Quotes About Violence

When I was a kid, I saw 'Rambo First Blood', and the next day, I took knives to school and threw them at everybody. So I was definitely influenced by violent films before 'Drive.'

The violent rioting that is sometimes now being called protesting - it makes the emotions so high that you almost cannot see the insults and injuries that are the people are suffering.

Labels, boxes, and politically correct terminology all seem small and irrelevant when being compared to the violent and brutal attacks on the lives of people who are different than what society says we should be.

It doesn't feel good to be a horrible, violent, misogynist person.

When you grow up in poverty, suffer from abuse, live in a violent neighborhood, come from a broken home, lack positive role models, are told you'll never amount to anything, etc, the challenges are enormous.

Unfortunately, violent events and hate-filled rhetoric around the world provide ample opportunity for promoting religious hostility.

I don't see much good coming out of violent revolution.

Our country is pathologically violent.

What Brad Bushman did is in 2010 he ran what's called a meta-analysis, which is an analysis that looks at a whole bunch of different studies. They concluded that, yes, there is a link between violent video games and aggression.

After I did 'Brooklyn,' I did about five or six violent films in one way or another, and not always with me being the bad guy, but something violent about it to keep the street cred up, really.

I have recurring dreams about losing my temper, which become quite violent. I dread to think what that says about me.

Cities are drivers of growth and wealth, and at the same time, cities are becoming increasingly violent.

What kind of world is it if we allow people who are violent and do terrible things off the hook? What does that say about the world we're living in - it's like a world upside down, right?

As a girl, I abandoned a promising singing career due to violent harassment by Islamists.

Too often, we see violent criminals return to the streets they have previously terrorized, only to commit more violent crimes.

The United States must continue to support efforts made by Middle Eastern governments to educate Muslim youth and steer them away from violent radicalization.

Our culture has changed. It has become more violent. People are literally afraid to go to the movies or to school.

I think people were a little premature in writing off violent movies. They're going to continue being made, and audiences will continue going to see them.

I do not think our security will ever be so effective that we can catch every bad person at the border, nor do I think we can expect our local law enforcement officers to anticipate and stop every violent crime or terrorist act.

I like doing violent movies.

Football is a violent, competitive game. That's the way it was always meant to be played. You are supposed to play with an edge. You are actually supposed to impose your will on the other person to win.

The Right isn't violent; the Left is. By allowing these sociopaths to shut down free speech with violence, you are all but demanding a war.

My mother had very poor hearing for many years, until she went basically into - I guess I would call it a psychotic break. She was OK one day, and the next day she was completely cuckoo, violent, paranoid.

I think children are really violent with each other often.