Violence Quotes - Page 25

Violence is never the answer but sometimes, like with cockroaches, it is the only possible response.

People are sort of numb to watching violence, but sexual activity is still as strong as it ever was in terms of generating response.

Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination to empathy, to cooperation, to self-control.

You either approve of violence or you don't, and nothing on earth is more violent or extreme than the meat industry.

The grand irony, however, is that Southern segregation was not brought to an end, nor redneck violence dramatically reduced, by violence.

You got two black folk representing us through the Sixties. One of them was for violence, one was against it, and they both are dead.

Obviously if there are guns on the street there's going to be more violence. That being said, I happen not to trust the government.

Time does us violence; it is the only violence.

Time's violence rends the soul, by the rent eternity enters.

Unfortunately, many children throughout the UK witness violence in the family home. Let's stand up for those children. Domestic violence needs to stop.

He that is pushing his predecessors into the gulf of obscurity, cannot but sometimes suspect, that he must himself sink in like manner, and, as he stands upon the same precipice, be swept away with the same violence.

Of course, there is nothing intrinsic linking any religion with any act of violence. The crusades don't prove that Christianity was violent. The Inquisition doesn't prove that Christianity tortures people. But that Christianity did torture people.

There is a subconscious way of taking violence as a way of expression, as a normality, and it has a lot of effects in the youth in the way they absorb education and what they hope to get out of life.

I do not believe in terrorism, violence, destruction, murder, pre-emption, or War.

Of course I am frustrated with regard to extreme poverty, to violence that never seems to cease.

A lot of people think that domestic violence is if someone hits, kicks, [or] punches you.

The right things to do are those that keep our violence in abeyance; the wrong things are those that bring it to the fore.

It is a sound interpretive rule...that anything that cannot be accomplished except with the aid of threats or the actual exercise of violence against unoffending persons cannot be beneficial to one and all.

I have not seen anyone assume that all the citizens of New York are guilty of murder, violence, robbery, perjury, or writing proprietary software.

When you think about going back to the States you start to become more aware of the violence there and how we pollute the Earth more than the New Zealanders.

As you become more conscious of your cruelty, of your violence, gross and subtle, you start becoming more and more compassionate. Not that you cultivate compassion. Just by becoming aware of your cruelty, violence, ugliness... the very awareness brings new changes in you. And the energy that was involved in cruelty, in violence, starts changing. The same energy becomes purified, the same energy becomes compassion.

Spaghetti Westerns are really brutal and operatic with a surreal quality to the violence.

Obsession with a consumerist lifestyle, above all when few people are capable of maintaining it, can only lead to violence and mutual destruction.

I know the usual answer of Christ using violence to get the sellers out of the temple, but to me this was impatience rather than violence.

Football, wherein is nothing but beastly fury and extreme violence, whereoth proceedeth hurt, and consequently rancour and malice do remain with them that be wounded.