Quotes About Violence

People can cooperate, compete peacefully, or use violence to achieve their objectives, depending on what they believe will serve them best in any given circumstance.

Opposition without love leads to violence; loving the wrong-doer without opposing the evil in him is folly and leads to misery.

The world's a poor standard. any society which is free of hunger and violence looks bright against that background.

Since war has ceased to be the moving force in the world, men have become more tender one to another, and shrink from what they used to inflict without caring; and this is not so much because men are improved (which may or may not be in various cases), but because they have no longer the daily habit of war--have no longer formed their notions upon war, and therefore are guided by thoughts and feelings which soldiers as such--soldiers educated simply by their trade--are too hard to understand.

Professional camera crews are rarely there when a bomb goes off or a rocket lands. They usually show up afterwards.

The lack of marriage is being blamed for almost every social ill - whether it's gun violence, whether it's poverty, whether it's the dropping birth rate.

The violence in New Orleans is erupting and it's continuing to grow at an alarming rate.

The only reason I was offered 'Punisher' was because I had made an indie film that was rated R for violence and was filled with fight scenes.

Native women and girls experience violence at far higher rates than any other female population in the country - a crisis that has devastated our communities and has been neglected for too long.

What keeps me up at night is our nation's continued and burgeoning lack of rationality in response to mass shootings.

When I tell stories about Iraq, the ones people react to are always the stories of violence. This is strange for me.

When Arab apologists wring their hands over an Israeli military incursion, they never mention what the Israelis are reacting to, or else diminish and distort it.

I'm very critical of crime novels that use gratuitous violence to shock readers when it isn't necessary. If that's all you have to offer as a writer, perhaps you're in the wrong job.

I still remember March 31, 1981, when a deeply disturbed John Hinckley Jr. took aim at President Ronald Reagan and fired shots that hospitalized the Commander-in-Chief and two others, and left his Press Secretary James Brady paralyzed for life.

There's nothing funny about violence. Death is a real thing.

One day, if I had to do a horror movie, it will be a very realistic war movie. For me, war is horror.

Killing is always wrong, even governments are not exceptions.

For a culture that has such a problem with death, we seem to deal with it in a quite bizarre way. We see people shot, killed and blown up, and we find it funny and sexy and all those things. But, the reality of it is that every day people die, and people are really sad and they grieve and they go through a really difficult process with it.

'American Sniper' is a movie. War is a grim reality and with us still.

It is always funny to see a grown man bully get beat up by a little girl or anything.

Everybody has a gun in their car in Detroit.

I don't have to be careful, I've got a gun.

The only times an Afro-American who was assaulted got away has been when he had a gun and used it in self-defense.

The problem of gun violence goes beyond the countless demographic differences between people.