#violence

The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it. ↗

— Bill Cosby

#future #goal #main #main goal #stop

Our job as writers and thinkers in the time is how to bring about the occasions that let people have that first-person experience - or the metaphoric experience that allows them to see human continuity as opposed to total threat, total willingness to do violence. ↗

— Stanley Crouch

#allows #bring #continuity #experience #first-person

We can't answer King's assassination with violence. That would be the worst tribute we could pay him. ↗

— Sammy Davis, Jr.

#assassination #could #him #king #pay

Now it is time to make historic reassessments in order to transform our region into one of stability, freedom, prosperity, cultural revival and co-existence. In this new regional order there should be less violence and fewer barriers between countries, societies and sects. ↗

— Ahmet Davutoglu

#between #countries #cultural #fewer #freedom

People who are powerless make an open theater of violence. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#make #open #people #powerless #theater

Personally, I don't like watching violence. I'd much rather see more skin. ↗

— Cameron Diaz

#like #more #much #personally #rather

I’ve seen knives pierce the chest, Children dying in the road Crawling things hooked and baited, Rapists bound and then castrated, Villains singed in public square. Yet none these sights did make me cringe Like when my Love cut all her hair. ↗

— Roman Payne

#beauty #cutting-hair #destruction #hair #haircut

The more potent, unasked question is how society at large reacts to eager, voluntary violence by females, and to the growing evidence that women can be just as aggressive as men. ↗

— Katherine Dunn

#eager #evidence #females #growing #how

In Canadian comedy, you'll almost never see guns. If you bring a gun into a scene, it's like, 'Whoa! Wow, how are we going to deal with that!' Guns in an American comedy are a given. Violence in America is used in a much more cavalier way. ↗

— Scott Thompson

#america #american #bring #canadian #comedy

I've had horror movies thrown at me and I just don't want to do any because violence isn't really good for society. ↗

— Luke Ford

#because #good #had #horror #horror movies