Quotes About Violence

It's an odd feeling, knowing someone is trying to kill you. On the front line, you learn quickly that if you're in the path of a bullet, you will get hit.

Have you ever thought that war is a madhouse and that everyone in the war is a patient?

All over the world, young males and females, schooled in the art of patriarchal thinking, are building an identity on a foundation that sees the will to do violence as the essential way to assert being.

Michael Brown happened to be black. Trayvon Martin happened to be black. Eric Garner was a black man. So this pattern continues over and over.

We still have a strong commitment to our original mission, which is to protect and assist people who are suffering from the impact of violence, but the violence has changed its character, format, and pattern so that we are now responding year after year.

Paul Verhoeven is one of my favourite directors. I love his ability to mash extreme violence with humour and satire.

It's easy to see why 'American Horror' is freaking people out. The ultraviolent hallucinations never pause long enough to make sense. In terms of coherence, it makes your average David Lynch movie look like 'Burn Notice.'

You don't kill your way to peace.

Who is against democracy? Is it the one who calls for peaceful resistance, or the one who bombs people, sheds their blood and leads them away from the leaders under feeble and dirty pretexts?

You don't have a peaceful revolution. You don't have a turn-the-cheek revolution. There's no such thing as a nonviolent revolution.

Displays of force in response to mostly peaceful demonstrations can be counterproductive.

When people don't have a hopeful vision before them or the possible resolution of their difficulties by peaceful means, then they can be attracted to violence and to separatism.

Indiscriminate attacks on civilians ought, under all circumstances, to be illegal in war as in peacetime.

We as Americans believe it's OK to kill people. We believe it's OK to invade a country that had nothing to do with 9/11. We think it's OK to invade a country where we think Osama Bin Laden is and he's in the other country. So we just go in and we just kill. And we have the death penalty; we sanction it.

Those who use the term 'alt-left' consistently point to violence from the left, often by anti-fascists - both perceived and real.

Crime is a subject that needs to be looked at in-depth since the percentage is on the rise.

I think 'Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned' might be a perfect book.

Serial killers are everywhere! Well, perhaps not in our neighborhood, but on our television screens, at the movie theatres, and in rows and rows of books at our local Borders or Barnes and Noble Booksellers.

The accepted definition of a serial killer is a person who kills at least three times with a cooling off period in between his murders.

I cannot belong to a nation which permits such barbarities as stoning to death and amputation - I don't care what religion it is.

Los asesinos de Siria son tanto los descendientes de los sicarios judíos como los antepasados de los terroristas suicidas del Hezbollah.

Custom is the lord of everything, of mortals and immortals king. High violence it justifies, with hand uplifted plundering.

Forse il destino della penisola si può racchiudere nel suo stesso nome: Yucatán deriva dalle parole maya ciu-tan , e significa "noi non vi capiamo". Era la frase più sentita dagli spagnoli, che anche qui erano venuti in cerca di oro senza trovarne nemmeno un'oncia, e alla loro reazione violenta gli indios avevano solo il tempo di dire "non riusciamo a comprendervi".

When I was twenty they told me to swear loyalty to the King, a person who acts in the capacity because his father and grandfather did the same before him. I took the oath because they forced my to, otherwise I wouldn't have done it. Then they sent me to kill people I didn't know who were dressed rather like I was. One day they said to me: "Look, there's one of your enemies, fire at him," and I fired, but missed. But he fired and wounded me. I don't know why they said it was a glorious wound.