Quotes on Violence

I have never been attracted to any kind of violence.

Author: Kate Adie

Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.

Author: Theodor Adorno

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

Author: Isaac Asimov

The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence.

Author: Joan Baez

Timothy McVeigh was a coward. Violence is the stupid way out. It'll discredit any real legitmate movement.

Author: Glenn Beck

I think violence in a cinematic context can be, if handled in a certain way, very seductive.

Author: Kathryn Bigelow

Violence is the repartee of the illiterate.

Author: Alan Brien

Actual violence has no attraction for me at all.

Author: Jane Campion

In some cases non-violence requires more militancy than violence.

Author: Cesar Chavez

Once the violence has ceased, the US should immediately call on the World Bank and other international institutions to convene a donors conference to rebuild Lebanon's shattered infrastructure.

Author: John Conyers

There's an incredible fascination for that and that goes with violence and everything else in pictures.

Author: Bo Derek

We have not always agreed, but I have said repeatedly and publicly many times that Al Sharpton has never counseled violence, but he gets blamed for a whole lot of that.

Author: David Dinkins

A lot of violence, a lot of gore in it, and I just didn't want to do that kind of thing.

Author: Dick Dyke

Violence is a calm that disturbs you.

Author: Jean Genet

The stones tear like flesh, rather than breaking. Although what happens is violent, it is a violence that is in stone. A tear is more unnerving than a break.

Author: Andy Goldsworthy

The violence seems to be diminishing. They've stared into the abyss a bit. I think they've all concluded that further violence... is not in their interests.

Author: Stephen Hadley

Every woman who thinks she is the only victim of violence has to know that there are many more.

Author: Salma Hayek

There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors.

Author: Frank Herbert

I don't believe in using too much graphic violence, although I've done it. It's better to be suggestive and to allow the viewer to fill in the blanks in their minds.

Author: Tobe Hooper

All that violence in the world, we need to stop that.

Author: Wyclef Jean

I'm a strong person, but I'd never resort to violence.

Author: Kristen Johnston

If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.

Author: Edward Koch

Random violence is incredibly infectious.

Author: Nicholas Kristof

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

Author: William Macy

Violence is my last option.

Author: Chuck Norris

All the Abrahamic faiths are marked by violence.

Author: Timothy Radcliffe

Violence has been Nicaragua's most important export to the world.

Author: Ronald Reagan

I think there's a natural system in your own head about how much violence the scene warrants. It's not an intellectual process, it's an instinctive process.

Author: Guy Ritchie

I ain't never liked violence.

Author: Sugar Robinson

I am committed to the principle that violence is never justified as a means of ameliorating a grievance.

Author: Justin Sane

Most dramatically, and perhaps least noticed, is the violence inside Saudi Arabia itself.

Author: Michael Scheuer

A fair observer only has to ask: If there is violence, who profits?

Author: Jack Schwartz

It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.

Author: Lucius Seneca

Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.

Author: Lao Tzu

I do not like violence.

Author: Abdurrahman Wahid

Violence is like a weed - it does not die even in the greatest drought.

Author: Simon Wiesenthal

Violence is a tool of the ignorant.

Author: Flip Wilson

It's pure Black Label. It's about violence and booze. That's all it is. There is no plan.

Author: Zakk Wylde