Quotes About Violence

Alex felt the bullets pass over his shoulder and heard a scream as one of the other guards was hit. Well, that made one less anyway!

You know, they say in America that the average child sees eight thousand murders before they leave elementary school. Makes you think, doesn't it.

There are a lot of people who don't like a lot of people but they don't go around the place murdering them.

And I can absolutely see her beating someone to death because she was annoyed with them. Mind you, she'd probably torture them first by reading them one of her poems.

I mean, that number on the wall for a start! What sort of person bludgeons someone to death and then wastes time painting cryptic messages for the police to find?

he was going to kick someone down a flight of stairs, of course it would be a paedophile. It reminded me of his behaviour when we had visited Raymond Clunes.

them cradling automatic machine guns. Mrs. Stellenbosch

It's been shut down now, part of a brilliant scheme to close half of London's police stations and reduce uniformed officers on the street that has seen a surge in knife crime and made it impossible to use a mobile phone without the risk of it being snatched by thieves on motorbikes.

in America that the average child sees eight thousand murders before they leave elementary school.

Emotions which are quickly lost in the noise and chaos of the city fester around the village square, driving people to psychosis and violence.

I want to know when we arrive in international waters because that is when I intend to shoot you and dump you over the side." The Salesman smiled.

It's the Culture, Stupid!" January 21, 2013 Anthony Marsella, Ph.D. — TRANSCEND Media Service A "Trickle Down" Analogy of the USA's "Culture of Violence" "It's the . . .

From: Marsella, A.J. (2011). The United States of America: "A Culture of War." International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 35, 714–728

A cultural ecology of violence!

The Omnipresence of Violence Violence abounds in American society, touching everyone's life as victim, perpetrator, or anxious observer and witness of the endless violent acts committed locally, nationally, and internationally.

Our Constitution provides the fundamental right to freedom of speech and expression and it also enjoins upon citizens the duty to safeguard public property and to abjure violence.

In war, it feels like everything you're doing is more important because you're in the proximity of violence and death, and that proximity changes your relationship to America because it changes the way you see the world.

I think that there's something in the American psyche, it's almost this kind of right or privilege, this sense of entitlement, to resolve our conflicts with violence. There's an arrogance to that concept if you think about it. To actually have to sit down and talk, to listen, to compromise, that's hard work.

There is no psychiatric pattern which can predict who becomes an extremist - but they are all frustrated with their reality.

I don't understand if you get caught in a fight, but take it out on a room, how that implies some psychiatric disorder.

One of the reasons why Gadafy's dictatorship has managed to remain in power for so long is not just because it has shown itself to be able to exact a great deal of violence, both psychological and physical, on its people, but because it has been very successful at imposing a narrative, a story.

The worst violence we can do to each other often is psychological, especially in families. I dwell a lot on domestic danger. That's the backdrop of most of my novels - what kind of damage is done without ever lifting a finger.

I love those sorts of stories where you actually see the consequences of what violence does physically to people as well as psychologically.

Public crucifixion is no fun.