War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.
It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas.
Technology, ideology, and social and cultural changes periodically throw out new forms of violence for humanity to contend with.
In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival.
The real violence is committed in the writing of history, the records of the legal system, the reporting of news, through the manipulation of social contracts, and the control of information.
If you and I are having a single thought of violence or hatred against anyone in the world at this moment, we are contributing to the wounding of the world.
The proven method for saving the lives of innocent Americans is not disarming them. The proven method for saving the lives of innocent Americans is to arrest, prosecute, convict and jail criminal offenders, especially armed career criminals illegally using guns. This is the way to reduce gun violence.
Because people see violence on the movie screen, they're not going to go out and hold up a liquor store and kill somebody. It really doesn't correlate.
Violence and religion have often gone together, but it's not a perfect correlation, and it doesn't have to be a permanent connection, because religions themselves change.
There is a correlation between economic inequality and personal violence. The explanation for the correlation isn't completely clear; there are a number of possibilities.
A new understanding of power is replacing our old understanding of power as the ability to manipulate and control. The old understanding of power has become counterproductive to our evolution. What used to be good medicine has become poisonous. Pursuit of the ability to manipulate and control now produces only violence and destruction.
If you give me any problem in America I can trace it down to domestic violence. It is the cradle of most of the problems, economic, psychological, educational.
I would do a sort of violence to myself if I didn't express myself in the directly creative ways of writing, both words and music.
History doesn't give credence for resorting to violence to have your voice heard.
Nonviolence is the only credible response to the violence we're seeing around the world.
I get very tired of violence in crime fiction. Maybe it is what life is like, but I don't want to do it in my books.
No matter how liberal I am, I'm still outraged by crimes of violence. Regardless of whether I can sympathize with the causes that lead these individuals to do these crimes, the effects are outrageous.
I turn down a lot of movies because sometimes they glamorize violence or the darker side of sex or criminality.
When you criminalize something, only criminals can deal with it. When criminals deal with it, there's no recourse to law, so there's only recourse to violence.
I like a twisted sense of humour. On 'A History of Violence,' David Cronenberg and I would be doing the grimmest scenes and laugh a lot.
