The violence seems to be diminishing. They've stared into the abyss a bit. I think they've all concluded that further violence... is not in their interests.

The violence seems to be diminishing. They've stared into the abyss a bit. I think they've all concluded that further violence... is not in their interests.

That U.N. Security Council resolution requires getting Syrian troops and intelligence officials out of Lebanon so that the Lebanese can have elections here this spring that are free and fair and free of outside influence.

We've talked to the Europeans about it. It's clear if those negotiations fail, then we are agreed with the Europeans that the next step is to take the matter to the U.N. Security Council.

Initial reports are encouraging. In the end of the day, it's going to be deeds, not words, that matter.

Pakistan is both an ally in the war on terror, and in some sense, a battleground of the war on terror.

We hope and we've made clear that the forces need to come out. It needs to be full and complete withdrawal. Our position is it needs to be done as soon as possible so that the elections can be free, fair and free of outside influence.

I think it is very important for any U.S. administration to be clear that America stands on the side of freedom and democracy and respect for individual rights.

In a military operation, the command and control elements are a legitimate target.

Let's remember that the revolution in Tahrir Square was not anti-American, it was not anti-Israeli, it was for democracy and freedom. That's a good thing.

Pakistan is an old ally of the United States.

A fair observer only has to ask: If there is violence, who profits?

I wanted to make the violence beautiful in order to heighten our revulsion.

We shall not yield to violence. We shall not be deprived of union freedoms. We shall never agree with sending people to prison for their convictions.

I was grateful for the opportunity to make a difference. The political violence really started in 1970-1971. The political difficulties start a little bit beyond that.

Our job as writers and thinkers in the time is how to bring about the occasions that let people have that first-person experience - or the metaphoric experience that allows them to see human continuity as opposed to total threat, total willingness to do violence.

Kids shouldn't see all the violence they do these days. But the industry just doesn't care.

I found a religion that blended scientific reason with spiritual reality in a unifying faith far removed from the headlines of violence, destruction and terrorism.

The violence betwen women is unbelievable. Women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding.

Violence is for mugs. War is for mugs.

I think there's a natural system in your own head about how much violence the scene warrants. It's not an intellectual process, it's an instinctive process.

Violence is a tool of the ignorant.

I think movies glamorize violence, in the sense that they make it in a way that it's either cool or funny.

But transitions from the politics of violence to democratic compromise are always messy.

While the vast majority of hackers may be disinclined towards violence, it would only take a few to turn cyber terrorism into reality.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

The drop of rain maketh a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.

Random violence is incredibly infectious.

I think the suffering, violence and cruelty and Guantanamo and the rest is going to go on and on in Iraq.

Violence is always the last option, but if that time comes, it is the ONLY option.

God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it.

The problem to me is violence. It's not cool to kill somebody or hurt people.

Armageddon is not around the corner. This is only what the people of violence want us to believe. The complexity and diversity of the world is the hope for the future.

Education is the vaccine for violence.

My door will always be open to those who genuinely renounce violence and seek peaceful accommodation into our nascent democracy.

I've talked to law enforcement officials at the state and local level who say that violence against women is going up. In any case, we think that it's an important issue whether it's going up or not. And we are determined to stop it.

What will it profit this country if we... put our man on the Moon by 1970 and at the same time you can't walk down Woodward Avenue in this city without fear of some violence?

You know, 20 years... the films of television when it started, the literature, radio in communist countries, they're clean as a whistle; there was no violence, no sex, no drugs, nothing.

A majority of Americans oppose partial-birth abortion, and Judge Hamilton's decision flies in the face of Congress passing and President Bush signing legislation banning such horrible acts of violence.

Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.

Yes, he wanted me to do Funny Games before, which I didn't want to do because the film was very theoretical - the way people experience violence on screen. There was very little space for fiction, it was more like a sacrifice for the actors than anything else.

You just let your lower self go, and then it takes on all these aspects of the society - the city with horns blowing, the people yelling things at each other, and the all-in-all violence and chaos of the city. Put that on stage with music, and that's what this is.

One must do no violence to nature, nor model it in conformity to any blindly formed chimera.

War is an attempt of one group to impose its will upon another group by armed violence.

What postmodernism gives us instead is a multicultural defense for male violence - a defense for it wherever it is, which in effect is a pretty universal defense.

The more potent, unasked question is how society at large reacts to eager, voluntary violence by females, and to the growing evidence that women can be just as aggressive as men.

Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence. Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.

But, I don't know, the violence, I can't even talk about. We don't do a lot of violent shows. When I started in television, breaking a pencil was a violent act.

A lot of violence, a lot of gore in it, and I just didn't want to do that kind of thing.