let these statistics mislead you, gang violence is not limited to California and or big urban areas - that might have been true a while ago but it is no longer the case today.
Bob Filner

Today, True, Big

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