Of course I am frustrated with regard to extreme poverty, to violence that never seems to cease.
I understand working-class culture, tribalism and the ethos of violence, so I make films about these things.
All the violence in videos and movies, you can't tell me that that wouldn't influence a disturbed person.
We need to get serious about combating gang violence on Long Island, and the entire nation.
Violence is a calm that disturbs you.
You have to understand the Newark Riots - a lot of people understand that the pain was the initial explosion of anger and alienation, but after that, the response, sending the National Guard troops - a lot of violence was carried out and perpetrated by those who were allegedly coming here to protect residents.
I wish everyone was a sci-fi geek because then there would be no violence in the world. There'd be no wars. There'd only be people e-mailing each other.
Propaganda is to a democracy what violence is to a dictatorship.
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.
I've been on the wrong end of violence, and I've done violence myself... I refuse to glorify violence in my movie and television roles.
The East Timorese government does not believe that we should consider compensation for the victims because there are tens of thousands of people who were, in one way or another, affected by the violence either directly or indirectly.
Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.
Violence is absolutely not our method.
Governments that use violence to stop democratic development will not earn themselves respite forever. They will pay an increasingly high price for actions which they can no longer hide from the world with ease, and will find themselves on the wrong side of history.
Violence is the first refuge of the violent.
An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
As a human rights issue, the effort to end violence against women becomes a government's obligation, not just a good idea.
Let's empower men and help them take a stand to stop acts of violence against women.
I want the violence among young people in this country to stop - particularly gang violence.
Resorting to violence and the use of force at holy sites is unacceptable, whatever the reason might be.
John F. Kennedy, the man I had thought would define the political ideal for the rest of my days, was suddenly gone in the senseless violence of a single moment.
To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
Love soothes wounds, while hatred and violence deepen them.
One of the main purveyors of violence in this world has been this country.
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.
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.
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
I believe that restricting the rights of law-abiding gun owners will not prevent a deranged individual or criminal from obtaining and misusing firearms to commit violence.
It is well past time for President Abbas to stand up and condemn all acts of violence, rather than encouraging violence by glorifying terrorists and teaching children to view Israelis as animals.
I found a religion that blended scientific reason with spiritual reality in a unifying faith far removed from the headlines of violence, destruction and terrorism.
The advocates of retaliatory wars will continue to assume a much simpler reality with their hoary oppositions: Religious and secular, backward and enlightened, free and unfree. But if we are to admit how deeply and irrevocably interconnected our world is, then we must find new ways to break the cycle of counter-productive violence.
It's very odd that we have such an easy relationship to violence in this country, and we're still shocked by the female figure.
Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
The Muslim world is deeply hurt by the campaign of violence initiated against our Palestinian brothers.
Until we have created a romance of peace that would equal that of war, violence will not disappear from people's lives.
My father's violence is the central fact of my art and my life.
