Quotes About Violence

There is a savage beast in every man, and when you hand that man a sword or spear and send him forth to war, the beast stirs. The scent of blood is all it takes to wake him.

Jaime's golden hand cracked him across the mouth so hard the other knight went stumbling down the steps. His lantern fell and smashed, and the oil spread out, burning. "You are speaking of a highborn lady, ser. Call her by her name. Call her Brienne.

A Stone Crow's axe is always sharp, and Shagga's axes are sharpest of all. Once I cut off a man's head, but he did not know it until he tried to brush his hair. Then it fell off.

Time slept when swords woke.

Weese was sprawled across the cobbles, his throat a red ruin, eyes gaping sightlessly up at a bank of grey cloud.

Outlaws or poachers, makes no matter. Dead men make poor company.

Aegon had made the seven kingdoms one with fire and blood.

Get the keys and remove those chains from him, before you make me rue the day I raped your mother. ~ Roose Bolton to his son

There was this to be said for weddings over battles, at least; it was less likely that someone would cut off your nose.

It is one thing to train in the yard with a blunted sword in hand, and another to drive a foot of sharpened steel into a man's gut and see light go out of his eyes.

This was not chivalrously done," said Brienne when they were close enough to see it clearly. "No true knight would condone such wanton butchery.

Littlefinger laughed aloud. "With gold and boys and promises, of course. Ser Lyn is a man of simple tastes, my sweetling. All he likes is gold and boys and killing.

When I commented that you seemed a poor sort of monster, your sister said, 'He killed my mother,' and twisted your little cock so hard I thought she was like to pull it off. You shrieked, but it was only when your brother Jaime said, 'Leave him be, you're hurting him,' that Cersei let go of you. 'It doesn't matter,' she told us. 'Everyone says he's like to die soon. He shouldn't even have lived this long.'

When I don't fancy a man's eyes, I put an arrow through one.

His father took off the man's head with a single sure stroke. Blood sprayed out across the snow, as red as summerwine.

His axe took her in the back of the head.

Wash out her private parts with lye and throw her in a dungeon," Tarly commanded.

even as she was feeling sorry for him she was killing him, shouting, "Winterfell! Winterfell!" while Hot Pie screamed "Hot Pie!" beside her as he hacked at the man's scrawny neck.

Battle is an orgy of disorder.

We do not create terrorism by fighting the terrorists. We invite terrorism by ignoring them.

This was not an act of terrorism, but it was an act of war.

With those attacks, the terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States. And war is what they got.

The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States - and war is what they got.

Hundreds of thousands of American servicemen and women are deployed across the world in the war on terror. By bringing hope to the oppressed, and delivering justice to the violent, they are making America more secure.