Quotes About Violence

I'm sorry there is so much pain in this story. I'm sorry it's in fragments, like a body caught in crossfire or pulled apart by force. But there is nothing I can do to change it.

This was the story of the Concubine Cut into Twelve Pieces.

violated by bloodshed and gluttony and pride and disdain. Say their Names.

stringing up rival kings on trees, rejoicing in piles of heads – there was an element of childish glee in all of that.

Then, when he was exhausted, she stole his penis.

His generation believed that if there was trouble all you'd have to do was shoot someone and then it would be okay.

Why interesting and important? Because women are interesting and important in real life. They are not an afterthought of nature, they are not secondary players in human destiny, and every society has always known that. Without women capable of giving birth, human populations will die out. That is why the mass rape and murder of women, girls, and children has long been a feature of genocidal wars, and of other campaigns meant to subdue and exploit a population.

He held a knife against her breast, As into his arms she pressed, sang the girl. I could just leave, thought Richard. But he didn't want to do that. Oh Willy Willy, don't you murder me, I'm not prepared for eternity. Sex and violence, he thinks now. A lot of the songs were about that. We didn't even notice. We thought it was art.

The Dead Hand , yeah, it was, like, seminal, but tame by today's standards. Violet, for instance, did not get her intestines ripped out. There wasn't any torture, nobody's liver got fried in a pan, there wasn't any gang rape. So what's the fun of that?

Placidity and order and everything in its place, with a decorous and sanctioned violence going on underneath everything, like a heavy, brutal shoe tapping out the rhythm on a carpeted floor.

La guerra no es una aberración, algo que es mejor olvidar lo antes posible.

A medida que ha mejorado nuestra capacidad para matar, también nos hemos vuelto menos tolerantes con la violencia.

La violencia no es guerra a menos que se lleve a cabo en nombre de una unidad política […]".

La guerra –violencia organizada con un propósito entre dos unidades políticas– se fue volviendo más elaborada cuando desarrollamos sociedades sedentarias establecidas y ayudó a que estas fueran más organizadas y poderosas. De

Las pruebas arqueológicas e históricas apuntan resueltamente hacia Hobbes y hacia la guerra como parte integral y duradera de la experiencia humana.

War is not an aberration, best forgotten as quickly as possible.

monopolio cada vez mayor del uso de la fuerza

Men and women, they were beautiful and wild, all a little violent under their pleasant ways and only a little tamed.

There'll always be wars because men love wars. Women don't, but men do..

Most of the misery of the world has been caused by wars. And when the wars were over, no one ever knew what they were all about.

It was unreal, grotesquely unreal, that morning skies which dawned so tenderly blue could be profaned with cannon smoke that hung over the town like low thunder clouds, that warm noontides filled with the piercing sweetness of massed honeysuckle and climbing roses could be so fearful, as shells screamed into the streets, bursting like the crack of doom, throwing iron splinters hundreds of yards, blowing people and animals to bits.

So I think I'll remove him from your mind forever, this way. I'll put my hands, so, on each side of your head and I'll smash your skull between them like a walnut and that will blot him out.

Pretty young Mrs. Hamilton, with her dimple and her jingling earbobs and her helpless little ways, blowing a man's face to a pulp and then burying him in a hastily scratched-out hole!

Archie's carrying him to the vacant lot near Belle's. He's dead. Shot through the head.