Quotes About Violence

If this were a [Hollywood] studio film, I wouldn't have pushed my father into a table, I would have beat him up. My father wouldn't have kissed my girlfriend; he would have raped her.

Griffin, my brother, 11 months younger, was sometimes the victim of my father's fury - once Ryan famously knocked out his teeth.

At night my father often heard sporadic gunfire mixed in with the sound of dogs howling. If the war came closer, soon there would be only minor difference between shooting a dog and shooting a man.

My father saw two black men lynched on his street in Cartersville, as a child. And I think seeing two black businessmen - not vagrants - hanging from trees as a child was traumatic for him.

We do not deride the fears of prospering white America. A nation of violence and private property has every reason to dread the violated and the deprived.

Gun crime is a major cause of fear and distress throughout the UK. The problem is deeply entrenched in a wide range of social and cultural factors and therefore not an isolated issue.

We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.

Extremists and populist movements are exploiting people's fear of those who are not like us. We can see the consequences in the form of terrorism and racially motivated violence.

All tremble at violence; all fear death. Putting oneself in the place of another, one should not kill nor cause another to kill.

Today barbarism has taken over many city streets, or people fear it has, which comes to much the same thing in the end.

The hijacking of an American jet in Athens looms larger in our concern than the parent who kills a child, even though the one happens rarely, and the other happens daily.

Why do we kill people who are killing people to show that killing people is wrong?

War's tragedy is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.

The violent have been victorious for most of history because they kindled the fear with which everyone is born.

Fear is for the enemy. Fear and bullets.

Who said anything about slicing you up? ... I just wanted to carve a little Z on your forehead-- nothing serious.

Violence is the instinctive response to fear.

Possession of arms implies an element of fear, if not of cowardice.

Aggression only breeds more aggression. It only creates more fear and anger.

The Thracian people, like the bloodiest of the barbarians, being ever most murderous when it has nothing to fear.

We fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of fear and pain.

I assure my fellow citizens that the vast majority of Muslims experience the same fear they do. ISIS and Al Qaeda are my enemies, too. Most of the people killed by these groups have been Muslim.

I think I am more of a coward than anybody. It's a very weird feeling. The more I fear violence, the more I'm inclined to depict it in films.

Fear generates anger, and fear generates violence, and those were part of what built the Saudi state.