Violence Quotes - Page 26

With the establishment of a relationship of oppression, violence has already begun. Never in history has violence been initiated by the oppressed. How could they be the initiators, if they themselves are the result of violence? How could they be the sponsors of something objective whose objective inauguration called forth their existence as oppressed? There would be no oppressed had there been no prior of violence to establish their subjugation.

Soccer just couldn't satisfy my thirst for watching violence up close.

A man who lives with nature is used to violence and is companionable with death. There is more violence in an English hedgerow than in the meanest streets of a great city.

You can never take the violence back.

The private terror of the liberal spirit is invariably suicide, not murder.

But nonviolence was never for the oppressor; it was for the oppressed.

I've been trying to get away from physical violence; it's too easy; it doesn't satisfy me artistically to work with it. Dramatic violence is much more interesting, but it's much more difficult.

Film seems to be a medium designed for betrayal and violence.

Social media and the Internet haven't changed our capacity for social interaction any more than the Internet has changed our ability to be in love or our basic propensity to violence, because those are such fundamental human attributes.

No form of violence can ever be excused in a society that wishes to call itself decent

I have always felt that violence was the last refuge of the incompetent, and empty threats the last sanctuary of the terminally inept.

The Hideout is here to help you get through today and tomorrow. Be brave. It's not your fault. Remember, the road will get smoother and there is always hope that tomorrow will be better.

The use of violence in movies is a subject that's worth addressing. I'm not standing on a soapbox or wagging a finger, but I'm interested in those subjects for sure.

Disapproving and boycotting is the Quranic thing to do, whereas violence and threats are not.

I do have an intense respect for pacifists, because I believe that ultimately, if we are to have a truly humanistic as well as libertarian society, violence will have to be banished on this planet.

There are many women in their late teens and early twenties who have either experienced violence in a relationship or have witnessed it at home in their childhood.

Most dramatically, and perhaps least noticed, is the violence inside Saudi Arabia itself.

There's more danger in the violence you don't face.

Democracy cannot sustain itself amid a high degree of violence.

Violence is anything that denies human integrity, and leads to hopelessness and helplessness.

I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed, without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today – my own government.

The TV generation is postliterate and retribalized. It seeks by violence to scrub the old private image and to merge in a new tribal identity, like any corporate executive.

When an audience does not complain, it is a compliment, and when it does, it is a compliment, too, if unaccompanied by violence.

The level of violence on the planet today is no longer sustainable.

Nonviolence in the sense of mere non-killing does not appear to me, therefore, to be of any improvement on the technique of violence.