Quotes About Violence

In any insurgency there will be people who are irreconcilable and who pose a clear and present threat to the U.S. and our allies.

The threat and use of violence is stimulating nuclear proliferation along with jihadi terrorism.

At the national level, I don't know how to describe a threat to destroy Country A in order to punish Country B other than to call it state terrorism.

Dangerous people with guns are a threat to women.

The threat from terrorists - from extreme ideologies - needs to be challenged head-on.

The PKK is the number one threat in terms of terror in our country.

ISIS is the greatest threat.

There's a truth to the violence of boxing. You have a very real threat, an opponent.

Yes, ISIS is a threat. It's more than a nuisance. It's also in many respects criminal violence. But it isn't, in my view, a central strategic issue facing humanity.

ISIL is dangerous. They're a threat. They're a brutal, horrible force that needs to be dealt with.

We have to realize that ISIS and Islamic terrorists are not only a threat to America. They are a threat to all of Western society.

Crime and violence are a threat to the freedom and liberty people should enjoy and to our orderly way of life.

If your country isn't stable and free from the threat of violence then you can't get to work, you can't get to the local clinic and your children can't go to school.

Pathology by Daesh is distinctively to swallow its opponents, to frighten the population. In that regard, the threat is very real.

The Yanukovych regime is a mafia, which regularly threatens, imprisons, murders, or disappears political opponents as well as those whose possessions it covets.

Global terrorism threatens every region.

Just able barely to mount a horse and ride about a little in the spring of 1866, my life was threatened daily, and I was forced to go heavily armed. The whole country was then full of militia, robbing, plundering and killing.

I was in awe of my older brother, but he was also quite a threatening figure - he used to beat me up.

A riot's unchecked destruction of livelihoods and property is certainly newsworthy, threatening as it does the very possibility of civilization.

During the summer of 2009, the debate on health care reform was emotional and intense. At its best, it represented the free exchange of ideas that makes this country great. At its worst, it generated death threats and acts of violence.

It's never fun to read death threats.

Military confrontation is not a suitable alternative in confronting terror and current security threats.

Where do these arms come from, these Saturday night specials that constitute the instrument of threats in bank robberies, or the hand grenades used by terrorists? How can their sales and their import be permitted?

I think that the firepower of the Civil War, the numbers of bodies that were left to rot, the numbers of amputations in the Civil War, all of this created threats to the understanding of the human being as an integral soul, as a body and soul that could be united.