Violence Quotes - page 15

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)
I lived in Complexo do Alemao until I was 12, dealt with domestic violence in my childhood and faced difficulties in life. View quote
Maria das Gracas Silva Foster
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. View quote
Martin Heinrich
I think that when we're talking about youth violence, we're talking about kids who don't have opportunities, so they're engaged in a certain degree of lawlessness, because we as a society have failed them. View quote
Matt Gonzalez
I think movies glamorize violence, in the sense that they make it in a way that it's either cool or funny. View quote
Matthew Vaughn
My moral compass swings far to the left, but when it comes to gratuitous violence, I have trouble. View quote
Michael Biehn
I don't like gratuitous violence. I don't like the 'Saw' movies. I don't like the 'Hostel' movies. I don't like anything that is violence for violence's sake. View quote
Michael Biehn
Laws against things like drugs are inhumane, and create an inhumane society and inhumane law enforcement. I know whats causing violence in America - the damn drug laws. View quote
Michael Moriarty
It's an entire industry focusing on young male viewers that want action and violence. They sell us something that isn't valid. They're selling films like a product. View quote
Norman Jewison
We are a country of excess. So it's not the violence, per se, but the exacerbation and constant repetition. View quote
Norman Lear
Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence. (Norman O. Brown)
I hate wars and violence but if they come then I don't see why we women should just wave our men a proud goodbye and then knit them balaclavas. View quote
Nancy Wake
Pop culture, it's crazy. There's all this violence in video games. In 'Call of Duty,' people are literally just blowing other people up. Hey, let's protect your country from your couch while eating your sandwich. View quote
Natasha Leggero
To cure the violence, we must identify and heal the causes of hatred and violence. If we don't deal with the causes we will never be safe. View quote
Peter Yarrow
They are always very lax about putting restrictions on violence for children's movies, which I think is much more harrowing than sexuality for children. View quote
Philip Kaufman
If I do not respond to some situation, my conscience kills me. I believe in permissible violence, not necessarily non-violence. View quote
Pawan Kalyan
I had seen so many injustices done in the court by well-meaning people. I had lost fourteen clients to gang violence in only seven years. I was angry at a system I thought had failed my clients, and I was part of it. View quote
Richard Helms
The violence in society, I'm afraid, is perpetrated by the people at the top. View quote
Rob Walton
Abortion is the ultimate violence. View quote
Robert Casey
I do not believe in terrorism, violence, destruction, murder, pre-emption, or War. View quote
Rosanne Cash
The world today is so full of violence, obscenity, war, the failure of political systems. I try to make movies that make people a bit more confident. But that doesn't mean being sugary. (Rouben Mamoulian)
I visited the Pentagon a few days after September 11, and I still remember so vividly the smell of terror surrounding the entire building and complex. I was angry that such a brutal act of violence was committed against innocent people. View quote
Randy Forbes
Parents are the most likely to be victims of the violence of their mentally ill children. View quote
Rich Lowry
During my eleven years as a New York City public school teacher, I saw firsthand the impact that poverty has on the classroom. In low-income neighborhoods like Sunset Park, where I taught, students as young as five years old enter school affected by the stresses often created by poverty: domestic violence, drug abuse, gang activity. View quote
Sal Albanese
Our society has gotten to the point where we might soon become less and less shocked by any kind of violence. View quote
Stanley Crouch