Quotes About Violence

Some things the gut distills to their essence no matter how hard you try to factor in compassion and mercy and understanding. One of them killed the other. And there is violence in my heart.

A part of me wishes they'd all just stand up and battle to the death. Make it simple. Take control through bloodshed and war.

Fact: it's just wrong to be smiled at by someone who has your blood on his teeth. It offends to the bone.

Tornados touch down. They don't settle. They leave destruction in their wake.

Any time. Any place. Think you that means a man should never go to war? War is a natural way of life.

Rage bubbles up inside me, cold, clear, and as psychotic as the carnage unfolding before my eyes.

A panicked kill makes for a soured stew.

Did she actually kill Alina? With her hands? A weapon?" "Why do you ask?" "Everything has degrees." "You think some ways of killing are better?" "I know they are." "Death is death!" "Agreed. But killing is not always murder.

If you can't fuck it, eat it, or use it for a weapon, kill it.

I couldn't tell the difference between the two of you anymore!" he roared. I smashed my fist into his face. Lies roll off us. It's the truths we work hardest to silence. Then you weren't looking hard enough! I'm the one with boobs!" I know you're the one with boobs!They're in my fucking face every fucking time I turn around!

Psychotic rapists don't have friends." "I was unaware you were a psychotic rapist or I would not have offered." "Ha." -Mac and V'Lane

We clacked skeletons -- to call it an embrace would misrepresent the violence of our first collision.

I wanted to go to him then? Not all of me but the same part he'd just hurt. I don't understand this pull, still. I think it must be a really dangerous physics, the gravity of wound to fist. You can see it happen to the other animals. When a hunter or trapper begins kicking at an alligator, its body curls to accommodate the withdrawing foot.

Sitting back and not getting involved while people get killed in an endless cycle of wars doesn't count as not having blood on your hands.

What a rapist takes from a woman is her future. The person she is going to become, who she is supposed to be, is gone. In many ways, it's worse than murder, because he has killed that potential person, eradicated that potential life, yet she still lives and breathes, and has to figure out another way to thrive.

because if a man rejects a woman, she goes home and cries for a few days. If a woman rejects a man, he can rape and kill her.

The saddest part of it was that most of the troops fighting with the Portuguese were black Angolans. It has always been like that. Angolans killing Angolans.

The history of power politics is nothing but the history of international crime and mass murder.

A rationalist, as I use the word, is a man who attempts to reach decisions by argument and perhaps, in certain cases, by compromise, rather than by violence. He is a man who would rather be unsuccessful in convincing another man by argument than successful in crushing him by force, by intimidation and threats, or even by persuasive propaganda.

We all remember how many religious wars were fought for a religion of love and gentleness; how many bodies were burned alive with the genuinely kind intention of saving souls from the eternal fire of hell. Only if we give up our authoritarian attitude in the realm of opinion, only if we establish the attitude of give and take, of readiness to learn from other people, can we hope to control acts of violence inspired by piety and duty.

The prolonged use of violence may lead in the end to the loss of freedom, since it is liable to bring about not a dispassionate rule of reason, but the rule of the strong man. A violent revolution which tries to attempt more than the destruction of tyranny is at least as likely to bring about another tyranny as it is likely to achieve its real aims.

You cannot have a rational discussion with a man who prefers shooting you to being convinced by you.

Sosyal çevremizi, ?iddetten uzak ve bar??ç?l bir biçimde yap?land?rma arzusu, bir dü? de?ildir. Bu, insanl?k için ihtimal dahilinde olan ve biyolojik bak?? aç?s?ndan bak?ld???nda, ku?kusuz gerekli bir hedeftir.

War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.