Violence Quotes
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[We must] deal with all of the contributing factors to gun violence as a whole, because it’s like a leaky bucket - if you’ve got a bucket with six holes shot through it, [and] you plug up five, you’ve still got a leaky bucket. (Violence Quotes)
I don’t view myself as a victim of gun violence. I view myself as a victim of a maniac who happened to use a gun as a tool, and I view myself as a victim of the legislators at the time who left me defenseless. (Violence Quotes)
If you outlaw guns, only outlaws will have guns. The first people who are going to be in line to turn in their guns are law-abiding citizens. Criminals are going to be left with guns. I believe that concealed carry is a way of reducing gun violence. (Violence Quotes)
In light of all the gun violence in the USA, I’d prefer my democracy unleaded (Violence Quotes)
I will take on the epidemics of gun violence and campus sexual assault, so that everyone in America is safe and respected, no matter who they are, where they live, or who they love. (Violence Quotes)
Hillary Clinton has said numerous times in this campaign, If Congress doesn’t act to end the plague of gun violence in America, that she will do so by executive action. Now, what is she going to do? (Violence Quotes)
I am certainly vulnerable when I sit down with parents who have lost their children to gun violence. The emotion that they experience is so foreign to me that I find it very hard to say the right things. (Violence Quotes)
In Chicago, which has the toughest gun laws in the United States, probably you could say by far, they have more gun violence than any other city. So we have the toughest laws, and you have tremendous gun violence. (Violence Quotes)
Surely there are common-sense reforms that we should, and must, take in order to keep our children and our communities safe. I take these recommendations very seriously, and will listen to the voices of my constituents to ensure I do everything I can to help prevent gun violence. (Violence Quotes)
Gun violence has cost us too many political leaders, and hardly ever the worst ones (Violence Quotes)
I think America’s obsession with guns and with violence in media and society is a horrible sickness. (Violence Quotes)
I hate violence. When I hold a gun, I feel death in my hands, but it’s fun to pretend in the movies. (Violence Quotes)
Gun violence is not something that appears just in a bad neighborhood or in another part of the world. It appears right here, right outside your door. (Violence Quotes)
Gun violence is almost promoted onscreen in these huge blockbusters and then sex is still so shocking. But I also can understand that people find it uncomfortable, which I think is cool. (Violence Quotes)
At the very center of our culture is a crucified man, a tortured man hanging on a cross of wood. You have an image of violence at the very center of our spiritual investigation. (Violence Quotes)
I don’t believe in using too much graphic violence, although I’ve done it. It’s better to be suggestive and to allow the viewer to fill in the blanks in their minds. (Violence Quotes)
I simply cannot fathom the horrors of being enslaved, and the thought that children are ripped apart from their families and used year in and out for sex and hard labor under the threat of violence and death breaks my heart. (Violence Quotes)
I can think of films that I’m producing right now that are extremely hard-hitting, graphic films, that nobody necessarily wants to see, graphic in terms of violence, of adult content and racial and historical subject matter. (Violence Quotes)
The shackles and the chains, the violence and aggression, the pettiness and scorn, the jealousy and hatred, the tempest and discord. (Violence Quotes)
It is intolerable that the world’s religions - founded on the values of love and compassion - should provide a pretext for the expression of hatred and violence. (Violence Quotes)
If a violent act towards a woman takes place, and the inspiration for that act is violence in cinema, the inspiration for that act would have come from somewhere else if movies didn’t exist. (Violence Quotes)
I think the violence in ‘The Hills Have Eyes’ and ‘High Tension’ is much more traumatic than ‘Piranha.’ (Violence Quotes)
We can have a large impact on the prevention and amelioration of abuse, drug problems, violence, mental health problems, and dysfunction in families. (Violence Quotes)
There is a very simple relationship between increased socioeconomic rifts in the society and increased violence, criminality, war, increased lack of trust between people, health problems and social exclusion - but it seems to be very difficult for people to understand this simple relationship. (Violence Quotes)
Health systems usually deal with the consequences of violence. We normally, in the health system, don’t have the tools to prevent it, because these require policy interventions in every arena. (Violence Quotes)
The pinnacle of human consciousness must be the rejection of unhealthy competition, war and violence. (Violence Quotes)
Once you see that everything in life is a gift, you see that food is also a gift. If you are about to eat chemically processed, unhealthy food, you realize that to do so is, on a certain level, an act of violence against yourself. (Violence Quotes)
If you want to be a civilised man, first you have to be a non-violent man! If you want to be a civilised country, first you have to be a non-violent country! Violence is the means of the sick minds; peacefulness is the means of the healthy minds! (Violence Quotes)
Violence is the method of ignorance, the weapon of the weak. The strong of heart and brain need no violence, for they are irresistible in their consciousness of being right. (Violence Quotes)
Vietnam helped me to look at the horror and terror in the hearts of people and realize how we can’t aim guns and set booby traps for people we have never spoken a word to. That kind of impersonal violence mystifies me. (Violence Quotes)