Quotes About Violence

Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them," wrote Margaret Atwood.

Con el tiempo uno se acostumbra: la peor perversión, lo más obsceno de la guerra, es que a uno le parece normal.

Estados Unidos fue fundado por peregrinos, pioneros y modestos inmigrantes, con una ética de trabajo duro y valor ante la adversidad. El oro ha puesto en evidencia lo peor del carácter americano: la codicia y la violencia.»

Jamie aveva orrore di qualsiasi forma di estremismo e sosteneva che i guerriglieri si giustificano solo durante la tirannia, quando non c'è altra scelta che battersi con le armi, ma che sono un'aberrazione in un paese dove i cambiamenti si possono ottenere con votazioni popolari.

More ...ambos sentían el corazón roto, su país había sucumbido a la insensatez de la violencia, su familia estaba dispersa, sus hijos lejos, los amigos muertos o en exilio, se encontraban sin trabajo y con pocos recursos en una ciudad extranjera...

ambos sentían el corazón roto, su país había sucumbido a la insensatez de la violencia, su familia estaba dispersa, sus hijos lejos, los amigos muertos o en exilio, se encontraban sin trabajo y con pocos recursos en una ciudad extranjera...

Cómo surgieron de pronto tantos delatores, colaboradores, torturadores y asesinos? Tal vez estuvieron siempre allí y no supimos verlos.

During the years he spent in Venezuela he thought he had once and for all overcome the solemnity that had been an essential part of his nature from childhood, as though he was in mourning for all the world's suffering, violence and evil. Faced with so many disasters, happiness seemed to him obscene. In love with Roser in the green, warm country of Venezuela, he had vanquished the temptation to cloak himself in sadness.

Cuando se habla de derechos humanos, en la práctica se habla de derechos de los hombres. Si un hombre es golpeado y privado de libertad, es tortura. Si lo mismo soporta una mujer se llama violecia doméstica y todavía en la mayor parte del mundo se considera un asunto privado.

Aprendió a desviar los impulsos de violencia, que a veces se apoderaban de ellos como tormentas pasajeras, y no la asustaban la avaricia o las manías persecutorias que algunos sufrían como consecuencia de la soledad.

the United states is as safe as a convent, but the culture is addicted to violence. Proof of that is to be found in its sports, its games, its art, and, certainly, not least, its films, which are bloodcurdling. North Americans don't want violence in their lives, but they need to experience it indirectly. They are enchanted by war, as long as it's no on their turf.

No comprendió el estado de guerra interna ni se dio cuenta de que la guerra es la obra de arte de los militares, la culminación de sus entrenamientos, el broche dorado de su profesión. No están hechos para brillar en la paz.

Respect, compliance, and fear, which are instilled in women from infancy, are so detrimental to us that we don't even know our own power. So great is that power, the patriarchy's goal is to crush it by any means, including the worst forms of violence. These methods are so successful that frequently the most rabid defenders of the patriarchy are women.

As Hannah Arendt has observed, "Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent.

Children played guessing games, telling each other whether the gun fired was and AK-47, a G3, an RPG, or a machine gun.

My squad was my family, my gun was my provider and protector, and my rule was to kill or be killed. The extent of my thoughts didn't go much beyond that. We had been fighting for over two years, and killing had become a daily activity. I felt no pity for anyone.

My conception of New York City came from rap music. I envisioned it as a place where people shot each other on the street and got away with it; no one walked on the streets, rather people drove in their sports cars looking for nightclubs and for violence.

I was at Ground Zero, and it was, to me, such a graphic illustration of what terrorism has done to our world.

There's zero evidence, empirical or anecdotal, that more guns leads to less gun crime.

We have a zero tolerance policy here at Bellator when it relates to any form of domestic violence.

We must have the approach of 'zero tolerance' against any type of terrorism.

The hardest thing when you're making a zombie movie is, 'How am I going to kill these zombies? I need a clever way to knock these guys off.'

I love zombies, and I love playing zombie-killing video games, so I was always super into the zombies, seeing how it all works and seeing the blood everywhere. I love that kind of stuff.

Zombies, what are you going to do with them? Just keep chopping them up, shooting at them, shooting at them.