Quotes About Violence

I am profoundly fascinated by cruelty, fear, horror and death. My films show my preoccupation with violence, the pathology of violence.

Every individual who eats flesh food, whether an animal is killed expressely for him or not, is supporting the trade of slaughtering and contributing to the violent deaths of harmless animals.

George Bush doesn't care about black people... They're saying black families are looting and white families are just looking for food... they're giving the (Army) permission to shoot us.

Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair.

After decimating several vegetables, I decide juicing is my favorite form of food preparation. There's something perversely appealing about subjecting an innocent plant to that much violence.

Every fight is a food fight when youre a cannibal.

It would be great if all the fast-food outlets, slaughterhouses, these laboratories and the banks who fund them exploded tomorrow.

Five or six hundred heads cut off would have assured your repose, freedom and happiness.

All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom.

Democracies have been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their death.

I will not abridge my freedoms so as not to offend savages, freedom of speech is under violent assault here.

Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

If people base their identity on identifying with authority, freedom causes anxiety. They must then conceal the victim in themselves by resorting to violence against others.

The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.

We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.

The threat or fear of violence should not become an excuse or justification for restricting freedom of speech.

One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression.

The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular.

Any act of violence creates resentment and resistance, because humans were meant to be free.

Journalists were killed because they defended freedom. Policemen were killed because they were protecting you. Jews were killed because they were Jewish.

Without democracy there is no freedom. Violence, no matter who is using it, is always reactionary.

I have recognized that the nation has the right, if it so wills, to vindicate her freedom even by actual violence.

The terrorists can kill the innocent, but they cannot stop the advance of freedom.

Maybe this is crazy, but I think the right to own a gun is trumped by the right not to be shot by one.