Violence Quotes - Page 15

I think there's a natural system in your own head about how much violence the scene warrants. It's not an intellectual process, it's an instinctive process.

For violence, like Achilles' lance, can heal the wounds it has inflicted.

Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest of violence.

By ending catch-and-release on the border, we will end the cycle of human smuggling and violence. Illegal border crossings will go down. We will stop it. It won't be happening very much anymore. Believe me.

Anyone who endorses violence, hatred or oppression is not welcome in America and never, ever will be!

Nothing in our society-with the exception of violence and fear-has been more effective in keeping women in their place than the degradation of the menstrual cycle.

Fundamentalist Muslim terrorists kill three thousand Americans, but America isn't supposed to respond, because if we respond, they'll respond. We always hear about 'karmic retributions' and the 'cycle of violence' only after we've been hit.

Men are distinguished from women by their commitment to do violence rather than to be victimized by it.

For violence or fraud can create no right.

The threat or fear of violence should not become an excuse or justification for restricting freedom of speech.

An end to wars, peace among the nations, the cessation of pillaging and violence - such is our ideal, but only bourgeois sophists can seduce the masses with this ideal, if the latter is divorced from a direct and immediate call for revolutionary action.

Claiming that you have got the truth wrapped up does breed violence and intolerance.

For me comedy and violence has a lot in common. Just as you expect, comedy always lurks behind the most unexpected of circumstances.

Sanitised violence in movies has been accepted for years. What seems to upset everybody now is the showing of the consequences of violence.

Those who don't understand any language other than the language of force and violence don't respect human dignity. They seek violence because they will be irrelevant without it. We should not go their way.

I never want anyone to be sitting where I'm sitting and to have lost their son, because I can never get Luke back.

When you look at the gladiator times or at any of the things in human history, people are and have always been attracted to violence to the point where they're in stadiums still to this day watching people getting stoned to death.

Violence arises not out of superfluity of power but out of powerlessness.

Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor.

All marriages are sacred, but not all are safe.

Our emotions may cry for vengeance in the wake of a horrible crime, but we know that killing the criminal will not undo the crime, will not prevent similar crimes by others, does not benefit the victim, destroys human life and brutalizes society. If we are to still violence, we must cherish life. Executions cheapen life.

It is bad for the soul to know itself a coward, it is apt to take refuge in mere wordy violence.

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

Domestic violence is the front line of the war against women.

You must understand that violence in a movie is only a tool. If it's used badly, it will be horrible. If it's used correctly, it can be very interesting. But, essentially, it's just a tool.