Quotes About Violence

I believe the common denominator of the universe is not harmony; but chaos, hostility and murder.

I've always thought that if little straight boys were taught that the one surefire, telltale sign of repressed homosexuality was the beating and killing of gay men—and the truth is lurking around that idea somewhere—then gay-bashing would shrivel away within a generation.

We humans have a nasty habit of deciding to believe that things we don't actually understand are explained in some way that we make up. And the next thing we know, we're killing each other over these imaginings.

What passing bells for these who die as cattleOnly the monstrous anger of the guns.Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattleCan patter out their hasty orisons.

If this war is not fought with the greatest brutality against the bands both in the East and in the Balkans then in the foreseeable future the strength at our disposal will not be sufficient to be able to master this plague.

Bilgili kimseye öykünmeyi beceremiyorsun ama soyguncuya öykünmeyi çok iyi beceriyorsun. Filmlerin, radyo programlar?n, "güldürü kitaplar?n" hep cinayetlerle dolu.

I am thinking,' he remarked quietly, 'whether I shall add to the disorder in this room, by scattering your brains about the fireplace.

They diagnosed me with borderline personality. I'm paranoid and antisocial and I have an unusual indifference to violence. They said I don't believe the rest of the world is real and consequently I don't trust anyone and I don't mind hurting people and what else is new? I used to be a cop. That shit is normal. It's perfectly normal.

I'm going to kill Jude this afternoon for fun, then eat my own putrid kidney for dinner.

because there is nothing so arousing as fear and submission and the threat of violence.

Even in countries that have been targets of intensive terror campaigns, such as Israel, the weekly number of casualties almost never came close to the number of traffic deaths.

Sen mä vaan sanon, että jollei meikä olis näin rauhallinen tyyppi, niin siis joskus tosissaan pumppu haulikko, helvetti irti, niska laukaus ja murha poltto, ja täyttä häkää sittekki.

Christians today, no less than people of other faiths, are caught between pervasive apathy and acts of violence, apathy born of hopelessness about the enormity of the evils that confront us and recourse to violence and coercion that seriously compromises or even destroys the goals of a better future. Either way, we can close off the future to which we are directed by God our creator and redeemer.

If there is one lesson we can take away from the extravagant lives of our tyrants it is the fragility of our democratic society which, after all, is the exception, not the norm, in that dark, violent story known as human history.

Y cuando callan los reconozco por su silencio inquieto y hostil, tan distinto del silencio atento de alumno que capta. El zoquete oscila perpetuamente entre la excusa de ser y el deseo de existir a pesar de todo, de encontrar su lugar, imponerlo incluso, aunque sea con violencia, que es su antidepresivo.

The Russian president is not a statesman, Isabel. He is the godfather of a nuclear-armed gangster regime. They are not ordinary, run-of-the-mill gangsters. They are Russian gangsters, which means they are among the cruelest, most violent people on earth.

She helped Shamron into his jacket and kissed his cheek. There was simple ritual in this act. How many times had he separated from his wife after hearing that Jews had been killed by a bomb? He had lost count long ago. He had resigned himself, late in life, that it would never end.

I warn you against shedding blood, indulging in it and making a habit of it, for blood never sleeps. SALADIN

Anti-Semitism in France, much of it emanating from Muslim communities, has compelled thousands of French Jews to leave their homes and emigrate to Israel. Indeed, eight thousand departed in the twelve months following the brutal murder of four Jews at the Hypercacher kosher market in January 2015.

A veces un terrorista vivo es más útil que un terrorista muerto.

What's your point?" "My point is that revenge is good. Revenge is healthy. Revenge is purifying." "Revenge only leads to more killing and more revenge. For every terrorist we kill, there's another boy waiting to step forward and pick up the stone or the gun. They're like sharks' teeth: break one and another will rise in its place.

When counterterrorism officers feel optimism, innocent people usually end up dead. - Gabriel Allon

Done properly (use of extreme violent methods), by trained professionals, placing physical and emotional stress on captured terrorists very often produces actionable intelligence that saves lives. - Gabriel Allon

Aquilo ali são balas. Cinquenta milhões delas, para ser exacto. O suficiente para matar uma grande porção do Terceiro Mundo. Mas não há grandes probabilidades disso. O típico combatente da liberdade não é muito disciplinado. Não nos queixamos. É bom para o negócio".