Quotes About Violence

Now get the fuck up off the ground so I can put you in it... like a coffin. Because you'll be fucking dead after I kill you, you fucking asshole.

As the Lady from Borneo digs out his eyeball, the thing eventually uncorks from its socket.

Well, Thomas if you're not going to help, why'd you come down here (Andrea)? So I could cut off your head.

I said you were a fucking monster! Look at what you made me do! Just fucking look! She was carrying a baby! A BABY! You made me kill a fucking BABY!

He's dead Tyreese, you killed him. Dear god, man you killed him. Yeah, leave me, he'll be coming back soon, and I'm going to kill him again. Slower this time.

You appear to be a mass of contradictions, Dr Washburn said. There's a subsurface violence almost always in control, but very much alive. There's also a pensiveness that seems painful for you, yet you rarely give vent to the anger that pain must provoke.

You appear to be a mass of contradictions; there's a subsurface violence almost always in control, but very much alive.

Did not the Christians incessantly talk about walking into the arms of Christ for the causes of Christ, calling for wars in his name?

Starting with a 1979 study, low levels of serotonin in the brain were shown to be associated with elevated levels of human aggression, with end points ranging from psychological measures of hostility to overt violence.

Did destruction of the human amygdala lessen aggression? Pretty clearly so, when violence was a reflexive, inchoate outburst preceding a seizure.

I think like an academic egghead, believing that if I write enough paragraphs about a scary subject, give enough lectures about it, it will give up and go away quietly. And if everyone took enough classes about the biology of violence and studied hard, we'd all be able to take a nap between the snoozing lion and lamb. Such is the delusional sense of efficacy of a professor.

It is the ambiguity of violence, that we can pull a trigger as an act of hideous aggression or of self-sacrificing love, that is so challenging.

The explains why basal levels of testosterone have little to do with subsequent aggression, and why increases in testosterone due to puberty, sexual stimulation, or the start of mating season don't increase aggression either.

In our world riddled with male violence, the problem isn't that testosterone can increase levels of aggression. The problem is the frequency with which we reward aggression.

Amazingly, prison sentences for murderers have now been lessened in at least two cases because it was argued that the criminal, having the "warrior gene" variant of MAO-A, was inevitably fated to be uncontrollably violent. OMG.

Roughly half a million people died in the Roman Colosseum to supply audiences of tens of thousands the pleasure of watching captives raped, dismembered, tortured, eaten by animals.

Testosterone makes us more willing to do what it takes to attain and maintain status. And the key point is what it takes. Engineer social circumstances right, and boosting testosterone levels during a challenge would make people compete like crazy to do the most acts of random kindness. In our world riddled with male violence, the problem isn't that testosterone can increase levels of aggression. The problem is the frequency with which we reward aggression.

religious wars, which are, to cite a quote generally attributed to Napoleon, "people killing each other over who has the better imaginary friend

We resort to violence because, after much long and futile talk, the simplicity of violence is an immense relief. People band together in organizations because obedience to orders enables them to do things they have long been incapable of doing out of personal conviction, and the hostility between organizations allows them to engage in the unending reciprocity of blood feuds, while love would all too soon put everyone sleep.

On her way back she thought she noticed that everything in the world was secretly contrived for beatings. It was just a thought that went through her mind. Parents their child. The state its convicts. The military its soldiers. The rich the poor. The coachman his horse. People went walking with big dogs on leashes. Everyone would rather intimidate another person than come to an understanding with him.

She cleared them out, and fast. The car went off down the gravel road with the springs flat on the rear axle and human flesh oozing out the windows, then the evening quiet descended upon us.

He now knew that war was not at all like culling deer, and the last one, with the man so close, had been the worst. The shock on the enemy's face as the arrow halted his run would haunt him always. Robert Reid – White Light Red Fire

Testosterone makes us more willing to do what it takes to attain and maintain status...In our world riddled with male violence, the problem isn't that testosterone can increase levels of aggression. The problem is the frequency with which we reward aggression.

War was a hellish, horrible hideous thing - too horrible and hideous to happen in the twentieth century between civilised nations.