Quotes About Violence

Physical violence is always a bore in films today. We don't see how much it hurts. We don't learn the true consequences of it.

The economic freedom has come to a lot of us who are lucky, but many women are still beaten up by husbands, even when they are breadwinners.

Why don't we actually fight for a woman's right even to complain about being beaten up. That is more important than driving. If a woman is beaten, they are told to go back to their homes - their fathers, husbands, brothers - to be beaten up again and locked up in the house.

We are in control, they are in a state of hysteria. Losers, they think that by killing civilians and trying to distort the feelings of the people they will win. I think they will not win, those bastards.

I robbed them, and I killed them as cold as ice, and I would do it again, and I know I would kill another person because I've hated humans for a long time.

To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war.

Once a person has killed other people on behalf of an ideology, he becomes rather devoted to it.

I knew that I was smart enough to learn. I knew that I could learn, if I could just go to school and not hear gunshots.

If I could ban boxing, I probably would, but I'll tell you in the same breath, I loved it growing up.

When a black person kills a black person, the media ignores it completely.

Any time a black person has the audacity to tell everybody else that they're also human beings, they are confronted with all kinds of malice and violence and ill will. It's been that way since black people were brought to this country.

I think war should be illegal.

An order to fire on people that do not fire on you is a completely illegal order.

It affects you when you get shot at, when your children get shot at. In our case, we had one shooter, a guy from Illinois mad that Trump won, and decided to come to Washington and shoot GOP congressmen.

Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

It's impossible to consider living without ideals. However, when ideas lead to ideology, that's a very dangerous thing. Ideology then leads to creating the image of an enemy, and it leads to the murder and massacre that we've seen since the beginning of time.

I grew up watching 'Vale Tudo' and Marco Ruas. I fight imagining the bouts from a past generation, when everything was legal.

To liberate women and end violence is to break down the culture of power imbalance.

What is at risk are the lives of hard-working Salvadoran families. In fact, unchecked violence was one of the main drivers of immigration from this country to the United States.

What is more immoral than war?

Anything that reduces war-related destruction should not be considered altogether immoral.

If student A 'impacts' student B with a fist, they shouldn't 'dialogue as equals.' Student A should be disciplined. When you assault your co-worker or curse out your boss, you don't get a 'restorative circle' - you get fired.

I think loathing begets fanaticism, and in the end, loathing begets hatred and violence.

Obviously... I feel it is important for women as well as men. Learning any kind of martial arts will help them when faced with atrocities. There are many incidents where men are also attacked.