Violence Quotes

Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation.
Abdallah II

Justice, Earth, Teach

What opera isn't violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can't.
Cab Calloway

Love, Happen, Two

I think America is going to have to think through whether it wants to uplift the political dialogue or advance an approach that divides and, frankly, can lead to violence.
Jim Leach

Political, Through, America

Venezuelans have a deep democratic conviction. If the government hotheads ventured out to stir violence they would encounter the armed forces. I don't believe the armed forces respond to a political party.
Henrique Capriles Radonski

Government, Deep, Political

Poverty doesn't imply necessarily violence.
Alberto Fujimori

Disarm, disarm. The sword of murder is not the balance of justice. Blood does not wipe out dishonor, nor violence indicate possession.
Julia Ward Howe

Justice, Balance, Blood

If you hate what you're seeing, you call it sex and violence. If you like it, you call it 'romance and adventure.'
Joe Bob Briggs

Hate, Sex, Adventure

One thing, however, I know with certainty: violence, or the direct threat of violence, of the kind we have seen in the past few days, is totally unjustified as a response to any published word or image.
Timothy Garton Ash

Past, Word, Few

But transitions from the politics of violence to democratic compromise are always messy.
Timothy Garton Ash

Politics, Compromise, Democratic

I am committed to the principle that violence is never justified as a means of ameliorating a grievance.
Justin Sane

Means, Principle, Committed

Mental violence is as bad as physical violence. You don't see that very often in movies, so it was a good subject to tackle.
Chazz Palminteri

Good, Movies, Bad

It's something that I am going over in my head about the whole video game thing, and whether you support violence by being in a film like this. I mean, to me, it's incredibly unreal and it's all about the action, and just explosions.
Rosamund Pike

Game, Mean, Whole

At first everyone predicted that it would be impossible to hold these divergent people together, but aside from the skilled men, some of whom belonged to craft unions, comparatively few went back to the mills. And as a whole, the strike was conducted with little violence.
Ray Stannard Baker

Men, Together, Impossible

I wanted to make the violence beautiful in order to heighten our revulsion.
Edward Hall

Beautiful, Wanted, Order

It's odd how violence and humor so often go together, isn't it?
Dan Simmons

Humor, Together, Often

For me, the toughest thing for kids to deal with is when the parents are fighting. It's not violence on them - it's the feeling of violence in the family.
Avi Arad

Family, Parents, Feeling

Women like to be scared, but they don't like the blood and the gore, and especially movies that have violence and torture involving women. Women don't want to see that, I can tell you for damn sure right now.
Cassandra Peterson

Women, Movies, Tell

At the same time as we clearly condemn actions of violence by groups in Palestinian against Israel.
Jane Harman

Time, Same, Against

We can't allow domestic violence to become a campaign issue.
Sandy Adams

Become, Issue, Campaign

If you feel your school is failing you, the question is why. Is it a lack of parental involvement, large classes, school violence, poor learning environment? Are there any standards to determine where problems are? Are there tutoring or mentoring programs? If the school is still failing after 3 years then what are your options?
John Rowland

Learning, School, Why

No one will expect the British Government or the Government of India to give way to threats of violence, disorder and chaos; and, indeed, representatives of large sections of Indian opinion have expressly warned us that we must not do so.
Stafford Cripps

Government, Give, Opinion

We see violence to forcibly seize land, at any price, murders and corruption.
Claudio Hummes

Corruption, Land, Price

We think that Kosovo will continue to serve as a centre of violence and regional instability in future.
Boris Trajkovski

Future, Continue, Serve

We're showing a situation that these kids are caught in and being forced to do but the violence is not glorified. Most of the kids in there are not wanting to be doing it.
Liam Hemsworth

Kids, Situation, Wanting

You want to free the world, free humanity, from oppression? Look inside, look sideways, look at the hidden violence of language. Never forget that language is where the other, parallel violence, the cruelty exercised on the body, originates.
Ariel Dorfman

Forget, Humanity, Free

Kids shouldn't see all the violence they do these days. But the industry just doesn't care.
Linda Blair

Care, Kids, Days

Computer games tend to be boys' games, warlike games with more violence. We have not spent enough time thinking through how to encourage more girls to be involved in computing before coming to college so they can see a possible career in information technology.
Freeman A. Hrabowski III

Time, Technology, Thinking

I don't believe in using too much graphic violence, although I've done it. It's better to be suggestive and to allow the viewer to fill in the blanks in their minds.
Tobe Hooper

Done, Minds, Using

Hitler was such an anomalous character - he was so over-the-top chaotic in his approach to statesmanship, his manner and in the violence which overwhelmed the country initially. I think diplomats around the world... felt like something like that simply would not be tolerated by the people of Germany.
Erik Larson

Character, Country, Around

The East Timorese government does not believe that we should consider compensation for the victims because there are tens of thousands of people who were, in one way or another, affected by the violence either directly or indirectly.
Jose Ramos-Horta

Government, Another, Either

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