Quotes About Violence

I support peaceful protests and the rule of law, and denounce all acts of violence.

The world has proved enough times that it can scale cruelty and violence. Compassion and kindness can and must be scaled to create a world of justice for children.

Again, where the people are absolute rulers of the land, they rejoice in having the openness and exuberance of youth, while a tyrant counts this a danger, and seeks to slay or silence those possessed of spirit, while the discreet fear his power and violence.

They did attack our herds: you could have seen a woman pull a calf to pieces as it bellowed alive in her bare hands!

Bloodthirsty bitches

Would ye be wise, ye Cities, fly from war!

IOL. O ye who have dwelt in Athens a long time, defend us; for, being suppliants of Jove, the Presider over the Forum, [3] we are treated with violence, and our garlands are profaned, both a reproach to the city, and an insult to the Gods.

Such things accursed war brings in its train

Asking clients, 'Is there someone in your life making you afraid? or 'Controlling what you do or say?' promises an even more profound awakening than asking women about violence.

Evan Stark pointed out that there is no incompatibility between hate and love: the two coexist in relationships all the time. So do violence and love, as strange and awful as it may seem.

They kill hundreds of people, those pilots. I would have loved to have flown the plane that dropped the bomb on Japan. A couple of dudes killed hundreds of thousands. That f****** rules! Yeah!

She looks to be about three, the same age as his daughter at home in California...the girl's eyes are open. She seems to be cowering...Graves reaches in to pick her up- thinking about what medical supplies he might need to treat her...when the top of her head slides off and her brains fall out.

When you rape, beat, maim, mutilate, burn, bury, and terrorize women, you destroy the essential life energy on the planet.

I think of the security of cages. How violence, cruelty, oppression, become a kind of home, a familiar pattern, a cage, in which we know how to operate and define ourselves…

To the American, English writers are like prim spinsters fidgeting with the china, punctilious about good taste, and inwardly full of thwarted, tepid and perverse passions. We see the Americans as gushing adolescents, repetitive and slangy, rather nasty sometimes in their zest for violence and bad language.

I want to die violently instead of fading out sentimentally.

Suddenly he felt an overwhelming desire to let himself go to the devil -- not to go violently as a gentleman should, but to slip safely and sensuously out of sight.

Eisenhower spoke in language that few left-wing peaceniks would dare to employ today. "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed

terrorism is the weapon of the weak

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed," he said.

War and organized violence have declined dramatically over the last two decades.

Harvard's polymath professor Steven Pinker argues "that today we are probably living in the most peaceful time in our species' existence.

Pedir perdón exige más valentía que disparar un arma, que accionar una bomba.

Les meten malas ideas, y como son jóvenes, caen en la trampa. Luego se creen unos héroes porque llevan pistola. Y no se dan cuenta de que, a cambio de nada, porque al final no hay más premio que la cárcel o la tumba, han dejado el trabajo, la familia y los amigos. Lo han dejado todo para hacer lo que les mandan cuatro aprovechados. Y para romperles la vida a otras personas, dejando viudas y huérfanos por las esquinas.