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Quotes About Violence

Extremism catches hold when all hope is gone, when a human being has been stripped of everything except hatred.
~ Eric Van Lustbader
he was a child of eight, in the aftermath of his first kill. The first taste of blood was always the sharpest, but, for him, the blood didn't matter as much as it did
~ Eric Van Lustbader
How senseless is everything that can ever be written, done, or thought, when such things are possible. It must be all lies and of no account when the culture of a thousand years could not prevent this stream of blood being poured out, these torture-chambers in their hundreds of thousands. A hospital alone shows what war is.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces. The first bomb, the first explosion, burst in our hearts. We are cut off from activity, from striving, from progress. We believe in such things no longer, we believe in the war." - All Quiet On The Western Front, Ch. 5
~ Erich Maria Remarque
Bombardment, barrage, curtain-fire, mines, gas, tanks, machine-guns, hand-grenades - words, words, but they hold the horror of the world.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
I was not frightened as they were, for the very violence of his threats showed how weak he was.
~ Erik Christian Haugaard
As a form of neurosis, race-conscious nationalism almost always ignores logic and knowledge: In the East European civil wars between 1918 and 1920 Jews were slaughtered for a variety of contradictory reasons, as capitalists and as communists, as friends of the Ukrainians, as Polonophiles, as pro-German-just as it suited the circumstances.
~ Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
And what was sport, underneath, but a kind of sanitized, ritualized violence?
~ Erin Hart
What was sport but a thin veneer over the factional fighting it had replaced—ritualized violence, bloody entertainment?
~ Erin Hart
Bumblestripe: "I think we showed them." Hazeltail: "Showed them what? How much blood can be spilled in a pointless battle?
~ Erin Hunter
Cruel, calculating, and deadly, Scourge murdered Tigerstar with one blow.
~ Erin Hunter
Then he spotted Willowpelt diving from the top of a rock to streak across the ground and shove Sootpaw out of the way with outstretched forepaws. The badger landed heavily on her back; her shriek was cut off with a sickening crunch as the huge creature snapped her neck. It scooped up her limp body with one paw and tossed it into the clearing. Sootpaw
~ Erin Hunter
Kill him!" "Blind him!" "Drive him out of the forest!
~ Erin Hunter
He tried to snarl defiance, but the only sound was blood bubbling in his torn throat.
~ Erin Hunter
Se podría decir que Arlt construye la perspectiva del cínico. También podría decirse, la perspectiva nihilista de quien denuncia la violencia enmascarada pero inexorable de una forma social hipócrita. La refutación
~ Beatriz Sarlo
Ty wanted to crack Gerard Butler's head against a brick wall.
~ Bella Andre
Conflict resolution,' said Nightingale. 'Is this what they teach at Hendon these days?' 'Yes, sir,' I said. 'But don't worry, they also teach us how to beat people with phone books and the ten best ways to plant evidence.
~ Ben Aaronovitch
A major investigation, once it gets underway, is as exciting as watching reruns of Big Brother, although possibly involving less sex and violence.
~ Ben Aaronovitch
CO19, the Met's firearms unit, whose unofficial motto is, "Guns don't kill people, we kill people with guns.
~ Ben Aaronovitch
most people don't want to fight, especially when evenly matched. A mob will tear an individual to pieces and a man with a gun and a noble cause is happy to kill ever so many women and children, but risking a fair fight—not so easy. That's why you see those pissed young men doing the dance of "don't hold me back" while desperately hoping someone likes them enough to hold them back.
~ Ben Aaronovitch
Despite what you think you know, most people don't want to fight, especially when evenly matched. A mob will tear an individual to pieces and a man with a gun and a noble cause is happy to kill ever so many women and children, but risking a fair fight—not so easy. That's why you see those pissed young men doing the dance of "don't hold me back" while desperately hoping someone likes them enough to hold them back.
~ Ben Aaronovitch
The first thing he thinks of is weaponry, killing his fellow humans. The second thing is power.
~ Ben Bova
The dangers of the sea should always take precedence over the violence of the enemy' Rear-Admiral Ben Bryant CB, DSO and two bars, DSC
~ Ben Bryant
The anti-Semite who avoids violence has no reservations about enabling, excusing, and rationalizing it. Israel,
~ Ben Cohen