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Quotes About Violence

Vig walked back to his truck. That's when Stieg drily asked, "Do you need another minute to blush coquettishly and dream about your perfect white wedding?" As Vig walked around the front of his vehicle, he grabbed Stieg by the hair and slammed him face-first into the hood.
~ Shelly Laurenston
So what's going on?" Livy asked after spitting out a bit more blood. "Got a job for you." "Will I be whoring?" "Not this time. I'm sorry." "You know how I love to whore," Livy stated with that flat tone that freaked people out, because no one ever knew whether she was joking or not.
~ Shelly Laurenston
My brother got shot three times two months ago, and he didn't get the fever." "I bet your family gets shot at a lot, huh?
~ Shelly Laurenston
He didn't. But I didn't beat him up," Lock quickly added. "I…I simply threw him five…or maybe it was fifty feet into a tree." The two friends gazed at each other for a long moment. Finally, Lock shrugged. "That does make it all kind of awkward, doesn't it?
~ Shelly Laurenston
Mace really wanted to shift right then and there. Rip the mans throat out and bring his lifeless corpse back to Dez as a kinda pre-wedding gift. Although right in the middle of Macy's ...that might be a bit tacky. Even for him.
~ Shelly Laurenston
I'm basically like, you know, learned pretty quickly the guy who throws the first punch usually wins, so when people gave me a hard time I just punched them.
~ Quentin Tarantino
Sure. Knock yourself out. No, really. Hammer to the head, works every time." Claire
~ Rachel Caine
And it's time as a country that we have an assault weapon ban.
~ Rahm Emanuel
The bastards have never been bombed like they're going to be bombed this time.
~ Richard M. Nixon
If you try to turn me against Lissa one more time the stories are going to be about you bleeding because I'll have ripped your throat out!
~ Richelle Mead
Liberating Iraq from a legacy of violence and putting it on the path to peace and prosperity will take time.
~ George Voinovich
I have a hard time watching people getting punched on screen; I have to close my eyes a lot.
~ Gillian Jacobs
In fact I didn't think about fear much at the time. I felt angry about everything that was happening around me: the violence of the dictatorship and the violence of society.
~ Hassan Blasim
I hear about people getting shot all the time. But most of the guys you hear about getting shot pulled through.
~ Ice Cube
I think to put death on screen where it isn't that turns it into comic book time and there I think by desensitizing an audience, you really do open the possibility that someone is going to kill.
~ Joe Eszterhas
Boxing is strange to watch. It's impossible to take your eyes off of it. Part of our brains like to watch violence. At the same time, it's horrifying to watch two men try to knock each other out.
~ Jonathan Eig
Peace needs and takes time, it needs and takes caution, it needs and takes patience after 30 years of terrorism and violence.
~ Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
For ages men had used sticks to club and spear each other—Anaximander of Miletus used the stick to measure time.
~ Carl Sagan, Cosmos
Every day in America is a day with a shooting.
~ Bill Maher
A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort ... is not strictly speaking a society, but a mob held together by institutionalized gang violence.
~ Ayn Rand
When it becomes a bloody reality, we have to come together and look at what can be done to return to the order of peace, ... There is no alternative to it.
~ Shimon Peres
If my mama and daddy would've stayed together, one of them would've been dead, and the other would have been locked up for it.
~ Trick Daddy
No nation can be really great that is held together by Gatling guns, and no true loyalty can be induced and kept through fear.
~ Clarence Darrow
A single bomb of this type, carried by boat and exploded in a port, might very well destroy the whole port, together with some of the surrounding territory.
~ Albert Einstein