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Quotes About Violence

people don't respect the morning. An alarm clock violently wakes them up, shatters their sleep like the blow of an ax, and they immediately surrender themselves to deadly haste. Can you tell me what kind of day can follow a beginning of such violence? What happens to people whose alarm clock daily gives them a small electric shock? Each day they become more used to violence and less used to pleasure.
~ Milan Kundera
The phrase It's absolutely the same with me, I... seems to be an approving echo, a way of continuing the other's thought, but that is an illusion: in reality it is a brute revolt against a brutal violence, an effort to free our own ear from bondage and to occupy the enemy's ear by force. Because all of man's life among his kind is nothing other than a battle to seize the ear of others.
~ Milan Kundera
Aren't we living in a world where heedless men only desire decapitated women?
~ Milan Kundera
In this country people don't respect the morning. An alarm clock violently wakes them up, shatters their sleep like the blow of an ax, and they immediately surrender themselves to deadly haste. Can you tell me what kind of day can follow a beginning of such violence? What happens to people whose alarm clock daily gives them a small electric shock? Each day they become more used to violence and less used to pleasure. Believe me, it is the mornings that determine a man's character.
~ Milan Kundera
There are things that can be accomplished only by violence. Physical love is unthinkable without violence.
~ Milan Kundera
Hate traps us by binding us too tightly to our adversary. This is the obscenity of war: the intimacy of mutually shed blood, the lascivious proximity of two soldiers who, eye to eye, bayonet each other.
~ Milan Kundera
How did the senator know that children meant happiness? Could he see into their souls? What if the moment they were out of sight, three of them jumped the fourth and began beating him up?
~ Milan Kundera
When a person is clubbed violently on the head, he collapses and stops breathing. Some day, he will stop breathing anyway.
~ Milan Kundera
Homer never wondered whether, after their many hand-to-hand struggles, Achilles or Ajax still had all their teeth.
~ Milan Kundera
Let the planet be convulsed with exploding bombs.
~ Milan Kundera
The physical contact with people who struck and trampled and killed one another seemed far worse to him than a solitary death in the purity of the waters.
~ Milan Kundera
What drove such people to their sinister occupations? Spite? Certainly, but also the desire for order. Because the desire for order tries to transform the human world into an inorganic reign in which everything goes well, everything functions as a subject of an impersonal will. The desire for order is at the same time a desire for death, because life is a perpetual violation of order. Or, inversely, the desire for order is a virtuous pretext by which man's hatred for man justifies its crimes.
~ Milan Kundera
O desejo de ordem é, ao mesmo tempo desejo de morte, porque a vida é perpétua violação da ordem. Ou, inversamente, o desejo de ordem é um pretexto virtuoso através do qual o ódio do homem pelo homem justifica as suas malfeitorias.
~ Milan Kundera
Sabe quem são aqui os misóginos mais violentos? As mulheres. (...) Porque pensam vocês que elas se esforçam por nos seduzir? Unicamente para poderem desafiar e humilhar as suas congéneres. Deus inculcou no coração das mulheres o ódio pelas outras mulheres porque queria que o género humano se multiplicasse.
~ Milan Kundera
Bedensel sevgi ÅŸiddetsiz düÅŸünülemez.
~ Milan Kundera
Hay ideas que son como un atentado.
~ Milan Kundera
I love when violent, dangerous art is done by people who are not violent and dangerous. I love that when George Romero was making 'Dawn of the Dead,' he was coaching his son's little league team.
~ Penn Jillette
Violence is a dark contrast to what so many of us still believe in -- love.
~ Robi Ludwig
A fist in the face is all you deserve from love you've misplaced.
~ Rodney Crowell
I love shooting guns. I would never shoot an animal or hunt, but I probably would be a very good hit woman. It's hand-in-glove for me.
~ Rose McGowan
There needs to be a thorough examination, by Muslims everywhere, of why it is that the faith they love breeds so many violent mutant strains.
~ Salman Rushdie
Beat him until there's no skin left on his back. If he passes out, wake him and beat him again. (Father) Love you, too, Father. (Acheron)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
I love Rambo but I think it's potentially a very dangerous movie. It changes history in a frightening way.
~ Steven Spielberg
I love anything to do with serial killers.
~ T Cooper