I’ve had just about everything punched. I’ve had things grabbed that just shouldn’t be grapped.

There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.

The fault lines are shifting from the boundaries of nations into the web of our societies and the streets of our cities. And, terrorism and extremism are a global force that are larger than their changing names, groups, territories and targets.

The United States is a violent military state. It’s been involved in military action all over the place.

I’m not searching for hard news; I’m not a journalist, but I’m interested in pushing to boundaries of where we can do the kind of stories that we want to do. I mean, it’s a big world and CNN has made it a lot bigger and they haven’t flinched.

My mother would kill me if I posed nude! My mother raised me with certain standards.

If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.

Violence can succeed, as Americans know well from the conquest of the national territory. But at terrible cost. It can also provoke violence in response, and often does.

I’m all for a good rivalry as long as lines are drawn.

You can’t have a relationship with a device whose limits are unknown to you, because without limits, it keeps becoming something else.

Just because you like my stuff doesn’t mean I owe you anything.

Nothing good ever comes of violence.

The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.

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.

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

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

I think if someone gets kicked in the face it is their fault – they watched the foot come towards their face.

The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war.

Terrorists are not following Islam. Killing people and blowing up people and dropping bombs in places and all this is not the way to spread the word of Islam. So people realize now that all Muslims are not terrorists.

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.

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

It is very hard to not be able to engage with people in a real and honest way because they either want something from me, or they see me as something that I simply am not.

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

But does that mean that war and violence are inevitable? I would argue not because we have also evolved this amazingly sophisticated intellect, and we are capable of controlling our innate behavior a lot of the time.

The universe is very large, and its boundaries are not known very well, but it is still possible to define some kind of a radius to be associated with it.

Of course, violence will not end with our combat mission. Extremists will continue to set off bombs, attack Iraqi civilians and try to spark sectarian strife. But ultimately, these terrorists will fail to achieve their goals.

It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.

The Oklahoma City bombing was simple technology, horribly used. The problem is not technology. The problem is the person or persons using it.

The minute you start compromising for the sake of massaging somebody’s ego, that’s it, game over.

War is a contagion.

As capitalism falters, the rich move their money out of the country, violence increases, and politicians promising prosperity are elected.

There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.

I do not recognize the right of the public to break in the front door of a man’s private life in order to satisfy the gaze of the curious… I do not think it right to dissect living men even for the advancement of science. So far as I am concerned, I prefer a post mortem examination to vivisection without anaesthetics.

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.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

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

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

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

I respect Chris Brown. I’d like to call myself a friend – I don’t know if I’m allowed to do that.

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.

Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.

In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence. It is also a course of action that strikes a blow against the regime of international order, but which offers the weak at least some protection from predatory states.

If I hit a man, his head is gonna go into the bleachers.

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

Even today we raise our hand against our brother… We have perfected our weapons, our conscience has fallen asleep, and we have sharpened our ideas to justify ourselves as if it were normal we continue to sow destruction, pain, death. Violence and war lead only to death.

The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.

I have long understood that losing always comes with the territory when you wander into the gambling business, just as getting crippled for life is an acceptable risk in the linebacker business. They both are extremely violent sports, and pain is part of the bargain. Buy the ticket, take the ride.

I have a self-defense mind. I’ve had it all my life.

When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.

War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.

Guarding your heart and protecting your dignity are a little bit more important than clarifying the emotions of someone who’s only texting you back three words. I’ve learned that from trying to figure out people who don’t deserve to be figured out.

Don’t ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

As the father of eight children, I’m quite convinced that each individual arrives here with their own unique personality. We are intended here from an invisible held of infinite potentiality. That which has no form, has no boundaries – it’s the I that’s in the ever-changing body.

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.

In the ’70s, terrorism was much more serious, in that many more people got killed.

War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.

It’s a lose-lose situation to get in a confrontation on the street. If you can break contact and get away, break contact and get away. That’s what you should learn self-defense for.

The threat and use of violence is stimulating nuclear proliferation along with jihadi terrorism.

Violence is both unavoidable and unjustifiable.

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.