City Violence Quotes

Gimmicks come and go; the cop show seems one genre that will never leave - not as long as people like to sit at home in the suburbs and see what awful things go on in the cities.

Unplanned urbanisation can create urban chaos and trigger urban violence.

During a single week of July 1967, 164 Americans were killed and 2100 were wounded in city riots in the United States. We are truly fighting a two-front war and doing badly in both. Each war feeds on the other and, although the President assures us that we have the resources to win both wars, in fact we are not winning either.

Cities are drivers of growth and wealth, and at the same time, cities are becoming increasingly violent.

The second mode to deal with unsafe cities is to take refuge in vehicles. This is the technique practiced in the big wild-animal reservations of Africa, where tourists are warned to leave their cars under no circumstances until they reach a lodge. It is also the technique practiced in Los Angeles.

A lot of people are scared to come visit my hometown, but to me, violence is everywhere, man.

If you grow up in the suburbs, you hear of people dying of old age, car wrecks, cancer. In the city, it's always people dying of violence or stray bullets.

Urbanisation, poverty, youth unemployment are leading to violence-prone cities.

The attacks on our police and the terrorism of our cities threaten our very way of life.

Big cities do evoke a sense of menace.

Neither of them could defend himself against assaults from an able bodied woman in the city.

I'm not a regionalist. Both places have their pros and cons. And the cultural differences are slighter than they are made out to be. L.A. riots, N.Y. shops. Both are good for stress relief.

Terror attacks in Mumbai have grown due to increase in the population of the north Indians in the city.

For the bookish, London is a book. For criminals, a map of opportunities. For unpapered immigrants, it is a nest of skinned eyes; sanctioned gunmen ready to blow your head off as you run for a train. When the city of distorting mirrors revealed itself, through its districts and discriminations, I discovered more about London's past as a reworking of my own submerged history.

The tumultuous populace of large cities are ever to be dreaded. Their indiscriminate violence prostrates for the time all public authority, and its consequences are sometimes extensive and terrible.

I've been to Delhi, Madras, Bangalore and a lot of other cities, but I have never seen a crime set-up like that in Bombay.

Paris by night is a nightmare now. It is not a cliche anymore.

Assassination is an art, milord. And I am the city's most accomplished artist.