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Quotes About Violence

It's a fast-paced somewhat violent sport, but it's very much entertaining. And the greatest thing about mixed martial arts is that it transcends a lot of demographics.
~ Michael Chandler
I was constantly going to the movies. My parents let me see whatever I wanted to and they only pulled me out of one movie in my life. That was 'Gunga Din' and they thought it was too violent.
~ James Ivory
'Drohi' is a thriller, quite action-oriented, at times, even violent, but blood will not be spilt at the drop of a hat.
~ Sudha Kongara
It's an extraordinary experience to encounter the two kinds of deaths of my parents, one violent and jagged, it hits you like a tornado, the other, gentle with grace and dignity.
~ Mariette Hartley
In my case, I feel very protected when I see a movie. That's why I like making violent movies or radical movies.
~ Gaspar Noe
Failure to find a way to incorporate political Islam in democracy, however uncomfortable its ideology is for secular liberals, will mean we have given them little alternative but to find other means of expression. Inevitably, some of this would be violent.
~ Crispin Blunt
While America is generally a violent place, no culture in this country glorifies violence more than the African-American community. And consequently, no other racial group is as disproportionately affected by it.
~ Jemele Hill
MTV promotes the most violent of acts in front of our children.
~ Eddie Rabbitt
My violent music helps most kids avoid that street life because it scares them. My fans aren't blind to the consequences.
~ Boosie
I'm not going to allow inmates and officers to be the victims of violent people.
~ Eric Adams
My law enforcement experience has showed me first-hand the violent and psychologically scarring impact that can result from the series of dominoes that fall after an otherwise law-abiding citizen fails to pay a summons for a quality-of-life offense on time.
~ Eric Adams
Mother had an affair with the milkman, who later became my stepdad and my father left. My stepdad was an angry guy and Mother was a hysterical narcissist. It was a toxic mixture and there was a lot of disruption and violent arguments in the house.
~ Grayson Perry
A lot of people see M.M.A. as this violent cage fighting, and they don't see it as being two athletes who have put so much time and energy and focus into it.
~ Liz Carmouche
Black and brown people in communities like mine, when arrested are more likely to be convicted and receive harsher sentences than our white counterparts. A justice system that actually hands out justice isn't as cruel, violent and racially biased as the one we've got.
~ Cori Bush
My music is violent, but not all of it. I have songs about God, my kids, and telling other people's kids to chill out and go to school and do right.
~ Boosie
People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs.
~ Alexei Sayle
Black girls are punished, many times violently so, for questioning and challenging authority, which is something that is often celebrated and encouraged as a sign of intelligence and critical thinking in white boys.
~ Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
People are attracted to confidence and a commitment to ideas, no matter what those ideas are. People can gravitate towards something being said passionately or violently or expressively.
~ Cameron Monaghan
You'd have to put yourself back in the 1960s to understand how separate from the mainstream of American life soldiers felt themselves to be, because we knew that students and others were demonstrating pretty violently against what we were doing.
~ Joe Haldeman
Men who have been raised violently have every reason to believe it is appropriate for them to control others through violence; they feel no compunction over being violent to women, children, and one another.
~ Frank Pittman
It's just becoming more acceptable for girls to react violently.
~ Geoffrey Canada
Do you ever see a right-wing kid violently jumping lefty speakers? On campus, you either have silent appeasement or a bruise.
~ Greg Gutfeld
There is no longer a way out of our present situation except by forging a road toward our objective, violently and by force, over a sea of blood and under a horizon blazing with fire.
~ Gamal Abdel Nasser
You won't see Christians violently attacking people for criticising their religion like you do with Islam, things like the Charlie Hebdo attack.
~ Lauren Southern