“You have to show violence the way it is. If you don't show it realistically, then that's immoral and harmful. If you don't upset people, then that's obscenity.”
Roman Polanski
“The Roots of Violence: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice, Politics without principles”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.”
George Orwell
“When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her.”
Oscar Wilde
“Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“If you hate what you're seeing, you call it sex and violence. If you like it, you call it "romance and adventure."”
Joe Bob Briggs