Quotes About Violence

The most violent element in society is ignorance.

Comprende una cosa esencial, y es que hay dos clases de personas: a las que puedes pegar y a las que no puedes, y que éstas no son las más fuertes o las mejor entrenadas, sino las que están dispuestas a matar. Éste es el único secreto, y el amable y pequeño Eduard decide pasarse al segundo bando: él será un hombre al que nadie pega porque se sabe que puede matar.

Il comprend une chose essentielle, c'est qu'il y a deux espèces de gens : ceux qu'on peut battre et ceux qu'on ne peut pas battre, et ceux qu'on ne peut pas battre, ce n'est pas qu'ils sont plus forts ou mieux entraînés, mais qu'ils sont prêts à tuer. C'est cela, le secret, le seul, et le gentil Edouard décide de passer dans le second camp : il sera un homme qu'on ne frappe pas parce qu'on sait qu'il peut tuer.

Quand j'ai vu TIti et Grosminet, toute cette violence contre le pauvre chat, j'ai horreur de Titi. Il était à l'aise, lui, il taquinait le chat ; le pauvre minou, lui, ne comprenait rien et en prenait plein la tête. C'est un naïf. Titi est un salopard.

Las masas son cerriles, viles, groseras, homicidas y despreciables. Donde actúa la masa hay siempre sangre, ferocidad e injusticia. Ningún artista verdadero puede ser comunista: el arte no existe sin un sentido de aristocracia. Y las cosas bellas jamás pueden ser un bien común

El país, que nació con un atraso de siglos para construir un régimen de libertades cívicas y bienestar económico, perdería décadas preciosas en una discordia civil que a la postre lo conduciría a la bancarrota, el descrédito, la violencia interna, la guerra exterior y el desmembramiento del territorio.

execution of civilians, collective rape of women. The Israeli general staff, moreover, used the Hebrew word tihur, meaning 'cleaning' or 'purification', more than 40 years before the concept of 'ethnic cleansing' was coined at the time of the wars in the former Yugoslavia.14

Enzo Traverso

The Latvians wanted to storm the ghetto. They wanted to kill the Jews. So the Germans had to protect us—the German army or SS or whatever it was. It is paradoxical.

I am tempted to find reason and justice in the fact that he died as violently and indecently as he lived. But that is too ingenuous a way out. It does not explain Dimitrios; it only apologizes for him. Special sorts of conditions must exist for the creation of the special sort of criminal that he typified...all I do know is that while might is right, while chaos and anarchy masquerade as order and enlightenment, those conditions will obtain.

He who kills even one unbeliever of those who rule over us, whether he does it secretly or openly, shall be rewarded by God.

My best moment? I have a lot of good moments but the one I prefer is when I kicked the hooligan

Thieves of Baghdad, which was published in 2005. Looting in Iraq The looting went far beyond the museum and extended to archaeological sites throughout Iraq, with reports of men armed with both shovels and machine guns illegally digging at sites across the country.

the pankration, a no-holds-barred martial art event akin to today's kickboxing or perhaps a combination of karate and judo, in which everything was allowed, except for biting, eye-gouging, and scratching

The self-styled intellectual who is impotent with pen and ink hungers to write history with sword and blood.

We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.

compensation that was often paid not the victim herself but to her father or husband, since rape counted less as sexual violence against a woman than as a property crime against her male guardian.

compensation that was often paid not to the victim herself but to her father or husband, since rape counted less as sexual violence against a woman than as a property crime against her male guardian.

Men make the mistake of thinking that because women can't see the sense in violence, they must be passive creatures. It's just not true. In one important way, at least, men are the passive sex. Given a choice, they will always opt for the status quo. They hate change of any kind, and they fight against it constantly. On the other hand, what women want is stability, which when you stop to think about it is a very different animal.

England had decidedly turned its back on any expressions of what we might call serious Christian belief. Having led to so much division and violence, religion was now in full-scale retreat. The churches of mid-eighteenth-century England all but abandoned orthodox, historical Christianity and now preached a tepid kind of moralism that seemed to present civility and the preservation of the status quo as the summum bonnum.

Müntzer, like all utopianists, was divorced from reality and wished to be so divorced, thinking the reality of this world as something to be fled as soon as possible. All political and religious reform movements are tempted in the direction of cultishness and violence, and at the time of Luther, Müntzer was the one who led this charge over the cliff.

Since the time of the Puritans and the religious wars of the previous century, England had decidedly turned its back on any expressions of what we might call serious Christian belief. Having led to so much division and violence, religion was now in full-scale retreat.

I think violence, cynicism, brutality and fashion are the staples of our diet. I think in the grand history of story-telling, going back to people sitting around fires, the dark side of human nature has always been very important. Movies are part of that tradition.

Empires, especially those born in violence, lived in violence.