Javier Bardem Quotes

I don't mind violence, but it's quite an interesting thing for people to deal with. I don't know many people that like fighting. I certainly don't, myself. But it's always interesting to work on a shows where there's so much violence, as a part of the world.

Melt all the guns, I thought, break the knives, burn the guillotines-and the malicious will still write letters that kill.

We do not want to destroy any people. It is precisely because we have been advocating coexistence that we have shed so much blood.

When the other man has none, you don't need a gun.

The world would be a much nicer place if people only used guns on themselves.

It is hard to convince people that you mean them well if you are looking at them down the barrel of a gun.

There's a difference between action and violence. Violence isn't fun.

The path of violence has not yielded anything. Shed guns and adopt the path of peace, unity, goodwill and brotherhood.

Violence is not inevitable. I mean, the only inevitable form of violence is the kind that we understand, the only legitimate (if there can ever be legitimate violence) and that's self-defense.

We cannot build on peace on blood. We are still so addicted to this lie. We have this fantasy that we honor the dead by adding to their number. What we need to do is remember that these bodies bury us. This ocean of blood that we create through the fantasy that violence brings virtue drowns us, drowns our children, drowns our future, drowns the world. We have to understand that when we pour these endless young bodies into this pit of death, we follow.

I will never tell anyone to pick up a gun. But I will pray for the man who picks up a gun, pray that he will be less cruel than he might otherwise have been.

I never hugged him, I bombed him.

Seriously, I don't need a gun. I'm easily annoyed. I would shoot people in my house that I invited over.

I had it then. Soda fought for fun, Steve for hatred, Darry for pride, and Two-Bit for conformity. Why do I fight? I thought, and couldn't think of any real good reason. There isn't any real good reason for fighting except self-defense.

If there were no guns, we couldn't talk about it, ... You turn on TV, you see soldiers marching with guns. We only talk about things that's happening.

Every victory accomplished with weapons is a funeral that should be mourned.

My metaphor is that evil always has a top hat and a cape, and goodness is over there in the corner. For me it's just too easy, if you hate your country or your wife, so you kill them. You can't think through that, you can't feel through that, you can't do the work. And now we have guns. Solution? I don't think so.

Yes I think so, absolutely. It should be stopped, nobody should be talking of hatred and militancy and aggression.

The key to happiness, she said, is tolerance of those who do not do as you do.' 'What if those who do not do as you do are gunning you down?' I said.... Alaska frowned. 'Guns are intolerant. Guns are a failure of communication.

Every day in the news we're hearing how rampant violence is in our communities, both here in America and around the world. I believe that the establishement of a United States Department of Peace can greatly help alleviate the many problems that we hear about on a daily basis. Our children deserve so much better. It is our job right here and now to build a better world. By establishing a US Department of Peace we are doing just that. Please get involved ... It's up to us to be the change that we wish for and the time is now to co-create it.

No war ought ever to be undertaken but under circumstances which render all intercourse of courtesy between the combatants impossible. It is a bad thing that men should hate each other; but it is far worse that they should contract the habit of cutting one another's throats without hatred. War is never lenient but where it is wanton; when men are compelled to fight in self-defence, they must hate and avenge: this may be bad; but it is human nature.

Movies are different from real life.

The power to prevent violence is a power that no police force seems to have anywhere in the United States.

I think we simply all like to project ourselves into somebody else - somebody who is better-looking, richer, smarter. It's comforting. It's escapism, and that, of course, is what the movies are supposed to be all about. Ultimately, I think it's just part of human nature to pretend.

We'd all like to believe that perhaps people could stop killing each other.