Glorifying violence is terrible. Simulating sex is nothing – it’s something so impersonal really. – Bo Derek
Now it is time to make historic reassessments in order to transform our region into one of stability, freedom, prosperity, cultural revival and co-existence. In this new regional order there should be less violence and fewer barriers between countries, societies and sects. – Ahmet Davutoglu
Fixing a broken immigration system. Protecting our kids from gun violence. Equal pay for equal work, paid leave, raising the minimum wage. All these things still matter to hardworking families; they are still the right thing to do; and I will not let up until they get done. – Barack Obama
Europeans are familiar with terrorism and violence. We have not experienced a true conflict on our soil in a hundred years, and especially not one that involved 3,000 dead. – Brent Scowcroft
When you’re sitting ringside, there’s a primal thing there that hooks into violence and excitement. It’s just two guys going at it in the ring – there’s no team, no one to pass the ball to – and there’s a certain excitement to that. – Antoine Fuqua
When violence is real and you flinch away from it, violence does not push people to try and imitate that. Often, we shun the violence that makes us flinch, because it disturbs us. And what makes us uncomfortable and disturbs us is not often bad. What disturbs us will not make us imitate that. – Anurag Kashyap
The stones tear like flesh, rather than breaking. Although what happens is violent, it is a violence that is in stone. A tear is more unnerving than a break. – Andy Goldsworthy
Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence. – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
India has a consistent and well-known position on terrorism. We oppose all acts of terrorism, wherever they occur. We have repeatedly said that no cause can justify violence and destruction, particularly aimed at civilians. – Atal Bihari Vajpayee
We’re seeing this disintegration of the family movie into these blockbuster things that kids should not be exposed to with explosions, carnage and violence. – Billy Crystal
The fact is, violence is not only not a beautiful thing, but it’s also very painful and not without consequences for the perpetrator as well as the victim. – Clint Eastwood
I’m a right pain in the hole for my agent. I won’t take certain parts if I think they’re offensive or banal. For instance, I won’t do a film if I think it’s full of violence for violence’s sake, or a television drama if I don’t think it’s intelligent writing. – Anne-Marie Duff
Violence in Mexico has its origins in the lack of development and corruption. – Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador
The only thing I shy away from is non-consensual violence. I can’t write a story where someone is a simple victim because it’s boring. – Chuck Palahniuk
When you live in a city, as I do, where violence is really in the streets, and people die every day, there’s nothing funny about it. – Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
This is a formidable enemy. To dismiss it as a bunch of ‘cowards’ perpetuating ‘senseless acts of violence’ is complacent nonsense. People willing to kill thousands of innocents while they kill themselves are not cowards. They are deadly vicious warriors and need to be treated as such. – Charles Krauthammer
I was doing a bit that stupid people should be slapped. But the more I did it, the more I didn’t like that connotation, the violence and all that. The more I thought about it, I thought they should just wear signs. And, man, it just took off. – Bill Engvall
You have to give everybody another recourse as some means other than violence, no matter how distasteful it may be to have to deal with them and what they represent. – Anthony Zinni
There is violence in real life but I would never impose violence in a film just to attract the audience. – Abbas Kiarostami
It is my contention that most people are not mugged every day, that most people in this world do not encounter violence every day. I think we prepare people for violence, and I think just as importantly we prepare people for the definition of being gentle. – Bob Keeshan
At a certain point, Mike Tyson and I reacted to violence a little differently. I was afraid to leave my house for three years while he became the heavyweight champion of the world. The thing was, at first, we reacted to it the same way, and our cowardice and trauma defined us. – Brin-Jonathan Butler
The one thing that frustrates me more than anything else is that no studio has ever told me to tone down violence. They only ask you to make it more presentable. – Christopher McQuarrie
You may gain temporary appeasement by a policy of concession to violence, but you do not gain lasting peace that way. – Anthony Eden
They’re reacting and that’s wonderful. It’s better than them sitting there doing nothing. I say make them react – do whatever’s in your power to move the audience, and if that’s where it is, and there where it is with America, sex and violence, then I say project it. – Alice Cooper