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Quotes About Violence

I do not kill with my gun; He who kills with his gun has forgotten the face of his father. I kill with my heart.
~ Stephen King
Superhero movies and comic books teach a lesson that runs directly counter to the culture-of-violence idea: guns are for bad guys too cowardly to fight like men.
~ Stephen King
Cut him. Cut him while I stand here and watch. I want to see the blood flow. Don't make me tell you twice.
~ Stephen King
The idea that America exists in a culture of violence is bullshit. What America exists in is a culture of Kardashian.
~ Stephen King
So what he supposed to do? Grab Bobbie's ax and make like Jack Nicholson in The Shinning? He could see it. Smash, crash, bash: Heeeeeeere's GARDENER!
~ Stephen King
Murder is the worst kind of pornography, murder is let me do what I want taken to its final extreme.
~ Stephen King
The assertion that Americans love violence and bathe in it daily is a self-serving lie promulgated by fundamentalist religious types and America's propaganda-savvy gun-pimps. It's believed by people who don't read novels, play video games, or go to many movies
~ Stephen King
Passage between worlds. Then the gunfire. Then the killing.
~ Stephen King
Three heavy blows boxed him low in the back. He saw a splash of red hit the door and had time to think, 'We should have remembered the body armor.' Then he crumpled, still holding onto the knob with one hand as the world rushed away from him. Everything he was and everything he'd ever known diminished to a single burning-bright point of light. Then it went out. His hand slipped off the knob. He died on his knees, leaning against the door.
~ Stephen King
His head .. it exploded. As if someone had scooped out his brains and put a hand grenade in his skull.
~ Stephen King
Talk did no good with bullies. Hurting was the only language that the bullies of the world seemed to understand, and he supposed that was why the world always had such a hard time getting along.
~ Stephen King
Monster dog. Like Cujo in that movie.
~ Stephen King
I always told myself I didn't do it because I don't hold with hitting women. I still don't. But when a person-man or woman-turns into a dog and begins to bite, someone has to shy it off.
~ Stephen King
To break the silence the old man said the first thing that came to his mind: "Loneliness is a type of violence.
~ Jonathan Messinger, Hiding Out
Fear could drive one to violence as quickly as anger could.
~ Nenia Campbell, Black Beast
To kill someone it's not necessary to have weapons, your words and attitude can do the same job.
~ M.H. Rakib
Instead of a man of peace and love, I have become a man of violence and revenge.
~ Hiawatha
If someone were to harm my family or a friend or somebody I love, I would eat them. I might end up in jail for 500 years, but I would eat them.
~ Johnny Depp
I definitely would like to do something serious. Not like a love story, but serious like maybe a gangster or a mobster. A gang or a mob movie would be great.
~ Jason Mewes
As far as I'm concerned, love means fighting, big fat lies, and a couple of slaps across the face.
~ Edith Piaf
I love Dr. King, but violence might be necessary; Cause when you live on MLK and it gets very scary, You might have to pull your AK, send one to the cemetery.
~ Killer Mike
You can't answer violence with counter violence ... The answer is love. The best sabotage is love.
~ Athol Fugard
We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.
~ R.D. Laing
I do not condemn any personal choices for intimate relationships. Love is love. I detest only the violence and trauma that any self-centered conduct can cause to others.
~ Akiane Kramarik