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Quotes About Violence

They say it's the white man I should fear, But it's my own kind doin' all the killin' here.
~ Tupac Shakur
A man who goes forth to take the life of another whom he does not know must believe only one thing: that by his act he will change the course of history.
~ Yitzhak Shamir
Killed by a man with a switch blade knife, for 43 dollars my friend lost his life.
~ Hank Williams, Jr.
Evil man make me kill you.
~ Jimi Hendrix
Government is violence, Christianity is meekness, non-resistance, love. And, therefore, government cannot be Christian, and a man who wishes to be a Christian must not serve government.
~ Leo Tolstoy
We know that priorities are amiss in the world when a man gets a military medal of honor for killing another man and a dishonorable discharge for loving one.
~ Charlotte Bunch
The problem is not merely man against man or nation against nation. It is man against war.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
From the earliest wars of men to our last heart-breaking worldwide effort, all we could do was kill ourselves. Now we are able to kill the future.
~ Martha Gellhorn
All men are potential rapists.
~ Nandita Das
Violence is a choice a man makes and he alone is responsible for it.
~ Patrick Stewart
I don't hold it against the men who beat me because undoubtedly there are some ruffians of every nationality and the English are not exceptions.
~ Oswald Pohl
Fifty years ago, 100 white men chasing one black man across a field was called the Ku Klux Klan. Today it's called the PGA Tour.
~ Alex Hay
When a man carries an instrument of violence, he'll always find the justification to use it.
~ Brian K. Vaughan
Man has an innate capacity for violence, but can only justify it in the name of justice.
~ Ralph Steadman
A man can't hit a woman and stay a man. He becomes a loathsome thing, even to himself. But the woman who stays with such a man panders to his darkness. They both risk their souls.
~ Homer Hickam
I'm sure that you could go back and make a graph showing that all the killings of black males increased in times of economic difficulty. As a matter of fact, a black man was lynched last year.
~ Ishmael Reed
If the adjustment made by a court can be accepted or not, it will be refused whenever the men can gain more by continuing the strike, with whatever of violence that involves.
~ John Bates Clark
All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. The violence of revolutions is the violence of men who charge into a vacuum.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
So what's the most atrocious thing you've seen?" He waved his hand: "Man, of course!
~ Jonathan Littell
The idea that men 'lose control' around a woman in a short skirt is insulting to men, completely relieves perpetrators of responsibility, and erases and ignores male victims.
~ Laura Bates
Maybe they know what I know, that the true way to a man's heart is six inches of metal between his ribs. Sometimes four inches will do the job, but to be really sure, I like to have six.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
When old men decided to barter young men for pride and profit, the transaction was called war.
~ Len Deighton
Why does man have reason if he can only be influenced by violence?
~ Leo Tolstoy
Men are always murderers, and their calmness and generosity is the calmness of a well-fed animal, that knows itself out of danger.
~ Leonid Andreyev