Wael Ghonim Quotes

Visaranai' isn't for those with weak hearts. It has a lot of graphic violence, and you need a strong stomach to watch the film.

I think the brutality is important to convey as part of the story, to see how brutal it is to have these kids in battle with one another.

I am depressed rather at the wave of brutality sweeping over the country.

I grew up in the South under segregation. So, I know what terrorism feels like - when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn't look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. I mean, that's terrorism, too.

It was a matter of survival for the local people, but it was the most violent scene I have ever witnessed. The people in my group, feeling helpless, were all spellbound and aghast at the same time. I became a vegetarian shortly after that.

Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history

I find man's inhumanity to man extraordinary,,, I can't get my head around it.

I'm not fearful for myself, because I've seen adversity, and I can see it again. But I feel very upset and anguished when I see images of young lawyers beaten up.

I'll tell you what justice is. Justice is a knee in the gut from the floor on the chin at night sneaky with a knife brought up down on the magazine of a battleship sandbagged underhanded in the dark without a word of warning

Martin Luther King was bumped off unjustly, Adam Clayton Powell was bumped off unjustly, they took my title unjustly, they killed Megers Ever unjustly, all the integrators who love white folks, was unjustly kicked out of Washington, they've been deprived of education and poverty throughout the country.

Terrorism is contempt for human dignity.

Rape, mutilation, abuse, and theft are the natural outcome of a world in which force rules, in which human beings are objects.

Through my mind, is just the horror of these people. I had been held by them, I knew how violent they were.

Never mind a world that can't see past brutality.

There is no good terror and bad terror. Terror is terror. There's not terror that you can accept and terror that you cannot accept. Terror is terror. Murder is murder.

I visited the Pentagon a few days after September 11, and I still remember so vividly the smell of terror surrounding the entire building and complex. I was angry that such a brutal act of violence was committed against innocent people.

Terrorism is not new to black people.

The suffering caused by the terrorists is the real torture.

When you live under the power of terror and segregation, you can't ever start a work of art.

Atrocities are human nature - they don't have political beliefs, color, creed or anything like that. They just happen, it's human.

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

When my father was arrested, we didn't know where they had him. My mother found him at the house of torture. It was called Villa Triste.

These days, our senses are bombarded with aggression. We are constantly confronted with global images of unending, escalating war and violence.

I was arrested three times and tortured once.