Eric Garcetti Quotes

If you want to cut crime, if you want to end homelessness, you have to deal with sexual violence, sexual harassment, and domestic violence.

Eric Garcetti

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• The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair.

  

  J. Edgar Hoover
  • High
  • Crime
  • Chair

• I hate violence, yes I do. It's kind of a dilemma, huh?.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Hate
  • Kind
  • Violence

• The Polish freedom movement of 1968 lost its confrontation with police violence; the Prague Spring was crushed by the armies of five Warsaw Pact members. But in both countries, 1968 gave birth to a new political consciousness.

  

  Adam Michnik
  • Political
  • Freedom
  • Lost

• I think 'In The Heat Of The Night' was one of the most influential films on me. Looking back now, I can see how influential it was on my screenwriting because here you have what looks to be a crime procedural, and it's actually a study in race and loneliness, and a perception of an era.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Study
  • Crime
  • Loneliness

• During the 1960s, the Shanghai of my childhood seemed a portent of the media cities of the future, dominated by advertising and mass circulation newspapers and swept by unpredictable violence.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Future
  • Violence
  • Childhood

• Citizens who live or work near protest sites or marches have every right to be free of violence from protesters, and they should never be subjected to destruction of property.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Work
  • Live
  • Free

• I saw Quentin Tarantino's 'Django Unchained,' and you could say a lot of things against it, but it was incredible fun. I don't like blood and gore, and I am very squeamish about violence, but Tarantino's violence is actually funny.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Fun
  • Funny
  • Violence

• I've been trying to understand conflict and violence ever since I was a kid. You know. There were a few things that happened even on my block - the Black Panthers used to be right around the corner from where we were.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Trying
  • Black
  • Violence

• Horror and panic themselves are forms of violence, and diminishing them, restricting their dimensions, is itself a civilizing act.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Violence
  • Horror
  • Panic

• Liberals need to take the advice they routinely give to conservatives: that there are consequences to their divisive rhetoric, and that in their attempts to score political points, they are also inciting violence.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Political
  • Violence
  • Advice

• If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Crime
  • Fault
  • Indifference

• I join President Obama and the vast majority of Chicagoans who are tired of waiting for Washington to get serious about gun violence.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Violence
  • Serious
  • Waiting

• For decades, we resisted violence - until Sharpeville.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Violence
  • Decades
  • Until

• I read a lot of thrillers, especially American crime novels.

  

  Kate Mosse
  • American
  • Read
  • Crime

• We must have our say, not through violence, aggression or fear. We must speak out calmly and forcefully. We shall only be able to enter the new world era if we agree to engage in dialogue with the other side.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • World
  • Fear
  • Violence

• Hatred, intolerance, poor hygienic conditions and violence all have roots in illiteracy, so we're trying to do something to help the poor and the needy.

  

  Abdul Qadeer Khan
  • Trying
  • Help
  • Violence

• With 'Pretty Girls,' I saw the opportunity to talk not just about crime but what crime leaves behind.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Pretty
  • Opportunity
  • Crime

• No American should be killed by a drone on American soil without first being charged with a crime, without first being found guilty of a crime by a court.

  

  Rand Paul
  • American
  • Guilty
  • Crime

• It's odd how violence and humor so often go together, isn't it?

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Together
  • Violence
  • Humor

• For many child soldiers, war and violence are all they have ever known. If we don't take it upon ourselves to show them an alternative, then they're going to be soldiers forever, and they'll continue to be recruited and to participate in violence if another conflict starts five or 10 years down the road.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • War
  • Forever
  • Violence

• False is the idea of utility that sacrifices a thousand real advantages for one imaginary or trifling inconvenience; that would take fire from men because it burns, and water because one may drown in it; that has no remedy for evils except destruction. The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature. They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.

  

  Cesare Beccaria
  • Real
  • Water
  • Evil

• Black holes destroy any objects that happen to fall victim to their gravitational pull.

  

  Kevin McCarthy
  • Black
  • Fall

• America is ripe for lies and lethargy. The pure mountain air is going and gone. It is a huge burden and a sadness for us all.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • America
  • Air
  • Lies

• If you want to cut crime, if you want to end homelessness, you have to deal with sexual violence, sexual harassment, and domestic violence.

  

  Eric Garcetti
  • Violence
  • Crime
  • Homelessness