Quotes About Violence

Barbarism usually produces swift death. Cruelty is the mark of a civilized human.

Ascanio came back. "What happened to him? He looks like he got his ass run over by a car." He was run over by my fist.

Besides, if I'd decided to pull Carver's spine out of his body, I would've done it already." "Can you actually do that?" Curran frowned. "I don't know. I mean theoretically if you broke the spine above the pelvis, you could, but then there are ribs . . . I'll have to try it sometime.

In human history whenever one social group enslaved another, the slaves suffered until they could take no more, and it always ended in an explosion of violence.

Her philosophy was, if it had a pulse, it could be killed. I didn't really have a philosophy, but I could see how talking with the school director would be difficult for her. If he said something she didn't like, chopping him to tiny pieces wouldn't exactly help me get into the school.

Can you guarantee that your child will not snap and attack his classmates?" "Absolutely. He is very much like his father. 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.

What are you thinking about?" she asked. "I'm picturing cutting your head off with these scissors." Elara laughed and walked out of the barracks.

It's okay, Sarrat. If he insults you, I'll cut his head off and you can drink his blood.

I'm going to find whoever put this creature through that torture, and I'm going to kill them slowly. Piece by piece.

Animals don't destroy each other for pure pleasure. They don't have serial killers. They kill, they don't murder. No, it's not the beast in us that makes us lose our balance. It's the man. Of all the animals, we're the most aggressive

He wanted me to engage a lunatic who had already turned four people into smoking meat. Okay. I could do that. "Alright, Jeremy!" I yelled into the night. "Give me the salamander and I won't cut your head off!" Jim put his hand over his face and did some shaking.

Being trained as an efficient killer wasn't enough. You also had to learn to control your stress and your fear, becoming so used to violence that you could detach yourself from the trauma of it and assess the level of violence necessary to respond. When the fight-or-flight response kicked in, Mother Nature shut off our brains. It was a biological survival mechanism.

All Maud had was an ability to read people and an innate understanding of violence and its degrees and uses. Within seconds of meeting an opponent, she knew exactly how to provoke or calm them and how much force she would have to use to stop, cripple, or kill them. Person or animal, Maud could take its measure and push them to the desired result. That's what made her so good at navigating vampire politics.

Human women, like vampire women, come in all varieties. For example, I don't like violence, but I will kill to protect my family and my guests.

To exist in peace, we have to sacrifice that violence.

They say a hundred-and-thirty-pound woman has no chance against an athletic two-hundred-pound man. That's a lie. You just have to make a decision to hurt him and then do it.

Sometimes killing a man wasn't an act of anger or punishment. It was a public service.

Sean crossed his arms on his chest. "I had several Medamoths under my command on Nexus. They don't make peace. They kill, they hunt, and they write bad poetry.

The gate was open, and Ponytail sprawled on the ground. A hoof-sized hole gaped in his skull, and black flies crawled on his bloody hair. Next to him Tulip waited with a docile expression, looking like th

Clothes don't have magic powers. They don't mystically protect you from three-inch claws, rapists, or murderers. If someone decides to hurt you, they will do so whether or not you have a thin layer of denim over your skin.

The greatest evil that can oppress civilized peoples derives from wars, not, indeed, so much from actual present or past wars, as from the never-ending and constantly increasing arming for future war.

purposes are imposed on nature violently and dictatorially, instead of being sought by means of physical investigation.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: Incluso los filósofos elogiarán la guerra como ennobleciendo a la humanidad, olvidando al griego que dijo: La guerra es mala porque engendra más mal que el que mata (Immanuel Kant)

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