Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Violence Quotes
AngerDangerNear MissViolence One night Roger was in a foul mood and he threw his entire bloody drumset across the stage. The thing only just missed me - I might have been killed.
DarknessLightSpectrumViolenceWomen My movies are very often violent and dark, but there's a spectrum of light, and that light is coming from the women.
EntertainmentHealth RisksPublic AwarenessSportsViolence Football is entertainment in which the audience is expected to delight in gladiatorial action that a growing portion of the audience knows may cause the players degenerative brain disease.
EthicsGood and EvilNonviolenceTemporary vs PermanentViolence I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
AuthenticityHeroismPatriotismPeaceViolence Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!
Human BehaviorNaturePerceptionViolence When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
AggressionConflictMilitaryPrejudiceViolence I've been studying Israeli army martial arts. I now know 16 ways to kick a Palestinian woman in the back.
DeceptionIntegrityLyingViolence Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
DemocracyGrowthIntoleranceViolence Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.
CinemaExpressionImpactPowerViolence When I use violence in a movie, it's just to express the power, the impact of it.
CrueltyHuman NatureViolence The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous.
GovernanceMoralityViolence So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.
DevelopmentInequalityPovertyUnrestViolence Almost half of the population of the world lives in rural regions and mostly in a state of poverty. Such inequalities in human development have been one of the primary reasons for unrest and, in some parts of the world, even violence.
DeceptionIntegrityMethodsPrincipleViolence Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
Domestic AffairsInternational AffairsRevolutionViolence The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal in domestic affairs, specifically in the matter of revolution.
DeceptionJusticeLiesTruthViolence Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
AdmirationChemistryDisillusionmentLiteratureViolence In 'The Secret Agent,' it's basically a character that was admired by Theodore Kaczynski, which is some fan mail you don't really want to open. This is a man who is a chemist and who specializes in making bombs and despises humanity.
DehumanizationMindsetPrejudiceViolence Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don't see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.
IntentionReboundSelf ReflectionViolence Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.
CautionHealthIntelligenceSelf-awarenessViolence I am not stupid. I am a very bright guy. I know that in the fighting game, you get people who get brain damage and do themselves long-term harm.
ConflictPowerViolence Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.
ChangeConflictPeaceRevolutionViolence War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.
MisconceptionPeaceReligionUnityViolence Terrorists are not following Islam. Killing people and blowing up people and dropping bombs in places and all this is not the way to spread the word of Islam. So people realize now that all Muslims are not terrorists.
