Quotes About Violence

If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun.

This country has a mental health problem disguised as a gun problem, and a tyranny problem disguised as a security problem.

The solution to terrorism is education, not bombs.

I feel very protected when I see a movie. That's why I like making violent movies or radical movies.

Sanitised violence in movies has been accepted for years. What seems to upset everybody now is the showing of the consequences of violence.

The use of violence in movies is a subject that's worth addressing. I'm not standing on a soapbox or wagging a finger, but I'm interested in those subjects for sure.

When you see violence in movies in general, it's very quick and painless, which isn't what it's like.

The idea that all violence in movies is okay simply because it happens is bull. Directors and writers have a responsibility.

Who cut him?' Sam liked saying things like 'Who cut him?' It reminded him of being a kid and watching prison movies, which is probably why prisoners talked like that, too.

It's very difficult to kill somebody in a movie, unless it was an accident.

Violence existed before our music was even suggested.

When I listen to music, I don't want to hear about flowers. I like death and destruction.

Sure, Kill Bill is a violent movie. But it's a Tarantino movie. You don't go to see Metallica and ask the fuckers to turn the music down.

I was listening to a lot of Norwegian black metal and death metal. There's a great history to Norwegian black metal. That music is very dark and violent, but it's also beautiful.

I don't ever want anyone to hear my music and look at it as just gratuitous violence, or hustling and money-getting - I try to tell the perspective of the woman, the man, the mind, why.

What I know is my music gets blamed for school shootings.

No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature.

I do not see why man should not be as cruel as nature

Atrocities are human nature - they don't have political beliefs, color, creed or anything like that. They just happen, it's human.

Human nature at times is unfortunately very ugly and I learned the world can be a very ugly place. For as much beauty there is, there's just as much brutality and violence and ugliness.

Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind.

It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature.

We don't really think that man is that immoral, we don't think that man of his own nature would run around...fighting wars and building napalm bombs...so maybe there's something else going on

The Empire is the institution, the codification, of derangement; it is insane and imposes its insanity on us by violence, since its nature is a violent one.