Quotes About Violence

When you read and wonder, for six seconds, about the random pointless violence of these days, then are blissful it was not you, having, really, a better day, stop and think: Could not these felons be, really, God's children loose, adept, so hungry and correct in our world?

At some critical point, accommodation and cooperation replace violence and exploitation, or humanity's fate is delivered into the hands of barbarians.

There had never been a killing like it.

It is also the portrait of Christ many people prefer today. It is a portrait that enables and encourages Jesus's followers to embrace violence, vengeance, domination, and exploitation, to do whatever it takes to assert their will on others.

You may think God is justified in his anger. But having infants dashed to pieces and pregnant mothers ripped open?

Shiny happy people don't hold guns in their laps that way.

But the pistol, this Walther...it was as if it had been made for the express purpose of shooting people. With a chill Richie realized that was why it had been made. What else could you do with a pistol? Use it to light your cigarettes?

An estimated 14,000 Muslims were slaughtered, many of them machine-gunned; the city was looted, then burned.

Arab terrorist, international hitman, it's all a bit Andy McNab, isn't it?

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And after we've killed

What kind of degenerate thinks it is manly to beat a woman—that he is somehow affirming his superior status in the world through violence against those he is intended to protect?

Unfortunately, we live in a world where religion seems as likely to detonate a bomb as to defuse one. So while we need idealism, we need realism even more. We need to understand religious people as they are—not just at their best but also their worst.

In perfect unison, all the townspeople vomited gouts of blood onto the pavement.

All that Desecration—ravage and rapine—for a false hope.

As with Randall Terry and other anti-abortion leaders, women simply did not figure into [Roeder's] equations. If all the abortion providers were dead, the problem would be solved, and he'd never have to think about those who sought to end their pregnancies through illegal or dangerous means.

Results showed that areas of the brain linked with emotion and empathy (the cingulate cortex and the amygdala) were less active during violent video gaming . . . These areas must be suppressed during violent video gaming, just as they would be in real life, in order to act violently without hesitation.

Guns might be called the hardware of this equation of violence. Emotions were the software—and just as important when deciding whether or not to pick up a firearm.

a term employed by law enforcement and mental health experts when trying to identify dangerous students or others before they become murderers. The term is "leakage," which means that signs of trouble or potential violence can leak out of kids as warning signals in advance of bloodshed.

More bloodshed followed, as brother fought brother and religion battled religion in the age-old nonsense of settling whose method of worship was the holiest to our Creator, who, for all our murderous efforts, most likely despises the lot of us.

Kill her! Do it now! Gut her remains and sink the evidence, then fly home in a week

What happens when the hitcher and the driver are equally murderous?

As I said, the people are tired of atoning for the sins of another generation. They see foreigners as a constant reminder of that. Can't you see? Continuous apologies only fuel the fires of discontent. What is reported there in the newspaper is a prime example of what I am saying. Acts of violence like that are merely reflections of collective frustration. - Kurt Eisunhuth

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