William Friedkin Quotes

You know, violence, I think, knocks on everyone's door.

Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire.

Violence is a calm that disturbs you.

You’re a thug. Now get out of here and keep away.

Violence is totally accepted in this country.

Let's face it, when is it actually ever funny to joke about hitting someone? Never, right? The threat to give someone a slap, no matter how you look at it, is aggressive.

I would say that no one in this world can say that they've never been bullied or have violence against them.

The problem to me is violence. It's not cool to kill somebody or hurt people.

When you see me smash somebody's skull, you enjoy it.

Violence is both unavoidable and unjustifiable.

I was hoping he would get up so I could hit him again and keep him down.

There's more than one way to sense violence.

Bullies are just ignorant.

The public makes it so that we have to keep assaulting each other.

Sir one more comment like that and I will strangle you with my microphone wire!

I never caught on to being a bully.

Actual violence has no attraction for me at all.

Violence is the first refuge of the violent.

Violence is like a weed - it does not die even in the greatest drought.

I've had threats.

Bullets, beatings and bombings—not bullshit!

to vex and oppress each other.

There was great persecution in many places, both by imprisoning, and by breaking up of meetings. At a meeting about seven miles from London, the rude people usually came out of several parishes round about, to abuse Friends, and often beat and bruised them exceedingly. One day they abused about eighty Friends that went to that meeting out of London, tearing their coats and cloaks from off their backs, and throwing them into ditches and ponds; and when they had besmeared them with dirt, they said they looked like witches.

Violence does not contribute to anything.

I was different. I got beat up every day.