Quotes About Violence

It was full of dead Prussian Guards, big men, and dead Royal Welch Fusiliers and South Wales Borderers, little men. Not a single tree in the wood remained unbroken.

Never resolve with violence what can be addressed with cutting commentary.

When talking apes from the future land on the beach, slay them.

Killing a couple of civilians would be nothing to these people. Don't be taken in by their all sweet, 'we're trying to save the planet propaganda'. This is a murder case.

Um novo Deus chegou a Vakhar. A morte expulsou os deuses menores e ocupou todos os espaços vazios de seus templos. Os hinos viraram gritos. A música, tiroteio. As preces, gargantas sufocando, cheias de sangue. Eu e o Balcã somos missionários. Nossas oferendas transbordam.

You know, what we do know is that there is a high frequency of violence in the home of those who bully.

It's always the old to lead us to the war It's always the young to fall Now look at all we've won with the saber and the gun Tell me is it worth it all For I stole California from the Mexican land Fought in the bloody Civil War Yes I even killed my brothers And so many others But I ain't marchin' anymore

The plotting he'd had to do to come to this point had exhausted Kidman's capacity for calculation; his natural, impulsive violence was regaining the upper hand.

Toward the end of July, Richard reportedly told a sheriffs deputy that he was going to have one of his girls sneak a gun into the courtroom and he was going to shoot Halpin to death, then people in the audience, then himself. Security was already tight, but the bailiffs took Ramirez's alleged threat seriously, set up metal detectors, and searched everyone coming into the courtroom.

To Richard, in a sense, Mike was a god. He listened to his older cousin's war stories of rape and killing wide-eyed, fascinated beyond normal curiosity. The photos had a profound effect on Richard. They aroused him sexually in a way far more intense than the girlie magazines his brothers had.

In some of the pictures Mike was holding the decapitated head of a woman. It was the same woman who had been forced to fellate him in another photograph. Richard didn't know why these pictures excited him so much; he knew it was wrong for him to be aroused by such brutality, but he would often masturbate thinking about those pictures.

Ramirez: Yes. Serial killers and most killers in general have a dead conscience. Carlo: When you say a dead conscience that means they don't respond— Ramirez: No morals, no scruples, no conscience. They are ... uh ... they sometimes ... some of them don't even care if they live or die themselves and they are just the walking dead.

Killing with a knife is very personal; you actually are holding it as it goes in, and when death comes, you can feel your victim dying through the knife. It's like sex.

Richard wrote back: Dear Sean: Stay in touch and hit 'em again. Richard Ramirez, 666. Penn said Ramirez masturbated excessively. "He was like an animal in heat. He had pictures of his victims on his cell walls. He kept them up with toothpaste.

The detectives later learned that Phyllis had told Melton that she felt sorry for Richard Ramirez because he hadn't gotten proper representation with the Hernandezes. Melton thought Ramirez was a mad dog that needed killing. An argument ensued, which grew into a senseless murderous rage.

Richard had grown into a psychotic sadist who had discovered a way to hurt and kill people, and get paid for it. Life was good.

Derrida believes that the "triumph" of capitalism in the West has only served to highlight its own failures, as human suffering continues and environmental catastrophe appears inevitable. Western economic systems have only exacerbated the plagues of underemployment, foreign debt, arms trade, and inter-ethnic violence.4

The torture of the victim lasted almost half an hour. It began when a man stepped forward and very matter-of-factly sliced off Hose's ears. Then several men grabbed Hose's arms and held them forward so his fingers could be severed one by one and shown to the crowd. Finally, a blade was passed between his thighs, Hose cried in agony, and a moment later his genitals were held aloft.

a ban on a Coney Island attraction known as "Negro Ball Dodging," in which whites hurled baseballs at Black men's heads as they appeared in the openings of a cloth or wooden facade.

first year to pass without a single recorded lynching anywhere in the United States was 1952,

These fasces were a praetor's visible symbol of the right to use force (hence our term fascism).

Before I knew that a man could kill a man, because it happens all the time. Now I know that even the person with whom you've shared food, or whom you've slept, even he can kill you with no trouble. The closest neighbor can kill you with his teeth: that is what I have Learned since the genocide, and my eyes no longer gaze the same on the face of the world.

Genocide, after all, is an exercise in community building.

An animal will kill, but never to completely annihilate a race, a whole collectively. What does this make us in this world?