Explore Quotes on Violence

There's a difference between action and violence. Violence isn't fun.

Overcrowding in the cities is producing a collective madness in which irrational violence flourishes because man needs more space in which to be than the modern city allows.

I'm not saying that women leaders would eliminate violence. We are not more moral than men; we are only uncorrupted by power so far. When we do acquire power, we might turn out to have an equal impulse toward aggression.

I was brought up when media still kept totally away from violence when it came to children. I don't think it would have made me scared of violence, but I find it repulsive.

I'm not a violent person at all, and I don't want to show violence for violent's sake.

Physical violence is always a bore in films today. We don't see how much it hurts. We don't learn the true consequences of it.

I'm more alarmed by people reacting violently to the violence in my films than I am by the violence in films.

We can never allow people who use nondemocratic means, people who use violence instead of arguments, people who use knives instead of debates, we can never allow them to set the agenda.

If I stop or moderate my voice, people who use or threaten violence against democracies would win. I will never let them win.

There are moments in 'The Raid 2' where I wanted to use the camera to question screen violence.

It's very odd that we have such an easy relationship to violence in this country, and we're still shocked by the female figure.

I just don't believe in joking about violence anymore.

I decry all domestic violence behavior; to condone violence against women would violate all standards of decency, run counter to my commitment to end domestic violence, and violate my core values!

Crime takes root when household budgets are unable to address the conditions that can lead to despair and violence, and government services and policies do not adequately address underemployment, poor mental health care and learning disabilities that hold young people back.

Al Qaeda's message that violence, terrorism and extremism are the only answer for Arabs seeking dignity and hope is being rejected each day in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Bahrain and throughout the Arab lands.

Language failed me very often, but then, the substitute for me was silence, but not violence.

The Palestinian Authority cannot hold the stick at both ends: to incite violence, to participate in it, and to tell the world how - what kind of underdog they are.

Having been raised during the war, I know very well how childhood hampered by displacement, poverty, violence, and fear looks like.

The problems we face now - poverty and violence at home, war and destruction abroad - will last only as long as we continue relying on the same politicians who created them in the first place.

I denounce Donald Trump for not denouncing the kind of vitriol, the kind of violence that he has perpetrated with his angry rhetoric, and he knows exactly what he is doing.

Deporting asylum seekers back to violence does not reflect the values of our country.