Violence Quotes - Page 38

Stop the violence! Can't we all just get along?

In fact, violence as a symbol of our growing irrationality has had an increasing role in activity for its own sake, when no possible justification could be made that the activity was seeking to resolve a problem.

We remain in the Romantic cycle initiated by Rousseau: liberal idealism canceled by violence, barbarism, disillusionment and cynicism.

Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.

Young men need to show women the respect they deserve and recognize sexual assault and to do their part to stop it.

Unfortunately part of pulp is that there is sex, there is violence. It's not a kids' show. It's an 18-and-over audience - like anything cable. I see some things in Game of Thrones that turn my hair gray. It's the way the industry has gone.

I think that the response to the OJ Simpson trial was based on a kind of sensibility that emerged out of the many campaigns to defend black communities against police violence.

I'm not going to appeal to violence or aggression - of course not.

As the duties of superintending the national defense and of securing the public peace against foreign or domestic violence involve a provision for casualties and dangers to which no possible limits can be assigned, the power of making that provision ought to know no other bounds than the exigencies of the nation and the resources of the community.

I've never thought of my poems as violent. Violence, to me, has so much negativity attached to it - maybe that's my trouble with the word. But ferocious - indeed, I'll take it. And yes, poetry does need a bit of ferocity. Poetry needs to be alive, unabashedly, and, for me, that entails seeing its complexity - the grit and grimness and jubilance and beauty.

The role of the intellectual cannot be to excuse the violence of one side and condemn that of the other.

We have lived with violence far too long.

But what all the violence of the feudal institutions could never have effected, the silent and insensible operation of foreign commerce and manufactures gradually brought about.

Obama repeatedly has condemned Hamas as a terrorist organization that should be isolated until it renounces violence and recognizes Israel.

All I’m saying is that perhaps we can make a revolution without violence.

But think of the violence, it could happen to your kids.

Obasanjo has openly endorsed violence as a means of governance, embraced and empowered individuals whose avowed declarations, confessions and acts are cynically contrary to the mandate that alone upholds the legitimacy and dignity of his office.

I'm not comfortable with walking the red carpet in a tuxedo and seeing all the women with their boobs pushed up and all the men dressed as penguins - particularly when the subject of your film is the nature of violence and humanity.

It started with the Godfather, this operatic violence. I don't know.

I loved Batman, don't get me wrong, but that kind of mindless violence is not good for young children.

Somebody's gotta stand up and say pubic hair is good, murder is bad. Sex is good, violence is bad.

Perhaps there is such a thing as obscene sex, but I know that violence is always obscene. So I don't get it, that you can disembowel a woman but you can't see her tits. Who made that up? That's sick!

Our glorification of violence is ripping society apart. I don't want my children exposed to it.

There's violence in my culture [from America's South].

The common breeds the common, A lout begets a lout, So when I take on half a score I knock their heads about.