Quotes About Violence

She went to get the revolver, which had long since been loaded by a most considerate Providence, and when she held it in her hand, weighty as a phallus in action, she realised she was big with murder, pregnant with a corpse.

Je vais te dire le secret; c'est tout sucré, comme un mort. « II y a trop de sang, autour de nous. « Il y a dix trous, il y a cent trous, dans des chairs, dans du bois vivant, par où le sang et la sève coulent sur le monde comme une Durance. « Il y a cent trous, il y a mille trous que nous avons faits, nous, avec nos mains.

But many people do not fully realize that there are terrible consequences when people becoming things. Self-image is deeply affected. The self-esteem of girls plummets as they reach adolescence partly because they cannot possibly escape the message that their bodies are objects, and imperfect objects at that. Boys learn that masculinity requires a kind of ruthlessness, even brutality. Violence becomes inevitable.

Yo siento que, en lo más hondo de la conciencia colectiva, se está fraguando un tercer movimiento que va cobrando ímpetu. Puede que se convierta en "el movimiento de las mujeres por la paz" esta tercera vez; su meta: detener la violencia mediante la participación de las mujeres en su prevención, en la resolución de conflictos y en la restauración de la paz. La

Así, desde septiembre de 2001, en Estados Unidos ha habido 200.000 homicidios, de los que únicamente 50 fueron perpetrados por terroristas islámicos estadounidenses[7]; lo que no impide que los actos terroristas se graben en nuestra mente.

Every day there were reports of women being raped or mutilated, sometimes even in their own homes. Nothing was done to prevent it on account of the governments being mostly men.

He had never hit a woman in his life, but there were some women who asked for it.

You offered them physical violence, didn't you? At an age when they were too young to defend themselves. At least in the past women had a chance to fight back, if they'd cared to take it—these poor fools don't! You seem to have maimed their brains as well as their bodies!

To be lonely is to feel unwanted and unloved, and therefor unloveable. Loneliness is a taste of death. No wonder some people who are desperately lonely lose themselves in mental illness or violence to forget the inner pain.

Every act of violence is also a message that needs to be understood. (23-24)

I believe every act of violence is also a message that needs to be understood. Violence should not be answered just by greater violence but by real understanding. We must ask: 'Where is the violence coming from? What is its meaning?

A society which discards those who are weak and non-productive risks exaggerating the development of reason, organisation, aggression and the desire to dominate. It becomes a society without a heart, without kindness - a rational and sad society, lacking celebration, divided within itself and given to competition, rivalry and, finally, violence.

Her screams were not only a sign of her inner brokenness, darkness, and anguish but also a cry for help. Difficult as it is for us to accept and come to terms with this idea, I believe that every act of violence is also a message that needs to be understood. Violence should not be answered just by greater violence but by real understanding. We must ask: where is the violence coming from? What is its meaning?

Guns are like thermometers, only instead of measuring body temperatures they measure our fear.

Souvenons-nous de ce temps, pas révolu, où toute explosion de violence était considérée comme une contre-violence, une réponse à la violence exercée plus ou moins ouvertement par l'État, par la société, les institutions, l'ordre établi. La folie des soeurs Papin, toute folie peut-être, serait-elle la forme extrême et désespérée de la révolte?

she looked ageless, with an appearance of intense hardness and ever-present violence.

La guerre civile, c'est exactement ça : le triomphe des salauds. On les voit sortir de partout. On s'étonne même qu'il y en ait autant et qu'on ne les remarque pas plus d'habitude.

Les guerres sont toujours une providence pour les criminels. La violence tout à coup devient sainte ; pourvu qu'ils sachent mimer la dévotion, au moins en paroles, licence leur est donnée par un Dieu d'accomplir les infamies dont ils ont longtemps rêvé. (Partie IV Sienne, Ch. 3)

Il y a toujours chez les hommes de guerre quelque chose de direct qu'ils tiennent peut-être de leur habitude de donner la mort. Il faut, pour frapper quelqu'un, même au combat, se libérer d'un poids de civilisation qui enferme la plupart d'entre nous dans la fausseté et une douceur forcée.

Outside, it still smelled bad. I couldn't do anything about that. Neither could anyone. It was called life: a cocktail of love and hate, strength and weakness, violence and passivity.

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.

If the pain and destruction wasn't a kind of creation, too: the violence of birth, that kind of idea.

Ask me if I sparkle and I'll kill you where you stand." (Bones)

No one can stay in a brutal, bloodstained place.