Quotes About Violence

Over a billion people out there, worshipping these writings, accepting every word as God's own wisdom, slaughtering each other over them, and all of it without having the vaguest notion of where these scriptures really come from.

What I was learning in the church was in sharp contrast to the theology of self-sacrificing love I wrestled with. It wasn't the willingness to bear pain, or carry the burdens of others that transformed life in the places where life had been harmed by violence. It was strong relationships among human beings who offered their presence to one another.

She could knock a man's teeth through his balls with those arms though.

As the ground blossomed into greenness With the touch of the summer sun Matched the color of her eyes. She gazed out over the shifting seas And there appeared on the horizon A tall white sail That marked his coming. They say he took her Violently, Arrogantly, As was his fashion, And made her his. Theirs was no gentle love Born of soft romance, But a flaming passion Which burned the bitter memories of time, And set ablaze forever The shadows of their lives.

And what is it, according to Plato, that philosophy is supposed to do? Nothing less than to render violence to our sense of ourselves and our world, our sense of ourselves in the world. (p. 40)

Every time I pass a cafe, I imagine it being stormed by men with Kalashnikovs.

People should not have to worry about violence in their own neighbourhoods, but sadly, that is a reality that more and more Canadians face.

Arafat carried out what I consider to be atrocities.

I couldn't stand the idea of bloodshed, casualties.

'Honour'-based violence is a form of domestic violence. Domestic violence is a broad category.

If we want to build communities that are safe, we have to address the root causes of violence.

My father's violence is the central fact of my art and my life.

I once hit Quentin on the head with my ball and chain.

As a kid growing up in Chicago, I've been shot at before. I remember I very calmly went down on the ground. Afterwards, you're like, 'Omigod.' You just don't have time to think.

It would be nice to do a movie where I didn't have to choke the girl to get her.

Had dad chosen to use violence he would have been immediately annihilated.

Christians are being systematically exterminated.

Murder is not the crime of criminals, but that of law-abiding citizens.

War is not civilized.

All the PG-13 superhero movies are depriving me of the gore that I need.

Our media provides a continuing message that for men, heroism is defined through association with control, independence, and the ability to commit violence, from superheroes to crime dramas.

Fury itself supplies arms.

I do believe in lessons learned. I have learned that you work with gang members and not with gangs; otherwise, you enforce the cohesion of gangs and supply them oxygen.

I support gun control. But speaking honestly about the combustible mix of race and guns may be more important to stopping the slaughter in minority communities than any new gun-control laws.