If you and I are having a single thought of violence or hatred against anyone in the world at this moment, we are contributing to the wounding of the world. – Deepak Chopra
What opera isn’t violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can’t. – Cab Calloway
Some reviewers call my stories dark – and yes, there is violence and angst, and the stakes are high – but I like to think that the endings are satisfying and hopeful. – Carol Berg
A lot of violence, a lot of gore in it, and I just didn’t want to do that kind of thing. – Dick Van Dyke
We protest to our last breath against the purveyors of hatred, cruelty and violence. – Ephraim Mirvis
The motives of these parents vary, many parents don’t like the curriculum being taught to their kids, or are wary of the threat of peer pressure or the presence of drugs or violence lurking in too many of our schools today. – Ernest Istook
Something like Deckard Cain is great; it doesn’t ruin your voice. But games that involve violence or battle or mutating and stuff like that really does take a toll on your voice. And I’ve even had to start to go to a voice guru kind of guy to do exercises to try to save and get back some of what I lost. – Michael Gough
Kids have always play-fought, but I think my generation had a particularly privileged cultural fantasy surrounding military violence. – Nate Powell
There is considerable merit to the notion of treating gun violence as a public health matter. – Peter L. Bergen
Violence against women in this country is not levied against just Democrats, but Republicans as well… not just rich people or poor people. It knows no gender, it knows no ethnicity, it knows nothing. – Gwen Moore
I never felt any attraction towards violence. I never tried to express myself through violence. Violence is a language. – Elie Wiesel
I think violence against women in America has become ordinary – it’s been made absolutely acceptable. – Eve Ensler
Hitler was such an anomalous character – he was so over-the-top chaotic in his approach to statesmanship, his manner and in the violence which overwhelmed the country initially. I think diplomats around the world… felt like something like that simply would not be tolerated by the people of Germany. – Erik Larson
You’ll see more violence in any television crime series than you will in my films… Art is there to have a stimulating effect, if it earns its name. You have to be honest, that’s the only thing. – Michael Haneke
Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings. – George Will
Palestinian violence is not a response to the capture of the West Bank and Gaza. Palestinian nationalism’s roots are not so shallow. – Ehud Olmert
What postmodernism gives us instead is a multicultural defense for male violence – a defense for it wherever it is, which in effect is a pretty universal defense. – Catharine MacKinnon
I lived in Complexo do Alemao until I was 12, dealt with domestic violence in my childhood and faced difficulties in life. – Maria das Gracas Silva Foster
We have not always agreed, but I have said repeatedly and publicly many times that Al Sharpton has never counseled violence, but he gets blamed for a whole lot of that. – David Dinkins
I don’t think movies are the reason why this violence exists, I think it’s going to happen whether movies are there or not. – Nicolas Cage
I think it’s very easy to disgust the reader with violence on the page – that’s incredibly easy – but it’s far harder to make a reader care about a character. – Mark Billingham
Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence. – Pearl Bailey
I was proud to be an original cosponsor of the Violence Against Women Act when Congress passed it in 1994, and was proud to support the previous renewals in 2000 and 2005. These bills always enjoyed large, bipartisan support. – Carolyn Maloney
