Top 383 Violent Quotes

Peace in the Middle East isn’t going to be created by another war or violent act on the other side.
Mandy Patinkin
The United States must continue to support efforts made by Middle Eastern governments to educate Muslim youth and steer them away from violent radicalization.
Elise Stefanik
Now people want what the movie was about, which is violent comedy. And that’s really what The Aristocrats is based on – what will a family do out of desperation.
Bob Saget
I support strong sanctions and other penalties against those who aid violent extremists, brutalize their own people and have time and time again rejected calls to behave as responsible nations.
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
Leading from a place of hate only fuels hateful and violent acts across our country.
Cori Bush
If you look at 1983, the film of the year was 'Terms of

If you look at 1983, the film of the year was ‘Terms of Endearment.’ ‘Scarface’ was lumped in under the gratuitously violent banner. I mean, we knew it was violent, that it depicted a violent time and place. But it wasn’t the end-all of the thing.
Steven Bauer
When violence becomes imbedded in a region, then this affects everything. It affects your dreams, your fantasies and relationships, and your religion becomes violent, too.
Karen Armstrong
I’ll tell you as one of the lead Trump people and the campaign manager of the army of Trump, that I would never want any single person to do anything violent against anyone.
Brad Parscale
After I did ‘Brooklyn,’ I did about five or six violent films in one way or another, and not always with me being the bad guy, but something violent about it to keep the street cred up, really.
Emory Cohen
The Benghazi attack was one of the more confusing, chaotic days that we had at work because you had these multiple violent protests taking place in the Middle East.
Ben Rhodes
Armed and law-abiding citizens are a greater deterrent to violent crime than 1,000 laws passed by Congress.
Rick Perry
A notorious network of violent Islamist hoodlums, concentrated in the rough-and-tumble district of Molenbeek in Brussels, has been operating in plain sight since the 1990s, planning, plotting and carrying out dozens of elaborate jihadi missions from Afghanistan to Algeria.
Terry Glavin
I’m not violent.
Jeremy Renner
I’m not a violent extremist. I’m not even violent.
Gavin McInnes
I think ‘Dirty Harry’ was probably sensitive toward the victims of violent crime.
Clint Eastwood
No violent extreme endures.
Thomas Carlyle
The reality is that the institutional framework in which Wall Street operates is fundamentally inappropriate, and it inevitably generates violent fluctuations of the market.
Maurice Allais
Violent behavior exists in one’s psychological makeup much deeper than the level that receives information from television or movies.
Richard King
I want to bear down on violent crime, in all its aspects from terrorism to sexual offences but definitely knife and gun crime, particularly as it affects young people.
Cressida Dick
It’s an extraordinary experience to encounter the two kinds of deaths of my parents, one violent and jagged, it hits you like a tornado, the other, gentle with grace and dignity.
Mariette Hartley
It doesn’t feel good to be a horrible, violent, misogynist person.
Eric Johnson
Where are the exhortations for children to reject the self-defeating stereotypes that reduce black people to violent, oversexed ‘gangstas,’ minstrel show comedians and mindless athletes?
Juan Williams
It started getting too crazy with ‘Earth A.D.’ The concepts started becoming too brutal and violent. It was less about fiction and more about the real world, the past, present, and future. I think a lot of people got freaked out by that.
Glenn Danzig
Since 1992 we have made dramatic progress in reducing violent crime.
William Barr
It’s a fast-paced somewhat violent sport, but it’s very much entertaining. And the greatest thing about mixed martial arts is that it transcends a lot of demographics.
Michael Chandler
The more violent the body contact of the sports you watch, the lower the class.
Paul Fussell
Nixon represents that dark, venal and incurably violent side of the American character almost every other country in the world has learned to fear and despise.
Hunter S. Thompson
What poor people go through, it’s amazing they don’t do more violent things! If they’d just give you a little dignity, it might help you stand it better. They suffer no heat, no electricity, while you’re working, but then you’ve got to face all the insults, too.
Carolyn Chute
I never thought that Syria and Israel should engage in a violent confrontation because I don’t think that there is any particular interest for any of us to do it.
Ehud Olmert
Drug trafficking is an inherently dangerous and violent business.
Jeff Sessions
‘Vikings’ has been so many different challenges, and some of that is, at times, you have to be big and imposing and violent and vicious, and then you have be pulled back and withdrawn and just more layers and more time to portray those layers, too.
Edge
Mother had an affair with the milkman, who later became my stepdad and my father left. My stepdad was an angry guy and Mother was a hysterical narcissist. It was a toxic mixture and there was a lot of disruption and violent arguments in the house.
Grayson Perry
I went to a motivational training course once, a course of self-discovery, and I found out after a week that my fear – it was not a fear of not being accepted – was a very violent fear of failure.
Emanuel Steward
In my case, I feel very protected when I see a movie. That’s why I like making violent movies or radical movies.
Gaspar Noe
Research has shown that the availability of mental health care prior, during, and after imprisonment reduces violent offending drastically.
Ash Sarkar
When man began to think he was a separate person with a separate soul, it created a violent situation.
Harry Dean Stanton
I have long understood that losing always comes with th

I have long understood that losing always comes with the territory when you wander into the gambling business, just as getting crippled for life is an acceptable risk in the linebacker business. They both are extremely violent sports, and pain is part of the bargain. Buy the ticket, take the ride.
Hunter S. Thompson
True love, especially first love, can be so tumultuous and passionate that it feels like a violent journey.
Holliday Grainger
So, if falling crime rates coincide with the rise of violent video games and increasing violence on TV and at the cinema, should we conclude that media violence is causing the drop in crime rates?
Hugh Mackay
The critics didn’t like it at all. They felt it was crude and violent without meaning, and they dumped on it. ‘Point Blank’ marked a shift in movie-making, and they weren’t ready for it. However, I think those were the last negative words ever said about it.
Donald E. Westlake
I’m from a very violent city. I’m from New Orleans, Louisiana, and it’s good to see me be able to express my art, have a good opportunity for my life, make history and say something, without being violent.
Jason Mitchell
No wonder we have a lot of violence in Rio: the corrupt and violent policemen meet the violent criminals in the streets. What else is going to happen?
Jose Padilha
When it kind of went to ‘Street Fighter’, where you had to push 13 buttons with all 13 of your fingers and ripped the spine out of somebody, you know, violent games lost the women. Complexity lost the casual gamer.
Nolan Bushnell
The more frequently officers encounter violent suspects from any given racial group, the greater the chance that members of that racial group will be shot by a police officer.
Heather Mac Donald
Today’s ghost stories tend to be much more physically or psychologically violent. The Victorians were much more leisurely about what might or could happen, building suspense layer by layer rather than punching you in the face.
Otto Penzler
The people of South Jersey know that climate change is real and that it impacts their quality of life. They see that our streets flood almost every time it rains and they have seen that extreme weather events have become more frequent and more violent.
Jeff Van Drew
It’s a violent sport. It’s meant to be that way.
Joe Flacco
My law enforcement experience has showed me first-hand the violent and psychologically scarring impact that can result from the series of dominoes that fall after an otherwise law-abiding citizen fails to pay a summons for a quality-of-life offense on time.
Eric Adams
I will say, ‘The Michael J. Fox Show’ is funnier than ‘Breaking Bad’ – not that ‘Breaking Bad’ isn’t funny, but this is funnier and slightly less violent.
Betsy Brandt
With four of the top ten most violent cities in America, Michigan will never fully flourish unless our governments can fulfill their basic task: protecting public safety.
Bill Schuette
The fact that wealthy people or people from privileged backgrounds may wind up in a violent terrorist organization is not new.
Lowell Bergman
I don’t feel comfortable with violence, and I’m not sure that I film violent scenes properly, and it’s something I’m reticent to do, and yet violence is sort of in all of my films.
Jacques Audiard
Football is a violent sport, and if you don’t kind of go to that dark place to be violent and be physical, you’re not going to last very long.
George Kittle
Religious minority communities in India have endured incidents of harassment, discrimination, intimidation and violent attacks for decades, often with little hope for justice.
Trent Franks
Slavery was a violent, brutal, immoral system, and in accurately depicting how it worked, you have to include that, obviously. Or else you are lying.
Colson Whitehead
What many people don’t know about ‘Peter Pan’ is that it’s a very violent book and Hook is one of the most finely observed villains ever.
Eoin Colfer
As a judge, I held people accountable when they did wrong. That’s why I cracked down on violent criminals and stopped the big banks when they tried to kick families out of their homes.
Ann Callis
As a border prosecutor, I’ve put criminals behind bars who worked for some of the most violent cartels in the world.
Susana Martinez