Violence Quotations | Page 5

overwhelmingly to a causal connection between media violence and aggressive behavior in some children.

Our world is still darkened not only by the direct violence of civil wars, but also by innumerable other forms of violence.

Our view is that the constitution of the Philippines and the rule of law must be respected and violence must be rejected. We hope the situation will return to normal.

Our goal is to influence peer culture so that we can prevent violence from happening in the first place.

I think he recognizes that he cannot achieve peace by allowing violence to escalate or causing violence to escalate,

It is our duty to promote the view that democracy and not violence is the means of making change,

It is not withdrawal but redeployment of forces from Jammu and Kashmir to the northeast as the violence level has come down.

It is now for us, the living, to rededicate ourselves to his cause, ... so that all the children of the Middle East will know a future free from violence and terror, enriched by prosperity and peace.

it is against our interests and it only increases the violence in this region.

I think it's reasonable to expect that violence could, again, increase for a time, as it did during the last elections,

I think it's wonderful because we've experienced all this violence in this community the last several months and, here we are, black, white and hispanic spending the day having fun together. And that's the way it should be.

It calls into question the seriousness of Arafat's intentions to implement ... understandings and decrease violence in the region,

I was born into a drug infested environment back in October of 1984, ... I witnessed things that many only see in movies. I saw a lot of gang violence and drug use while I was growing up. I used to see people dying all around me.

It appears at this point to be a domestic (violence case), ... Witnesses stated it appeared the victim and the suspect knew each other.

It appears that the level of violence was well below the last election.

It is absolutely critical to take immediate and significant action to apprehend the people responsible for this violence as quickly as possible, before additional innocent people are injured.

Today's verdict makes clear that we can prevent acts of terrorism by winning convictions against those who would plot to commit violence against our citizenry in the name of an extremist cause.

Today, there is a plethora of violence, which begins at an early age as the child is exposed to entertainment violence through TV, videos, DVDs and older siblings who act as models of this violent behavior. Now if you couple that exposure with a dysfunctional household, you have a recipe for disaster.

Weapons were not carried and were hardly necessary when you had such an advantage in numbers. The violence took the form of beatings, kicks and stamping.

We are hoping this time the Tigers will respond favorably and ease the violence that has reached unbearable levels in the north and east.

I worry that Odessa will be known for its domestic violence problem. It's a huge problem; a very big priority for the United Way.

I would like to urge both parties to show maximum restraint, to desist from acts of violence, the use of force and cease all offensive operations.

The Arab countries ought to be working to convince Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat to halt the violence and restart the negotiations,

U.S. forces must walk a tightrope. They must restrain the violence while letting the Iraqi government forces take the lead, yet on the other hand they don't want to clash with any of the (legitimate) factions.

We have come too far in the process of Arab-Israeli peacemaking to allow the vultures of violence to shape the region's future.

we know that today's horrible and senseless violence has taken a terrible toll on their lives and our hearts go out to them.

We can't have a situation where people are turning a blind eye to violence or allowing people to participate in the talks on an entirely false basis.

We have a moral obligation to tackle television violence and provide parents with the tools to make their children safer,

I was offered one of the roles in a big project that shall remain nameless. I thought the whole thing encouraged violent sex crimes toward women. It made horrible, ghastly rape violence seem sexy. I just didn't want to sign my name to it.

My brother is gone. We escaped from violence to live in peace.

We got there ... and the guy who had helped us arrange it was assassinated the very morning while we were there on the set. So no matter how hard we try to cover the positive, the violence has a way of rearing its head.

Unlike some mainland black groups, Tasmanian Aborigines now have no traditional tribal culture left. It was taken from them with great violence and great rapidity.

We need to fight violence and ignorance. It is true: when one strolls out, one sees women with scarves and men with beards. This has always been the case in Morocco. Morocco is built on tolerance.

When I first began publishing, I was writing short stories and novels about subjects that only men were writing about -- violence and men's lives,

Government and state can never be perfect because they owe their raison d'être to the imperfection of man and can attain their end, the elimination of man's innate impulse to violence, only by recourse to violence, the very thing they are called upon to prevent.

We are watching with increased concern the spiral of violence as a result of what appear to be deliberate Serb decisions to move ahead toward a military solution

We are not the party of violence. On the contrary we are victims of violence by others.

We are now exactly in a crossroad, and Chairman (Yasser) Arafat has to take a bold decision to stop the violence and to sit back at the table ... and to strike a deal, ... If the violence continues, I am afraid we will go a long way back and this is not in the interest of peace.

We know there is a possibility of people yelling insults and disagreement. We are not anticipating any acts of violence or hate.

We are aware there have been other incidents of violence with this nightclub. The incident is very concerning for the department. You had two suspects shoot multiple rounds into one nightclub. To be honest, the fact we didn't have more people hurt is very fortunate.

While any decline is encouraging, we remain concerned because too many people continue to act out their anti-Jewish hatred. We have always said that America is different, that the Jewish communities here are fortunate to be largely immune from the kind of anti-Semitic violence experienced by some European Jewish communities. The numbers remain sobering because we know from painful experience that it only takes one incident of anti-Semitism to affect an entire community.

While you had groups complaining about the violence and sexuality, what really sold those games were the compelling stories. Without them, you're just shooting people and stealing cars.

Who are these people that keep telling us lies and how did these people get control of our lives and who'll stop the violence 'cause it's out of control? Make 'em stop.

We hope that the Secretary General's message was clear to the leaders that encouraging and maintaining violence is very serious... but I believe that the situation will change.

will hasten the end of the acts of violence that have been perpetuated recently.

We must work with all our hearts and with all our souls... to solve the mysteries of violence and to give the children of Jonesboro, America and the world an opportunity to growth in peace.

We wanted to inform our readers of a story that had violence spawned by imagery. We felt they wouldn't be adequately informed if they couldn't see the imagery that was the root of this entire story.

We have agreed with Prime Minister Sharon to cease all violence against the Israelis and against the Palestinians, wherever they are,

We have all been beaten up in our careers, because horror is viewed as a low-rent genre, just a notch or two above pornography. And while it's true that we traffic in dark areas of violence and horror in our profession, because we get everything out on the screen and don't carry it around with us, we really are mostly nice guys.

We really want to look toward the youth because they're the future of our city. We see the violence all the time and we said, 'We want to do something about it.' We're taking a step.

I'd seen too many shrines in South Central and thought it was worth asking where the first bullet came from that started all this violence.

The world's a poor standard. any society which is free of hunger and violence looks bright against that background.

Violence doesn't equal strength.

In times of great necessity, violence is indispensable.

Force when aggressively applied is "violence" and is, therefore, morally unjustifiable, but when it is used in the furtherance of a legitimate cause, it has its moral justification. The elimination of force at all costs in Utopian..

Violence existed before our music was even suggested.

The people of Nepal have lived through far too much violence already. Without urgent action from the international community and all parties in Nepal, a new generation will grow up knowing nothing but bloodshed and conflict.

The people of Northern Ireland will now judge Sinn Fein on their actions over the coming days, ... An end to the war means the weapons of terrorism must be destroyed and all forms of paramilitary violence must cease for good.

I sometimes go for the strongest, most vivid colour on the palette, which in the case of movies is violence.

The only way to escape from the present downward spiral lies through ending the violence and resuming negotiations aimed at comprehensive peaceful settlement based on relevant United Nations resolutions,

The only way to halt an escalation of violence is for Israelis and Palestinians to work towards a viable negotiating process aimed at a just, lasting and comprehensive settlement,

The only way to stop the violence is to rescind the expulsion orders.

The onus of that task falls on the armed forces and the police force in East Timor and they haven't done a good job in recent times. It's important that they perform more effectively and do everything they can to stop the violence and move to disarm the two sides -- the paramilitaries and the pro-independence side,

If you are not vegan, please consider going vegan. It’s a matter of nonviolence. Being vegan is your statement that you reject violence to other sentient beings, to yourself, and to the environment, on which all sentient beings depend.

At the same time as we clearly condemn actions of violence by groups in Palestinian against Israel.

America has become numb to violence because it just drowns in it, day in and day out.

One must do no violence to nature, nor model it in conformity to any blindly formed chimera.

If you have Palestinians who have no hope, who don't have a job, who've used up all their resources, the notion of getting rid of violence is a dream.

This will not help us reach our target of stopping the violence and to reviving the peace process,

We did not choose violence, but there is no other path.

We are hopeful our nation's Fourth of July celebration this year will not be tarnished by the removal of a child from this land of freedom, to a land of gross violence and extensively documented human rights' violations.

There is one universal truth, applicable to all countries, cultures and communities: violence against women is never acceptable, never excusable, never tolerable.

We cannot turn our back and say that violence in films or anything that we do doesn't have a sort of influence. It does.

This program takes participants through a process that teaches them how to navigate situations involving gang activities and violence.

We have a situation ... with the police facing attempted murder and police facing violence which is on a scale that we haven't seen for many years,

We regret that we got any part of our story wrong, and extend our sympathies to victims of the violence and to the U.S. soldiers caught in its midst,

We regret this tragic incident, but we have to remind our patrons that violence at theaters is extremely rare. We've had 1.5 billion people come to the theaters in each of the past three years, and there were only a handful of violent incidents. Though very unfortunate, this type of incident is very rare at the cinema. At this time we don't know if there is any association of this particular incident in connection with the film that was playing. We'll let the police do their investigation.

Some people's affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls.

No violence, gentlemen — no violence, I beg of you! Consider the furniture!

My mother and I are big domestic violence advocates.

We must choose between the violence of adults and the smiles of children

Fanaticism is the greatest threat today. Literally, the 21st century threatened by fanatics, and we have fanatics in every religion, unfortunately, and what can we do against them? Words nothing else, I'm against violence but only words.

All violence is the illustration of a pathetic stereotype,

The moment you put a mental label on another human being, you can no longer truly relate to that person. . . It then becomes possible to perpetrate any act of violence.

Implicit in the stare of those eyes, the power of those knobbly hands, was labor's historic threat of violence against capital.

There is certainly less violence and less tension on the ground. Whether it's sustainable or not needs to be seen, but it's a good sign.

There is certainly more violence and there are violent elements trying to come back, ... I think this is a situation that will probably be difficult for some time.

The Violence Against Women Act protects the lives of tens of thousands of domestic violence victims. But the U.S. must also support gender equality around the world, and that means acknowledging that some nations we consider to be our friends are no friends to women.

When food becomes scarce, refugees often turn to desperate measures to feed themselves and their families. We are particularly worried about the health of the refugee population, domestic violence and refugees resorting to illegal employment or even to prostitution, just to put enough food on the table.

Our position was: If you don't attack us, there won't be any violence; if you bring violence to us, we will defend ourselves.

... you don't have to wait for someone to treat you bad repeatedly. All it takes is once, and if they get away with it that once, if they know they can treat you like that, then it sets the pattern for the future.

The refugees flee to protect their families from violence; the Europeans, on the other hand, fear for their jobs that they need to feed their families.

Actual violence has no attraction for me at all.

As a Mark brand ambassador, I became extremely cognizant of the devastating statistics about dating abuse and partner violence via the mPowerment campaign and knew I wanted to help change those statistics. mPowerment by Mark and the Avon Foundation for Women funded the No More study, which explored dating abuse, partner violence, and sexual assault. I was honored to be part of it and report the results of the survey in a Capitol Hill briefing.

Keep violence in the mind Where it belongs (Barefoot in the Head)

When a man carries an instrument of violence, he'll always find the justification to use it.

Violence is stupid. Even as a last resort, it only ever begets more of the same.

When I go see an R-rated horror movie, I want lots of violence.

All the copycat movies were always PG-13 and people said: "Nobody wants violence."

Hopefully we'll get to a point where people realize movies don't cause violence. It just reflects the violence going on in the culture.