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Quotes About Violence

Never since that time has this house got itself clear of rawblood butchery.
~ Sophocles
Can such a man, so desperate, still boast he can save his life from the flashing bolts of god? If all such violence goes with honor now why join the sacred dance?
~ Sophocles
OEDIPUS: If all such violence goes with honor now Why join the sacred dance.
~ Sophocles
I know that sometimes in my own life I really felt like killing people.
~ Gaspar Noe
In a sense, all murderers are lunatics. Killing is a not a sane reaction to the circumstances of life.
~ Gladys Mitchell
They who are continually shocked by slavery have some right to be shocked by the violent death of the slaveholder, but no others.Such will be more shocked by his life than by his death.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Violence is a part of the world and life, and you shouldnt have to take it out of stories.
~ Jane Levy
The thing is, and Americans are starting to realize this now, that while street gangs are violent, the Democrats and Republicans are worse. They are worse because their decisions affect your life.
~ Jesse Ventura
I'll hit anyone who's seriously threatening my life... that's what happened, and that's what sent me to prison.
~ Jim Goad
It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Saddest thing nowadays is that words can kill
~ Freedom Goodbird
every time this happensI see my fathermy brothermy would be sonI see myselfstop killing us
~ R.H. Sin
Peace is better than war because conflict resolutions can be made without a wastage of life and resources.
~ Gugu Mona
To Hear What Silence Is Saying, You Must Have Inner Peace. A Violent Mind Can't Understand It....
~ Muhammad Imran Hasan
We live in a culture of violence.
~ Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
We are what we think about and meditate on. Look around people! America is a buffet of violence
~ a total immersion.
For now I seePeace to corrupt no less than war to waste.
~ John Milton
The brazen throat of war.
~ John Milton
There were numerous physical combats between husbands and wives, and not always the husbands that matched the wives. Kitty Hofman, for instance, had been given a black eye by Carter Davis when she kicked him in the groin for dunking her head in a punch bowl for calling him a son of a bitch for telling her she looked like something the cat dragged in. And so on.
~ John O'Hara
There were numerous physical combats between husbands and wives, and not always the husbands that matched the wives. Kitty Hofman, for instance, had been given a black eye by Carter Davis when she kicked him in the groin for dunking her head in a punch bowl for calling him a son of a bitch for telling her she looked like something the cat dragged in.
~ John O'Hara
Poverty does not cause violence and terrorism. Lack of education does not cause terrorism.
~ John O. Brennan
and he turned his aim on another poor ignorant miserable anonymous bastard crouched behind another gun. A bastard whom he didn't know, had never known, would never know, and couldn't hate specifically, but kill and kill and kill and kill—and
~ John Oliver Killens
We commit ourselves to the journey toward reconciliation because we believe it is right-even when we are not sure, as John Paul says, how it will progress or end. We believe that walking down the path to peace offers a way better than violence and an instrument more powerful than force to conduct the affairs of humankind. We pray that others will join us. -Harold
~ John Paul Lederach
I've never met anyone who wanted to be a terrorist. They are desperate people.
~ John Perkins