Quotes About Violence

Según sus informes, más de cien mil personas fueron muertas por miembros del ejército guatemalteco entre 1960 y 1996, y unas diez mil por miembros de los varios grupos guerrilleros en el mismo periodo».

Es la cultura responsable de la violencia y la corrupción que dominan a los hombres? ¿O hay un mal congénito impreso en la naturaleza misma del hombre?

Es posible que ello ocurra, pues es evidente que la corrupción también está en las propias filas de Morena, que la amnistía pensada para abatir la violencia es un espejismo, que la pobreza no se liquida si no hay desarrollo económico

Trusting in God, the psalmist resolves that the plain way of righteousness shall be his choice, even if others may prefer the sinful paths of violence and deceit. Still he does not speak proudly nor proclaim his own strength, for he cries for redemption and pleads for mercy.

Albuquerque practiced the intimidatory tactics that had made the Franks so feared along the coast of India. Passing vessels were captured and ransacked for provisions. The unfortunate crews had their hands, noses, and ears cut off and were put ashore to announce the terror and majesty of Portugal. The ships were then burned.

Mustapha then had some of the bodies of the knights and a Maltese priest—"some mutilated, some without heads, some with their bellies ripped open"—dressed in their distinctive red-and-white surcoats and nailed to wooden crosses in parody of the crucifixion. The bodies were launched into the water off Saint Elmo's point, where the current washed them across to Birgu.

If a movie isn't a hit right out of the gate, they drop it. Which means that the whole mainstream Hollywood product has been skewed toward violence and vulgar teen comedy.

Words can calm people, can make them them fall in love, can whip them up into a frenzy, can turn them into killers.

Football is violence and cold weather and sex and college rye.

The contradictory nature of the socialist utopias is one explanation of the violence involved in the attempt to impose them: it takes infinite force to make people do what is impossible".

Would you like to watch TV or get between the sheets and contemplate this violent freeway, would you like something to eat would you like to learn to fly would ya, would you like to see me try

Now, at a point when the entire world seems mired in violence and cynicism, when the Church is shrinking, the environment being poisoned, when good souls are giving up hope, when greed and bitterness seem to be gaining at the expense of kindness and compassion - now, I believe, we have been given a divine help.

Maybe, she thought, they have so much disdain for the Italians—our food, our music, our God-given happiness, our warmth—that they want, not to be loved but only to prove their own superiority. There must be decent ones among them, men like the soldier who'd warned her about the rapist. Surely there were thousands of young men who'd never wanted to be in Hitler's army. But it was the vulgar and violent ones who left an impression.

When inward life dries up, when feeling decreases and apathy increases, when one cannot affect or even genuinely touch another person, violence flares up as a daimonic necessity for contact, a mad drive forcing touch in the most direct way possible.

Ecoute moi bien. La prochaine fois que ça t'arrive, qu'on insulte ta mère devant toi, la prochaine fois, je veux qu'on te ramène à la maison sur des brancards. Tu comprends ?

This African revolutionary was no different from all the other revolutionaries who inscribed the words 'liberty,' 'justice' and 'progress' on their flags and then went on to kill, to torture and to suppress all living liberty in the name of their noble and human goal.

it must be admitted that on neither side have they brought honor to the cause of reason, which they have not been able to protect against the winds of violence and folly.

One could well ask if there is some subconscious link in the patriarchal mind between the agni-pariksha, fire-ordeal of Sita; the encouraging of women to become satis, the practice of entering the fire jointly in a jauhar when a Rajput raja was defeated in a campaign; and the frequency of dowry deaths in recent times.

Religious violence is not alien to Hinduism despite the modern myth that the Hindus are by instinct and religion a non-violent people.

South Central Los Angeles [is the] home of the drive-thru and the drive-by. Funny thing is, the drive-thrus are killing more people than the drive-bys.

For as long as the power of America's diversity is diminished by acts of discrimination and violence against people just because they are black, Hispanic, Asian, Jewish, Muslim or gay, we still must overcome.

The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the initiation of violence.

Must there always be "wars and rumors of war"? Accepting the inevitability of war is one thing, but glorifying war in the name of God and claiming that it reflects strong character and patriotism is quite another.

There is one argument against evolution that deserves consideration. If man is evolving and progressing, why is man's involvement in mass killings of one another getting worse and the struggle for peace more difficult? Government wars and exterminations in the twentieth century reached 262 million people killed by their own governments and 44 million people killed in wars. I fear that doesn't say much for the evolutionary process.