Quotes About Violence

My people have been sucked into the violence because some feel they have to retaliate, and some feel they have to protect themselves.

We are a country of excess. So it's not the violence, per se, but the exacerbation and constant repetition.

The civil unrest of recent days must come to an end, and the healing process must begin for the future of the community. We will provide assistance both in ending the violence and enabling the healing process in Benton Harbor.

Most dramatically, and perhaps least noticed, is the violence inside Saudi Arabia itself.

I know that it isn't just violence against women, it's how do we support ourselves and our families, how do we deal with health care for ourselves and our families? It's a bigger picture.

It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas.

Yet the march toward freedom is not without its hazards or its casualties and the threats of violence aimed at Iraqis who participate in the election will be dealt with accordingly.

Glorifying violence is terrible. Simulating sex is nothing - it's something so impersonal really.

I wanted to make the violence beautiful in order to heighten our revulsion.

No matter where you go and what you do in America, you turn the tele on and you're confronted with violence.

The violence in society, I'm afraid, is perpetrated by the people at the top.

These days, our senses are bombarded with aggression. We are constantly confronted with global images of unending, escalating war and violence.

A lot of more modern films seem to just be out for violence or sex or what have you, without relating it to what's going within human beings. But every now and then one comes along that does that, and it's a joy.

They are always very lax about putting restrictions on violence for children's movies, which I think is much more harrowing than sexuality for children.

We see violence to forcibly seize land, at any price, murders and corruption.

And we've also had now the speaker of the Parliament in Iraq using blatantly anti-Semitic remarks, saying the Jews and sons of Jews are the problem of all the violence that's in Iraq.

One thing, however, I know with certainty: violence, or the direct threat of violence, of the kind we have seen in the past few days, is totally unjustified as a response to any published word or image.

It's pure Black Label. It's about violence and booze. That's all it is. There is no plan.

In my rational mind, I know... that is a very simplistic way of looking at it, but when there is violence of that kind, it challenges my faith. I still can't say that I totally understand why - why that is allowed to happen.

Yes, he wanted me to do Funny Games before, which I didn't want to do because the film was very theoretical - the way people experience violence on screen. There was very little space for fiction, it was more like a sacrifice for the actors than anything else.

It's something that I am going over in my head about the whole video game thing, and whether you support violence by being in a film like this. I mean, to me, it's incredibly unreal and it's all about the action, and just explosions.

Under current law, there is no additional penalty for someone who enters the United States illegally and then commits either a crime of violence or a drug trafficking offense. They simply come under the same penalty as we have in current law.

I think there's a natural system in your own head about how much violence the scene warrants. It's not an intellectual process, it's an instinctive process.

The only way to address terrorism is to deal with the issues that create terrorism, to resolve them where possible, and where that's not possible to ensure that there is an alternative to violence.