“It's strange how things happen, Mauricio Silva, known as the Eye, always tried to escape from violence even at the risk of being considered a coward, but the violence, the real violence, can't be escaped, at least not by us, born in Latin America in the 1950s, those of us who were around twenty years old when Salvador Allende died.” YearsRealHappensEyeAmericaBornKnownViolenceRiskStrangeDiedTwentiesThings HappenLatinCowardLatin America Author:Roberto Bolano
“Young men kill someone for a handful of coins, then are remorseless, even casual: Hey, man, things happen. And their parents nab the culprit: it was the city, the cops, the system, the crowd, the music. Anyone but him. Anyone but me.” MenHappensYoungParentCitiesResponsibilityViolenceCrowdsThings HappenHeyYoung ManCopCoinsHandfulCasualCulpritRemorseless Book:Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private Source: Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private
“The violence you witness is Denzel doing it and we're taking some visual effects and doing some things and you see something happen it's happening in front of you as opposed to cutting away and doing a bunch of tricks. It's in front of you. So it's hard not to make it a hard "R" if you see a guy get punched and teeth wind up in someone's knuckles.” IfsHardHappensGuyCuttingViolenceEffectsFrontsWindHappeningsThings HappenTricksBunchTeethWitnessVisualsKnucklesDenzelVisual Effects Author:Antoine Fuqua
“Violence against women and lack of intervention and man's inhumanity to man and this kind of atrocities are going on. These are big issues of our times, we must speak about them, we must learn how to better understand how these things happen so we can address them.” MenKindBigsHappensSpeakIssuesViolenceThings HappenOur TimeAddressesInterventionAtrocitiesViolence Against WomenInhumanityInhumanity To Man Author:Angelina Jolie
“The message [of Donald Trump] is that that type of thing happening. Let's focus on what happened.What happened was the murder, the murder of this person pushing a stroller, it's unacceptable in an American city to continue to have this level of violence and the level of violence in Chicago is unacceptable.” PersonsLevelsCitiesFocusViolenceHappenedTypeTrumpMessagesHappeningsMurderThings HappenPushingChicagoAmerican CitiesStrollers Author:Chris Christie
“If you say to people that there's less violence today than in the past, they would be stunned to hear that. But it's the truth, even though we have awful things happening in Syria or Sudan.” PeopleIfsWould BeTodayPastViolenceHappeningsThings HappenAwfulSyriaStunnedSudan Author:Bill Gates
“We need to do something about gun violence in America. But every time one of these things happen, we say the same thing, and then we don't seem to be able to do anything. And that needs to change.” ViolenceGunThings Happen Author:Don Winslow