Quotes About Violence

The individual is not a killer, but the group is, and by identifying with it the individual is transformed into a killer.

The Bible tells us, for instance, that there is going to be a cashless society. The Bible tells us that there is going to be global instability and excessive violence in the End Times.

My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.

It is absolutely beyond a shadow of a doubt that more firearms in a society actually cuts the amount of crime in that same society.

The answer to violence is the improvement of childhood.

Terrorism and deception are weapons not of the strong, but of the weak.

At the very center of our culture is a crucified man, a tortured man hanging on a cross of wood. You have an image of violence at the very center of our spiritual investigation.

I found a religion that blended scientific reason with spiritual reality in a unifying faith far removed from the headlines of violence, destruction and terrorism.

Violence, whether spiritual or physical, is a quest for identity and the meaningful. The less identity, the more violence.

The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.

Any violence which does not spring from a spiritual base, will be wavering and uncertain. It lacks the stability which can only rest in a fanatical outlook.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

Unlike any other sport, the objective in boxing is chillingly simple: One man purposefully endeavors to inflict bodily harm on another man.

Ray Lewis knifed through those offensive linemen like a sucker-punch switchblade slicing between the ribs of some inebriated trash-talking punk outside a sports bar.

I didn't beat her. I just pushed her out of bed.

When you see me smash somebody's skull, you enjoy it.

I don't like the human race in general. We are the only species who hunt for sport, who kill due to emotional need.

Love soothes wounds, while hatred and violence deepen them.

The sport [football] is simply more and more identified with violence, both in its inherent nature and in its savage personnel... [The National Football League] now needs a guardian, not a CEO.

We are going to have to do something about all this violence, or people are going to keep buying tickets.

Boxing has become America's tragic theater.

I had one fight in my adult life. I had the famous '89 fight with Nicole, which she admits that she initiated the physical part.

Some people who love boxing might love Mike Tyson, but people outside of the sport are generally repulsed by him and therefore, repulsed by the sport.

The baby sits in front of MTV watching violent fantasies, while Dad guzzles beer with his favorite sport only to find his heroes all coked up.