Quotes About Violence

I think of those who are so much less fortunate than me all the time. I came out to people clapping and an outpour of support. And the reality is, for a lot of people, they get kicked out of their homes or are faced with violence.

Kicks to the legs, they're not very cool. They're brutal.

And when 9/11 came, that was open season to violate human rights. And that's how I was kidnapped.

America is still the No. 1 killer in the world.

Last but not least among serial killer methodologies, we have women who kill their own children.

I am a serial killer. I would kill again.

Knife crime devastates communities.

You live by the gun and knife, and die by the gun and knife.

I ended up injuring her with a knife I had on me. I can't really remember what happened.

Before, back in the day when I was young, when you had some problems, you dealt with it with your hands. No one had a knife.

I've always played the guy with the gun and the knife. That's how many actors start out, playing the bad guy.

I've had people turn up to book signings with knives, with guns.

We can never allow people who use nondemocratic means, people who use violence instead of arguments, people who use knives instead of debates, we can never allow them to set the agenda.

Whether it is kids carrying knives because they are in gangs or kids carrying knives because they are afraid of gangs, it is the gang culture that underpins the problem.

I've worked in a mortuary and seen the consequences of what guns and knives do to people.

Part of the reason young people are getting involved with gangs, leading to the use of guns and knives, is not the lack of stop and search but the individualistic, consumerist society we live in.

It's all you hear on a cricket field - 'Knock his head off, knock his head off.' Cricket has gone too far. It shouldn't be posturing, abusing.

I've seen so many fighters getting knocked out.

You know, violence, I think, knocks on everyone's door.

Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.

Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have often perceived Islam as a violent and intolerant faith - even though when this prejudice took root Islam had a better record of tolerance than Christianity.

Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to fester without a resolution, religion got sucked into the escalating cycle of violence and became part of the problem.

Now I think one of the reasons why religion developed in the way that it did over the centuries was precisely to curb this murderous bent that we have as human beings.

When violence becomes imbedded in a region, then this affects everything. It affects your dreams, your fantasies and relationships, and your religion becomes violent, too.