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Quotes About Violence

We can make fun of hockey fans, but someone who enjoys Homer is indulging the same kind of vicarious bloodlust.
~ Steven Pinker
My resonance to Magneto and Xavier was borne more out of the Holocaust. It was coming face to face with evil, and how do you respond to it? In Magneto's case it was violence begets violence. In Xavier's it was the constant attempt to find a better way.
~ Chris Claremont
Holocaust films will be made and should be made as long as we can't understand what makes people so cruel to each other.
~ Milos Forman
We have to face the fact that meaningful gun control has to be a part of homeland security.
~ Jeh Johnson
I was 14 when the Democratic convention in my hometown of Chicago erupted into violence. It was a tough year.
~ Richard Edelman
Homicide is the best material I've had the chance to do.
~ Daniel Baldwin
I am honored to continue the fight for equal economic opportunities, the right to choose, and an end to gender-based violence by serving as an ACLU Celebrity Ambassador.
~ Sasheer Zamata
Senators say they fear the N.R.A. and the gun lobby. But I think that fear must be nothing compared to the fear the first graders in Sandy Hook Elementary School felt as their lives ended in a hail of bullets.
~ Gabrielle Giffords
To contemplate war is to think about the most horrible of human experiences.
~ Robert Byrd
While we may not know how to stop these horrific mass shootings, we do know this: Limiting high-capacity magazines will save lives, and we know this because it has saved lives.
~ Elizabeth Esty
I had these experiences as a kid; I remember certain things happening in school that were horrifying that I would see, certain things of violence or certain things of cruelty, but around that, something might happen afterwards to cause everyone to laugh, and that always blew me away.
~ Harmony Korine
Racism is like a horror movie. Black kids die because of racism. I don't know what's more horrifying than that.
~ Daniel Kaluuya
Usually, the kills are almost Wile E. Coyote kind of things in horror movies.
~ Jonathan Levine
A lot of my friends were gay, so I was spat on on the bus daily, and I ended up in hospital a couple of times from being beaten up so badly.
~ Dev Hynes
You don't brag about putting someone in hospital. It's absolutely horrible.
~ Tony Bellew
One hate crime is committed approximately every hour of every day in this country.
~ Anna Paquin
I'm a huge fan of 'Sons of Anarchy.'
~ Christopher Golden
Everything that happens in the life of a human being, especially artists, who are supposed to be more sensitive, yes, it can affect you. In Lebanon I saw 10- and 12-year-old kids walking around with guns, and I understood how much human actions affect people.
~ Demis Roussos
Certainly, if you look at human behavior around the world, you have to admit that we can be very aggressive.
~ Jane Goodall
What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human being?
~ Jose Saramago
Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings!
~ Mackenzie Astin
When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to not arm people to repress.
~ Jean-Bertrand Aristide
War is a fundamental aspect of human existence. It's good to know what war entails and what the human sacrifice is.
~ Tim O'Brien
I'm one who seriously hates human life and would kill again.
~ Aileen Wuornos