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Quotes About Violence

If you can hit a guy once, you can hit him twice.
~ Charles Bukowski
the sea is made of blood
~ Charles Bukowski
Then I gave up trying to please her and simply fucked her, ripping viciously. It was like murder. I didn't care; my cock had gone crazy.
~ Charles Bukowski
And if you decide to kill somebody, make it anybody and not somebody: some men are made of more special, precious parts: do not kill if you will a president or a King or a man behind a desk - these have heavenly longitudes enlightened attitudes. If you decide, take us who stand and smoke and glower; we are rusty with sadness and feverish with climbing broken ladders
~ Charles Bukowski
The whole scene was indecent, mad. It smacked of murder and assassination.
~ Charles Bukowski
anyhow, I'm now using the knife the reader sent me to clean my fingernails. better this than ripping it deep into somebody's guts. I prefer to do that with the poem.
~ Charles Bukowski
cities are built to kill people
~ Charles Bukowski
the world was molested with billions of people who had nothing to do with their time except murder it and murder you.
~ Charles Bukowski
there is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the average human being to supply any given army on any given day
~ Charles Bukowski
Tommy je zakora?io prema meni. Izvukao sam luger iz ladice i uperio ga u njegovu prekomjernu golemost.
~ Charles Bukowski
The doorbell rang like a rape, or the tearing of ripe flesh.
~ Charles Bukowski
Then there are guys who fuck you and then chop you up into little pieces. They find parts of your asshole stuffed up a drainpipe in Playa del Rey and your left tit in a trashcan down at Oceanside...
~ Charles Bukowski
As many as one out of every ten people met a violent death in the first millennium A.D., the archaeologist Ian Morris has estimated. Ever since, violence has declined—gradually, then suddenly. In the decades after the Second World War, rates of violent death plunged to the lowest levels ever seen.
~ Charles C. Mann
To admit that species generally become rare before they become extinct—to feel no surprise at the comparative rarity of one species with another, and yet to call in some extraordinary agent and to marvel greatly when a species ceases to exist, appears to me much the same as to admit that sickness in the individual is the prelude to death—to feel no surprise at sickness—but when the sick man dies to wonder, and to believe that he died through violence.
~ Charles Darwin
It's a good thing war is so terrible or else we'd get to liking it too much.
~ Charles Frazier
Inhuman, V says. But that's an easy word. We've been doing that sort of thing to each other all through history, back past the Pyramids. Humans are inhuman, whether it's by direct action or by acceptance of a horrible action as normal.
~ Charles Frazier
American cops are so heavily militarized these days that the only way I can tell the difference between them and the army is the color of their body armor—that, and the army is less trigger-happy.
~ Charles Stross
Executions are a form of human sacrifice, after all
~ Charles Stross
There's always some idiot who thinks that after the revolution they'll be the one sitting on top of the hill of corpses, dining on caviar served out of a bowl made of a chromed baby's skull.
~ Charles Stross
Private ownerships of a ...slave chip is illegal in many polities. It tends to be a government monopoly, much like other forms of violence. But I had fallen among pirates and life insurance underwriters.
~ Charles Stross
Rich, powerful, white alpha males who dress up in gimp suits and beat up ethnically diverse lower-class criminals.
~ Charles Stross
War made the state, and the state made war
~ Charles Tilly
Collective violence has flowed regularly out of the central political processes of western countries... The oppressed have struck in the name of justice, the privileged in the name of order, the in-between in the name of fear.
~ Charles Tilly
A stab wound less than three millimeters deep is legal and even encouraged. We cannot help you unless a crime has been committed. Fourteen millimeters or more.
~ Charlie Kaufman