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Quotes About Violence

Me desperté en el sofá de mi hermana con una resaca terrible y el deseo de asesinar a mi esposa.
~ Gillian Flynn
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. So
~ Gillian Flynn
Ça a toujours été le cas. Les gens voulaient toujours savoir : quel genre de femme se fait assassiner par son propre fils ?
~ Gillian Flynn
But the sight of it actually does something to you, makes you less human. Like watching a rape and saying nothing.
~ Gillian Flynn
People always were , they always wanted to know, what kind of women gets slaughtered by her own son?
~ Gillian Flynn
In view of the consistently violent aggression of the German Empire between 1860 and 1918, Palmerston's prescience is remarkable.
~ Gillian Gill
Come può un'organizzazzione che si occupa delle vittime di guerra andarsene via, quando la guerra si fa più vicina e più violenta? E cosa diciamo al nostro staff e ai nosti pazienti: è stato bello, ma in fondo era un gioco, arrivederci e grazie, e scusate il disturbo?
~ Gino Strada
In religion, precise truth has almost no currency. True believers will kill and destroy to defend their inaccurate beliefs.
~ Glen Cook
Limper flopped violently. The gag flew out of his mouth. His ankle bonds parted. He gained his feet, tried to run, tried to mouth some spell that would protect him. He had gone thirty feet when a thousand fiery snakes streaked out of the night and swarmed him. They covered his body. They slithered into his mouth and nose, into his eyes and ears. They went in the easy way and came gnawing out through his back and chest and belly. And he screamed. And screamed. And screamed.
~ Glen Cook
In this wealthy, technologically advanced, highly educated nation, more and more of our darkest children are dying on the streets--literally. Still, this uncontested reality polarizes adults along racial lines, not as we attempt to discover meaningful solutions to these brutal slaughters but in our racially balkanized expression of beliefs and determinations regarding the cause of these senseless deaths.
~ Glenn E. Singleton
1.200 metros por segundo recorre una bala, y el ruido del disparo suena a odio.
~ Gloria Fuertes
It's a pleasure to see you again, Doctor, Nellie said sweetly. It would be an even greater pleasure to take a baseball bat to your lousy head.
~ Gordon Korman
I believe there's something very salutary in, say, beating up a gay-bashing policeman. Preferably one fights through the courts, through the laws, through education, but if at a neighborhood level violence is necessary, I'm all for violence. It's the only thing Americans understand.
~ Gore Vidal
Once people get hung up on theology, they've lost sanity forever. More people have been killed in the name of Jesus Christ than any other name in the history of the world.
~ Gore Vidal
Not only are the male students drawn to violence (at second hand), they are also quite totalitarian-minded, even for Americans, and I am convinced that any attractive television personality who wanted to become our dictator would have their full support.
~ Gore Vidal
A red face poked through the hole in the window and bellowed, "There they are, the Ã¢â'¬Â¦Ã¢â'¬Â We never heard just what we were, for Mr. Davis in a swift gesture raised his cane and cracked smartly the red face. "Out, you whoreson!" rang the voice of Tammany's one-time Grand Sachem. The red face was seen no more.
~ Gore Vidal
As we left the bar, we saw two men fighting at the wooden pump. One was short and stocky: he was pummelling a tall gangling creature with loose flapping arms ... Edwin Forrest was giving a much deserved beating to William de la Touche Clancey, the Tory sodomite.
~ Gore Vidal
Gewalt! Gewalt! wer kann der Gewalt nicht trotzen? Was Gewalt heisst, ist nichts: Verführung ist die wahre Gewalt.
~ Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
He struck her so hard he broke her ribs and gave her scars for life.
~ Grace Norwich
The 20th century is the probably most hideous ugly century of the history of the human race. More people were killed by war in the 20th century than ever in history.
~ Graham E. Fuller
I could never have been a pacifist. To kill a man was surely to grant him an immeasurable benefit. Oh yes, people always, everywhere, loved their enemies. It was their friends they preserved for pain and vacuity.
~ Graham Greene
The Church is in the world, it is part of the suffering in the world, and though Christ condemned the disciple who struck off the ear of the high priest's servant, our hearts go out in sympathy to all who are moved to violence by the suffering of others. The Church condemns violence, but it condemns indifference more harshly. Violence can be the expression of love, indifference never. One is an imperfection of charity, the other the perfection of egoism.
~ Graham Greene
Perhaps to the soldier the civilian is the man who employs him to kill, who includes the guilt of murder in the pay-envelope and escapes responsibility.
~ Graham Greene
He wasn't a patient. I expect someone cured him. You cure a lot of people in this country, don't you, with bullets?
~ Graham Greene