Quotes About Violence

Violence, it's as American as pizza pie.

Guns don't kill people; people kill people. Of course, people with guns kill more people. But that's only natural. It's hard. But it's fair.

The industrial way of life leads to the industrial way of death. From Shiloh to Dachau, from Antietam to Stalingrad, from Hiroshima to Vietnam and Afghanistan, the great specialty of industry and technology has been the mass production of human corpses.

The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.

A crowded society is a restrictive society; an overcrowded society becomes an authoritarian, repressive and murderous society.

What's more American than violence?" Hayduke wanted to know. "Violence, it's as American as pizza pie.

I hate and fear violence myself, have always avoided barroom brawls, and tho' I'm a bit of a gun-nut, and a member of the NRA, I never shoot at anything but beer cans and mule deer. (In season.) And seldom hit either, except by accident.

What's more American than violence?" Hayduke wanted to know. "Violence, it's as American as pizza pie.

I'm a humanist; I'd rather kill a man than a snake.

What are you in for, Rev'rend, anyway? Me, son? My body's here but the spirit's free as a bluebird. Okay, then why is your body here? Well now, the Judge he calls it assault. I done hit a man and he falls down. Didn't hit him hard but he falls down like a log. Maybe he wasn't standin very good.

As for the comparatively small class of violent crimes against persons, unconnected with any idea of gain, they were almost wholly confined, even in your day, to the ignorant and bestial; and in these days, when education and good manners are not the monopoly of a few, but universal, such atrocities are scarcely ever heard of.

Your law always does more harm than crime, and your morality is a form of violence.

O burn the house! You've murdered the husband, slaughtered the cattle, poisoned the well, raped the mother, killed the child - you must burn the house! You're soldiers - you must do your duty ... O burn the house! Burn the house! Burn the house!

The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose.

High sticking, tripping, slashing, spearing, charging, hooking, fighting, unsportsmanlike conduct, interference, roughing... everything else is just figure skating.

Blessings are upon the head of the just: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.The memory of the just is blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot.

All they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.

And when they are in their cups, they forget their love both to friends and brethren, and a little after draw out swords.

People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs.

Give me here John Baptist's head in a charger.

Then Jael, Heber's wife, took a nail of the tent, and took an hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him [Sisera], and smote the nail into his temples, and fastened it into the ground; for he was fast asleep, and weary: so he died.

If you shoot one person you are a murderer. If you kill a couple persons you are a gangster. If you are a crazy statesman and send millions to their deaths you are a hero.

Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.

Without shedding of blood is no remission.