Quotes About Violence

The fires of frustration and discord are burning in every city, North and South,' he said. 'Where legal remedies are not at hand, redress is sought in the streets in demonstrations, parades and protests, which create tensions and threaten violence—and threaten lives.

violence is an ugly thing and in the calmer moments I racked my brains for other ways to get what I wanted. Better a brain than a fist. A brain can hold anything, from giant things like distant stars and planets, to tiny things we can't see, like germs. ... A brain can hold a whole universe, a fist just holds what little it can grab. Or hits what it can't.

Sentimentality is the supestructure erected upon brutality.

But it is the same with every single human being and his reasonably ordered world. His reason has done violence to natural forces which seek their revenge and only await the moment when the partition falls to overwhelm the conscious life with destruction.

Es hecho bien conocido en los manicomios que los enfermos de miedo son harto más peligrosos que los impulsados por la ira o el odio.

Humanity is arming itself, in dread and fascinated horror, for a stupendous crime.

The patient married during the course of her treatment with me, but not without a violent resistance to this step. The cause of her neurotic resistance came to light only after many months, and there is not a hint of it anywhere in these dreams. They are without exception anticipations of the difficulties she is to have with the analysts to whom she has come for treatment.

Her nightmares came from what she saw and experienced when the door had opened to reveal evil and violence that until that trip had been closed to her. Now she knew what some people—despite their manner and packaging—were capable of. It still shook her to her core.

The sound of the discharge within the cab was so loud, all Joe could hear was a dull buzzing in his ears.

Keeley used the opening to bury the knife into Hank Scarlett's heart. It took three tries.

back in the seventies four women were killed. Librarians....

that the Great War had made mass slaughter ordinary, that was why Stalin and Hitler could commit murder on a scale inconceivable before 1914. It was why these old men could talk like Soviet Commissars or SS men.

I get in trouble when I say things like, 'I'm attracted to violence.' I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older it narrowed down to a more specific focus on individual violence. I'm just trying to understand where it came from.

I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older it narrowed down to a more specific focus on individual violence. I'm just trying to understand where it came from.

what if our murderer viewed his current work as just that sort of protection? Could Sara shift her point of view enough to grasp that every victim and situation leading up to a murder resonated within the killer to a distant experience of threat and violence and led him for reasons that we had not yet fully defined to take angry measures in his own defense?

They'll want him to be mad, of course,' Laszlo mused, not hearing me. 'The doctors here, the newspapers, the judges; they'd like to think that only a madman would shoot a five-year-old girl in the head. It creates certain … difficulties, if we are forced to accept that our society can produce sane men who commit such acts.

Strike so that he may feel he is dying.

A maniac kills for his sense of "well-being." Rarely do we cure or re-educate the maniac. He dies, gets killed, or we put him in an asylum. The racists…have nothing to live for if their world crumbles...Wipe out the system of Negro oppression...and you automatically destroy the racist's sense of well-being.

The naked statement—a black man has been killed by a white policeman—is such a fearsome divider of the races that the people who preside over a city immediately try to cover it with details.

There is something wrong with coppers' I said. 'You can't punch them in the jaw when you want to.

It made me angry that people could simply kill other people, take what they wanted, and ignore the cries of the sick and hungry. The world wasn't like that— or it shouldn't be like that—even though I hadn't seen enough of the world to know what it was really like.

How can you humans actually believe yourselves superior to any truly sentient being? Look at you - self-styled demigods, mired in your own filthy social excrement, possessed of vomitous morals. You kill each other with unnatural impunity, preying upon the weal and helpless... not from necessity, but for gain. Name one other species that maims and destroys to gain glittering trinkets that will not fill one's belly.

Çünkü ayn? kan? ta??yan?n kininden beteri yoktur; çünkü insan hiç kimseden, benzediÄŸi ve benzerliÄŸinden iÄŸrendiÄŸi kiÅŸi kadar büyük bir ÅŸiddetle nefret edemez.

Si quitásemos a los toros la ciencia cierta de acabar sus nobles, sus violentos cuatro años con tres palmos de acero cruzándoles las entrañas, los toros, como flores segadas, no serían sino el bello recuerdo de una estampa de un cimbrearse al viento