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

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.

If you can’t beat them, arrange to have them beaten.

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

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.

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

Colombia has been the leading western recipient of U.S. arms and training as violence has grown through the ’90s.

Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don’t see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.

You will kill 10 of our men, and we will kill 1 of yours, and in the end it will be you who tire of it.

Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.

It’s not proper for the government to intrude too thoroughly into the domain of the family. It’s inappropriate.

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

Actually, you have to be a little bit in love with your leading man and vice versa. If you’re going to portray love, you have to feel it. You can’t do it any other way. But you don’t carry it beyond the set.

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

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.

The unsaid rule for living in a trailer park is: ‚If the door’s shut, don’t come a-knockin.‘ But if it’s open and you’re walkin‘ by, feel free to say, ‚Hello.‘

Almost half of the population of the world lives in rural regions and mostly in a state of poverty. Such inequalities in human development have been one of the primary reasons for unrest and, in some parts of the world, even violence.

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.

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.

I do like to have guns around. I don’t like to carry them. But I like – if somebody is going to come into my house and I have not put out the welcome mat, I want to stop them.

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.

If we could just find out who’s in charge, we could kill him.

Genres aren’t closed boxes. Stuff flows back and forth across the borders all the time.

Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies.

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.

The most violent show on TV is the six o’clock news.

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

Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.

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

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

Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.

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

I hate violence, yes I do. It’s kind of a dilemma, huh?.

The level of destruction and terror and violence carried out by the powerful states far exceeds anything that can imaginably can be done by groups that are called terrorists and subnational groups.

The more violent the storm, the quicker it passes.

I know that one of the great arts that the writer develops is the art of saying, ‚No. No, I’m finished. Bye.‘ And leaving it alone. I will not write it into the ground. I will not write the life out of it. I won’t do that.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can’t see from the center.

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.

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.

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.

Ultimately, who you choose to be in a relationship with and what you do in your bedroom is your business.

What I tell my kids is, ‚I’m preparing you for college and for life. So, having independence, knowing how to set your own boundaries, figuring out how to make that balance. We still have screen-time rules.‘

It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person. So violence isn’t merely organized butchery in the name of God, in the name of society or country. Violence is much more subtle, much deeper.

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.

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.

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 might talk about killing people, but that doesn’t mean I do it.

When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.

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

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

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

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

I love the attention but I don’t like too much of it.

All the screen cowboys behaved like real gentlemen. They didn’t drink, they didn’t smoke. When they knocked the bad guy down, they always stood with their fists up, waiting for the heavy to get back on his feet. I decided I was going to drag the bad guy to his feet and keep hitting him.

I don’t see any boundaries between any of the art forms. I think they all inter-relate completely.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

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.

War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.

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.