Quotes About Violence

One lady wrote me and told me how she wants to see me get beat up and near death and that kind of stuff.

Ez fer war, I call it murder,- There you hev it plain an' flat; I don't want to go no furder Than my Testyment fer that. . . . . . An' you 've gut to git up airly Ef you want to take in God.

When I see these guys write all this macho stuff I want to smash their heads.

Everytime I read 'Pride and Prejudice' I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.

I can't understand why anyone would want nuclear warheads. If you shoot them off, it's not like you can take over that country - all you do is kill millions of people.

I imagine the world dividing into the people who want to feed their children, and the ones shooting at them.

The idea of not getting a gun is not because I'm afraid of guns, it's not because I think guns are wrong, it's because it's impractical, it's stupid and it's exactly what they want me to do.

The guy who kills 38 people is not the guy you'd want to have over at Thanksgiving.

I'm not for real revolutions, because they always bring you the opposite of what you want. You very seldom get what you want if you have a violent revolution.

People die and people cry people want me dead.

Remember, when you hear them beginning to say "freedom" look carefully-. see who it is they want you to butcher.

People do not want war. War springs from causes wholly outside the lives, interests, and feelings of the people.

Half the people who snuff people, that's what they want: recognition. Get their picture in the paper.

All the world does as it is supposed to, except for humans. Maybe that's why you so often want to kill each other.

When I'm describing wartime activities or violence I don't want to be too ornate, to prettify the picture. Once we trace them to the present, the prose becomes denser.

That's the thing about terrorism - it works. Especially for the terrorists - they might not get what they want but it feels damn good trying.

You wanna know how to get Capone? They pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. That's the Chicago way! And that's how you get Capone.

A lot of violence, a lot of gore in it, and I just didn't want to do that kind of thing.

The newspapers print what the people want, and thus does the savage still swing his club and flourish his spear.

When I go see an R-rated horror movie, I want lots of violence.

I love historical movies. I want to make a violent medieval epic.

All the copycat movies were always PG-13 and people said: "Nobody wants violence."

Rake was an atmosphere, a heart-thudding, terror-threaded presence no-one could ignore, much less escape. Violence, antiquity, sombre pathos, and darkest horror – the Son of Darkness was a gelid eddy in immortality's current

It was so pathetic, really, how so much violence came from someone feeling small. Small of mind, and it did not matter how big the sword in hand, that essential smallness remained, gnawing with very sharp teeth.