Extreme violence has a way of preventing us from seeing…

One way of preventing disease is worth fifty ways of curing it.

— Trevor Howard

“There’d be folkdancing, of course—there seemed to be no way of preventing it—and probably folksinging would be perpetrated.”

— Terry Pratchett

I think we can see violence in a whole range of realms. We certainly see it in the media, where extreme violence is now…

— Henry Giroux

Football, wherein is nothing but beastly fury and extreme violence, whereoth proceedeth hurt, and consequently rancour and malice do remain with them that be…

— Anonymous

But it struck me that the extreme violence and cruelty of the English Civil War had gone understated.

— Simon Schama

We'll engage in pretty extreme violence in the world but, you know, the one thing that comes to humans as easily as eating or…

— Mark Ruffalo

This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence.

— Ben Elton

“Dr Leila Gupta found that most children had witnessed extreme violence and did not expect to survive. Two-thirds of the children interviewed had seen…

— Ahmed Rashid

There's a hollowness to civilized life. It doesn't appeal to people, and some people react with extreme violence.

— John Zerzan

There are people in whole parts of our cities who are being totally left behind and disregarded. They are unheard. They are told they…

— Martin O'Malley

There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death. Whether it's the mundane violence we…

— bell hooks

“Isn't it amazing that, historically, the "Prince of Peace" has most often been introduced to new cultures through extreme violence? European and American colonialists…

— David G. McAfee

I know and understand the result of extreme violence in my own life, in my friends' lives, and so I know what violence really…

— Salim Akil

“In a place of extreme violence and devoid of order, the practical subsumes the principle. I drifted down the path of bribery and corruption…

— Jason Whiteley

Violence against the other, and the way we otherize people out of fear, has to be examined across the board.

— Yance Ford