Quotes About Violence

The most expensive thing she had ever put on her face was a New York strip after a perp had punched her in the eye.

I hate rape cases. You don't throw a murder case to a jury and they ask, 'Well, was the guy really murdered or is he lying because he wants the attention? And what was he doing in that part of town? And why was he drinking? And what about all those murderers he dated before?

The interpenetration of pre-capitalist, semi-capitalist and capitalist relations of production, imposed upon colonies and semi-colonies by the power of capital on the world market and the violence of foreign political and military domination, has been an extremely important factor in the historical development of these twin sources of money capital accumulation.

They direct their attacks not against the bourgeois conditions of production, but against the instruments of production themselves; they destroy imported wares that compete with their labour, they smash to pieces machinery, they set factories ablaze, they seek to restore by force the vanished status of the workman of the Middle Ages.

When you chopped logs with the ax and they split open they smelled beautiful, like Christmas. But when you split someone's head open it smelled like abattoir and quite overpowered the scent of the wild lilacs you'd cut and brought into the house only this morning, which was already another life.

Human nature favors the tribal. Tribalism engenders violence. It was ever thus and so it will ever be.

He could hardly beat them up, they were still – technically – children and he preferred to restrict his acts of violence to people old enough to fight for their country.

Sure, I didn't weigh a hundred and ten pounds , but my narrow waist let me bend and I could break a man's neck with my kick.

It's a bad thing that happens to women, but when you look at that term 'violence against women,' nobody is doing it to them. It just happens to them. Men aren't even a part of it.

For decades, the violence in the Middle East has claimed a multitude of innocent civilian victims: Men, women and children, Arab and Israeli.

I don't like men. They're saying they're going to bash my head in.

The man who coerces another not to eat fish commits more violence than he who eats it.

Lynching is the method of vulgar men! He who is deprived of compassion is deprived of everything!

And of course we are familiar with the English common law rule of thumb that said a man could in fact use a stick no bigger than his thumb to discipline his wife and family.

All men are not rapists - but almost all rapists are men.

Violence begets violence, and then you get leaders who are violent men. And you don't want that.

If survival calls for the bearing of arms, bear them you must. But the most important part of the challenge is for you to find another means that does not come with the killing of your fellow man.

It's the responsibility of men of religion to... present religion as a way of tolerance, not as a cover for bloodshed.

Many a man's tongue broke his nose.

As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill; or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles.

War among men defiles this world.

War ought to be no man's wish.

Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?

Men will commit atrocities as long as they believe absurdities.