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Quotes About Violence

Trayvon Martin did not need to die.
~ Henry Rollins
Violence does not resolve. It always leads to more violence.
~ Mark Kurlansky
I think if we wish to live in any kind of a moral universe, we must hold the perpetrators of violence responsible for the violence they perpetrate. It's very simple. The criminal is responsible for the crime.
~ Salman Rushdie
I really like revenge movies.
~ Joe Flacco
I can't rid myself of the feeling that war is a product of the male nature.
~ Svetlana Alexievich
Why do we have to have another riot?
~ Ty Dolla Sign
MMA is like the Colosseum in Rome: the fans want to see violence.
~ Matt Riddle
Our kids fear going to school in the morning, and their parents worry whether they will come home safely at the end of the day.
~ Wayne Messam
I love Sam Peckinpah.
~ James Wan
Punisher is scary; he should be scary.
~ Greg Rucka
I don't have a gun, I've never owned one and never will.
~ Dereck Chisora
The harassment, violence, and attacks against our Asian American and Pacific Islander friends, neighbors, and community members must stop.
~ Ralph Northam
I am not a pacifist - I think that violence and self-defence are often morally justified.
~ Martha Nussbaum
There is so much bloodshed and action packed into our films these days. Pretty women provide the much-needed respite to the masses from the melee of non-stop action.
~ Priyamani
Far too often we see attention paid to the firearm and not the criminal.
~ Jeff Miller
It is painful beyond measure to lose a loving father and grandmother to violence.
~ Bernice King
The U.S. and Israel have been slaughtering the Palestinians, just slaughtering them, for years. Robbing them and slaughtering them.
~ Bobby Fischer
Horror and panic themselves are forms of violence, and diminishing them, restricting their dimensions, is itself a civilizing act.
~ Walter Kirn
There was one occasion when I was very young - eight years or seven years old - that Jewish businessmen went through the forest, and they were assassinated. And that was for the first time I saw in our paper where there were assassinations in our place.
~ Shimon Peres
I think every parent was horrified at what happened in Newtown, Conn.
~ Ted Cruz
War doesn't need more participants. It needs fewer participants.
~ Michael Badnarik
The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
~ Noam Chomsky
I don't think that what's going on in Bosnia is political activity. It's partly political, but it's partly atavistic as well.
~ John Keegan
America's addiction to violence is partly evident in the heroes it chooses to glorify.
~ Henry Giroux