Quotes About Violence

For people involved in pre-meditated crimes, whether it is terrorism or robbery or something else, their use of technology means that they leave a digital trail, and the room for error goes up dramatically. In the future, it will be easier for violent people to make mistakes and get caught before they commit their crimes.

The other thing that happened was my last military assignment - this was in the air force; I had enlisted in order to avoid being drafted as a private, and of course I only practiced medicine or psychiatry in the air force so I was never in any kind of violent combat.

What responsible gun owner thinks everyone and anyone should have access to a firearm without a little bit of precaution taken to make sure that those who have a history of violent harm can't buy a firearm?

The only thing I learnt in high school is that people are very violent and territorial.

If you are writing a thriller with violence in it, the ending must be violent. You are delivering a promise to your reader.

One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity.

I think that communism was a major force for violence for more than 100 years, because it was built into its ideology - that progress comes through class struggle, often violent.

If the Pope spoke out with moral authority against violent Islam, I would be there cheering him on.

I want to poke holes in the erroneous beliefs about what fame provides. It won't raise your self-esteem, it won't create profound connection, it's not going to heal your childhood traumas, it's only going to amplify them. You're going to be subject to a lot of criticism and praise, both of which are violent in their own ways.

Violence is a part of America. I don't want to single out rap music. Let's be honest. America's the most violent country in the history of the world, that's just the way it is. We're all affected by it.

The world is too violent right now.

I have a reputation for writing all kinds of hard-core, violent things.

At the rate we're going, the 21st century looks pretty clear. It's going to be pretty violent.

By all measures men are the more violent gender.

Clearly, the response to terrorism and violent extremism must respect human rights and comply with international law. That is not just a question of justice but of effectiveness.

Some media used to talk about video games only to say how violent or addictive they could be. With 'Heavy Rain,' they talked about the story of the game and the emotions they felt while playing.

Violence is the first refuge of the violent.

Since 1992 we have made dramatic progress in reducing violent crime.

'Vikings' has been so many different challenges, and some of that is, at times, you have to be big and imposing and violent and vicious, and then you have be pulled back and withdrawn and just more layers and more time to portray those layers, too.

Among them, there were Muslims, Christians, and Jews living together. But then violent organizations came, bringing with them many large groups of people from various parts of the world to Palestine.

We need to assure that we are nurturing our children and meeting their every need in this violent world.

Stopping all the violent and hostile actions means ending the smuggling of arms into the Gaza territory.

The world is not violent. But there is a lot of violence in it.

In violent streets and broken homes, the cry of anguished souls is not for more laws but for more conscience and character.