Quotes About Violence

The potency of Al Qaeda's ideas and tactics further challenged a Pakistani state that was weak, divided, complacent, and complicit about Islamist ideology and violence. These consequences were not fully apparent that December, but they would rapidly metastasize.

These are the methods of crude men. They can't face the challenge that a safe presents to them. They can't face the safe on its own terms. So they do what? Same thing men have been doing for thousands of years, right? They resort to violence." He grabbed the dolly and tucked it under the safe. "No patience. No skill. No intelligence. Just brute strength. They have to break something. It's the only way they know.

No patience. No skill. No intelligence. Just brute strength. They have to break something. It's the only way they know.

she instead pictured Lady Catherine de Bourgh's bloody, broken body at her feet. It proved a more comforting thought.

What Harry means is, he has a taste for "felonious voyeurism." It happens. Lawyers, judges, cops, and jurors all find themselves titillated from time to time by the stories of violence, drugs, and sex. The criminal side of the law provides a window on the dark side of life that exists nowhere else.

By the age of 18, the average American has witnessed 200,000 acts of violence on television, most of them occurring during Game 1 of the NHL playoff series.

I've been hearing about how good and kind and merciful that old boy is upstairs, but I've read the Old Testament. You just take a look at all the folks that Jehovah decreed needed to burned or sacked and smited out of their homes. That old fellow is a psychopathic serial killer, you just check the facts.

I once had someone explain to me that we don't have real interactions with people, we have interactions with the image of those people we carry in our heads. I don't know. Maybe. But I figure if I stick a Great Weapon into a guy's eye, it's close enough to a real interaction for most purposes.

They're worth being scared of," I said. "They'd kill without a second thought." "I hate to say this, Boss, but so would you." "Yeah, but I'm a nice guy.

Power is violence, its promise, its deed. Power cares nothing for reason, nothing for justice, nothing for compassion. It is, in fact, the singular abnegation of these things – once the cloak of deceits is stripped away, this one truth is revealed.

witness two scenes. In one, an angry, bitter man beats another man to death in an alley in the Gadrobi District. In the other, a man of vast wealth conspires with equally wealthy compatriots to raise yet again the price of grain, making the cost of simple bread so prohibitive that families starve, are led into lives of crime, and die young. Are both acts of violence?

The gentler and kinder the god, the more harsh and cruel its worshippers, for they hold to their conviction with taut certainty, febrile in its extremity, and so cannot abide dissenters. They will kill, they will torture, in that god's name. And see in themselves no conflict, no matter how bloodstained their hands.

Pogroms need no reason, sir, none that can weather challenge, in any case. Difference in kind is the first recognition, the only one needed, in fact. Land, domination, pre-emptive attacks—all just excuses, mundane justifications that do nothing but disguise the simple distinction. They are not us. We are not them.

But Hood was not yet done with her. He swung her up again, spun and once more hammered her onto the stone. 'I have had,' the Jaghut roared, and into the air she went again, and down once more, 'enough' - with a sob the crushed, broken body was yanked from the ground again - 'of- 'your- justice!

War is not a natural state. It is an imposition, and a damned unhealthy one. With its rules, we willingly yield our humanity.

I slap people in public, especially erring policemen. I can even challenge them to a duel. I am a gunfighter.

In a perfect world, I don't think any man should slap anyone.

I have never slapped a boy in my life except for my brother.

The slasher film is such a neat, self-contained genre.

It is so hard nowadays to find a movie that I like. I don't mind blood and gore. But I mind when its a slasher film, and its some guy looking for women. I am opposed to that kind of thing. Blood and gore? I love that kind of thing.

I've never done a horror movie, like a full-on gore slasher film.

Well when I hear 'slasher' I think about the 80s.

What you don't want is for violence and gore to become more important than character and structure. A lot of slasher movies from the eighties were only focused on violence and gore, which robs the human beings in the story of any empathetic reaction from the audience, and instead makes them cheer for the gore.

Enormous slaughter may have been acceptable in previous centuries. It simply isn't acceptable anymore.