Quotations
Quotes:
'A lot of people in the movie industry tend to run and hide from it like ostriches. Movie industry people are definitely in denial right now, but you do become desensitized to violence when you see it on the screen so often. Let's face it, violence exists for one reason in movies, and that's to get an effect, create an emotion, sell tickets.'
- on the link between movies and school violence.
View quotes by Madeleine Stowe
Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.
View quotes by Pope John Paul II
Answer violence with violence. If one of us falls today, five of them must fall tomorrow.
View quotes by Evita Peron
Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.
View quotes by Martin Luther King Jr
People are disturbed enough by serial killers, but the whole notion of female violence, particularly maternal violence - the idea of mothers who kill - really unnerves people.
View quotes by Caleb Carr
In Genesis, seeing the world filled with violence, God decided to drown all mankind except Noah's family. But because that family carried the same genes as those who had drowned, violence continued unabated.
View quotes by Robert Davis
Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.
View quotes by Hannah Arendt
Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence.
View quotes by Jim Morrison
I ain't never liked violence.
View quotes by Sugar Ray Robinson
Violence is my last option.
View quotes by Chuck Norris
In violence, we forget who we are
View quotes by Mary McCarthy
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
View quotes by Isaac Asimov
It [violence] is as American as cherry pie.
View quotes by H Rap Brown
I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie.
View quotes by Hubert Geroid Brown
Frustration is the wet nurse of violence.
View quotes by David Abrahansen
Violence does even justice unjustly.
View quotes by Thomas Carlyle
The FA have given me a pat on the back. I've taken violence off the terracing and onto the pitch.
View quotes by Vinny Jones
Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.
View quotes by Alice Walker
I did not enjoy the violence of boxing so much as the science of it.
View quotes by Nelson Mandela
Keep violence in the mind
Where it belongs (Barefoot in the Head)
View quotes by Brian Aldiss
