Quotes About Violence

Congress should fund research on the effects that violent video games have on young minds... We don't benefit from ignorance. We don't benefit from not knowing the science.

Anything crime related and anything excessively bloody and violent, my brain immediately goes to the science. I think about, "How did you do this? How can we catch you?"

Science leads you to killing people.

It might be said that all knowledge is linked to the essential forms of cruelty.

We were born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and the apes were armed killers besides. And so what shall we wonder at? Our murders and massacres and missiles, and our irreconcilable regiments?

Nature, red in tooth and claw.

I marched and I protested against the war in Vietnam, along with many, many thousands of others. But I never quite understood the bombs that were placed in science labs or office buildings.

Killing one man is murder. Killing millions is a statistic

Modern Humans have at least dealt out death fairly: We began our existence by killing each other.

I sort of liked the sound of bones breaking. It was like home.

... You have to pull the feet to break the neck. They let the loved ones do it.

Every dead body that is not exterminated, gets up and kills. The people it kills, get up and kill!

It took me a beat down to execute you Angel but the pleasure will be all mines! - Warden Pinnacle From the book Framed: The Second Book Of The Thousand Years War.

If the only option you leave poor people with is to resort to violence in order to survive, they'll do just that. And there are lots more poor people in this world than there are rich ones.

It's a violent galaxy filled with cutthroat pirates, cyber-mercenaries and star messiahs. If peace comes, it will have to steal in like a thief.

People have been murdered over cartoons. End of moral analysis.

You accomplish more with a smile, a handshake, and a gun than you do with just a smile and a handshake.

These days I smile benignly at the fights that I see in NBA games. There aren't any broken noses or black eyes, which happened quite often when I played.

"I forgot that's what gets you all hot and bothered, Jace, girls killing things." "I like anyone killing things, especially me." he said with a smile.

I dreamed kind Jesus fouled the big-gun gears; and caused a permanent stoppage in all bolts; and buckled with a smile Mausers and Colts; and rusted every bayonet with His tears.

Only education is capable of saving our societies from possible collapse, whether violent, or gradual.

Life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.

It is clear that the way to heal society of its violence . . . and lack of love is to replace the pyramid of domination with the circle of equality and respect.