Quotes About Violence

With the exception of certain rodents, no other vertebrate except Homo sapiens habitually destroys members of his own species.

When I think about life on Earth, there should not be a species like us. And if there was, we should be out in the jungle killing each other in small groups. That's what you should expect.

Violence is literally the glue of the cycle of life, and yet I think that we're the only species that does it maliciously.

Diminishing violence is a goal everyone can support, and I look forward to participating in the debate when specific proposals come before the House.

I don't know specifically what scenes I'd like to see violence in - I crave violence when I'm watching a John Hughes movie.

Black men, we're known for getting into some drama with other black men, specifically black-on-black crime. We're used to the confrontational attitude.

The spectacle of a good bar fight, properly executed and healthily ended, is not merely annoying boorishness. The best of them - an admittedly minor slice - are shaded with the elements of high art.

News reports following a natural disaster are almost always dominated by stories of looting and violence, but in many cases such stories turn out to be unfounded speculations based on rumour.

You can't come up and attack someone because of free speech.

By silencing speech, the new Left makes life more dangerous by leaving violence as the only option. Maybe that's what they want.

There were no spells at my school, just a smack in the mouth.

The French, the Italians, the Germans, the Spanish and the English have spent centuries killing each other.

The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.

By the end of 2001, between 100,000 to 150,000 Algerians had died in the civil war, as well as 120 foreigners. The cost to the economy ran into billions of dollars. And all this in spite of a tough, 120,000-strong army backed by 80,000 police.

Perhaps it's simply the dual nature of marriage, the proximity of violence and love.

No woman ever shot her husband while he was doing the dishes.

South Africans will kick down a statue of a dead white man but won't even attempt to slap a live one. Yet they can stone to death a black man simply because he's a foreigner

People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.

As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other.

If somebody told me I only had an hour to live, I'd spend it choking a white man. I'd do it nice and slow.

Man has the right to deal with his oppressors by devouring their palpitating hearts.

Hate your enemy with a whole heart, and if a man smite you on one cheek, SMASH him on the other!

One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

The white man's victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder.