Gratuitous Violence Quotes

#1. My moral compass swings far to the left, but when it comes to gratuitous violence, I have trouble.

Michael Biehn

#2. I fear gratuitous censorship more than gratuitous violence.

Marty Rubin

#3. I don't ever want anyone to hear my music and look at it as just gratuitous violence, or hustling and money-getting - I try to tell the perspective of the woman, the man, the mind, why.

Pusha T

#4. What's lemonade? Something you make out of lemons. And what's a crusade? Something you make out of crosses - a course of gratuitous violence motivated by an obsession with unanalyzed symbols.

Aldous Huxley

#5. Thwart: to prevent someone from accomplishing something by means of visiting gratuitous violence upon his smarmy person.

Jim Butcher

#6. I'm very critical of crime novels that use gratuitous violence to shock readers when it isn't necessary. If that's all you have to offer as a writer, perhaps you're in the wrong job.

Michael Robotham

#7. I don't like gratuitous violence. I don't like the 'Saw' movies. I don't like the 'Hostel' movies. I don't like anything that is violence for violence's sake.

Michael Biehn

#8. A little bit of gratuitous violence in a well-thought-out story is fine.

Ray Wise

#9. Thwart," I said. "To prevent someone from accomplishing something by means of visiting gratuitous violence upon his smarmy person."
"I'm pretty sure that isn't the definition." Sarissa said.
"It is today.

Jim Butcher

#10. I think the last one would have to be The Godfather because it was such a powerful story. There was lots of violence in it but I could take it because I thought there was a reality to it. It wasn't gratuitous, it was just these guys' story.

Bobby Farrelly

#11. Well who can truly understand politics any more, ever since they all went professional it's all sort of blurred with the entertainments industry.

Steve Merrick

#12. Nowadays, everything is so gratuitous. The violence is suggested, and it's much more impactful than showing everything.

Oliver Jackson-Cohen

#13. We have the best sporting event in the world in polo, and yet it is weak.

Facundo Pieres

#14. It got a little boring I guess, playing the same note over and over.

Fisher Stevens

#15. The real resistance now is to an art which forces its audience to recognize and accept imaginatively, in their nerve ends, not the facts of life but the facts of death and violence: absurd, random, gratuitous, unjustified, and inescapably part of the society we have created.

Al Alvarez

#16. I want to create awareness amongst the common people of Pakistan and I generally appeal to the Pakistani people living here and abroad for help and they provide me with the necessary resources.

Abdul Sattar Edhi

#17. I tried not to think of all the horror movies featuring this exact scenario, soon to be followed by an abundance of gratuitous blood and gore.

M.A. George

#18. wanted to see you again.

Ken Follett

#19. Two things I do well in books are sex and violence, but I don't want gratuitous sex or violence. The sex and violence are only as graphic as need be. And never included unless it furthers the plot or character development.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#20. I came to the conclusion that people were just peculiar, I withdrew from them, and never thought about them until I was forced to.

Harper Lee

#21. Readers must be given room to bring their own emotions to a piece so crammed with emotional content; the writer must tenaciously resist explaining why the material is so moving.

William Zinsser

#22. Reader: Dear Mr. Snicket, What is the best way to keep a secret? Lemony Snicket : Tell it to everyone you know, but pretend you are kidding.

Lemony Snicket

#23. I hated Shallow Grave, that movie made me angry. And I hated Happiness. I generally hate movies that use extreme violence or gratuitous shock value in place of having a heart. For example: movies that combine extremely sadistic violence with humor I find offensive.

Jesse Michaels

#24. A prayer couched in the words of the soul, is far more powerful than any ritual.

Paulo Coelho