Violence Quotes
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I understand people who believe that without violence they will not achieve anything at all.
Uri Avnery
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Violence and chaos were an ever-present part of the world that I grew up in. And unfortunately, it wasn't just in my family. Sometimes, you'd see, you know, Mom fighting with one of her boyfriends. But a lot of times, you'd see people exploding on each other in a local restaurant or on the street.
J. D. Vance
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If I become so convinced that ‘I’m always right,’ the logical conclusion of that often ends up being great cruelty and great violence.
Barack Obama
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Some of my films are known for the depiction of violence. I don't have anything to prove with that any more.
Martin Scorsese
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My position does not give me the liberty to exclude anything, but my mood tells me there will not be violence.
Vano Merabishvili
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I like a twisted sense of humour. On 'A History of Violence,' David Cronenberg and I would be doing the grimmest scenes and laugh a lot.
Viggo Mortensen
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Within hours of a tragedy unfolding, journalists and pundits should not manufacture a blood libel that serves only to incite the very hatred and violence they purport to condemn. That is reprehensible.
Sarah Palin
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Pop culture, it's crazy. There's all this violence in video games. In 'Call of Duty,' people are literally just blowing other people up. Hey, let's protect your country from your couch while eating your sandwich.
Natasha Leggero
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Futurism eventually got marred by its link to Fascism, but early on, it was totally avant-garde, and I wanted to dream a phantom link from the early futurists to the politically radical Italy of the 1970s, a time of fun, play, subversion - if also violence and mayhem.
Rachel Kushner
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Reilly Brown is a master of balancing action, humor, and extreme violence, and his character designs for some of the alien races and technology that we encounter is just amazing.
Cullen Bunn
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#BlackLivesMatter brought a new sense of urgency, audacity, and outrage to the issue of police violence against black men that has made it impossible to ignore, to cover up, or to justify.
Danny K. Davis
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Victory Over Violence is an organization that was created to help fund shelters for women and children.
Victoria Principal
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I know that it isn't just violence against women, it's how do we support ourselves and our families, how do we deal with health care for ourselves and our families? It's a bigger picture.
Patricia Ireland
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I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man's problem just to avoid violence.
Malcolm X
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We have agreed with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to cease all acts of violence against the Israelis and against the Palestinians wherever they are. Tranquility and quiet that will be witnessed and in our land, starting today, is the beginning for a new era.
Mahmoud Abbas
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There is violence in real life but I would never impose violence in a film just to attract the audience.
Abbas Kiarostami
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We decry violence all the time in this country, but look at our history. We were born in a violent revolution, and we've been in wars ever since. We're not a pacific people.
James Lee Burke
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I can think about what [Mahatma] Gandhi said or [Martin Luther] King said about violence begetting violence, and still be true to my job by asking myself the question whenever we're confronted with a situation where some may be arguing for military action: Will this actually result in America being safer, or the most lives being saved?
Barack Obama
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Could it be that violence is as much a part of the American identity as the Constitution, and a vital component to its economic stability?
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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Where I'm from, there is no violence, pretty much.
Usain Bolt
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I was an outsider as a kid, and I grew up around a lot of violence.
Gary Sherman
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It is vital that Iraq and the United States together send the clearest possible signal that those who commit acts of violence against American military forces and American civilians will not be rewarded with amnesty.
Ike Skelton
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I have never been attracted to any kind of violence.
Kate Adie
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When you see violence in movies in general, it's very quick and painless, which isn't what it's like.
Vincent Cassel