Quotes About Violence

Never," he spat out, "kick a man who is pointing a gun at you.

you seemed far too familiar with violence. It was too easy for you. The way you drew your gun ... You'd had far too much experience with it." He leaned forward, his eyes burning into hers. "What I felt in that moment was far from familiar. It was rage, Elizabeth, pure and primitive, and quite unlike anything that's ever before coursed through my veins.

In the ever-evolving society we live in, it is the responsibility of all of us, as individuals and as Americans, to rid ourselves of this culture of violence.

I think there's as much violence, in a way, as a scene with two women having a cup of coffee in a Ruth Rendell novel - in terms of emotional violence and the violence you can inflict with language - as there is in the most graphic kind of serial killer/slasher novel you can think of.

I try to inflict as much damage as possible, at all costs.

In a much larger sense, the problem of Sabah is directly influenced by the duplicity of imperial Britain. For whatever devious reason, the dismantling of the British empire created divisions and violence due to ethnic and religious differences.

I was highly influenced by violence.

War is a crucial, deeply ingrained part of human history. It has to be understood.

I am incapable of directing a film like 'Agneenath.' I can do only what I am good at, so I would have been the worst choice to direct it. It has aggression, action and an inherent violence in it - things I am not capable of directing in my films.

Apartheid is inherently a practice of violence.

Football is inherently dangerous, and that will never change.

I find man's inhumanity to man extraordinary,,, I can't get my head around it.

I was 11 years old when I was initially brutalized by the police, just for horse-playing with my friends and not responding to the police in the way they wanted me to.

To kill a human being is, after all, the least injury you can do him.

In every war, innocent people die.

The killing of innocent people is always wrong.

Violence, poverty and health disparities have many inputs.

I never thought I'd ever get stabbed in my life. The fact that it happened twice within, like, a two-month period is pretty insane.

I saw the bombs, and, like a kid, I looked back at them. Instantly there was fire everywhere.

In a day when, if you insulted a man it might cost you your life, you were probably more civil.

It is true that large parts of the world have not had to endure state-to-state wars for decades. The majority of the world's nations have also been spared the scourge of civil wars, although many have known violence from revolutionary insurrection.

A true intellectual is a man who, after reading a book and being convinced by its arguments, will shoot someone or, more likely, order someone shot.

I think war is so incredibly backward, and I don't think it's intelligent, and it's not sane. So why would you want to support it?

I think intensity is one thing, and gore is another.