“Football is a violent sport, but you know what you sign up for when you put those shoulder pads on. I agree with certain aspects of it. I disagree with certain aspects of it. I've had concussions and I'm still here. I still love the sport. I think I'm still very healthy.” ThinkingSportsFootballHealthyAgreeViolentDisagree Author:Eric Reid
“President-elect Donald Trump says he's looking for a simple plan for defeating ISIS within his first 30 days of taking office. But even as ISIS has suffered setbacks in Iraq and Syria, its violent ideology continues to spread.” SimpleOfficeSpreadViolentIdeologySyriaSetback Author:John S. Dickerson
“Obviously, the United States' own founding principles are self-determination. And I think what the United States and our allies want to do is to enable the Syrian people to make that determination. You know, we've seen what violent regime change looks like in Libya and - and the kind of chaos that can be unleashed.” PeopleThinkingKindDeterminationChaosViolent Author:Rex W. Tillerson
“We've seen what violent regime change looks like in Libya and the kind of chaos that can be unleashed. And, indeed, the kind of misery that it enacts on its own people.” PeopleKindMiseryChaosViolent Author:Rex W. Tillerson
“Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.” ActionSportsPerfectQuietViolentCombinationAtmosphereTennisTranquilityTranquillityMotivational TennisInspirational TennisFunny TennisGreat TennisPerfect CombinationTennis Team Author:Billie Jean King
“The war in Iraq, specifically America's role of leadership in this war, is a painful invitation to ask ourselves what, if anything, we've learned from previous wars. I am revolted by the brutal killing of hundreds of thousands of innocent people during any war. And I'm saddened by the apparent inability of human beings to find less violent solutions to conflict and terrorism.” PeopleWarConflictSolutionsKillingPainfulTerrorismViolentInnocentWhat IfBrutalInvitationsSaddened Author:Wayne Dyer
“There is a real effort to bully women out of public spaces and offline with violent intimidation. That issue speaks not just to casual sexism, which is more common, but actual, violent hatred of women by some.” RealSpeakCommonEffortHatredViolentSexismBullyIntimidation Author:Tara Moss
“Immigration. There's two plans on the table. Hillary and I believe in comprehensive immigration reform. Donald Trump believes in deportation nation. You've got to pick your choice. Hillary and I want a bipartisan reform that will put keeping families together as the top goal, second, that will help focus enforcement efforts on those who are violent, third, that will do more border control, and, fourth, that will provide a path to citizenship for those who work hard, pay taxes, play by the rules, and take criminal background record checks.” BelieveHelpingTogetherChoicesI BelieveGoalEffortPathFocusHard WorkTaxesViolentImmigrationCitizenshipFamily Together Author:Tim Kaine
“The idea we have of prison is a scary place that also houses crazy people. And, to me, it was like, none of these guys were scary. They may have done things that are violent or scary, but these are not people that I feel nervous being around, and it feels like to me that we're wasting these men's lives in prison.” PeopleDoneGuyHouseCrazyPrisonScaryViolentNervousCrazy People Author:W. Kamau Bell
“One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity. If you can make them sufficiently uncomfortable, they frequently respond by doing what you need them to do in the spirit of setting people free or ceasing arrests, which has worked time and time again with PEN.” PeopleSpiritStrangeNegativeViolentUncomfortablePens Author:Salman Rushdie
“I do believe the world is a pretty sad, troubled, and violent place. Maybe that's why I focus on the trouble. Even though there are good people and good things, there's also a bunch of messed up stuff. And I learned early on, you have to have some trouble in your stories. I definitely go overboard on that, but I have a lot more fun writing about the trouble.” PeopleWorldWritingBelieveFunFocusTroubleGood ThingsViolentGood PeopleOverboard Author:Donald Ray Pollock
“The trumpet is a very violent instrument - probably one of the most archaic of all the modern instruments. It's physically really demanding: you have to stay in pretty good shape.” ModernViolent Author:Christian Scott
“Americans seem to be living in a state of fear about the world, one that just keeps intensifying. I mean, look at our cars and homes. They've become these massive barricades. Look at what we watch on TV and in the movies - it's all a bunch of violent ideation. And all these TV shows about dead bodies.” WorldMeanHomeCarViolent Author:Steve Almond
“The growth of violent extremism is partly a consequence of how the developed world has become complacent and defensive about its own greatness and ambition.” WorldGrowthGreatnessAmbitionConsequenceViolentExtremismComplacent Author:Garry Kasparov
“You're always going to have dangerous, disaffected people in any society, and some will be violent. Increasing prosperity and reducing inequality won't solve that completely. But having big, positive dreams and a society that makes it possible to achieve those dreams is what we must strive for.” PeopleDreamAchieveDangerousStriveProsperityViolentInequality Author:Garry Kasparov
“For good or for bad, India has rejected a more totalitarian approach to how it will deal with its social problems. We would starve but we would not give up our democracy and our love for our freedoms and to deal with these problems in an atmosphere of democracy and the rule of law without necessarily going, sort of resorting to civil disobedience or any kind of violent revolution.” GivingKindProblemDemocracyRevolutionGiving UpViolentAtmosphereRejectedNot Giving UpDisobedienceRule Of LawCivil Disobedience Author:Cyril Shroff
“When I stage a violent scene, I try for it to serve a purpose. I do love those things, the makeup effects. But I love them more with the monsters. I never was much of a gore guy. I've always enjoyed just creating monsters.” TryingPurposeGuySceneViolentMakeup Author:Guillermo del Toro
“I was lucky I guess. My main job was done when I finally found Ben Whishaw and knew that there was someone who could portray a character who was so ambiguous and multi-faceted. Ben is equally dark and innocent; potentially violent and yet at the same time kind of a boy. He got all that across and still makes audiences root for the guy even though they might be kind of disturbed by that fact.” KindDoneCharacterGuyDarkBoysAudienceLuckyViolentInnocentBe KindDisturbedAmbiguous Author:Tom Tykwer
“The one fatwa that everyone here is probably familiar with is the Salman Rushdie fatwa, but a fatwa doesn't have to be a violent thing at all. A fatwa is simply a ruling on Islamic law; there can be fatwas on clothing.” ViolentFamiliarIslamicRushdie Author:Sadakat Kadri
“Sociopaths are not usually physically violent. A typical sociopath never kills anybody and doesn't look like Charles Manson - they look like you and me and everybody else. You're not looking for someone who's recognizably evil or scary-looking, but rather someone who looks normal. Another lynchpin is dishonesty. Lying for the sake of lying. Lying just to see whether you can trick people. And sometimes telling larger lies to get larger effects.” PeopleSometimesLyingEvilLike YouViolentDishonestySociopathManson Author:Martha Stout
“All politicians have three ways of expressing themselves - the intimate dialogue that can often be violent and raw, then the dialogue in front of the camera and then big public speeches.” PoliticianViolentDialogueIntimate Author:Xavier Durringer
“I feel like if you know any women who's an essayist or a writer or a public speaker or just a public person, and they have any presence at all in any kind of social media, or any place where men can voice at them, you have to be pretty amazed at the level of special provocation and sort of violent speech and misogyny that comes at them. Any woman that's really in the public sphere has experienced this. It's kind of shocking how universal it is.” MenKindSpecialSocial MediaViolentSpeakersMisogynyAmazed Author:David Simon
“The murder clearance rate now in my city Baltimore is almost non-existent. Nobody can solve a murder, nobody can do any actual police work, because they've learned how to do bad police work, chase drugs. Fighting vice, while being unable to respond to sin. Generations of cops have learned how not to police work by policing the drug war. Not only are they police brutal, they're ineffective. Baltimore is more violent than it has ever been in modern history.” WarFightingSinModernDrugMurderPoliceRateViolentCopBrutalWar On Drugs Author:David Simon
“In my view, and in the view of a lot of intelligence experts, the terrorist threat that we face now has morphed significantly from the days of 9/11 to homegrown violent extremism. We have to be concerned and focused on homegrown violent extremism, countering violent extremism that exists within our borders.” ConcernedThreatFocusedTerroristViolentExtremism Author:Jeh Johnson
“I've always been terrified of violence which is probably why I keep making violent films - I'm trying to exorcise some demons or something. My mum ended up bringing me up on the edge of a big estate in south London, so I was on the periphery of violence - a lot of football violence and stuff because I was a Millwall supporter. So I've always had a very healthy fear of it, yet at the same time a fascination. I think in all of my films that's a really strong subtext... people who are terrified by violence but are yet compelled by it as well.” PeopleThinkingTryingFilmStrongViolenceFootballHealthyViolentDemonMumSupporter Author:Nick Love
“I find the new Justin Bieber video more violent and more of an assault to my eyes and senses than what I've made.” EyeViolent Author:M.I.A.
“Somebody said to me, in a very well-meaning way, at a screening, "We love the movie but it's too violent. If you tone down the violence you could reach a great audience of kids.".” KidsAudienceViolenceViolent Author:Guillermo del Toro
“Let me say for the record, I am not a gangster and never have been. I'm not the thief who grabs your purse. I'm not the guy who jacks your car. I'm not down with people who steal and hurt others. I'm just a brother who fights back. I'm not some violent closet psycho. I've got a job. I'm an artist.” PeopleArtistGuyFightingHurtCarBrotherLet MeViolentStealingGangstersPsycho Author:Tupac Shakur
“My first film - a challenging role and completely different from the persona that was created in Italy. I was this super energetic, vibrant, happy, volumed hair, fitted dresses, the whole Italian va-va-voom thing. And the role was a girl that was really provoking society with being unnecessarily violent - just trying to see what people's limits are. It's a really dark tunnel to get to being nasty, being full of hate. When people hate there's a big sadness and rage within them, so it was interesting to go that dark with my first experience.” PeopleTryingDifferentFilmHateGirlChallengesDarkInterestingSadnessRageViolentItalianProvokingNastyPersonaEnergetic Author:Moran Atias
“I am not really interested in the comic book movies for example. They send me very violent scripts that don't interest me. One I was sent involved me playing a woman, a mother and wife who gets killed, shot in the stomach. It was a thriller and it did not excite me at all. So I turned it down.” BookMotherInterestWifeViolentComicComic Book Author:Kristin Davis
“It doesn't take a brain surgeon to figure out that if you stop or curtail stop-and-frisk, or if cops are reluctant to do it, violent crimes are going to go up.” BrainCrimeViolentCopSurgeons Author:Raymond Kelly
“I think that right now we're in a very hard moment and off-putting. I mean, look at shoes today - women's shoes. They couldn't possibly get any higher and meaner and sharper. But then again, you go and watch most films today, they're violent and we're living in a world that is, at the moment, quite hard.” ThinkingWorldMeanMomentsTodayFilmViolent Author:Tom Ford
“There is still boxing, but there's just no money in it anymore. If you went around the world and asked a bunch of people under 20 years old, to name a boxer, I bet they couldn't name one. They'd be able to name a UFC fighter though. When I was younger there was Mike Tyson and we watched everything. I'm not saying its gone, or its going to go, and it could easily be ignited by another fighter, but it's just that idea that UFC is more violent, that desire for more spectacle, has captured people's attention.” PeopleWorldDesireAttentionViolentFighterBoxingNo MoneyTyson Author:Hugh Jackman
“I think our mental picture of God is the most important fact about our life. All other things being equal, the beauty of our life won't outrun the beauty of our vision of God. Unfortunately, the God that many Christians envision is not completely Christ-like, but is rather influenced by the violent depictions of God in the Old Testament.” ThinkingImportantChristianVisionEqualViolentOld TestamentBeing Equal Author:Gregory A. Boyd
“Many who are convinced that God is non-violent simply dismiss the Old Testament accounts of God commanding or engaging in violence. I don't consider this to be a viable option, for Jesus treats the whole Old Testament as the inspired Word of God. My cross-centered interpretation of these violent portraits allows believers to affirm that God is non-violent while also affirming that all Scripture is "God-breathed.".” JesusViolenceInspiredBelieverScriptureViolentWord Of GodOld TestamentAffirming Author:Gregory A. Boyd
“The violent portraits of God in Scripture have become one of the biggest obstacles to believers coming to faith. When we can show how these portraits bear witness not to a violent God, but to the non-violent loving God revealed on Calvary, these obstacles to believing in the inspiration of Scripture become one of the most compelling reasons for believing in the inspiration of Scripture.” BelieveReasonInspirationObstaclesBelieverScriptureViolentWitnessLoving God Author:Gregory A. Boyd
“When we interpret the violent portraits of God through the lens of the cross, we can see God doing in history what he did in a supreme way on Calvary. And this is how these violent divine portraits anticipate, and point us toward, the cross.” DivineViolent Author:Gregory A. Boyd
“Accommodation is a central aspect of the cross-centered interpretation of violent portraits of God that I'm advocating. Like everything else in Cross Vision, this concept is anchored in the cross. On the cross, God stoops to meet us, and to enter into solidarity with us, right where we are at, which is in bondage to sin and to Satan. And he does this to free us and to bring us where he wants us to be, which is united with him in Christ. The cross is thus the paradigmatic example of God mercifully stooping to accommodate people in their fallen conditioning.” PeopleChristSinVisionViolentFallenSatanSolidarityBondageWant U Author:Gregory A. Boyd
“We reject the killing of innocents to achieve a radical and violent agenda. The terrorists and their state sponsors, Iran and Syria, have a much darker vision. They're working to thwart the efforts that of the Lebanese people to break free from foreign domination and build their own democratic future. The terrorists and their sponsors are not going to succeed. The Lebanese people have made it clear they want to live in freedom. And now it's up to their friends and allies to help them do so.” PeopleHelpingEffortVisionBreakAchieveSucceedDemocraticKillingTerroristViolentRadicalSyriaDomination Author:George W. Bush
“We don't want peace over freedom. We will choose freedom over peace. We will go on with our fight for self-determination and democracy. But if things continue the way they are, I expect the situation to become more violent.” FightingSituationDemocracyViolent Author:Zainab al-Khawaja
“I think that in the diaspora, and among immigrants, religion becomes a vehicle for the transmission of cultural information, and cultural codes, and this does end up re-inscribing certain things about the religion - like caste. Caste discrimination and hierarchy are still a very fundamental and violent part of Hinduism. My family was upper caste, and that was very clear. I feel like caste and religious practice are inextricable, actually.” ThinkingReligiousMy FamilyViolentDiscriminationCodeHinduismVehicleTransmission Author:Chitra Ganesh
“I have never been able to let Iraq go. It is a part of me. Even under Saddam Hussein, even despite what the country went through, and despite how violent and tribal it can be, there is still a certain purity to the kindness of the population.” CountryKindnessViolentPurity Author:Arwa Damon
“I'm having to do a lot to keep my clothes on and not be cast in girlfriend roles. Some women will say, "I don't want to be a man - I want the opportunities I can get as a woman." Women have a certain sexuality, and I think their bodies are beautiful and I'm not embarrassed to explore that in a film. But there are things you get offered that are vulgar and violent - just like there's a side of me that's vulgar and violent.” ThinkingMenBeautifulFilmOpportunitySexualityViolentGirlfriendEmbarrassedVulgar Author:Angelina Jolie
“I was examining what religious identity meant in Africa. Along the edge of the Islamic world, what patterns were shaping identity? And the truth is, when I looked at the rise of violent forms of religion, no single identity was prevalent. It's central to note that in Nigeria, that tree is rooted primarily in Christianity. It's not just Islamic militants in the Middle Belt.” WorldReligiousChristianityTreeIdentityTruth IsViolentIslamicNigeria Author:Eliza Griswold
“Mexico just needs more journalists, and especially more good places to publish and exhibit. There are all kinds of censorship practiced in Mexico, not just violent repression. Perhaps the biggest threat to good journalism here is the massive power of the country's media monoliths - Televisa and TV Azteca - who have 80% of the market. They endlessly saturate the country with propaganda and inanity.” KindCountryThreatViolentAll KindsJournalismJournalistPropagandaCensorshipPublish Author:Francisco Goldman
“People have their morals, but morals aren't concrete. People think because I'm a Muslim that I pray five times a day, but you're never going to see that on a day-to-day basis. People fluctuate. To me, that was the most specific way to put it, the best way to be like, "I listen to this music, but it's the most violent music on the planet." But I like it, and to make up for it, I don't say the cuss words. That's how I get away with it.” PeopleThinkingMoralPrayingViolentGet AwayConcreteI Pray Author:Lupe Fiasco
“Kristin Gwynne has been writing some great stuff about the sexually violent element of "stop-and-frisk." This isn't just "turn out your pockets." This is young people being groped. That form of power - using sexuality for power and control - seems pretty straightforward to me. When are we going to just say that the cops are the enemy here?” PeopleWritingEnemySexualityViolentCopStraightforwardSexually Author:Melissa Gira Grant
“Say you're a sex worker and your partner knows you're a sex worker, but you're not out to your family. That could be very dangerous, particularly in an unhealthy relationship, where it could be a recipe for conflict, for something potentially violent that could lead to someone going to jail. There's so much pressure because of the criminalization and stigma. If we lifted that, it's only going to benefit more women.” DangerousConflictViolentOur FamilyStigma Author:Melissa Gira Grant
“Any time there is a cultural breakthrough in which this culture transcends what it's supposed to be, there's a violent reaction. So we had a black president, and it's followed by an incredibly violent reaction. It happens over and over.” CultureBlackPresidentViolentBreakthrough Author:George C. Wolfe
“That's what interests me in poetry. That withholding, that white space, the pressure, and my long-term faith in violent concision, is still with me.” InterestViolent Author:Lucie Brock-Broido