Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.
Theodor Adorno

Violence is a tool of the ignorant.
Flip Wilson

Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence. Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
Alexander Solzehnitsyn

You have to show violence the way it is. If you don't show it realistically, then that's immoral and harmful. If you don't upset people, then that's obscenity.
Roman Polanski

Personally, I don't like watching violence. I'd much rather see more skin.
Cameron Diaz

It's pure Black Label. It's about violence and booze. That's all it is. There is no plan.
Zakk Wylde

Passion is all but soft, it's not tender, it's violence to which you get hooked by pleasure.
Isabelle Adjani

When people say there is too much violence in my books, what they are saying is there is too much reality in life.
Joyce Carol Oates

A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends.
Henry A. Wallace

The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information.
Henry A. Wallace

I like to behave in an extremely normal, wholesome manner for the most part in my daily life. Even if mentally I'm consumed with sick visions of violence, terror, sex and death.
Courtney Love

Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.
R. D. Laing

We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.
R. D. Laing

I think "Hero" is not a real martial arts movie; it is not about violence, or formula.
Jet Li

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

Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence.
Pearl Bailey

I always thought the real violence in Hollywood isn't what's on the screen. It's what you have to do to raise the money.
David Mamet

Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.
Emile M. Cioran

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

People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.
Don DeLillo