logo

Quotes About Violence

Terror made me cruel; and finding it useless to attempt shaking the creature off, I pulled its wrist on to the broken pane, and rubbed it to and fro till the blood ran down and soaked the bedclothes...
~ Emily Bronte
Yaln?z ihanetle ÅŸiddet iki ucu sivri oklara benzer; kullananlar? düÅŸmanlar?ndan beter yaralarlar.
~ Emily Bronte
She wants to slap everyone today, to pick up the whole sweat-slick City and punch its lights out.
~ Emma Donoghue
Destruction and violence! How is the ordinary man to know that the most violent element in society is ignorance; that its power of destruction is the very thing Anarchism is combating? Nor is he aware that Anarchism, whose roots, as it were, are part of nature's forces, destroys, not healthful tissue, but parasitic growths that feed on the life's essence of society. It is merely clearing the soil from weeds and sagebrush, that it may eventually bear healthy fruit.
~ Emma Goldman
No es necesario tener mucha inteligencia para hallar detrás de cada guerra las mismas causas.
~ Emma Goldman
ANARCHISM:—The philosophy of a new social order based on liberty unrestricted by man-made law; the theory that all forms of government rest on violence, and are therefore wrong and harmful, as well as unnecessary.
~ Emma Goldman
The contention that a standing army and navy is the best security of peace is about as logical as the claim that the most peaceful citizen is he who goes about heavily armed.
~ Emma Goldman
For a number of years acts of violence had been committed in Spain, for which the Anarchists were held responsible, hounded like wild beasts, and thrown into prison. Later it was disclosed that the perpetrators of these acts were not Anarchists, but members of the police department. The scandal became so widespread that the conservative Spanish papers demanded the apprehension and punishment of the gang-leader, Juan Rull, who was subsequently condemned to death and executed.
~ Emma Goldman
Anarchism urges man to think, to investigate, to analyze every proposition; but that the brain capacity of the average reader be not taxed too much, I also shall begin with a definition, and then elaborate on the latter. ANARCHISM:—The philosophy of a new social order based on liberty unrestricted by man-made law; the theory that all forms of government rest on violence, and are therefore wrong and harmful, as well as unnecessary.
~ Emma Goldman
How is the ordinary man to know that the most violent element in society is ignorance
~ Emma Goldman
That every act of political violence should nowadays be attributed to Anarchists is not at all surprising. Yet it is a fact known to almost everyone familiar with the Anarchist movement that a great number of acts, for which Anarchists had to suffer, either originated with the capitalist press or were instigated, if not directly perpetrated, by the police.
~ Emma Goldman
Punching - 2 shillings Both eyes blacked - 4 shillings Nose and jaw broke - 10 shillings Jacked out (knocked out with a blackjack) - 15 shillings Ear chewed off - same as previous Leg or arm broke - 19 shillings Shot in leg - 25 shillings Stab - same as previous Doing the Big Job - 3 pounds and up
~ Eoin Colfer
Sometimes, Spiro missed the times when a troublesome worker would be thrown out a high window and that was the end of him. These days, if you threw someone out of a window, they'd phone their lawyer on the way down.
~ Eoin Colfer
Holmes, Moriarty, they both look the same with the flesh scorched off their skulls.
~ Eoin Colfer
He had seen bigger men than he with mummy's handkerchief clutched in on hand and a bloody dagger in the other.
~ Eoin Colfer
And surely the ultimate point of weapons training was to kill humans.
~ Eoin Colfer
Sometimes Spiro missed the times when a troublesome worker was thrown out of a high window and that was the end of him. These days, if you threw someone out of a window, they'd phone their lawyer on the way down.
~ Eoin Colfer
There're a couple of books that discuss this," Heath said to his friend. "On Killing [by Dave Grossman] is a good one. He writes about cops, and he discusses troops from the Civil War all the way up to now.
~ Eric Blehm
Genocide, after all, is an exercise in community-building. —Philip Gourevitch
~ Eric Bogosian
Tim: I shot my TV.
~ Eric Bogosian
Es cierto que los imperios se han construido a menudo con la ayuda de las armas, pero las armas no bastan para mantener el orden, como nos lo recuerda un viejo dicho que se remonta a los tiempos napoleónicos: «Puedes hacer lo que quieras con una bayoneta, salvo sentarte en ella».
~ Eric Hobsbawm
El mundo del tercer milenio seguirá siendo, muy probablemente, un mundo de violencia política y de cambios políticos violentos. Lo único que resulta inseguro es hacia dónde llevarán
~ Eric J. Hobsbawm
But sometimes living in denial was the only way to keep a man from going on a killing spree.
~ Eric Jerome Dickey
Kindness never won a war. The kind filled many graves.
~ Eric Jerome Dickey