Violence Quotes - Page 17

Our society has gotten to the point where we might soon become less and less shocked by any kind of violence.

From 1789, perhaps even before that, it had been the willingness of politicians to exploit either the threat or the fact of violence that had given them the power to challenge constituted authority. Bloodshed was not the unfortunate by product of revolution, it was the source of energy.

Film is a battleground. Love, hate, violence, action, death...In a word, emotion.

If a man is pictured chopping off a woman's breast, it only gets an R rating; but if, God forbid, a man is pictured kissing a woman's breast, it gets an X rating. Why is violence more acceptable than tenderness?

The more that we choose not to talk about domestic violence, the more we shy away from the issue, the more we lose.

Children have very little voice, and the coroner's inquest is about Luke's voice, and making sure Luke is heard and respected and honoured. I don't want him to have died in vain.

Don't tell me violence doesn't solve anything. Look at Carthage.

To destroy a man is difficult, almost as difficult as to create one: it has not been easy, nor quick, but you Germans have succeeded. Here we are, docile under your gaze; from our side you have nothing more to fear; no acts of violence, no words of defiance, not even a look of judgment.

The true strength of the Christian is the power of truth and love, which leads to the renunciation of all violence. Faith and violence are incompatible.

I'm not affected by violence the way some people are. I don't know why, but I enjoy that intensity.

We are a country of excess. So it's not the violence, per se, but the exacerbation and constant repetition.

...after all, who isn't a survivor from the wreck of childhood?

Where violence reigns, reason is weak.

Our incredible bewilderment (wilderness separation) blinds us from seeing that our many personal and global problems primarily result from our assault of and separation from the natural creation process within and around us. Our estrangement from nature leaves us wanting,and when we want there is never enough. Our insatiable wanting is called greed. It is a major source of our destructive dependencies and violence.

Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all.

The fully engaged heart is the antibody for the infection of violence.

I was never in favor of violence. I am always in favor of expressing anger, though. I am always in favor of revolt, and can even understand some forms of property crime.

All you violated ones with gentle hearts; You violent dreamers whose cries shout heartbreak

True ahimsa lay in running into the mouth of himsa.

Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realizing Him.

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

...those serpents! There's no pleasing them!

I've been doing this work [ambassador of VDay]for a long time, and there are so many ways that we have to work to eradicate domestic violence and violence against women, this felt like such a tangible way to make a difference.

Being a Southerner, Im interested in sex, violence, religion and all the things that make life interesting.

The world is ruled by violence, or at least the imminent threat of violence. It always has been.