Quotes About Violence

Propaganda is to a democracy what violence is to a dictatorship.

American violence is public life, it's a public way of life, it became a form, a detective story form. So I should think that any number of black writers should go into the detective story form.

Mixed Martial Arts is a dangerous practice that could result in injuries and loss of life.

Violence ravaged my life. I was a victim of hatred, and I have dedicated my life to reversing that hatred.

If anything in this life is certain...if history has taught us anything, it's that you cn kill anyone.

The potential beauty of human life is constantly made ugly by man's ever-recurring song of retaliation.

If a felon attacks you and lives, he will reasonably conclude that he can do it again. By submitting to him, you not only imperil your own life, but you jeopardize the lives of others.

There's no more personal issue than gun violence; every one of these stories is a life lost, i'm hoping that over the long term, as I tell these stories, that it will help to open people's eyes.

I loved the Godfather. I thought that was the best interpretation of our life that Ive ever seen. Godfather I and Godfather II - the other one stunk.

... protection of life is NOT a legitimate use for a firearm in this country sir! Not! That is expressly ruled out!

Conflicts and factions, violence and upheavals are caused by the neglect of human values in daily life.

All through my school life I was appalled by the fact that masters and senior boys were allowed quite literally to wound other boys, and sometimes very severely.

There's a hollowness to civilized life. It doesn't appeal to people, and some people react with extreme violence.

Bright colors don't exist in the ghetto, except for the yellow stars and puddles of red blood that we carefully step around.

She has no taste left to her and this makes it easier for me. The color of her where she is inside is enough to make me kill her.

If it is hot enough to barbecue," a patient of mine once told me as I sutured the knife wounds on his chest, "it's hot enough to stab someone.

Only once was this not an option. A girlfriend had been pinned against the wall by a wiry, tattooed man whose speech was slurred by a combination of drink and being from Glasgow.

I'm so much more scared of white guys than black guys. Like an angry black guys would pull out a gun and be like 'Yo, I'm coming back with my cousins and we're gonna funck you up' and a white guy would be like just 'BANG'!

My most favorite weapon is a chainsaw!

American democracy with its lofty ideals maintains its dominion because it wields the biggest military in the history of the planet, with enough firepower to destroy all of humanity—even without the use of nuclear weapons. While most of the population sits at home, taking this for granted—myself included—warriors bearing the United States flag stalk the jungles, deserts, and dangerous places of the world, doing the exact same thing I've just done. Vengeance.

Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.

The theologian Paul Tillich wrote that "loneliness can be conquered only by those who can bear solitude." Because the borderline finds solitude so difficult to tolerate, she is trapped in a relentless metaphysical loneliness from which the the only relief comes from of the physical presence of others. So she will often rush to singles bars or with crowded haunts, often with disappointing--or even violent--results.

Borderline rage is often terrifying in its unpredictability and intensity. It may be sparked by relatively insignificant events and explode without warning. It may be directed at previously valued people. The threat of violence frequently accompanies this anger. All of these features make borderline rage much different from typical anger. In

Perhaps we have become self-righteous about our Christian lives because we look at society around us and see flagrant immorality, pervasive dishonesty, wholesale greed, and increasing violence. We see growing acceptance of abortion as a "right" and homosexuality as an acceptable alternate lifestyle. Because we are not guilty of these more gross forms of sin, we can begin to feel rather good about our Christian lives. When