Violence Quotes

A lot of violence, a lot of gore in it, and I just didn't want to do that kind of thing.
Dick Van Dyke

So I think we're kind of an alternate choice for people who have had it with sex and violence.
Dick Van Dyke

Sex, Choice, Alternate

My earnest hope is that what we started in terms of building partnerships with communities across America will continue, that we will continue our efforts to reduce crime and violence.
Janet Reno

Hope, America, Started

We want to continue the efforts against domestic violence and spread the drug courts, and develop real effective means of providing treatment for drug abusers without having to have them arrested.
Janet Reno

Real, Against, Means

But I don't think there has ever been anything written on the nature of violent man as deep and as thorough as Shakespeare's Titus. I think it puts all modern movies and modern exploitations of violence to shame.
Julie Taymor

Nature, Movies, Deep

I look forward to working with the NRA to come up with ways in which we can use common sense approaches to reduce the level of violence that we see - in our streets, and make the American people as safe as they possibly can be.
Eric Holder

Forward, Working, Sense

I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older it narrowed down to a more specific focus on individual violence. I'm just trying to understand where it came from.
Caleb Carr

History, Anger, Angry

I get in trouble when I say things like, 'I'm attracted to violence.' I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older it narrowed down to a more specific focus on individual violence. I'm just trying to understand where it came from.
Caleb Carr

History, Anger, Angry

The World War broke out with such elemental violence, and with such resort to all means for leading or misleading public opinion, that no time was available for reflection and consideration.
Hjalmar Branting

Time, War, Opinion

I've had horror movies thrown at me and I just don't want to do any because violence isn't really good for society.
Luke Ford

Good, Society, Movies

I'm very disturbed by violence against women when it is violence.
Helen Garner

Women, Against, Disturbed

When you see violence in movies in general, it's very quick and painless, which isn't what it's like.
Vincent Cassel

Movies, General, Quick

Well, you know, the violence is mostly in Mexico itself, at least the violence that people are worried about. And so we want to make sure that violence does not spill over into our communities that are along the border.
Janet Napolitano

Sure, Along, Worried

Football is controlled violence, but it is violence, which people have loved to watch since the gladiatorial contests in ancient Rome.
Michael Mandelbaum

Football, Loved, Since

Well, I think by any expectation South Africa has come a tremendously long way. We've seen a society that many people thought couldn't withstand a peaceful transition to democracy without a great deal of violence, in fact, make that transition and do it in relative peace and security.
Susan Rice

Peace, Great, Society

We are a country of excess. So it's not the violence, per se, but the exacerbation and constant repetition.
Norman Lear

Country, Constant, Excess

We don't have any rules about how we depict violence, or how much violence is in a movie. It's a calibration on a case-by-case basis.
Joel Coen

Movie, Rules, Basis

I grew up in Los Angeles when the racial tensions between blacks and Mexicans were very high. Gang violence was very prevalent.
Miguel Jontel Pimentel

Between, High, Gang

It started with the Godfather, this operatic violence. I don't know.
William H. Macy

Started, Godfather, Operatic

Television is full of fictional and real violence that's turned into entertainment.
Bill James

Real, Full, Television

As much as they deny it, I think people want to be scared. It's a phenomenon, why people want to be scared when there is so much violence and craziness in the world. People still really enjoy being scared. It's a conundrum to me. It's hard to explain. It's an unconscious thing, really, why people like that so much.
Dylan McDermott

Hard, Enjoy, Why

Our job as writers and thinkers in the time is how to bring about the occasions that let people have that first-person experience - or the metaphoric experience that allows them to see human continuity as opposed to total threat, total willingness to do violence.
Stanley Crouch

Time, Experience, Job

Our society has gotten to the point where we might soon become less and less shocked by any kind of violence.
Stanley Crouch

Society, Become, Point

The grand irony, however, is that Southern segregation was not brought to an end, nor redneck violence dramatically reduced, by violence.
Stanley Crouch

End, Redneck, Nor

In a world which is armed to its teeth with nuclear weapons, every quarrel or difference of opinion may lead to violence of a kind quite different from what is possible today.
Herman Kahn

Today, May, Different

I have never seen a connection between cinematic violence towards women and actual violence towards women in society.
Richard King

Women, Society, Between

If a violent act towards a woman takes place, and the inspiration for that act is violence in cinema, the inspiration for that act would have come from somewhere else if movies didn't exist.
Richard King

Movies, Woman, Place

Cinema has only been around for about 100 years. Has all of the world's violence towards women taken place only within the past 100 years?
Richard King

Women, Past, Place

Education is a vacine for violence.
Edward James Olmos

I don't support violence, period.
Edward James Olmos

Support, Period

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