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Quotes About Violence

I don't like to go to the movies to see violence or some kind of spy thing with all kinds of information you have to assimilate to understand the plot.
~ Pia Zadora
With the adoption of the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, the international community sent out a clear message that gender based violence will not be tolerated.
~ Jenny Shipley
Random violence is incredibly infectious.
~ Nicholas Kristof
The East Timorese government does not believe that we should consider compensation for the victims because there are tens of thousands of people who were, in one way or another, affected by the violence either directly or indirectly.
~ Jose Ramos-Horta
This October, we renew the fight against domestic violence and abuse in America. Together, we can eliminate domestic violence from homes across the country and ensure that our children grow up in healthy, peaceful communities.
~ Lucille Roybal-Allard
To cure the violence, we must identify and heal the causes of hatred and violence. If we don't deal with the causes we will never be safe.
~ Peter Yarrow
The violence seems to be diminishing. They've stared into the abyss a bit. I think they've all concluded that further violence... is not in their interests.
~ Stephen Hadley
We don't have any rules about how we depict violence, or how much violence is in a movie. It's a calibration on a case-by-case basis.
~ Joel Coen
I think anybody who has been abused as a kid - and I was abused as a kid, by various people - will say it's irrational because violence is irrational.
~ Samantha Morton
Here we will solve with laws and dollars, problems that too many people around the world still must solve with violence and civil war.
~ Marco Rubio
I think the suffering, violence and cruelty and Guantanamo and the rest is going to go on and on in Iraq.
~ Clare Short
America and its allies are engaged in a war against a terrorist movement that spans all corners of the globe. It is sparked by radical ideologues that breed hatred, oppression, and violence against all of their declared enemies.
~ Kenny Marchant
I think the last one would have to be The Godfather because it was such a powerful story. There was lots of violence in it but I could take it because I thought there was a reality to it. It wasn't gratuitous, it was just these guys' story.
~ Bobby Farrelly
If you give me any problem in America I can trace it down to domestic violence. It is the cradle of most of the problems, economic, psychological, educational.
~ Salma Hayek
When I recall my own path of life I cannot but speak of the violence, hatred and lies. A lesson drawn from such experiences, however, was that we can effectively oppose violence only if we ourselves do not resort to it.
~ Lech Walesa
I will also continue to fight to provide better economic security for victims of domestic violence.
~ Lucille Roybal-Allard
Every woman who thinks she is the only victim of violence has to know that there are many more.
~ Salma Hayek
While we have entertained the contention that a deed may make more propaganda than hundreds of speeches, thousands of articles, and tens of thousands of pamphlets, we have held that an arbitrary act of violence will not necessarily have such an effect.
~ Johann Most
There's been an increase in the number of Iraqis in training, but more Americans are dying and violence is increasing.
~ Lawrence Korb
Timothy McVeigh was a coward. Violence is the stupid way out. It'll discredit any real legitmate movement.
~ Glenn Beck
We can't allow domestic violence to become a campaign issue.
~ Sandy Adams
Our suspicions are being confirmed that Nashi will serve as a cover for storm brigades that will use violence against democratic organisations.
~ Ilya Yashin
A vast majority of Republicans are on the record saying that they believe the Violence Against Women Act should be reauthorized. Let me be clear: I believe that Violence Against Women Act must be reauthorized.
~ John Cornyn
It is only with the passage of the Violence Against Women Act in 1994 that we have been able to put a dent in violence against women, and women have had a place to go.
~ Gwen Moore