Quotes About Violence

He always apologized, and sometimes he would even cry because of the bruises he'd made on her arms or legs or her back. He would say that he hated what he'd done, but in the next breath tell her she'd deserved it. That if she'd been more careful, it wouldn't have happened. That if she'd been paying attention or hadn't been so stupid, he wouldn't have lost his temper.

She was in a terrible marriage and she couldn't talk to anyone. He used to hit her, and in the beginning she told him that if it ever happened again, she would leave him. He swore that it wouldn't and she believed him. But it only got worse after that, like when his dinner was cold, or when she mentioned that she'd visited with one of the neighbors who was walking by with his dog. She just chatted with him, but that night, her husband threw her into a mirror.

there were moments in life when violence was necessary to save lives

We should not forget that in the '60s, George Wallace's motto was 'segregation forever,' and that he did nothing to deter bombings and other acts of violence and, by his actions, condoned them.

I will be completely honest: when I fought in Manchester, they were very cruel to me. One fan actually spat directly in my face, and he was lucky enough where it hit my mouth.

Fascism is very much a mob movement.

Aggression only moves in one direction - it creates more aggression.

I think the killers get far too much attention.

If I could uninvent anything, I would uninvent Hitler's mum, guns and broccoli.

Mumbai is not safe anymore.

'Sons of Anarchy' is always murky.

There are too many war museums.

This ISIS group, they attack Muslims more than they attack anyone else.

The murder of Sean Brown hurt my soul.

The myth-making machine is the mimetic contagion that disappears behind the myth it generates.

I don't think anybody feels safe in Chicago. Bullets ain't got no name on them.

To say that you can kill in the name of God is blasphemy.

The first encounter was when the Vikings came across 10 Indians taking naps under their overturned canoes - and the Vikings killed them. That did not set up a very good mutual relationship.

In listening to the narratives of the Congolese, I came to terms with the extent to which their bodies had become battlefields.

You don't drive a NASCAR on the street, no matter how fun it might be, just like you don't need an AR-15 to protect yourself when walking home at night. No one does.

Bombing the Murrah Federal Building was morally and strategically equivalent to the U.S. hitting a government building in Serbia, Iraq, or other nations.

My place is in Serbia if the NATO criminals bomb.

A society convulsed by disorder and chaos, as Voegelin pointed out, elevates and even celebrates the morally degenerate, those who are cunning, manipulative, deceitful, and violent.

The split in Memphis between those who hold up authentic heroes—people who fought to protect, defend, and preserve life, such as Wells and Burkle—and those who memorialize slave traders and bigots such as Forrest characterizes the ethic of vigilante violence.