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Quotes About Violence

Some may cite the 2020 U.S.-Taliban agreement as a reason not to take this step. But the Taliban never honored the agreement, continuing to work closely with al Qaeda and intensifying murderous attacks on Afghan civilians. Why should the U.S. adhere to an agreement that the other party has abrogated?
~ Army Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster
Kill them all. God will recognize his own.
~ Arnaud-Amaury
To kill and caress. Or simply kill, so you're not always bothered by something or somebody. So it is to be killed or to kill.
~ Arnošt Lustig
We lived a decent and beautiful life," the old man said. "Maybe it's our innocence that irritates those who hate us so much and makes them kill us and burn us and hang us. It was a magnificent life because we lived in peace with ourselves. But we were always in the minority.
~ Arnošt Lustig
The term 'violence' refers to an event or an action that 'violates' some aspect of human life. Violence, then, is always connected with suffering. But not all suffering involves the quality of violence. The pain of guilt that a person feels may be so deep and may spread through his awareness so gradually that not fore of 'violence' is detectable.
~ Arthur C. McGill
If Jesus is the revelation of the essential power and life of God, then men cannot do violence to one another for their own self-expansion within the area of his Lordship. So far as they do this, they are exercising a powerfulness that contradicts the power of God. They have turned from light to darkness.
~ Arthur C. McGill
I killed many a quarterback. I felt like I scored when I took their head off.
~ Harvey Martin
We still live in a country where there's disproportionate violence faced by our community, especially trans people and trans people of color. I think activism within the queer community continues to need to focus on those issues first.
~ Sasha Velour
Movie brawls tend to be bloodless and quick.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Mass killing has very clearly not been eliminated, nor has the 'international community' developed a response that will avert it or bring it to a quick end.
~ Elliott Abrams
We try very quickly to show that we are not at war with the Iraqi people. We're trying to deal with the people who are indeed themselves at war with the Iraqi people.
~ Paul Bremer
Since 2006, when the Second Lebanon War killed perhaps 2,000 Lebanese, many of them civilians, and led to the destruction of an entire section of Beirut, the northern border has been absolutely quiet.
~ Martin Van Creveld
There is a group of individuals who are radical jihadists. We need to call them by name. They believe it is OK to kill people in the name of their religion. It is not all of Islam. It is not all Muslims. But there is a subgroup who believe it is OK. In fact, it is their plan and design to kill people.
~ Tim Pawlenty
Radical Islam, it has grown into a global jihad.
~ Jack Keane
I've had fans try and jump the guard rail. I've had fans key my car. I've had fans try to stab me.
~ Maxwell Jacob Friedman
How many more school shootings do we need before we start talking about this as a social problem, and not merely a random collection of isolated incidents?
~ Jackson Katz
No one I hang out with thinks that a random person on the street should be able to buy a machine gun.
~ Margo Price
There are times when hard fouls are just a part of the game, and then there's times when they're a little bit further than that.
~ Blake Griffin
We see a lot of gory deaths on 'Game of Thrones.'
~ Esme Bianco
No one in safe in 'Game of Thrones.'
~ Richard Madden
I grew up on an estate in Manchester and people I've known from school have died in gang trouble and I always thought, if I'd been on a different estate at a different time, it could have been me.
~ Wunmi Mosaku
There is no such thing as the worst gang because they're all pretty bad. It is very difficult to classify them in terms of who is worse than the other because they all have pretty bad things associated with them.
~ Ross Kemp
Many areas of Los Angeles have gang problems.
~ Ross Kemp
Gangs are born of a lethal absence of hope, and hope has an address: 130 W. Bruno St. in Los Angeles, CA 90012.
~ Greg Boyle