Violence Quotes - Page 35

I think fundamentally the bigger question is, what are we expecting peacekeepers to do? Are they actually, as the traditional conception would have it, keeping peace, in which case they're not there to actively intervene and stop violence? When we send them into these places, do we expect they will respond forcefully?

Violence and war lead only to death.

Enough with the slaughters. Enough with the violence. Enough with the hatred in Iraq!

The chief cause of our misery is less the violence of our passions than the feebleness of our virtues.

I recognize no empire of this present age.

I do not know what it was about that boy but just looking at him, even I wanted to clout him on the head. It was a head that invited violence.

All of my life I have stayed away from violence and the instruments of violence, and have seen a legal, democratic struggle as the only means to achieve change.

Counter-violence against the colonial regime is liberatory because it is an act, and by acting, the absolute power of colonialism, internalized by the colonized, is shaken.

...when a wife wouldn't testify, little punishment was meted out. Alex came to understand that only those who pressed charges ever became truly free, because the life they were leading was a prison, even if most of them wouldn't admit it.

A lot of things sound neutral, but they're not. A typical example would involve police violence. It's usually forbidden to call police "murderers," even if they're convicted of murder. People will say that it sounds hysterical and unobjective.

Personally, I can't stand violence. In any standard American mainstream movie, there's 20 times more violence than in any one of my films, so I don't know why those directors aren't asked why they're such specialists for violence.

In my film "Benny's Video," I depicted violence but I failed to say all that I had to say, so I wanted to continue the dialog and that's why I did "Funny Games." The irony is that after I shot "Funny Games," but it hadn't been released at all anywhere.

It's still hard for me to talk about the day I visited a shelter for children who were victims of a domestic-violence household. The kinds of abuse they had suffered, and what it had done to them physically and emotionally ?- I don't have words for what I saw. This has to stop.

After a few months you stop noticing every incarnation of radicalism and violence. It is so saturated into your reality that it practically fades into the scenery.

Violence is never random.

The question is no longer between violence and non-violence it is between non-violence and non-existence.

The problem to me is violence. It's not cool to kill somebody or hurt people.

I have recognized that the nation has the right, if it so wills, to vindicate her freedom even by actual violence.

What senseless violence does is to prolong the lease of life of the British or foreign rule.

I condemn, for all climes and for all times, secret murders and unfair methods even for a fair cause.

Violence always thrived on counter violence.

Nonviolence is not merely a personal virtue. It is also a social virtue to be cultivated like other virtues.

When there is violence against any person in society, because he or she is different, it threatens us all. Only by speaking out are any of us safe.

I represent an affluent district, but when I worked to form my county's first battered-women's shelter, some nights there were no beds left. Violence against women crosses all economic lines.

Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.