Quotes About Violence

If a messiah exhorts you to kill people of another belief system, get this idiot non-prophet out of your stupid system.

Violence is a cleansing force. It frees the native from his inferiority complex and from his despair and inaction; it makes him fearless and restores his self-respect

Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?

Brutality creates respect.

What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?

I do have an intense respect for pacifists, because I believe that ultimately, if we are to have a truly humanistic as well as libertarian society, violence will have to be banished on this planet.

One effect of an individualistic culture that's poor at instilling mutual respect is that people jump more quickly to anger or violence.

The solution to our energy needs must go through a show of respect for nature, not, once again, a policy that does violence to our hills.

I really like romantic comedies and light movies and everything but I think - I don't know where it comes from - but when you're doing violent movies, you're closer to reality.

We remain in the Romantic cycle initiated by Rousseau: liberal idealism canceled by violence, barbarism, disillusionment and cynicism.

There is nothing glamorous or romantic about war. It's mostly about random pointless death and misery.

I know that the battle scenes, as well, are quite gory and quite strong. Battle was romantic, but it was far from being easy. It's nice, in both respects, to have that color and contrast.

Meanwhile, some people are dying of sad laughter at the absurdity of man, who kills so easily and so violently, and once a year sends out cards praying for "Peace on Earth."

Not only will America go to your country and kill all your people. But they'll come back 20 years later and make a movie about how killing your people made their soldiers feel sad.

It sounds cool to say you are going to fight with a pen not a sword but violence with words is still violence ..

Even the wisest man grows tense/with some sort of violence/before he can accomplish fate,/know his work or choose his mate.

Il diametro della bomba era di trenta centimetri e il diametro del suo raggio d'azione era di circa sette metri, con quattro morti e undici feriti... E non parliamo nemmeno del pianto degli orfani che si leva fino al trono di Dio e ben oltre, creando un creando un cerchio senza fine e senza Dio.

We have long become overgrown with calluses; we no longer hear people being killed. ("X")

With his head thrust forward like a ram, Baryba pushed his way through to the front. For some reason this was necessary, he felt with all his guts that it was necessary. He clenched his iron jaws. Something bestial stirred in him, something he hungered for, some murderous instinct. To be with everybody, to howl like everybody, to hit the one that everybody else was hitting. ("A Provincial Tale")

Here I saw, with my own eyes, that laughter was the most terrible weapon: you can kill anything with laughter - even murder itself.

No Arab ruler will consider the peace process seriously so long as he is able to toy with the idea of achieving more by the way of violence.

We are destined to live together, on the same soil in the same land. We, the soldiers who have returned from battle stained with blood, we who have seen our relatives and friends killed before our eyes, we who have attended their funerals and cannot look into the eyes of their parents, we who have come from a land where parents bury their children, we who have fought against you, the Palestinians. We say to you today in a loud and clear voice: Enough of blood and tears. Enough.

When you go to war, both sides lose totally.

Sabías que México ocupa el primer lugar dentro de la OCDE en violencia física, abuso sexual y maltrato a menores de 14 años? ¡Qué lástima que en esto sí nos ganemos el primer lugar!