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Quotes About Violence

War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.
~ Karl Von Clausewitz
They flicked the reins and were carried far ahead of the men, with that violent female daring which is so far from manly valor.
~ Karolina Pavlova
Violence had an enlivening effect. As long as someone else was the victim it made the blood pump, gave the world an edge of glamour.
~ Kate Grenville
it's nice of Mrs. Goe to think that marching against the juvenile juror law is going to keep kids safe. But the fact is, we're NOT safe. Nobody is. That's the whole point. There's no such thing as being safe--here or anywhere. People get hurt every day. Some people get killed by weirdos like Bob White and some people just get teased to death at the lunch table for drinking orange soda or eating a tuna fish sandwich.
~ Kate Klise
the medical journal The Lancet explained the process by which the dreadfuls could foster violence. People of a lower evolutionary type, the journal said, had an ape-like tendency to imitation. If exposed to stories of suicide or murder, degenerate individuals might be impelled to act them out.
~ Kate Summerscale
She wished to sit down quietly and wait for her death, but not until she had cut the throats of her man and that girl who were laughing and kissing under the cornstalks.
~ Katherine Anne Porter
People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Modern civilization is based on violence and slavery and fine words.
~ G. I. Gurdjief
Victorious troops are those who kill more, and here we were the victims. This put the finishing touch to our demoralisation. The soldiers had lost conviction long ago. Now they lost confidence.
~ Gabriel Chevallier
Ha llegado otra vez la hora de la sangre. Hay que seguir el camino de la sangre. Pero la sangre que ve la luz se la bebe la tierra. Los buscan y los mataran. Pero ya habran mezclado sus sangres y seran como dos cantaros vacios, como dos arroyos secos.
~ Gabriel García Lorca
Most importantly, remember that there are no guarantees in a gunfight, particularly when it comes to stopping power.
~ Gabriel Suarez
Nos manchan y nos llagan, creo yo, los delitos del matón rural que roba previos de indios, vapulea hombres y estupra mujeres sin defensa a un kilómetro de nuestros juzgados indiferentes y de nuestras iglesias consentidoras
~ Gabriela Mistral
yelled,kicking
~ Gabrielle Lord
La paix a été aussi mauvaise que la guerre. La paix a tué autant d'hommes que la guerre. La paix es aussi mauvaise… aussi mauvaise…
~ Gabrielle Roy
Video games don't make people violent, but maybe they falsely give you the idea that you can be a hero.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
No, I've been doing this myself forever. I could have gone in here myself, but my daddy doesn't want me to get raped. That happens all the time in bathrooms.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
You realize that, to the boy with the gun, it probably doesn't matter what particular "other" he is looking at. Or maybe he doesn't mistake Sam for Ant.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
This is the most violent poetry game I've ever played,' Marx said.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
But Sadie knew it was easy to get addicted to the taste of your own carnage.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Video games don't make people violent, but maybe they falsely give you the idea that you can be a hero.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Guns are so fucking romantic to you Americans, because you don't know what it is to be at war and to be constantly under siege. It's truly pathetic.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
You don't know much about guns, other than the guns you've used in video games, like Doom . And even when you play Doom , guns are not your weapon of choice. You prefer a chainsaw or a rocket launcher, weapons with more Grand Guignol-style thrills to them.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Marx sat down next to Sam, and Sam handed him the keyboard so that he could play a round. Because SHOOT I could not SHOOT stop for SHOOT kindly An ink pot combusted on the screen, indicating that Marx, having shot the wrong phrase, had lost a life. "This is the most violent poetry game I've ever played," Marx said. "You've played other poetry games?" "Well, technically, no," Marx said. "Your friend's talented. And odd.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
She would never want to make a shooter—she, Dov's student to her core, found them disgusting, immoral, and the disease of an immature society;
~ Gabrielle Zevin