Quotes About Violence

many people, not just Americans, make the mistake of taking it neat. He explained how Scotch is made, saying, 'Fer heaven's sake, we add bloody water to it with great violence before we put it in the bloody bottle.' He explained how adding a splash of water opens the spirit up, unfolding layers of complexity on the tongue.

A boy I know named Michael, the oldest often children, came home one night intoxicated with E. When he saw the family's pet Labrador in the kitchen he strangled it to death, convinced that it was the devil. The dog bit him and there was blood all over the kitchen. The siblings who ran in to watch the aftermath of the scene were traumatized. Michael is now in drug rehab recovering from addiction.

The beating soon had Laurelene nearly senseless. The carbineer began to tear away her hempcloth robe and when she tried to crawl away he dragged her back and punched her face until she lay unresisting, her legs bare and apart. He's done this before, so this is what it's like to be violated, she thought as he settled down on top of her with a long, shuddering sigh. Anything, anything, just no more beating, she thought, her eyes closed.

To the Sith, violence was an art form. To Master Satele, it seemed like life itself.

Buried in the Air under a mountain of irrelevant information, as all important things are. Nothing is hidden, and everything is ignored. The surveillance state doesn't need violence to perpetrate injustice. All it needs is our indifference.

The knives opened the flesh like they were painting paintings of a new country, sheer plains of dark land, with the red rivers bursting their banks everywhere, till we were sloshing in God knows what and the dry earth was suddenly turned to noisy mud. The Shawnees ate the lights raw. Their mouths were sinkholes of dark blood.

Some men make flower beds, and some men kill.

Killing hurts the heart and soils the soul.

It wasn't a crime to beat an Indian, not at all.

and the force of public opinion, tiny though the public here may be, is a thing so violent violence is not needed to carry it.

Else what was happening was, I was going to be beaten up every time I was in town. It was English kept me from that. Some straggly farmhand might look at you and see the dark skin and the black hair and think that gave him a right to knock you down and kick you. No one saying boo to him for that. No sheriff or deputy neither.

She was trying to wash the violence off of him.

Angst ist ein schlecht dressierter Kampfhund, den man nicht an der Leine halten kann, wenn er Blut wittert.

Jeder Mensch trägt die Fähigkeit des Tötens in sich. Jeder hat einen Punkt, an dem er zerbricht. Zum Glück gibt es nur wenige, die die Skrupellosigkeit besitzen, diesen psychischen Nullpunkt bei anderen zu finden.

La razón más sencilla y, con sólo profundizar un poco, la más intrínseca en la mayoría de los casos fue el miedo. Golpear para no pertenecer al grupo de los golpeados.

It may be worth considering whether middle-class American life—for all its material good fortune—has lost some essential sense of unity that might otherwise discourage alienated men from turning apocalyptically violent.

Because modern society has almost completely eliminated trauma and violence from everyday life, anyone who does suffer those things is deemed to be extraordinarily unfortunate. This gives people access to sympathy and resources but also creates an identity of victimhood that can delay recovery.

Detective you have to arrest her. You have to arrest her and put her to death. Not just the regular death penalty - that's not good enough for her. I want her to hang by her heels, rip her to shreds, burn her till she's black, and pull out her hair, strand by strand.

The claim most often repeated by Karadzic - that people of different nationalities couldn't live together in Bosnia - was simply a euphemism for racism. The truth was quite the opposite: peoples of different cultures had lived together for so long in Bosnia, and the ethnic mix was so deep, that any separation could only be accomplished through extreme violence and enormous bloodshed.

A sword never kills anybody it is a tool in the killer's hand.

Quemadmodum gladius neminem occidit, occidentis telum est. Translated: A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer's hand.

If they do anything to me, just skin them alive, sweetheart," I said. "I'll do more than that-- I'll make them eat their own skins.

Aliviado de su arrepentimiento (esa suspensión del ser en la que uno empieza a darse cuenta de qué es lo que ha hecho), apenas cinco minutos después Nudler ya era de nuevo el mismo que era la primera vez que lo vi, y seguramente el mismo que unas horas atrás había golpeado a Trini.

A la pérdida del olfato (una cosa terrible, vi un documental sobre el tema el otro día. Vera, Vera, vamos, Vera, vení). A la policía. A los estadios de fútbol. A las tormentas eléctricas. A la soledad. A las muchedumbres. A la violencia. A la vejez. Al sida, al cáncer (entra en enfermedad). A la impotencia (¿entra en soledad?). A los ladrones. A la electricidad. A sufrir (entran todos los miedos juntos y se agrega el amor).