Quotes About Violence

It is essential to emphasize that violence against women is a key element in this new global war, not only because of the horror it evokes or the messages it sends but because of what women represent in their capacity to keep their communities together and, equally important, to defend noncommercial conceptions of security and wealth.

Efetivamente, num sistema em que a vida está subordinada à produção de lucro, a acumulação de força de trabalho só pode ser alcançada com o máximo de violência para que, nas palavras de Maria Mies, a própria violência se transforme na força mais produtiva.

Uma vez mais, muito da violência empregada é dirigida contra as mulheres, porque, na era do computador, a conquista do corpo feminino continua sendo uma precondição para a acumulação de trabalho e riqueza, tal como demonstra o investimento institucional no desenvolvimento de novas tecnologias reprodutivas que, mais do que nunca, reduzem as mulheres a meros ventres.

a transição para o capitalismo é uma questão primordial para a teoria feminista, já que a redefinição das tarefas produtivas e reprodutivas e as relações homem-mulher nesse período, ambas realizadas com máxima violência e intervenção estatal, não deixam dúvidas quanto ao caráter construído dos papéis sexuais na sociedade capitalista.

War is the remedy for peace.

The day it all went wrong for me was 11 August 1989. That was the day I killed a man for the first time.

There'll always be small, bitter people ready to follow some charismatic leader who promises them peace and happiness through justified violence and the killing of scapegoats.

No more shooting from anyone. Or I am going to get seriously cranky with everyone. Suddenly, and violently and all over the place.

In Russia the government is autocracy tempered by strangulation," quipped the French woman of letters Madame de Staël. It was a dangerous job. Six of the last twelve tsars were murdered—two by throttling, one by dagger, one by dynamite, two by bullet. In the final catastrophe in 1918, eighteen Romanovs were killed. Rarely was a chalice so rich and so poisonous. I

Fulk the Black, Count of Anjou and founder of the Angevin dynasty that later ruled England, came on pilgrimage after he had burned his wife alive in her wedding-dress having found her guilty of adultery with a swineherd.

War was simply a slaughterhouse on wheels, he thought. For most men, soldiering was tragedy expressed as a profession.

1847, the Emperor's favourite, but: the Preobrazhensky Regiment... got totally drunk. The Pavlovsky, our revolutionary buttress, also couldn't resist. We sent guards from other picked units - all got utterly drunk. We posted guards from the Regimental Committees - they succumbed as well. We despatched armoured cars to drive away the crowd, but after a while they also began to weave suspiciously. When evening came, a violent bacchanalia overflowed.

spoken to Malamore like this, ever. He wheeled around towards Dirlewanger,

around the streets, some of the troops started firing haphazardly at burzoi shoppers on Nevsky Prospect. Gunfights broke out. Out at the Kronstadt naval base, Bolshevik sailors rose up, murdered 120 officers, including their admiral, and then demanded that Lenin, Zinoviev and Kamenev give them their orders to take the capital.

Love is also a violence, and cannot be undone.

This is perhaps the most chilling moment in Mark's account. The crowd is asked a simple question, which it refuses to answer, offering only a call for violence. The moment might stand as a warning about all those times when fear, anger, prejudice, blind obedience or blood-lust blank out reason and justice.

The Emperor was a bitter, cruel, unpredictable and depraved man, not above murdering people he perceived as his enemies, even if they were relatives.

For much of the seventeenth century the border between the Habsburgs and the Ottomans had been relatively quiet – relatively in the sense that large-scale raiding did happen (baking in a level of violence which we would consider scarcely credible) but it was not by the standards of the time serious.

She checked herself in the mirror. She was a roadmap of violence.

I've had more students die than I ever thought possible. My husband urges me to quit Fairfield and teach at some school without gang members who live their lives only to die or end up as drug dealers.

As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles.

Once upon a time, the human species became the most dangerous creatures on earth.

The house of everyone is to him as his castle and fortress, as well for his defense against injury and violence as for his repose.

Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them.