Quotes About Violence

I spend my time on Crimewatch appealing for criminals on the run. Domestic violence is one of the few crimes I can think of where the victim is often forced to go on the run.

The World War broke out with such elemental violence, and with such resort to all means for leading or misleading public opinion, that no time was available for reflection and consideration

With the rise of chiefdoms around 7,500 years ago, people had to learn, for the first time in history, how to encounter strangers regularly without attempting to kill them.

I'd been hurt, and in response I had acted violently, destroying a little of myself each time I did so.

It is time for a new compact among the civilized peoples of this world to eradicate war at its most fundamental source: the corruption of young minds by violent ideology.

We've been dealing with this kind of terrorism since the fifties, since the Muslim Brotherhood came to Syria at that time.

The tumultuous populace of large cities are ever to be dreaded. Their indiscriminate violence prostrates for the time all public authority, and its consequences are sometimes extensive and terrible.

At the same time as we clearly condemn actions of violence by groups in Palestinian against Israel.

I don't have any doubt in my mind that there will come a time when we will see violence against animal rights abusers.

We make violent cops, we make violent criminals, and no wonder we have shootouts in slums all of the time.

It is not tricks of sense But the time's fright within me which distracts Least fancies into violence

Any time you do physical stuff, violence, it is controlled. It's a little bit like you block the move.

In the city, a lot of crime happens, a lot of violence happens from time to time.

We have reached the time when it is morally right to "shoot the bastards", but it is not yet practical to do so.

I can't remember the last time I went to a game and there was a fight. I think they fight more in baseball now than they do in hockey.

There's bad people since the beginning of time. Literally one of the first four human beings was someone who killed somebody. So that's never going to change, unfortunately.

I used to beat up kids and bite kids and do stuff all the time.

The day it all went wrong for me was 11 August 1989. That was the day I killed a man for the first time.

Pero el miedo no me abandonaba. Quería matar, a mi hermano mayor, quería matarle, llegar a vencerle una vez, una sola vez y verle morir.

Les mots trompent, puisque celui de plaisir couvre des réalités contradictoires, comporte à la fois les notions de tiédeur, de douceur, d'intimité des corps, et celles de violence, d'agonie et de cri. La petite phrase obscène de Poseidonius sur le frottement de deux parcelles de chair [...] ne définit pas plus le phénomène de l'amour que la corde touchée du doigt ne rend compte du miracle des sons.

Ne mettrez-vous pas fin à sauvage cri, Ce fauve hurlement des bêtes qu'on abat ? Jusqu'à quand, insensé, meurtrissant et meurtri, Dévoreras-tu ta propre substance ?… … Comme un père hébété égorge son enfant, Et prie, ô l'imbécile !

We need to recognize that the endless application of brute force will not bring peace to the world, and that only the soul force of justice, meaningful human relationships, forgiveness, and compassion can end the scourge of violence on our streets and throughout the world.

Charlotte Bunch writes that if one ethnic national group were attacking another, killing and maiming them at the same rate as men attack and kill women (and she is speaking only of attacks by intimates), the situation would be held to constitute a state of emergency or even war. But domestic violence is only one campaign in what amounts to a widespread war against women.

Books are good because they are thick and you can hit someone with it.