Quotes About Violence

The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion […] but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.

Some Westerners […] have argued that the West does not have problems with Islam but only with violent Islamist extremists. Fourteen hundred years of history demonstrate otherwise.

Oh, the bright young people who come here, with their bright, lively imaginations. They do nothing all day long but think of ways to kill. It's a terribly placid society, really. But, why shouldn't it be? All its aggressions are vented from nine to five. Still, I think it does something to our minds. Imagination should be used for something other than pondering murder, don't you think?

The Family/Sygn conflict is in the process of creating a schism throughout the entire galaxy, concerning just what exactly a woman is . And it may mean that instead of one universe with six thousand worlds in it, we will have a universe with one group of some thousands of worlds and another group of some thousands of others, and no connection between the two save memories of murder, starvation, and violence. And in a situation like that, no, you do not just simply decide to up and change sides!

that most embarrassing of statistical fictions, the commercial reader (not you, of course; not me), who presumably consumes texts only for story, is assumed to stand deaf to style, and is thought to applaud only the endlessly repeated pornographies of action and passion that, for all their violences, still manage to pander to an astonishingly untroubled acceptance of the personal and political status quo.

Very. It was supposed to be a white kid on the roof and a nigger that got shot. So they started a riot.

Babes, I am so bored here that I don't think, since I've come, I've ever been more than three minutes away from some really astonishing act of violence.

i like the book my bloody life because it tell what gange related do and what makeks them feel bad

The Greasy fucken fat pig that discusses her husbands day drive and he'll eventually cut and eat her fucken heart ad he yells out of anger

Revenge only engenders violence, not clarity and true peace. I think liberation must come from within.

Thanks a bunch, brother. Remind me to thank you with a fist in your fool face.

How did the care worker die?' 'Apparently I murdered her.

Feminist consciousness can be thought of as consciousness of the violence and power concealed under the languages of civility, happiness, and love, rather than simply or only consciousness of gender as a site of restriction of possibility. You can venture into the secret places of pain by recalling something. You can cause unhappiness by noticing something. And if you can cause unhappiness by noticing something, you realize that the world you are in is not the world you thought you were in.

He was still assuming the guilty party was a man, which was likely, after all. Women killed with poison; men made a science of inflicting pain.

Casual cruelty and callous indifference could destroy a woman as effectively as fists.

I broke the silence when I pulled up in front of his building. "The sheriff's police are likely to get a warrant to inspect your computer. You don't have anything on your server that suggests violence against the government, do you?" "We're not building bombs! How many times do I have to tell you and Aunt Lotty that EFS is building projects for life, not death." His voice quivered.

Caroline, I'm mad enough to beat the shit out of you. But I'm not so mad I can't think. You fingered me to the cops because there's something you know that you're scared to talk about. I want to know what it is.

you never read the news but ate out a lot you should be able to tell who was getting beaten up around the world.

Si las madres de las víctimas se pudieron organizar para buscar a sus hijos, aunque esa tarea sea tan difícil que casi roza en lo imposible, tan peligrosa que casi parece demencial y si aprendieron a luchar porque como ellas mismas han dicho "antes no sabían hacerlo",[14] también las madres de los victimarios pueden hacerlo, pueden aprender qué hacer para detenerlos, para parar esta orgía de sangre y sufrimiento, así parezca también imposible.

Before Ethan went all Incredible Hulk on Thayer's ass, the most exciting thing to happen was a spray-cheese fight some of the morons from the wrestling team got into on the back patio.

I have a really vivid imagination and I find it difficult to read scenes of complete graphic violence. That's not to say that graphic violence does not exist. It's just that I find it quite harrowing and I much prefer if it isn't completely outlined for me because my imagination can do that.

In wartime, she thought to herself, you don't call a death murder.

Always talk, talk, talk with you people," Pearl said. "You know, sometimes violence really is the answer.

In the whole, long war, Seceshes never took one black prisoner of war. It was slavery or death if they caught you.