Language Violence Quotes

#1. I was attracted to their guns, because the guns seemed honest. The guns seemed to address this country, which invented the streets that secured them with despotic police, in its primary language - violence.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#2. We might not object to the statement that Lear deserved to suffer for his folly, selfishness and tyranny; but to assert that he deserved to suffer what he did suffer is to do violence not merely to language but to any healthy moral sense.

Andrew Coyle Bradley

#3. I never felt any attraction towards violence. I never tried to express myself through violence. Violence is a language.

Elie Wiesel

#4. You want to free the world, free humanity, from oppression? Look inside, look sideways, look at the hidden violence of language. Never forget that language is where the other, parallel violence, the cruelty exercised on the body, originates.

Ariel Dorfman

#5. I think there's as much violence, in a way, as a scene with two women having a cup of coffee in a Ruth Rendell novel - in terms of emotional violence and the violence you can inflict with language - as there is in the most graphic kind of serial killer/slasher novel you can think of.

Mark Billingham

#6. In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence.

Adrienne Rich

#7. In the mainstream film market, certainly in television, sex is handled fairly discreetly. I think the abuse of extraordinarily graphic violence and language presses much closer to the tolerance of public taste.

Charlton Heston

#8. Nothing remains for me but to assure you in the most animated language of the violence of my affection.

Jane Austen

#9. I want to make movies - and I want to portray characters - that make people think. I want to make movies that have a redemptive message. I want to tell good quality stories and take out the derogatory sex, violence and language.

Drew Waters

#10. It's the purest form of silver and our tagline is "Taking the 'except fors' out of movies." We're trying to make movies with pure story - without the derogatory sex, violence and language to (rely on) a good story.

Drew Waters

#11. People use location as a language in films, and Quentin uses action as a language in his films. There's really not a lot of violence. It's more of an emotional beat than it is a physical beat.

Lucy Liu

#12. I first came across her [Bae Suah] when I read some elderly male critic castigating her for 'doing violence to the Korean language', which of course was catnip to me, especially as I'd recently discovered Lispector doing pretty much the same to Portuguese.

Deborah Smith

#13. The individual that believes God permits a man to hit a woman or speak to her using abusive language, is void of understanding who God is. He condemns violence in any form.

Ellen J. Barrier

#14. It's ironic that it was not until I lost my hearing that I finally found my voice. Sign language saved my soul.

Rosie Malezer

#15. The violent subjugation of the Palestinians, Iraqis, and Afghans will only ensure that those who oppose us will increasingly speak to us in the language we speak to them - violence.

Chris Hedges

#16. Language failed me very often, but then, the substitute for me was silence, but not violence.

Elie Wiesel

#17. You do violence with your words if you force them - art is given - the words received, moment by moment from unseen hands - call it a Muse ...

John Geddes

#18. I put on the page a third look at what I've seen in life - the reinvented experience of a cross-eyed working-class lesbian, addicted to violence, language and hope, who has made the decision to live, is determined to live, on the page and on the street, for me and mine.

Dorothy Allison

#19. Violence should never be the answer.
Aye, in a perfect world. But sometimes animals don't understand anything but their own language.

Samantha Young

#20. PANTOMIME, n. A play in which the story is told without violence to the language. The least disagreeable form of dramatic action.

Ambrose Bierce

#21. When language fails, violence becomes a language; I never had that feeling.

Elie Wiesel

#22. I grew up with a very quick temper, and the language of violence is a language that I'm very familiar and comfortable with.

Greg Bryk

#23. The violence of language consists in its effort to capture the ineffable and, hence, to destroy it, to seize hold of that which must remain elusive for language to operate as a living thing.

Judith Butler

#24. When people grow up in atmospheres of violence or atmospheres of poverty, they don't normally use hi-falutin' language to describe those things. They would describe some brutal event the same way we would describe getting a taxi or missing the bus.

Philipp Meyer

#25. Black-on black crime' is jargon, violence on language, which vanishes the men who engineered the covenants, who fixed the loans, who planned the projects, who built the streets and sold red ink by the barrel.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#26. Those who don't understand any language other than the language of force and violence don't respect human dignity. They seek violence because they will be irrelevant without it. We should not go their way.

Shirin Ebadi

#27. She decided that day to study Russian, the language of violence, terror, and absurdity. She knew she would never be bored.

Natalie Standiford

#28. I don't want to be embarrassed when I go to see something on the screen. I don't want to listen to foul language, watch a lot of violence or see something immoral. I prefer stories with sensitivity and family values; films that strive to lift you up to a higher place in life.

Debra Paget

#29. It think acceptance levels sort of swings back and forth. Like in the 60's there was a lot more freedom with sex that doesn't exist today. Language has gotten pushed a bit farther and violence is way far out.

Bob Saget

#30. Violence is the language of the inarticulate.

Aussiescribbler

#31. Force is the only language the imperialists can hear, and no country became free without some sort of violence.

Nelson Mandela

#32. I feel Mahatma Gandhi's non-violence was for the intelligent, educated British.It was not for those who don't understand this language.

Raj Thackeray

#33. Violence is the language of destruction, flesh so often the subject, fragile, easy to break beyond repair, precious; what else would we burn to make the world take note?

Mark Lawrence

#34. Body language is essential for an actress, even if you don't use your body in an athletic way. Just to be free, to use it like your voice. A body can be small and have incredible violence. A body talks.

Anne Parillaud

#35. How our availability, our showing up, our presence, leaves us open to that violence. I think it's a question of language, as it arrives from one body to another. It becomes the thing in between the two bodies.

Claudia Rankine

#36. People want poetry and need it - we need what's not honored by the corporate mentality that has taken over. It gives people a language for responding to the violence, the shallowness, the near-nothings, the toys we're all supposed to want. It's a way for people to be able to connect with themselves.

Joan Larkin

#37. I avoid all the language and nudity and violence and everything. I have enough of that at home.

Tim Conway

#38. Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.

Toni Morrison

#39. He'd shot and beaten people because he couldn't talk to them.Violence was the only language nobody could understand. There were no translators.

James Meek

#40. What senseless violence does is to prolong the lease of life of the British or foreign rule.

Mahatma Gandhi

#41. If history shows anything, it is that there's no better way to justify relations founded on violence, to make such relations seem moral, than by reframing them in the language of debt - above all, because it immediately makes it seem that it's the victim who's doing something wrong.

David Graeber

#42. Each of these failures for me is a failure of communication, via a mode of communication that can be violent or meant to behave violently. Butler provides a way of thinking about how language becomes an instrument of violence. And why we feel it as such.

Claudia Rankine

#43. Universal violence compels the language to be mute ... Silence is not only a metaphor of Hemingway's work; it is also the source of its formal excellence, its integrity.

Ihab Hassan