The world is ruled by violence, or at least the imminent threat of violence. It always has been.

Acts of violence that occur simply because of how someone looks are horrific.

In terms of being vulgar, I don't think you need to be violent unless it's slapstick, violence to yourself. That can be funny - we've all tripped and fallen on our faces.

The violence in the world comes about because we human beings are forever creating barriers between men who are like us and men who are not like us.

You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.

I think loathing begets fanaticism, and in the end, loathing begets hatred and violence.

At an Antifa event meant to resist 'fascist violence,' I - a gay journalist of color - was beaten so badly that I was hospitalized for a brain hemorrhage.

I am, after all, a thriller writer. I routinely delve into the darkest chambers of the human heart. I've written about murder, kidnapping, depravity, horror, violence, and disfigurement.

Could it be that violence is as much a part of the American identity as the Constitution, and a vital component to its economic stability?

For the mob, habituated to feed at the expense of others, and to have its hopes of a livelihood in the property of its neighbors, as soon as it has got a leader sufficiently ambitious and daring, being excluded by poverty from the sweets of civil honors, produces a reign of mere violence.

To the youth who have taken up guns, I urge them to return to their parents and shun violence.

Under current law, there is no additional penalty for someone who enters the United States illegally and then commits either a crime of violence or a drug trafficking offense. They simply come under the same penalty as we have in current law.

I condemn all statements - made in sincerity or jest - that threaten or suggest the use of violence against the president of the United States or any other public official. Such rhetoric cannot and will not be tolerated.

Kids have always play-fought, but I think my generation had a particularly privileged cultural fantasy surrounding military violence.

I'm absolutely confident that the God that I worship abhors violence.

Violence is absolutely not our method.

I don't think I'll ever do a show with violence where there's no consequences, 'cause I know the consequences.

The violence associated with the A.N.C. is minimal, infinitesimal next to the violence of the apartheid regime.

Due to broken windows policing, the following interactions can lead to tickets, arrests and summonses, warrants if tickets go unpaid and, in some cases, violence: jaywalking, sleeping on a park bench, spitting, putting your feet up on the subway, and more.

We have to change the culture of mass violence we have.