Quotes About Violence

When Will.I.Am punched Perez Hilton, I immediately purchased a bunch of their music.

Listen, 'The Purge' actually exists in some form or another in many places around the world when you think about it.

With the first act of cruelty committed in the name of revolution, with the first murder, with the first purge and execution, we have lost the revolution.

The great concern is that year after year, rising numbers of journalists are being killed in pursuit of their work. They are increasingly seen as not being neutral but rather as combatants by one side or the other.

No kid is seeking anything when he joins a gang; he's always fleeing something. He's not being pulled; he's being pushed by the circumstances in which he finds himself.

I faced a certain amount of violence. It taught me that I had to learn to protect myself - and it made me stronger. It could have made me step backwards with my self-discovery. Instead, it pushed me further.

When I was a kid, the people that used to push other people around, if someone whacked them, then they wouldn't be pushing people around again. But you can't really do that with adults.

I'm for catching every Japanese in America, Alaska, and Hawai'i now and putting them in concentration camps.

If you're not married, and your boyfriend is putting his hands on you, you know he ain't the one, because you know that will continue.

I think being a woman and writing frankly about violence has gotten me some attention, and as someone who wants people to read my books, I can't complain about that attention, but it does puzzle me that this is something reviewers focus on.

When you shoot someone who is fleeing, it's not self-defense. It's an execution.

Many corpses will be floating in the sea.

George Floyd had a rich and loving life that was taken from him.

The soul is part of the body. The mind is part of the body. When folks do physical violence to black people, to black bodies in this country, the soul as we construe it is damaged, too - the mind is damaged, too.

I have kids. I can't hardly watch an afternoon football game with them without having to turn off the TV during the commercials. It's too much. I don't know when violence was deemed such a cinematic thing.

When you talk about domestic violence, it's not just athletes that are involved in it. Our society has really done a poor job of addressing it. And it needs to come to the forefront.

I have a theory that all abuse, no matter what kind of abuse it is, is foremost an assault on the mind.

ISIS has never fought a real battle.

What you need to do in conflict resolution is to bring the people who believe that the answer to their political ambitions will be achieved through violence into a frame of mind that they accept that their political ambitions will be delivered by politics.

It's not OK to condone violence because of free speech.

I saw a man killed in front of my eyes just before my eighth birthday.

So I don't cry anymore, I just beat people up. It's a lot more fun.

Violence against women is fundamentally about power.

Only the previous day, Arch had found him in a spirit-dance corral, blistering the creatures to the point of death, such was his need to touch and destroy.