Wars such as those which have occurred in Iraq only allow hatred, violence and terror to proliferate.
The threat and use of violence is stimulating nuclear proliferation along with jihadi terrorism.
Economic activity can help repair war-torn societies, but if it's not conducted responsibly, it can also create or prolong violence. Companies and international organisations must help strengthen communities and overcome the trauma of violence.
As capitalism falters, the rich move their money out of the country, violence increases, and politicians promising prosperity are elected.
A lot of guys don't want to admit that they have a propensity for generosity and for violence.
The reduction in gun violence President Obama claims to desperately want comes from law enforcement and prosecution, not from political rhetoric, lectures and sentence commutations for federal firearm law offenders and felons.
I believe there's a huge conflict of interest when local prosecutors investigate cases of police violence within their own communities.
Like other conflict-affected regions, Africa continues to see religious, ethnic, and politically motivated conflicts. Extremist violence is now entrenched in several parts of the world. Armed conflicts are leading to protracted refugee crises to the scale that has not been seen since World War II.
I want violence. I want punching in the face. I'm disappointed in Trump supporters for not punching enough.
We're warriors, this culture, and we're very puritanical about sex and very embracing about violence and I don't know why that is.
It's a cliche, but Americans are puritanical. In their movies, they are scared of sex, but they overindulge in violence. I could have cut a G-rated version of 'Y Tu Mama Tambien' that would have pleased the American ratings board, but it would have been five minutes long.
Everything in American public life, when it comes to race relations, serves as a frame for a history of violence and degrading humiliation.
I think that the enormous emphasis on violence and sex, and in particular violent sex, may not make rapists of us all, but it predisposes us to accept a kind of world in which these things happen.
Violence against judges and threats of violence against Judges is on the rise and it is no laughing matter. When leaders attempt to rationalize this violence, it only makes the problem worse.
Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.
I'm more alarmed by people reacting violently to the violence in my films than I am by the violence in films.
They're reacting and that's wonderful. It's better than them sitting there doing nothing. I say make them react - do whatever's in your power to move the audience, and if that's where it is, and there where it is with America, sex and violence, then I say project it.
Birth is violent, and out of that violence is our only chance of rebirth.
Ever since Modi became prime minister, he has given a free rein to his ministers and BJP functionaries to create an environment of communal tension and violence.
Violence is the repartee of the illiterate.
