Violence Effects Quotes

We cannot and will not ban the creation of violent video games. But, we can prevent the distribution of these disturbing games to children, where their effects can be negative.

War is cruel to the people, and terrible to the conquered.

War is unnatural, it causes people to act unnaturally.

Wars shatter so many lives. I think especially of children robbed of their childhood.

It is good that war is so horrible, or we might grow to like it.

A bullet can kill the enemy, but a bullet can also produce an enemy, depending on whom that bullet strikes.

The fact is, violence is not only not a beautiful thing, but it's also very painful and not without consequences for the perpetrator as well as the victim.

They are more than men at the outset of their battles; at the end they are less than the women.

War is never cheap or easy.

Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.

You people speak so lightly of war; you don't know what you're talking about. War is a terrible thing!

There is something about killing people at close range that is excruciating. It's bound to try a man's soul.

War is idiocy. We live on a small, small planet, and what we do to others is what we do to ourselves.

War can't give life, it can only take it away.

There really still is a deep wound, you know, in the collective psyche of Pakistan. And the violence has left enormous human and emotional and psychic damage. That's not going to go away. But that said, I think I'm cautiously optimistic that we're looking at a better future.

I think she by this point has learned that Stark's not specifically responsible for her parents' death - that it's more something that has to do with him stopping... I think there's even a reference to him stopping his selling of weapons because they cause damage.

Every war, when viewed from the undistorted perspective of life’s sanctity, is a “civil war” waged by humanity against itself.

Children will watch anything, and when a broadcaster uses crime and violence and other shoddy devices to monopolize a child's attention, it's worse than taking candy from a baby. It is taking precious time from the process of growing up.

When violence becomes imbedded in a region, then this affects everything. It affects your dreams, your fantasies and relationships, and your religion becomes violent, too.

There are but two types of men who desire war: those who haven’t the slightest intention of fighting it themselves, and those who haven’t the slightest idea what it is. … Any man who has seen the face of death knows better than to seek him out a second time.

There is a subconscious way of taking violence as a way of expression, as a normality, and it has a lot of effects in the youth in the way they absorb education and what they hope to get out of life.

The effects of the attacks against health facilities emanate far beyond those immediately killed and injured. They demolish routine and lifesaving health care for all. They make life impossible. Full stop.

If you're a cartoon character or most TV characters, sure, you'll fight, because the punches are juicy-sounding and they don't leave marks. But in real life, if somebody punches you in the eye, it doesn't make any noise and your eye is swollen for, like, six months. It's a nightmare to get punched in the eye.

I don't even remember if he hurt me with even one punch. Amazing what the result is.

Never be glad that another man has died. Not ever. [...] It never ends. Never... ever... be glad to kill.