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Quotes About Violence

It is the quietest and meekest people who are often capable of the most sudden and unexpected violences for the reason that when their control does snap, it goes entirely. (Hercule Poirot)
~ Agatha Christie
Murder is a nasty business on an empty stomach.
~ Agatha Christie
A murderer is seldom content with one crime.
~ Agatha Christie
Does a man who commits suicide stab himself in ten—twelve—fifteen places?" he asked. Poirot's eyes opened. "That is great ferocity," he said. "It is a woman," said the chef de train, speaking for the first time. "Depend upon it, it was a woman. Only a woman would stab like that.
~ Agatha Christie
And, frankly, I don't like murder. It's the sort of thing that's fun to read about in the paper or to read yourself to sleep with in the way of a nice book. But the real thing isn't so good.
~ Agatha Christie
Conversation, my friend. Conversation and again conversation! All the murderers I have ever come across enjoyed talking. In my opinion the strong silent man seldom commits a crime—and if he does it is simple, violent, and perfectly obvious. But our clever subtle murderer—he is so pleased with himself that sooner or later he says something unfortunate and trips himself up.
~ Agatha Christie
Flog this man to death and throw him out in the rubbish heap!
~ Agatha Christie
It is the quietest and meekest people who are often capable of the most sudden and unexpected violence for the reason that when their control does snap, it does so entirely!
~ Agatha Christie
That was what murder was-as easy as that! But afterwards you went on remembering...
~ Agatha Christie
Now you must realize this, Hastings. Everyone is a potential murderer. In everyone there arises from time to time the wish to kill—though not the will to kill. How often have you not felt or heard others say: 'She made me so furious
~ Agatha Christie
From what you read and hear nowadays, it seems that murder under certain aspects is slowly but surely being made acceptable to a large section of the community." She
~ Agatha Christie
As pessoas mais caladas e submissas são muitas vezes capazes da violência mais repentina e inesperada, pois quando perdem o controle, elas o perdem por inteiro!
~ Agatha Christie
A murderer is seldom content with one crime. Give him time, and a lack of suspicion, and he'll commit another
~ Agatha Christie
But I've always found that those who talk most about blood have never actually seen it run.
~ Agatha Christie
Men get killed and nobody minds.
~ Agatha Christie
But murder's a violent crime. Associate it more with a man." -- Evelyn Howard
~ Agatha Christie
I felt somehow I ought to warn her. I felt that perhaps she didn't know how stupid and unreasoning and violent jealousy and hate can be—and how little it takes to set them smouldering.
~ Agatha Christie
A person who had killed three times wouldn't hesitate to kill again…. They were in danger,
~ Agatha Christie
She began laughing wildly again. Dr. Armstrong strode forward. He raised his hand and struck her a flat blow on the cheek. She gasped, hiccupped—and swallowed. She stood motionless a minute, then she said: "Thank you … I'm all right now.
~ Agatha Christie
It mightn't have been at all. It might be just some mentally disturbed nut who liked killing people and whose idea of playing with water is to push somebody's head under it and hold it there.
~ Agatha Christie
We are not pleasant people here, for the story of war is always the story of hate; it makes no difference with whom one fights. The hate destroys you.
~ Agnes Newton Keith
Dr Leila Gupta found that most children had witnessed extreme violence and did not expect to survive. Two-thirds of the children interviewed had seen somebody killed by a rocket and scattered corpses or body parts. More than 70 per cent had lost a family member and no longer trusted adults. 'They all suffer from flashbacks, nightmares and loneliness. Many said they felt their life was not worth living anymore,' said Dr Gupta. Every norm of family life had been destroyed in the war.
~ Ahmed Rashid
The so-called peace path is not peace and it is not a substitute for jihad and resistance.
~ Ahmed Yassin
plus lastly, It shouldnt matter who you are (or) what your work place is. Self-defense is Self-defense. No one has the right to lay any pyshical abuse on "ANYONE .
~ Aileen Wuornos