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Quotes About Violence

Em todos os cantos os soldados topavam com japoneses imobilizados por cordas, sendo brutalmente espancados
~ Fernando Morais
As principais personalidades de Tupã pedem ao governo: campo de concentração e pena de morte para os japoneses.
~ Fernando Morais
I've always considered violence, of any type, a particularly cock-eyed example of human stupidity.
~ Fernando Pessoa
We were born into a world that has suffered from a century and a half of renunciation and violence – the renunciation of superior men and the violence of inferior men, which is their victory.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Our age not only does not have a very sharp eye for the almost imperceptible intrusions of grace, it no longer has much feeling for the nature of the violences which precede and follow them.
~ Flannery O'Connor
Listen, lady, he said in a high voice, if I had of been there I would of known and I wouldn't be like I am now. His voice seemed about to crack and the grandmother's head cleared for an instant. She saw the man's face twisted close to her own as if he were going to cry and she murmured, Why you're one of my babies. You're one of my own children! She reached out and touched him on the shoulder. The Misfit sprang back as if a snake had bitten him and shot her three times through the chest.
~ Flannery O'Connor
She would of been a good woman," The Misfit said, "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life.
~ Flannery O'Connor
She would have been a good woman if there had been somebody to shoot her every day of her life.
~ Flannery O'Connor
She would have been a good woman," the Misfit said, "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life
~ Flannery O'Connor
Over and over again, I looked family members who had lost loved ones to police violence, I looked them right in the eye and told them, 'Don't worry. We will get justice for your family.'
~ Shaun King
I don't say for a moment that the far right is no longer a problem. We have seen the neo-Nazi nutters in Charlottesville in America.
~ Andrew Neil
If 'Fargo' is about anything, it's American madness.
~ Steve Erickson
People are just fascinated by assassinations.
~ Louis Stokes
Nobody's born evil. I guess that's why we're drawn to violence. We're fascinated by it, but there's a moral in how you examine it.
~ Niels Arden Oplev
If you still want to kill him, do me a favor and take him outside. Those are new sheets.
~ Blake Edwards
I'm not sure that the problem of violence in society can be put at the feet of the entertainment industry.
~ Ivana Milicevic
I remember integrating the all-white Yazoo City High School after my Black school closed its doors. Teachers sprayed me with fire extinguishers, and I carried a stick to fend off attacks from fellow students.
~ Mike Espy
I really admire Ana Mendieta. She was a Cuban American artist who died the year I was born and whose work examines violence, feminism, and belonging. Her art is always brave and visually arresting and vibrates with meaning.
~ Emma Healey
I half-punched a paparazzo once. I've hit a few people.
~ Sienna Miller
I've been trying to understand conflict and violence ever since I was a kid. You know. There were a few things that happened even on my block - the Black Panthers used to be right around the corner from where we were.
~ Forest Whitaker
Eliminating fighting would mean eliminating the jobs of the 'fighters,' meaning these guys would not have NHL careers.
~ Gary Bettman
MMA was built on exciting fighters where people try to end each other.
~ Quinton Jackson
It makes sense for people who are good at fighting to go out and do it-because if they're good at it, that means the fewest number of other people die.
~ Mercedes Lackey
I don't like any sport except boxing and bull fighting.
~ David Bailey