Quotes About Violence

I've seen the police brutality.

If ballots won't work, bullets will.

I would say that no one in this world can say that they've never been bullied or have violence against them.

What's more confrontational than burning cities for almost a year?

I'm all for selling books, but when guys are burning my house down, that's where I draw the line.

I elbowed a lot of people. I busted people's lips.

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.

No matter what cause one defends, it will suffer permanent disgrace if one resorts to blind attacks on crowds of innocent people.

'Cartel Land' seeks to give voice to the people of Mexico who suffer grievous harm from cartel violence and government corruption.

Children of domestic violence, of course, suffer terrible consequences.

No one should suffer what I suffered. I still dread those scenes when man killed man. I lost my parents, most of my family, by running away.

Mr. Speaker, I am deeply concerned that many regions of this world are suffering from the effects of armed conflicts with religious aspects. I believe that the differences of faith are not the real reason for these conflicts.

It's a very fascinating thing for an actor to play somebody who is suffering, and you have to express the suffering, but in an inarticulate way and sometimes a dysfunctional way, through violence.

The truth, of course, is that the only necessary and sufficient condition for human beings to murder one another is the simple fact of being human.

At no time did I suggest that violence is justice, and I can't believe I even have to explain that. But the alternative is letting someone like Kayleigh McEnany misquote and manipulate what you say. McEnany, who repeatedly lies to the American people.

We might be on the brink of an apocalypse if, instead of poor people with suicide bombs killing middle class guys, middle-class people with suicide bombs started killing rich guys.

You don't have to be Sigmund Freud to surmise that war has a perverse appeal for the human race, nor is the attraction limited to religious fanatics committing mass murder and suicide for the greater glory of God.

You look at the descriptions of Whitey by law enforcement during his early years, and they sum him up pretty well. He was the same guy 40 years later; he just had $40 million more, and had committed 40 more murders.

Before I read the 'Bloody Sunday' script, I have to admit I hadn't thought about it that much. There was probably even part of me which assumed there was no smoke without fire. That the Catholics who were shot must have done something to provoke such a response from the army. I was extremely ignorant of the whole situation.

And the police got nervous and they began to kick us in our backs and stomachs, and the crowd shouted 'Mahatma Gandhi ki jai!' and someone took a kerosene tin and began to beat it, and someone took a cattle-bell and began to ring it, and they cried, 'With them, brothers, with them!' and they leaped and they ducked and they came down to lie beside us, and we shouted 'Mahatma Gandhi ki jai! Mahatma Gandhi ki jai!

Jallianwala Bagh's dead and dying spent the 13th night with dogs and vultures.

If carnage and brutality marked the Abdali/Sikh confrontation, so did guts, on both sides.

Losing self-control, some in Punjab, he said, had taken to violence; losing self-respect, others had obeyed the Crawling Order.

Extremism is not confined, however, to Muslims, and non-Muslims too have perpetrated terrorist acts.