Violence Quotes - Page 39

Crime and violence are the easiest emotions to reenact.

Is there anything more useless than a crouton? I sometimes wake up in the small hours with a start and realise that what's roused me is an overpowering urge to visit violence on its originator.

We have become blind to the alternatives to violence.

What leads to peace is not violence but peaceableness, which is not passivity, but an alert, informed, practiced, and active state of being.

The rules of sexism do not free men from the terror of violence; they only keep men from complaining about it.

[This is] the basis of the Innocent Woman Defense the Innocent Woman Principle:;: Women are believed when they say they are innocent of violence and most easily doubted when they say they are guilty of violence.

Violence was just as much about WHAT was happening as it was how it happened.

When you see violence in movies in general, it's very quick and painless, which isn't what it's like.

I like a twisted sense of humour. On 'A History of Violence,' David Cronenberg and I would be doing the grimmest scenes and laugh a lot.

Violence, contrary to popular belief, is not part of the anarchist philosophy. It has repeatedly been pointed out by anarchist thinkers that the revolution can neither be won, nor the anarchist society established and maintained, by armed violence.

I understand people who believe that without violence they will not achieve anything at all.

Violence [in Palestina] is part of the resistance to occupation. The basic fact is not the violence; the basic fact is the occupation.

I'm not a hateful person and don't condone any kind of violence against others.

I've never really been a fan of violence.

There is a comfort in conformity, a security in control, that is appealing. There is a thrill in domination, and we are all secretly attracted to violence.

One tended to lose one’s bearings in the presence of willful and persistent acts of craziness, and the more gentle the act, the crazier it seemed, as if rage and violence, being closer to the norm, were easier to accommodate.

All the Abrahamic faiths are marked by violence.

Bullys are the small group who should perish not by voilence, but by non violence, words not fists, thats the awnser to our problem.

It's one of those things, when you look back on it, you'd go, "Oh, I could've done without that. If I could go back in time, I would do it different." That's the thing with violence in general.

It's Ethan Hawke and John Travolta [in Valley of Violence]. It's awesome. They're awesome.

With my horror movies or with this movie [Valley of Violence], same thing. The subtext of this movie is what to take away from it. Plot is never something that's been my driving force as a filmmaker.

Of course, we talked about Westerns we like with [James Ransone in Valley of Violence] , but it was always thematically in relation to the movie and what the themes of the movie were.

Violence is essentially wordless. and it can begin only where thought and rational communication have broken down.

Where words prevail not, violence prevails.

It's not that the film is violent, it's that people have an issue with violence right now.