Quotes About Violence

As a young black American you become desensitised to it, it's just like 'oh, another guy, another kid died today.' That's so, so sad cos we are talking about human life, the most sacred thing we have.

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

Westworld is an examination of human nature: the best parts of human nature... but also, violence, sexual violence have sadly been a fact of human history since the beginning of human history.

The BET definition of a humanitarian is someone who perpetuates a war on cops.

The main force used in the evolving world of humanity has hitherto been applied in the form of war.

The brutalization of humans by other humans never fails to get to me in some angry-making way. It shot up in me like an explosion.

The humble and meek are thirsting for blood.

If we grow up in these communities where we have gangs, well, what do you think we're going to belong to? That's what happened to me and what's still happening to hundreds of thousands of other individuals.

Il est bien vrai que la violence est ce qui ne parle pas, ce qui parle peu, et la sexualité, ce dont on parle peu, en principe. La pudeur n'est pas liée à un effroi biologique. Si elle l'était, elle ne se formulerait pas comme elle le fait : je redoute moins d'être touchée que vue, et vue que parlée.

The truly frightening flaw in humanity is our capacity for cruelty - we all have it.

I was lying in bed thinking about killing myself, a hobby of mine. Indulgent afternoon daydreaming: A shotgun, my mouth, a bang and my head jerking once, twice, blood on the wall. Spatter, splatter.

January was the season for house robberies and violence. Christmas was over, and the new year just reminded you of how little your life had changed, and man, people got angry in January.

There might be a space too, for this. The feel of killing, there might be an empty spot just waiting to be filled.

My brother slaughtered my family when I was seven. My mom, two sisters, gone: bang bang, chop chop, choke choke.

She was a worst-case scenarist on a grand scale. Because it was never just that the door was unlocked, it was that the door was unlocked, and men were inside, and they were waiting to rape and kill her.

What kind of woman gets slaughtered by her own son?

Shotgun blasts in a small hallway. The panicked, jaybird cries of my mother, still trying to save her kids with half her head gone.

Throwing things near her but not exactly at her. I'm sure he told himself: I never hit her. I'm sure because of this technicality he never saw himself as an abuser. But he turned our family life into an endless road trip with bad directions and a rage-clenched driver, a vacation that never got a chance to be fun. Don't make me turn this car around. Please, really, turn it around.

You fucking bitch you fucking bitch you fucking bitch. Come home so I can kill you.

When I think of my wife, I always think of the back of her head. I picture cracking her lovely skull, unspooling her brain, trying to get answers. The primal questions of a marriage: What are you thinking? How are you feeling? What have we done to each other? What will we do?

On a September morning, just after school started, I'd gotten Diane's .44 Magnum and held it, babylike, in my lap for hours. What an indulgence it would be, to just blow off my head, all my mean spirits disappearing with a gun blast, like blowing a seedy dandelion apart.

Why else would you pull out a dead little girl's teeth?" "He took her teeth?" "All but the back part of a baby molar.

Fact: Somewhere around 2 a.m. on January 3, 1985, a person or persons killed three members of the Day family in their farmhouse in Kinnakee, Kansas. The deceased include Michelle Day, age ten; Debby Day, age nine; and the family matriarch, Patty Day, age thirty-two. Michelle Day was strangled; Debby Day died of axe wounds, Patty Day of two shotgun wounds, axe wounds, and deep cuts from a Bowie hunting knife.

Strangling is the very definition of dominance. Slow-motion murder.