Quotes About Violence

You just have to open the newspapers in most Western news to see real violence.

'Unforgiven,' I think, is the best Western ever.

Colombia has been the leading western recipient of U.S. arms and training as violence has grown through the '90s.

Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have often perceived Islam as a violent and intolerant faith - even though when this prejudice took root Islam had a better record of tolerance than Christianity.

Then I heard another shot which hit him right in the head, over here, and his head practically opened up and a lot of blood and many more things came out.

I was imprisoned in Missouri in 1854 for preaching the gospel to Negroes, though I was never subjected to violence.

You've gotten words about those American and Iraqi deaths and mutilations, but precious few images.

As long as we have have predatory capitalism, we'll have guns because the gun industry loves to make money out of guns.

I always predict a knockout. That's what I go for, I hit to hurt.

When people look at Bermuda, they see the beautiful beaches, the golf courses, the fishing, and that's what they should see. That's Bermuda. What they don't see is the almost predominant black-on-black violence that is unfortunately pervasive throughout the local neighborhoods.

The U.S. presence and American missteps made ethnic violence in Iraq far worse than it would have been otherwise after Saddam Saddam Hussein's fall.

We butchered the force present at the airport, we are destroying them.

The smorgasbord of images now presented to us is getting bloodier. They're becoming more frequent - almost hourly.

Writing 'Deathstroke' presents a number of challenges to me. As a Christian, as a minister, it's difficult for me to write a comic book that all but glorifies violence. So my take on 'Deathstroke' has been to not so much celebrate violence but to deal with the consequences of violence.

In my lifetime, we have lost a President, a Civil Rights leader and a Presidential candidate - all to gun violence.

I want to kill the president because I no like the capitalists. I have the gun in my hand, I kill kings and presidents first and next all capitalists.

Knowing that more people associate Chicago with street violence than generosity is difficult for me because, despite all my proclamations of being from the Bay Area, I have spent much of my life in Chicago. So I have a deep love and a pretty good understanding of the city.

Violence in Darfur is cataclysmic.

I turn down a lot of movies because sometimes they glamorize violence or the darker side of sex or criminality.

I don't flinch from darkness, but I've always been bothered by what I call gore-nography.

The abuse of civilians and combatants has existed since the dawn of time.

War is about dead people.

To kill a man is not to defend a doctrine, but to kill a man.

You have to ask the people about democracy. I know what my people want, and I cannot understand these people who violate peace.