Quotes About Violence

We do not deride the fears of prospering white America. A nation of violence and private property has every reason to dread the violated and the deprived.

They blew up your homes and demolished the grocery / stores and blocked the Red Cross and took away doctors / to jail and they cluster-bombed girls and boys / whose bodies / swelled purple and black into twice the original size / and tore the buttocks from a four month old baby / and then / they said this was brilliant

Called her a whore and attacked her walls, tearing down her posters and throwing her books everywhere. I found out because some whitegirl ran up and said, Excuse me, but your stupid roommate is going insane, and I had to bolt upstairs and put him in a headlock.

Shot at twenty-seven times - what a Dominican number...

You'd think, given the blood we see, that there's a great war going on out in the world. Just the one inside of bodies, the new girl says.

You'd think, given the blood we see, that there's a great war going on out in the world. Just the one inside of bodies, the new girl says.

Dale un galletazo

Steven Pinker, a prominent Harvard professor who has devoted more than ten years to studying the decline in violence, the conclusion is evident: We live in the most peaceful era ever.

Today, you're more likely to drown in a swimming pool than die a violent death. That's a luxury no one outside this generation has ever known.1

The floor was slick with blood, so much blood that he felt his feet sliding on it, the grease of human remains.

Nevertheless, I stabbed him.

I wanted to kill them. No, not kill. "Kill" is too dull a word for that which I desired. I wanted to annihilate them. I wanted to tear them limb from limb. I wanted to crack their bones and bury my face in the wet remains. I wanted to reach inside their chests and yank out their hearts and devour the bloody meat as the last stray current twitched the muscle and watch their faces as they died.

qué me ves puto», era cosa de mala suerte o de tiempo. «¿Y de qué murió?». «Lo mataron porque vio feo a alguien». «Bueno, entonces es su culpa. ¿A

When she started crying, all he wanted to do was hit her.

Bloody doctor hadn't got there yet; if he'd been there, I'd have smashed his face in for not being there yet—which is how your mind works when you're in that sort of a state.

I could unleash violence and death on women and children in Mahec, but I could no more hit a woman than fly in the air; because I'm civilised, I suppose.

And they served me a lot of free drinks. So I drank a little more than I should have, maybe. So some of what happened I don't remember too well. But there was a lot of shouting." "You must have killed somebody," said Smith. "Yes, I think I did," Lord Eyrdway agreed.

Hat dich jemand gesehen?«, fragte sie. »Ich hab jeden erschossen, der mir auf der Straße begegnet ist.« »Gut so.«

Die Schaulustigen, denen es egal war, was sie begafften. Einen Unfall. Einen Amoklauf. Einen zu Tode gelangweilten Filmstar.

Behauptet das nicht jeder von sich, der Bomben zündet und Leute umbringt? Dass es gute Gründe dafür gibt? Dass es nur die Schuldigen trifft? Was soll das überhaupt heißen, schuldig und unschuldig?

If he was scared enough to try to kill me, it wasn't without a cause.", FADE by Kailin Gow

Fain would we remain barbarians, if our claim to civilization were to be based on the gruesome glory of war.

There were moments, Hasan, when I like to think that the stars are bullet-holes. For every bullet shot by an oppressor there springs to life a star, with so great a radiance that it can never be put out, it can never be imprisoned. But if that really were true, the last three months in this city would have erased every trace of blackness from the sky.

Gone was the slightest implication of compassion if it had ever existed before. "I have seen young boys burned alive," he said. "I have seen Iranian and Iraqi boys tearing each other literally with their nails and teeth. It is raging hate against raging hate.