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Quotes About Violence

A thirteen-year-old girl had got herself pregnant, and had been badly beaten by her labourer father.
~ Sarah Waters
A gun is a terrible thing. It's a dark hole pointed at you, and that hole swallows up everything else in the world, your friends, your nerve, until there's nothing but you and what's waiting in that little round space of dark.
~ Sarah Zettel
If you can kill animals, the same attitude can kill human beings. The mentality is the same which exploits nature and which creates wars.
~ Satish Kumar
Much of junk culture has a core of crisis shoot-outs, conflagrations, bodies weltering in blood, naked embracers or rapist-stranglers. The sounds of junk culture are heard over a ground bass of extremism. Our entertainments swarm with specters of world crisis. Nothing moderate can have any claim to our attention.
~ Saul Bellow
Tony Montana Say hello to my little friend
~ Scarface
Zealots: a Jewish movement in the first century AD that focused on the use of violence to restore the Land and establish the kingdom of God.
~ Scot McKnight
what Lawrence had discovered on the battlefield was that while moments of heroism might certainly occur, the cumulative experience of war, its day-in, day-out brutalization, was utterly antithetical to the notion of leading a heroic life.
~ Scott Anderson
angry, violent, bizarre, we're obscene in our lust, oblivious in our pain. i'm a man driven by my passions. sometimes I desire normalcy but then my brain wakes up and i return to reality.
~ Scott C. Holstad
War is the true Nature of the world, a dog with matted fur lapping eagerly at the bloody Nile, wagging its threadbare tail the entire time.
~ Scott C. Holstad
I woke last night from a nightmare in which I saw a malignant society of pathological liars racked with insecurities, consumed by guilt, screaming for violence and I noticed I was sweating most profusely as I thanked the heavens above that it was only a dream before turning on the light to get a cigarette.
~ Scott C. Holstad
violence is so american violence is pretty girls guns 'n danger rape, murder, 'n mayhem tv above all eats us up 'n spits us out tells us lies we willingly believe
~ Scott C. Holstad
I want the guilt hatred hostility shame violence perfectionism biases humanity to flee, jump off the Terminal Island bridge. How many times have I laid next to you in bed with my arms around you wanting to blow my brains out? My grave marks my preference, my erasure, my wholeness.
~ Scott C. Holstad
What I really wanted more than anything was to put my boss on the floor and stand on his throat and watch him gag.
~ Scott Carrier
Rape, pillage, plunder, gouge, extort, and beat... your imagination.
~ Scott F. Falkner
I cut off his fingers to get him to talk, and when he'd confessed everything I wanted to hear, I had his fucking tongue cut out, and the stump cauterized." Everyone in the room stared at him. "I called him an asshole, too," said Locke. "He didn't like that.
~ Scott Lynch
Those prancing little pants-wetters come here to learn the colorful and gentlemanly art of fencing, with its many sporting limitations and its proscriptions against dishonorable engagements. You on the other hand, you are going to learn how to kill men with a sword .
~ Scott Lynch
I'm not gong to kill you," said Locke I'm going to play a little game I like to call 'Scream in pain until you answer my fucking questions.
~ Scott Lynch
The next person who tells me something like, "Squiggle-fuck the rightwise cock-swatter with a starboard jib," is going to get a knife to the throat.
~ Scott Lynch
If only this city's entire population of lurking assholes shared one set of balls, so I could kick it repeatedly.
~ Scott Lynch
I'm going to put that fucker in the dirt as deeply as any man who's ever been murdered, ever since the world began.
~ Scott Lynch
I thought you specialised in dishonest finesse?" "I also do a brisk trade in putting knives to peoples' throats and shouting at them," said Locke.
~ Scott Lynch
The world moved in horrifying slow motion; Locke, who was no stranger to a beating, was cursed with the uncanny ability to recognize one just before it ceased to be theoretical.
~ Scott Lynch
Oh...ow! Gods, Please. Ow! You said you...wouldn't kill me!" "And I meant it. I'm not going to kill you, you cabbage-brained twit. I'm just going to kick you until it stops feeling good!" "Ow! Agggh! Please! Aaaaow!" "I have to say, it's still pretty fascinating." "Aiiiah! Ow!" " Still enjoying myself." "Oooof! Agh!
~ Scott Lynch
Indeed, a murder weapon is a tool. But not all tools are murder weapons.
~ Scott Lynch