Violence Quotes - Page 21

In defense of our persons and properties under actual violation, we took up arms. When that violence shall be removed, when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, hostilities shall cease on our part also.

Our job as writers and thinkers in the time is how to bring about the occasions that let people have that first-person experience - or the metaphoric experience that allows them to see human continuity as opposed to total threat, total willingness to do violence.

I felt sometimes too responsible as an actor because people promote violence or weird things that I don't want to be part of.

But it struck me that the extreme violence and cruelty of the English Civil War had gone understated.

The truth that we must finally confront is that Islam contains specific notions of martyrdom and jihad that fully explain the character of Muslim violence.

There are situations in life to which the only satisfactory response is a physically violent one. If you don't make that response, you continually relive the unresolved situation over and over in your life.

The germ of creation lies in violence.

I don't require movies to be about good people, and I don't reject screen violence.

The first function of violence in Native American literatures is simply to acknowledge that violence is implicit, like gravity and sunlight, in the world and our relations with the world.

When you vote, you are exercising political authority, you're using force. And force, my friends, is violence. The supreme authority from which all other authorities are derived.

All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.

It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.

If I've made it a little easier for artists to work in violence, great! I've accomplished something.

Violence is fun, man.

When you treat your time as though you are a machine; a doing machine; you are committing violence against the sacredness of life itself.

Fear, she's the mother of violence.

The trafficking of sex and violence is comes after the demand for ratings.

As a Goodwill Ambassador for UNIFEM, I've learned that violence against women knows no boundaries. Join me in helping women worldwide who have suffered unthinkable violence.

Physical love is unthinkable without violence.

Violence is not the only means of persuasion.

I was a barbarian, tender and full of violence. I translated by instinct, without any method, not merely an artistic truth but above all a human one.

All forms of violence are quests for identity. When you live on the frontier, you have no identity. You're a nobody.

When we judge others we contribute to violence.

The only way to end a culture of violence is to proactively create a culture of peace.

Violence is the instinctive response to fear.