I sometimes just don’t like to see the Ultimate Fighting. I just find it, as a martial artist, I just find it too violent.

We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You’re always helping people.

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.

I’ll beat him so bad he’ll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.

No matter what cause one defends, it will suffer permanent disgrace if one resorts to blind attacks on crowds of innocent people.

Jackie Chan is a myth.

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.

The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.

War is a contagion.

Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death.

My speculation is that the U.S. does not want to establish the principle that it has to defer to some higher authority before carrying out the use of violence.

It is difficult to violently suppress people in the long run, as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries has shown.

Hate crime is not new in the United States.

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.

I’m just hoping that people understand that Islam is peace and not violence.

I’ve told Billy if I ever caught him cheating, I wouldn’t kill him because I love his children and they need a dad. But I would beat him up. I know where all of his sports injuries are.

You can’t build a plot out of jokes. You need tragic relief. And you need to let people know that when a lot of frightened people are running around with edged weaponry, there are deaths. Stupid deaths, usually. I’m not writing ‚The A-Team‘ – if there’s a fight going on, people will get hurt. Not letting this happen would be a betrayal.

It is always a strain when people are being killed. I don’t think anybody has held this job who hasn’t felt personally responsible for those being killed.

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I’m just not close enough to get the job done.

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

The realities are that, you know, as a black man, you know, Barack can get shot going to the gas station, you know.

I think ‚Dirty Harry‘ was probably sensitive toward the victims of violent crime.

Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.

This was not an act of terrorism, but it was an act of war.

The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

Those who ‚abjure‘ violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf.

The totalitarian world produces backwardness because it does such violence to the spirit, thwarting the human impulse to create, to enjoy, to worship.

I live in Hollywood, but you can’t make me love Hollywood. I’ll never love Hollywood.

The goal of jiu-jitsu in self-defense isn’t to take someone down to the ground – the goal in jiu-jitsu for self-defense is actually to be able to defend yourself on the ground, get up, and get away from an attacker. That’s what the goal is.

Next to my husband, and along with Marlon Brando, I think that Yves Montand is the most attractive man I’ve ever met.

Sir one more comment like that and I will strangle you with my microphone wire!

If you learn a martial art, you learn to be dangerous, but simultaneously, you learn to control it.

I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.

Poverty breeds despair. We know this. Despair breeds violence. We know this. In turbulent times, isn’t it cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than to defend yourself against them later?

Jiu Jitsu is a great workout both mentally and physically. You want to be strong for it and flexible for it.

Violence is both unavoidable and unjustifiable.

Well before September 11, it was understood that with modern technology, the rich and powerful will lose their near monopoly of the means of violence and can expect to suffer atrocities on home soil.

Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.

War settles nothing.

As a tactic, violence is absurd. No one can compete with the Government in violence, and the resort to violence, which will surely fail, will simply frighten and alienate some who can be reached, and will further encourage the ideologists and administrators of forceful repression.

I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.

Radical Islamist extremists surely hope that an attack on Iraq will kill many people and destroy much of the country, providing recruits for terrorist actions.

Who wants to leave the door open to being dominated physically by another human being? Jiu Jitsu gives you the ability to not be dominated by that person, and to me, that’s real peace of mind. I don’t have to worry about that when I’m walking around in the world.

In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains.

I’m in the game of spinning plates. I’m spinning a boxing plate. I’m spinning a Tae Kwon Do plate. I’m spinning a Jujitsu plate. I’m spinning a freestyle wrestling plate. I’m spinning a karate plate. If I was to put all them down and have one boxing plate spinning, it would be like a load off my shoulders.

Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire.

Judge Afiuni has suffered enough. She has been subject to acts of violence and humiliations to undermine her human dignity. I am convinced that she must be set free.

Everybody has a job to do. There are people in Iraq on both sides of this war who do what they do for religious reasons, and they feel with God on their side. Some people are good at annihilating people. Maybe that’s their gift.

Posture for combat is so vital.

It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged.

The world is too violent right now.

War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.

All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy.

The dropping of bombs on people – isn’t that terrorism?

My unpredictability is what separates me. If you move in so many ways, your opponent is not focused on what he’s doing. He’s focusing in on what you’re doing, and it freezes him. When they freeze and you hit, they shatter like glass.

War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.

We had violence directed at us by the growers themselves, trying to run us down by cars, pointing rifles at us, spraying the people when they were on the picket line with sulfur.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

I grew up in the South under segregation. So, I know what terrorism feels like – when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn’t look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. I mean, that’s terrorism, too.