Quotes About Violence

I hold that all the evil we know on earth finds in this violence done to love its true and legitimate birth.

Assassination: the extreme form of censorship.

When a man wants to murder a tiger, it's called sport; when the tiger wants to murder him it's called ferocity.

If you strike a child, take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk of maiming it for life. A blow in cold blood neither can nor should be forgiven.

It is a noteworthy fact that kicking and beating have played so considerable a part in the habits which necessity has imposed on mankind in past ages that the only way of preventing civilized men from beating and kicking their wives is to organize games in which they can kick and beat balls.

Nothing ever is done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.

Standing ovations have become far too commonplace. What we need are ovations where the audience members all punch and kick one another.

In the time that we're here today, more women and children will die violently in the Darfur region than in Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, Israel or Lebanon. So, after September 30, you won't need the UN - you will simply need men with shovels and bleached white linen and headstones.

He renders this saying, "The good news of the kingdom of God is preached, and every one enters it violently" (eis aut?n biazetai, Lk. 16:16). Here is the same use of biazetai in the middle voice.

Football combines the two worst features of American life. It's violence punctuated by committee meetings.

Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings.

I…denied the drawing of carnal weapons against…any man on earth; for my weapons are spiritual, which take away the occasion of war, and lead to peace.

Terrorism is an act of violence whose primary purpose is to create fear and, through that, a political result.

The killing of his kid brother had drained Josiah Hedges of everything that is good and decent in the human spirit. He was now a killer of the worse kind. A man alone.

If the Arabs put down their weapons today there would be no more violence. If the Jews put down their weapons today, there would be no more Israel. BENJAMIN NETANYAHU

I'll drown him in that damn fountain and then I'll CPR him back and drown him again.

Nobody ever died of being shot by a cookie

Neither did I, but unlike Leon, I would be highly unlikely to shoot each of them through the left eye "for symmetry reasons.

It's important to him that his resorting to violence is viewed as a deliberate choice rather than a loss of control on his part.

You destroyed five million dollars' worth of luxury cars. Yes, but none of them are wearing human heads as hood ornaments.

At first he didn't want to tell us, and then Jim asked him if he was left- or right-handed. The bodyguard asked why and Jim told him that he would break the other arm first, because he wasn't a complete bastard.

Their first option is murder, their second option is murder and if that fails they go straight to murder.

I`ll kill you and eat your guts while you scream. Not in that order, you won`t.

To the left Derek raised his bloody muzzle from the ruined back of the fifth reeve. Don't bite! Dumbass. Perfect wolf for you—isn't happy until he's got poisonous shit smeared all over his teeth.