Body language is essential for an actress, even if you don’t use your body in an athletic way. Just to be free, to use it like your voice. A body can be small and have incredible violence. A body talks. – Anne Parillaud
Mental violence is as bad as physical violence. You don’t see that very often in movies, so it was a good subject to tackle. – Chazz Palminteri
All the violence in videos and movies, you can’t tell me that that wouldn’t influence a disturbed person. – Alana Stewart
It’s my view that gender is culturally formed, but it’s also a domain of agency or freedom and that it is most important to resist the violence that is imposed by ideal gender norms, especially against those who are gender different, who are nonconforming in their gender presentation. – Judith Butler
The proven method for saving the lives of innocent Americans is not disarming them. The proven method for saving the lives of innocent Americans is to arrest, prosecute, convict and jail criminal offenders, especially armed career criminals illegally using guns. This is the way to reduce gun violence. – Jeff Sessions
When people don’t have a hopeful vision before them or the possible resolution of their difficulties by peaceful means, then they can be attracted to violence and to separatism. – Condoleezza Rice
Most male victims of violence are the victims of other men’s violence. So that’s something that both women and men have in common. We are both victims of men’s violence. – Jackson Katz
Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another. – Arthur Conan Doyle
You have to understand the Newark Riots – a lot of people understand that the pain was the initial explosion of anger and alienation, but after that, the response, sending the National Guard troops – a lot of violence was carried out and perpetrated by those who were allegedly coming here to protect residents. – Cory Booker
Futurism: This was a movement of intellectuals who wanted to replace tradition with the modern world of machinery, speed, violence, and public relations. It proves that we should be careful what intellectuals wish for, because we might get it. – Brad Holland
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
It’s a cliche, but Americans are puritanical. In their movies, they are scared of sex, but they overindulge in violence. I could have cut a G-rated version of ‘Y Tu Mama Tambien’ that would have pleased the American ratings board, but it would have been five minutes long. – Alfonso Cuaron
Democracy don’t rule the world, You’d better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that’s better left unsaid. – Bob Dylan
No kids should see that kind of violence where Batman is killing as many people as the bad guys. – Burt Ward
The role of the intellectual cannot be to excuse the violence of one side and condemn that of the other. – Albert Camus
Well, one hopes that if you’re really related to the core of your particular culture, you have profound commitments to it, and that you are aware of how much you can strain it before you do violence to its essential nature. – Chaim Potok
I think that the enormous emphasis on violence and sex, and in particular violent sex, may not make rapists of us all, but it predisposes us to accept a kind of world in which these things happen. – Alexander Walker
In terms of being vulgar, I don’t think you need to be violent unless it’s slapstick, violence to yourself. That can be funny – we’ve all tripped and fallen on our faces. – Andy Dick
The threat or fear of violence should not become an excuse or justification for restricting freedom of speech. – Alan Dershowitz
I was motivated to write about violence because I believe it’s not unusual. I see it as just a part of life, and I think we get in trouble when we separate people who’ve experienced it from those who haven’t. – Alice Sebold
My brothers were funny, and there was a lot of shtick and comedy and nastiness and violence and fighting and sports. – Alec Baldwin
I think the violence in ‘The Hills Have Eyes’ and ‘High Tension’ is much more traumatic than ‘Piranha.’ – Alexandre Aja
Being offended by freedom of speech should never be regarded as a justification for violence. – Alan Dershowitz
There is no accurate or useful ‘profile’ of students who engage in targeted school violence. Some come from good homes, some from bad. Some have good grades, some bad. – Bill Dedman
It’s hard to say whether the general incidence of school violence of all types is increasing or not. – Bill Dedman
We think that Kosovo will continue to serve as a centre of violence and regional instability in future. – Boris Trajkovski
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
As recently as the September 11 event, the majority of Muslims were, as the rest of the world was, against its violence. However, if despair and humiliation continue in the population of more than one billion Muslims, the world will face increasing risks of conflicts and wars. – Ahmed Zewail
So instead of talking about theoretical ways of ending the war and violence, I say that we have to get rid of the individual asholes in each office and situation. – Colin Quinn