Mark Zuckerberg

There are really two core principles at play here. There's giving people a voice so that people can express their opinions. Then, there's keeping the community safe, which I think is really important. We're not gonna let people plan violence or attack each other or do bad things.

American Businessman

Lil B

I don't support violence and I don't support negative energy. I don't support people putting other people down.

American Musician

Henri Nouwen

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Dutch Clergyman

Robert Aldrich

I don't think violence on film breeds violence in life. Violence in life breeds violence in films.

American Director

Nick Love

I do show violence as entertainment. Clearly, I'd be a liar if I said I didn't.

English Director

Muhammad Ali

I'm just hoping that people understand that Islam is peace and not violence.

American Boxer

Lucy McBath

It's the sad truth that gun violence can often be prevented.

American Politician

Wyclef Jean

All that violence in the world, we need to stop that.

Eve Ensler

I really want to help stop violence toward women.

American Playwright

Ryan Gosling

Canadian Actor

Refers specifically to physical harm inflicted intentionally between persons or directed at objects.

Physical Acts

Often used in news reports to describe crimes like assaults or robberies.

Crime Reporting

Used when discussing issues like bullying, gang wars, or family conflicts.

Social Problems

Describes the powerful and destructive nature of natural events like hurricanes or earthquakes.

Natural Forces

Indicates extreme and possibly destructive emotional expression or reaction.

Emotional Intensity

Can be used metaphorically, to describe actions or processes beyond literal force.

Metaphorical Use

Implies an ethical stance, labelling an action as unjust or excessive.

Moral Judgement

Often linked to discussions about social injustice, discrimination, or political oppression.

Oppression

In literature, it accentuates the impact of a scene or emotion on the reader or audience.

Literary Emphasis

May be used to describe art or media that purposefully seeks to disrupt or challenge.

Artistic Shock

 It got to the point where it started to change the character of the city. You could go to any housing project, for example, like the one that was down the street from my church, and you would walk in, and it would be like a ghost town, because the parents wouldn't allow their kids to come out and play, even in the summertime, because of the violence.

Jeffrey Brown: How we...

 Scientists think that crying and feeling withdrawn is what originally helped our ancestors secure social bonds and helped them get the support they needed. Sadness, as opposed to anger or violence, was an expression of suffering that could immediately bring people closer to the suffering person,

A brief history of...

 My work was to document the violence. As a photographer, I took thousands of images, and after two months, the two politicians came together, had a cup of tea, signed a peace agreement, and the country moved on. I was a very disturbed man because I saw the violence firsthand.

Boniface Mwangi: The day...

 because he wanted my dad to be a lawyer. And that's why I wanted to be a lawyer. I want to be like my dad. I wanted to help my family. People think that bandits don't have values. But my dad and uncle did. They have honor. Violence was the last step to resolve the problems,

The Rise of the Cali...

 membership in a particular social group, or political opinion, and is often related to war and violence. Today, roughly half the world's refugees are children, some of them unaccompanied by an adult, a situation that makes them especially vulnerable to child labor

What does it mean to be...

 who are living in neighborhoods where violence is an everyday problem, we're asking these kids to walk the thinnest possible line -- to basically never do anything wrong. Why are we not providing support to young kids facing these challenges?

Alice Goffman: How we're...

 you're at greater risk of being struck by lightning than ever being sent to jail for that crime. And so the epidemic of everyday violence, it just rages on. And it devastates our efforts to try to help billions of people

Gary Haugen: The hidden...

 time as soon as she's laid her eggs she'll die and all the males will be dead soon after their lives are lived only in the brief wet season the violence of their short lives hastens

Live Fast, Die Young:...

 the mother builds a tiny ocean. Outside are events of unimaginable violence. Whole new forms of life are being created only to be wiped away. Millions of years are flashing by.

Let's talk about sex -...

 my friends have died from violence disease or Shia hopelessness it was a tough life and I knew that my future prospect depends only on a place I was raised