Once you do something violent in a film, you don’t have to do too much. You do it once and the feeling of violence just stays there, do you know what I’m saying? – Andrew Dominik
The president welcomes peaceful protests – it is a time-honored tradition. The president agrees violence is not the answer in Iraq, and that’s why he hopes Saddam Hussein will disarm. – Ari Fleischer
Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don’t know how to use their energy creatively so they do the opposite and destroy. – Anthony Burgess
We might not object to the statement that Lear deserved to suffer for his folly, selfishness and tyranny; but to assert that he deserved to suffer what he did suffer is to do violence not merely to language but to any healthy moral sense. – Andrew Coyle Bradley
I think the last one would have to be The Godfather because it was such a powerful story. There was lots of violence in it but I could take it because I thought there was a reality to it. It wasn’t gratuitous, it was just these guys’ story. – Bobby Farrelly
It’s always difficult to play a scene of physical violence because you’re always afraid that you don’t know your own strength and might hurt someone. – Catherine Deneuve
Because people see violence on the movie screen, they’re not going to go out and hold up a liquor store and kill somebody. It really doesn’t correlate. – Dean Koontz
If an adult uses violence on a child, the child will naturally assume that he too, has the right to use it on one smaller or weaker. – Dora Russell
While the vast majority of hackers may be disinclined towards violence, it would only take a few to turn cyber terrorism into reality. – Dorothy Denning
Violence is not a constitutionally protected right. Damaging property is not a constitutionally protected right; inciting violence is not a constitutionally protected right. – Francis G. Slay
I think every high school student who was alert during the early ’60s got very embittered by the slow progress and the violence surrounding the Civil Rights Movement. – P. J. O’Rourke
I’m very bad at violence in real life. I can’t stand it. And I’m so fed up with crime novels that have too much violence. I can’t really do it. It’s unnecessary. – David Lagercrantz
Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one’s rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them. – Georges Bataille
War – An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will. – George Washington
Making improvements to our background check system and cracking down on illegal gun trafficking are common-sense ways to prevent violence without punishing law abiding gun owners. We owe it to the American people to take real action to reduce gun violence in our communities. – Martin Heinrich
Faced with the collapse of Iraq into something like Lebanon – or worse, Somalia – the Bush administration opted for a new counterinsurgency strategy. Violence was reduced because, for the first time since the U.S. invaded Iraq in 2003, Iraqis felt that there was a force capable of dominating the situation and ensuring basic order. – Noah Feldman
I’m not at all upset to be considered a crime novelist. But for me, it’s never really about the crime or the violence. I’m much more interested in exploring issues. – Marcus Sakey
If you are writing a thriller with violence in it, the ending must be violent. You are delivering a promise to your reader. – Gayle Lynds
Rather than dull our consciences to the unmitigated violence of abortion, the passage of time has only enabled us to see and, frankly, better understand the innate cruelty of abortion and its horrific legacy – victims – while making us more determined than ever to protect the weakest and the most vulnerable. – Chris Smith
It does violence to the English language to assert that a president who has violated a duty entrusted to him by the Constitution is not guilty of official misconduct. – Charles T. Canady
Violence and smut are of course everywhere on the airwaves. You cannot turn on your television without seeing them, although sometimes you have to hunt around. – Dave Barry
The good news from the U.S. military survey of focus groups is that Iraqis do accept the Nuremberg principles. They understand that sectarian violence and the other postwar horrors are contained within the supreme international crime committed by the invaders. – Noam Chomsky
A majority of Americans oppose partial-birth abortion, and Judge Hamilton’s decision flies in the face of Congress passing and President Bush signing legislation banning such horrible acts of violence. – Marc Racicot
Needless to say, if the Arab-Israeli conflict is about interstate disputes and the need to resolve the future of the West Bank and Gaza, it can be solved; if it is a religious conflict, nothing but violence is ahead. – Elliott Abrams
Ethno-sectarian violence is a particular concern in Iraq, as it is a cancer that continues to spread if left unchecked. – David Petraeus
Since the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School three years ago, we have lost over 90,000 Americans to gun violence. This is a manmade crisis that needs to be treated as the public health epidemic it has become. – Elizabeth Esty
