...there`s a difference between violence and senseless violence... this is not a movie about a serial killer just going around killing for no reason... for every reason that someone`s murdered in there, for every act of violence there`s a reason behind it... and you can see why, `Okay, that`s why he was shot... for this reason.` `Okay, he had to do that because of this.`... it`s not just killing for no reason. - on the controversy over his film "Belly" on excessive violence.
- DMXThis appears to be another senseless tragedy, but it was not random, ... knew who they were after.
- Bill BellI was holding out for a picture I could take my grandchildren to see, something exciting and contemporary without senseless violence. (On her role in Airport 1975 (1974))
- Gloria SwansonAnd I used to go the punk clubs such as a gay club in Poland Street that everyone would go to because it was the only place you could go to looking like that without getting beaten senseless.
- Gary NumanThis is a formidable enemy. To dismiss it as a bunch of `cowards` perpetuating `senseless acts of violence` is complacent nonsense. People willing to kill thousands of innocents while they kill themselves are not cowards. They are deadly vicious warriors and need to be treated as such.
- Charles KrauthammerWe want to express our heartfelt sympathy to the families of all the victims and to all the community for this senseless tragedy. Please say prayers for everyone touched by these terrible events.
- Eric HarrisWe don`t know what the motive of this act is at this time, ... This was a senseless murder. We have some ideas of what may have happened but we don`t want to speculate.
- Michael HuntOn July 18, we will mark the 12th anniversary of the senseless loss of 85 lives in the bombing of the Jewish Cultural Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- Tom LantosIt is too late to prevent the senseless and illegal shooting that took Victoria Cooper?s life, but we will have accomplished a lot if this case helps save the life of somebody else?s mother, daughter or sister,
- David RosenHe was just such a good guy and he would give you the shirt off his back, it didn`t matter, it didn`t matter, it`s such a senseless killing. Why did it have to happen to him? It shouldn`t have happened to him.
- Jack TaylorOur hearts and deepest sympathies go out to the families affected by this tragedy. We are stunned by this senseless act of violence, which has taken a great man and friend of our family.
- Mark YoungSo I suppose poetry, language, the shaping of it, was and remains for me an effort to make sense out of essentially senseless situations.
- Thomas LynchI had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals.
- Alex KrollI had grown up in a humanist atmosphere, and war to me was never anything but horror, mutilation and senseless destruction, and I knew that many great and wise people felt the same way about it.
- Alex Lopez NegreteMany later commented on the fact that large numbers of those engaged in the most senseless acts of destruction were left well alone by cops, indeed people dressed as Black Block members were seen freely making their way across police lines and talking to cops.
- Alicia MolikPerhaps the strongest evidence that women have as broad and deep a capacity for physical aggression as men is anecdotal. And as with men, this capacity has expressed itself in acts from the brave to the brutal, the selfless to the senseless.
- Allen LeeWe`ve been totally open about all this. We`ve really followed the rules here, and it`s senseless why they should target us.
- Andrew William MellonIt was a senseless crime. My baby had the potential to be a physician -- a healer. We pray that out of her death, there will be healing for this community.
- Anthony Veliz(Seattle Mayor Paul Schell referred to the incident as) a senseless act of violence. ... horrible tragedy.
- Auguste PreaultHeroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!
- Albert EinsteinHeroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -how passionately I hate them!
- Albert EinsteinPractice random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty.
- Anne Herbert