All of the violence that doesn't occur doesn't get reported on the news.
I was brought up when media still kept totally away from violence when it came to children. I don't think it would have made me scared of violence, but I find it repulsive.
For decades, we resisted violence - until Sharpeville.
Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men.
As for sex, well, I mean sex is a perfectly respectable subject as far as Shakespeare is concerned. I mean, all history is love and violence.
Civilisation is partly about restraining the male of the species from engaging in the violence of the hunter-gatherer period. But it doesn't take an awful lot to unleash it.
My people have been sucked into the violence because some feel they have to retaliate, and some feel they have to protect themselves.
Violence ravaged my life. I was a victim of hatred, and I have dedicated my life to reversing that hatred.
For me, I can't watch violence when it's too grotesque, and it's just like, that's revolting to watch. I don't enjoy it. But when it's a Tarantino film, I'm lining up outside the door to see it, and I'm expecting to see something really crazy, a lot of blood, and for it to be funny.
I wanted to make the violence beautiful in order to heighten our revulsion.
There's something about rhetorical violence that is ugly and worrying.
Obviously, there's a part of me that takes the world of violence and death very seriously. However, when it comes to protection, or when it comes to just the skill of shooting... I've gone to the range with sniper rifles and things like that.
I have been touched by extreme violence, and I have been robbed of the life I always wanted by someone who chose to do evil.
Society's preservation against the unlimited violence of scandals lies in the mimetic coalition against the single victim and its ensuing limited violence. The violent death of Jesus is, humanly speaking, an example of this strange process.
America has a right to the Second Amendment, but the people of America have a right to safety and the prevention of gun violence in their community.
Northern Ireland still suffers from its past, and it will take generations to escape sectarianism and for violence to end totally. Nonetheless, it is in a different place now than during the Troubles, and it will not go back to the old days.
Deporting asylum seekers back to violence does not reflect the values of our country.
Legitimate use of violence can only be that which is required in self-defense.
There's a difference between violence and senseless violence.
I won't make games with senseless violence. There has to be a reason for it, such as war.