Quotes About Violence

It is far easier and more effective - and not just in terms of cost - to prevent conventional conflicts than to intervene after an eruption of violence.

We know that police alone can't prevent violence. Support of political parties is imperative to maintain peace.

One the most efficient ways to combat gun violence is to prevent criminals from obtaining guns in the first place.

Who needs a bullet piercing, armor piercing bullet to go hunting? Who needs an assault rifle to go hunting? You can't even use the prey that you kill with an assault rifle if you indeed do it.

Fighting in the ring or cage is very much different from fighting in the street. Fighting in the street is very much fueled by anger, pride, and male dominance and ego.

Islamists are nothing but guided missiles that pride themselves on taking out as many infidels as possible.

When you're sitting ringside, there's a primal thing there that hooks into violence and excitement. It's just two guys going at it in the ring - there's no team, no one to pass the ball to - and there's a certain excitement to that.

True violence, not the kind you usually see in television or movies, touches something very deep and primal in people.

It fills me with dismay sometimes when you look at the scripts that do come to you that are primarily focused on violence. There are so many other things to play around with.

In fact, street gangs are the primary distributor of illegal drugs in the United States.

While the primary focus continues to be on religious minorities - the Christian religious minorities and the Jewish community - ISIS will also go after people who interpret and believe the Muslim faith differently than they do.

The crime and violence in the black community is a prime example of the damaging effect of broken families and single female-headed households.

Bush, and Blair, and the prime minister of Japan, and Berlusconi, these people are criminals, and they are responsible for mass murder in the world, for the war, and for the occupation, through their support for Israel, and through their support for a globalized capitalist economic system, which is the biggest killer the world has ever known.

Boxing is one of those leftovers from a more primitive past that should be finished off and killed. I don't love it anymore.

Hitting someone with a shoe is in principle anti-Dalit. If you investigate stories about hitting someone with a shoe, you will find that this sort of language was used only by those who were upper-caste.

We prioritize access to guns to such a degree that we are traumatizing an entire generation of children.

It was very difficult when I was young because there are problems with violence, gangs, guns, drugs - a criminal life. I had friends that choose a criminal life. Some of them are in prison, and some of them are dead. They chose the bad way.

Attica. The name itself has long signified resistance to prison abuse and state violence.

Prison officers face enormous pressure. The levels of violence inside our prisons are too high.

The only dead bodies from marijuana are in the prisons and at the hands of the police. This is ridiculous.

Pro wrestling is entertainment, but people get hurt all of the time.

Ultimately, policing in and of itself is problematic.

I think there's always going to be a problem dealing with firearms, with knives. It's the animal we are that cause the problems.

If peace activists really want to make changes, they have to start putting intense pressure on their elected officials. Of course, everything should be non-violent, because we are trying to create a peaceful world, and violence can't produce peace - no matter what George W. Bush and his buddies say.