England Quote by James W. Loewen

Pre-state societies were far more violent than our own.

— Steven Pinker

The world is less violent than it has ever been.

— Barack Obama

Yes, violence begets more violence, but historically this has been the way of the world.

— Meshell Ndegeocello

We're the most violent nation on earth. There's no getting away from that. But you've got to look at it on a broader level.

— Spike Lee

Our history doesn't look at our own violence, the violence in our own past, and we go out and repeat it someplace else.

— Robert Hass

We're not nearly as violent as the westerns.

— Moe Howard

America is much less violent than it was 20, 30 years ago, and immigration is much less a problem than it was not just…

— Barack Obama

“States are far less violent than traditional bands and tribes. Modern Western countries, even in their most war-torn centuries, suffered no more than around…

— Steven Pinker

The world is not violent. But there is a lot of violence in it.

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

The decline of violence isn't a steady inclined plane from an original state of maximal and universal bloodshed. Technology, ideology, and social and cultural…

— Steven Pinker

Our country is pathologically violent.

— Dee Rees

One of the main purveyors of violence in this world has been this country America.

— Danny Glover