Violence Quotes - page 11

I hate violence, and I didn't plan to write horror; it just poured out of me. (James Herbert)
If you disapprove of violence, then you can't think there is any age when violence is appropriate. View quote
Jane Goldman
You can't write about the past and ignore religion. It was such a fundamental, mind-shaping, driving force for pre-modern societies. I'm very interested in what religion does to us - its capacity to create love and empathy or hatred and violence. View quote
Geraldine Brooks
I believe in both my right and my responsibility to work to create a world that doesn't glorify violence and war but where we seek different solutions to our common problems. View quote
Jody Williams
A lot of violence, a lot of gore in it, and I just didn't want to do that kind of thing. View quote
Dick Van Dyke
So I think we're kind of an alternate choice for people who have had it with sex and violence. View quote
Dick Van Dyke
Unless men are active allies, we'll never end violence against women and girls. View quote
Eve Ensler
I think violence against women in America has become ordinary - it's been made absolutely acceptable. View quote
Eve Ensler
In the case of Iraq, notwithstanding the violence there at the moment, the very fact that a hideous regime - responsible for genocide, for the use of chemical and biological weapons, aggression against two neighbors - has been removed in itself is a positive development. View quote
Jose Ramos-Horta
Being a Southerner, I'm interested in sex, violence, religion and all the things that make life interesting. View quote
Karin Slaughter
Of course we in Europe also have epidemic, structural sexual violence. Violence is always the dark core of dominance. The men who are now coming to us from Islamic cultural circles are, of course, shaped by conditions there, which are still much more antiquated than here. That's a problem that we have ignored for far too long. In the name of a false tolerance, we have accepted that women are kept at home like prisoners and are forcibly married. (Alice Schwarzer)
We also can't be naïve when it comes to the refugees. Men who commit violence should of course be deported to their countries of origin. We already have enough problems here and we don't need to import anymore. View quote
Alice Schwarzer
The rise of man from the animal to the human level was prolonged by the necessity of rising from a state of barbarism and violence to one of order and peace. View quote
Leon Bourgeois
If the Iraqis fail to implement the reforms, if they fail to get a handle on the violence, there's nothing the United States can do, militarily or otherwise, that can solve those problems. They have to assume the primary responsibility to govern themselves. View quote
Leon Panetta
I mean, the Taliban, my view is that they have been weakened. We have not seen them able to conduct any kind of organized attack to regain any territory that they've lost. We've seen levels of violence going down. View quote
Leon Panetta
The violence or the vaudeville style of comedy is a technique all by itself. You get up there, and you are a comedian, and you're doing one thing. That is, you're going to make the audience laugh. View quote
Leslie Nielsen
violence is an evil thing, but when the guns are all in the hands of the men without respect for human rights, then men are really in trouble. View quote
Louis L'Amour
I believe there are more films that involve love and forgiveness than violence, but they often seem fake and are almost embarrassing to watch. View quote
Park Chan-wook
The Essence of War is Violence. Moderation in War is Imbecility. View quote
John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher
One must do no violence to nature, nor model it in conformity to any blindly formed chimera. View quote
Janos Bolyai
Violence breeds violence. Acts of violence committed in "justice” or in affirmation of "rights” or in defense of "peace” do not end violence. They prepare and justify its continuation. (Wendell Berry)
No kids should see that kind of violence where Batman is killing as many people as the bad guys. View quote
Burt Ward
Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted. View quote
Ellen Glasgow
The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise they will win and the decent people will loose. View quote
James Earl Jones
I mean I grew up in Ireland, so one would have to be consciously blinkered not to have reflected on the issue of political violence because that was the story since I was 19 years old or 20. View quote
Neil Jordan