Quotes About Violence

After he pulled the trigger, Bing sat with the old man and listened to the rain rattle off the roof of the garage, while John Partridge sprawled on the floor, one foot twitching and a urine stain spreading across the front of his pants. Bing had sat until his mother entered the garage and began to scream. Then it had been her turn—although not for the nail gun.

She's talking about cutting a bitch. She'd

today we found out what happens when a bad guy with a gun meets a good guy with a gun.

Oh, yeah," my dad said. "Check out Such Men Are Dangerous, the novel Block wrote as Paul Kavanagh. That book is less like a novel, more like getting mugged in an alley." Such Men Are Dangerous was the story of an ex-soldier who had done ugly things in the war and come home looking to do some ugly things right here. While it has been decades since I read it, I think my dad's assessment was roughly correct.

Book burners! I'll cut off your balls and rape your women!

It was entirely possible, she saw now, for them to have their cake and rape and murder it, too.

The rise of Western capitalism is rooted in the global seizing of the land, resources, and labor of people of color by violent means. Commercial and industrial capitalism develops over this era because of the expanding Atlantic system of slavery.

Shit, I could jerk you up from there, pop you like a whip. Pop you so hard your snatch will snap off and smack the wall." "So," Vanilla said. "How was charm school?

I didn't suspect the day Grandfather came out and got me and my sister, Lula, and hauled us off toward the ferry that I'd soon end up with worse things happening than had already come upon us or that I'd take up with a gun-shooting dwarf, the son of a slave, and a big angry hog, let alone find true love and kill someone, but that's exactly how it was.

McBride lo colpì con un pugno con tanta di quella forza che Jack credette di sentire le vite passate che smettevano di esistere;

Killing ain't no good thing, son, unless it's to eat or protect yourself. And you ought never to delight in it.

All it takes now for us to know all the gory details about some murder is for it to be horrible, or it to be a slow news week, and it's everywhere, even if it's some grocery clerk murder in Maine that hasn't a thing to do with us.

That first noggin shot I hit him so hard I bet his fuckin' dog back home shit a turd in the shape of a praying Jesus.

I guess. You think he'll get life, or a needle full of shit?" "I pray for the needle. I'd like to be there to push the plunger in the fucker, or maybe just forget the dope and jab him to death with the needle." "The thing that worries me about you, Leonard, is you have such a hard time getting in touch with your true feelings.

Why don't you just tell him what he wants to know?" "I do not like bullies. And I have never responded well to threats of force."She paused. "Also, I believe he will kill me anyway." "Why?" "Because that is what he does.

I would simply crush his windpipe so he could say no more offensive things to women.

When a man has been consistently battering his wife, he shouldn't expect a bouquet of roses from her the morning after he promises to stop.

Loretta threatened to beat him to death with a wooden spoon...

The serial murderer often seeks the very form of capital punishment that is being held over his head as a deterrent.

Revolutionary ideas may be wonderful, but revolutions are nasty. You can't cure a headache by cutting off the patients head.

No sheth an sary' (No herb shall heal like blood on the steel)

Join the Fleet, travel the galaxy, meet interesting new people and kill them.

I think it would be cool if we wore suits while we committed these violent acts of retribution. Not fancy suits. No. Cheap suits that we won't mind ruining. Then if we're caught by the police, well, think how amazing we'll look! All bloody and torn and grizzled. Plus, suits look official. They would add an air of credibility to our campaign of blood drenched disproportionate responses.

Halfway through the televised debate I kick my boot into the screen. Even on mute I can't stand it. It feels good to smash the TV, though. I feel like I'm participating in the political system.