Quotes About Violence

I've seen people get robbed, seen people get shot with my own eyes, for pointless petty crimes.

I'm really interested in how conflicts arise and how they reach points of no return. I'm no pacifist. Sometimes force is necessary. But war is a choice.

We recognize that violence is a learned behavior. One of the best classrooms for learning violence is in the home.

The only way to clean up Chicago is to get rid of Capone.

I do show violence as entertainment. Clearly, I'd be a liar if I said I didn't.

From what I hear, dogfighting is a sport. It's just behind closed doors.

But the thing about bad guys is that they have the biggest bosomed blond, they have great clothes and cars, and get great death scenes.

I do a lot of lecturing, at colleges and police schools, and I always get the same questions: 'Do they really kill you? What do they do with the money? How do you become a wiseguy?'

I didn't want to be a 16-year-old kid being beaten up by a bunch of people who didn't like me 'cause of the colour of my skin.

'Sons of Anarchy' has the perfect combination of character and action.

If you could place blame on entertainment for all the crimes people commit, you'd be in court all the livelong day.

I'm not telling people what to do, but I also wish people would not only condemn political violence against the Right but also anti-Semitism.

I think that maybe human beings are conditioned to violence.

Peace is more than simply the absence of war; it is the absence of conditions that give rise to war.

Well, let me just say that I condone violence in all of its forms.

At school I used to hang out with the girls - they looked after me but the boys would call me gay and I'd get into fights. They'd push me and I'd push them back. I don't condone violence, but you have to stick up for yourself because no one else will.

You can't get away from violence in drama. If you do not have conflict, you do not have drama.

I want people to be confronted by the brutality of the Antifa movement.

I don't think I'll ever do a show with violence where there's no consequences, 'cause I know the consequences.

To kill, in war or in any circumstance, creates a silence. It is right that silence should surround the taking of life. After all, the life taken is not ours to take.

My parents were very protective of me. Hockley had some crime, so my mum didn't want me out there, and my dad was the same. I would have to be in at a certain time, as there was a lot of violence surrounding our area.

Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with.

Kids have always play-fought, but I think my generation had a particularly privileged cultural fantasy surrounding military violence.

Revolutionaries who come to power by force of arms usually have great crimes in their background. Leaders who survive campaigns by great powers to destroy them do not survive because they observe the niceties of law. Subversives who shape world events by covert action and violence work in shadows and detest the light of day.