Quotes About Violence

Banning gun shows to reduce violent crime will work about as well as banning auto shows to reduce drunken driving.

War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.

When language fails, violence becomes a language.

Lucas grabs a pair of barber shears and presses a blade into Capone's jugular vein. "Yeah, I know who you are, grease ball. And if you don't get back to the end of the line, I'm going to know who you were.

Killing those husbands and fathers and sons will impede the nation's healing.

The assassin is immediately punched in the head by a nearby spectator, then gang-tackled by the crowd. Hinckley is buried beneath several hundred pounds of angry citizens as Secret Service agents try to take him alive. Ironically, their job is to now protect Hinckley with the same vigor they devote to protecting the president.

Most of these guerrilla actions take place during daylight, but during the blinding full moon of October, when the night sky is bright, Indian raids take on a brand-new form of terror. This "Comanche Moon" period means attacks can come at any time. Wherever the Comanche raid, whether by night or day, a trail of violence follows. Vengeance-seeking warriors mutilate and murder most of the men, gang-rape the women, and slaughter the infants, if only because babies

The American people are unique in that their considerable political passion is expressed at the ballot box, not through violence directed at their leaders, whom they can vote out of office.

But Hitler is not tranquil. His right eardrum was ruptured in the bomb blast during the assassination attempt and has only recently stopped bleeding. That same blast hurled him to a concrete floor, bruising his buttocks "as blue as a baboon's behind" and filling his legs with wooden splinters as it ripped his black uniform pants to shreds. However

The whites have shown themselves capable of great brutality toward the Indians of the Northern Plains. The Americans should expect the same in return.

his brain splattered all over the trunk of a car.

In total, as of this writing in October 2015, there have been 972 mass shootings since the Sandy Hook murders, resulting in at least 1,217 people dead and 3,509 wounded.

What I don't know is the other thing. Why don't people commit murders? Why are there so few? What is there about killers that makes them…I don't know…free from whatever hampers all the rest of us?

Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world's problems?

It is my fondest desire to bust a host of caps into multitudes of fleshy personages.

A perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquility.

If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.

I would rather have been shot straight-up in cold blood-but to be set up? By people who you trusted? That's bad.

A woman would never make a nuclear bomb. They would never make a weapon that kills - no, no. They'd make a weapon that makes you feel bad for a while.

I do believe that we should keep guns out of the hands of terrorists, would-be terrorists, and a lot of other people.

Would-be terrorists cannot so much as board a plane without a thorough screening, yet we give them nearly unfettered access to very dangerous weapons.

Terrorism has become a festering wound. It is an enemy of humanity.

In 'Se7en' and 'Fight Club,' Fincher proved his suave mastery of film violence; in Zodiac, his way of clarifying the many clues in a murder thriller. As he showed in 'The Social Network,' the director also knows that no wound is more toxic than a friend's betrayal.

I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.