Quotes About Violence

It has been curiously remarked by St. Andrew Avellino that those who have a special devotion to the Passion generally die quiet and sweet deaths, as the Virgin Mary, St. John the Evangelist, and St. Mary Magdalen did. Certainly it is remarkable that, while most of those close to Our Lord died violent deaths, the three who assisted at Calvary should have died so softly, as if already their real death had been died there.

I could kill that guy and eat it afterwards...

Man is the cruelest animal.

We don't even use the word terror anymore. There's only 'man-made disasters' caused by disenfranchised groups who are really just 'misunderstood.

the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and John F. Kennedy, the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Final Solution, "9-11." We might even be able to rattle off the dates of these awful events—but the lesson, we haven't yet absorbed. And until we really learn it, kids will keep getting new dates to memorize for history class.

The fundamental premises of the law are mischief for mischief, magic for magic, violence for violence.

Renford's father got me from behind with a hoe.

Spook smiled. "Elend is a forgetful scholar - twice as bad as Sazed ever was. He gets lost in his books and forgets about meeting he himself called. He only dresses with any sense of fashion because a Terriswoman bought him a new wardrobe. War has change him some, but on the inside, I think he's still just a dreamer caught in a world with too much violence.

If you had to shoot a man, society had already failed.

All the world does as it is supposed to, except for humans. Maybe that's why you so often want to kill each other.

City folk, particularly politicians, were intimidated by small arms. They preferred to kill people with more modern weapons, like poverty and despair.

Of course not. I'd have shot you right in the head, Wayne." "You're a good friend," Wayne said. "Thanks, Wax." "You're the only person I know that I can cheer up by promising to kill him.

He was protecting. He was saving. Yet he was killing. How could something so terrible be so beautiful at the same time?

Mate, it ain't violence if it's religion.

I thought I'd gotten over feeling like I need to strangle members of this team. Turns out my desire to murder Cody in a violent, dehumanizing fashion had nothing to do with the darkness. It was completely natural.

Your way would have involved making several more corpses. Well, I am a sword, Nightblood said with a mental huff. Might as well stick to what you're good at.…

People rarely want to kill, David. It's not the basic makeup of the healthy human mind. In most situations they will go to great lengths to avoid killing. Remember that, and it will help you.

Wayne recognized him. The fellow had tried to shoot him, so Wayne had broken his arm with a dueling cane. Downright rude, trying to shoot like that. When a fellow pulls out a dueling cane, you should respond with one of your own—or at least a knife. Trying to shoot Wayne was like bringing dice to a card game. What was the world coming to?

It was gratifying to see how much one could accomplish in both politics and trade by liberally murdering the other fellow's soldiers.

At that moment, Kaladin knew he could kill, if he needed to. Some people—like a festering finger or a leg shattered beyond repair—just needed to be removed.

How quickly we come around,' Sazed whispered. 'It wasn't long ago that men were forced to watch the Lord Ruler cut the heads from innocent people. Now we do it to ourselves.

He felt an immediate spike of panic—which he shot in the head and dumped in a lake.

It wasn't time for a show. It was time for a beating.

I like cutting off toes," Tonk Fah noted. "That's different," Denth said. "You wouldn't do it simply because your contract ran out, would you?" "Nah," Tonk Fah said. "Toes is toes.