Quotes About Violence

I know it's politically incorrect but I enjoy things like the kick boxing and cock fighting.

Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.

Poverty destroys Americans every day by means of confrontations with the law, disease, pollution, violence and despair.

Sri Lankans of every kind, overwhelmingly the poorest, have been bombed by one side or the other for decades.

One of the things I love about wen wu is its encouragement of developing the spiritual and intellectual aspects of the self that are actually more important than the development of the body and the capacity to commit violence - which is how much of Western pop culture defines a man.

Since there are only so many ways to kill a person, a good portion of homicides look pretty much alike.

'Bonnie and Clyde,' while one of the best movies ever made, was far more interested in portraying Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker as romantic anti-establishment Robin Hoods than what they really were: white-trash spree killers.

One of the major issues that's constantly batted around Hollywood and the media is my industry's responsibility toward the portrayal of violence. There's the irony of the films that glorify it and the individuals taking positions against it. It's a very confusing, confounding place.

There is a correlation between economic inequality and personal violence. The explanation for the correlation isn't completely clear; there are a number of possibilities.

Where there is love, there is a possibility of violence but it's not that love is connected to violence but there's a possibility.

I would like to use the law of this land to do everything I possibly can to protect America's children from abuse and violence and to give to each of them the opportunity to grow to be strong, healthy and self-sufficient citizens of this country.

I have a scar on my right arm from my ex-husband. He was cooking and he had a hot pot and he turned around and went right into my arm.

Knife crime and gun crime is poverty-driven, and poverty leads to insecurity.

What too few people mention when discussing crime is the degree to which concentrated poverty, hopelessness and despair are the chambermaids of violence and incivility.

I may not remember the name of a book's author, but let it be clear, what I will not forget is the violence, the poverty and the desperation that Mexico is living through.

I like hitting people. The best feeling is when you hit so hard, pow! You get a jarring headache.

I believe the gun has no power at all.

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

Criticism does not constitute violence.

Most Americans may not realize that the news they consume is driven in part by the media mantra, 'if it bleeds, it leads.'

There's so much drama in the lives of boxers. It's a contact sport and everyday they beat up people for a living.

I'm convinced the fall of Aleppo will not end the war.

Growing up, you always heard of cops beating people up behind buildings and letting them go. Now they just shoot them.

For all the things that make Chicago great, for all the things that make us proud to call ourselves Chicagoans, the violence that is happening corrodes our core. It is not the Chicago we know and love.