Quotes About Violence

She put her hands around the neck of our production manager, and you know, started to choke him.

They do not want people committing violence, either in their community or in the name of their faith, and so some of our most productive relationships are with people who see things and tell us things who happen to be Muslim.

War is a profane thing.

Here is the dirty little secret about anti-abortion violence: It works.

If you disarm someone's hands - they cannot kill you!

There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into decency or codified into common sense.

The abuse was just routine. I didn't wake up the next day and say, 'Dre, why did you hit me?' We never talked about it the next day. Never. I can't think of any time we had a discussion about the aftermath of what happened the night before.

War is not a petri dish to examine and analyze our emotions.

The lower caste people were killed as part of a conspiracy to dismiss my party's government.

Having been raised during the war, I know very well how childhood hampered by displacement, poverty, violence, and fear looks like.

Leftist law breaking, rule breaking, violence, and disruption have already marred the public Kavanaugh confirmation hearings.

I'm very disturbed about the uptick in shootings and violence at our military installations across the nation.

We do violence to the consciousness of a past age when we divide what was indivisible to it: the one sacred truth of the Christian creed.

I try to understand people who do violence. I try to understand what they are feeling and experiencing.

Exploding crime is not something that rights itself.

One of the things I've been interested in my whole career is exploring masculinity and what it means to be a man. The sensitivity of a man, but also the violence and power that goes along with it.

We're seeing this disintegration of the family movie into these blockbuster things that kids should not be exposed to with explosions, carnage and violence.

The lack of exposure to right perspective has caused me to be in abusive relationships. When a boy stubbed cigarette on my leg, I thought it was out of love. You know why? Because our films taught us slapping in the face was a way of expressing love.

The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.

We, as human beings, have the capacity for extreme cruelty.

I know and understand the result of extreme violence in my own life, in my friends' lives, and so I know what violence really is.

You cannot deal with an industrial-strength extremist problem just with force of arms. You have to have that political component as well.

False stories can be promulgated more easily when the people trying to tell true stories have been discredited - or when they are battered by rubber bullets.

I just couldn't believe that the police would fire tear gas into what had been a peaceful protest. I was running around, face burning, and nothing I saw looked like America to me.