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Quotes About Violence

I don't think there is anything particularly wrong in hitting a woman, though I don't recommend you do it the same way that you hit a man.
~ Sean Connery
All men are brothers. Hence war.
~ Simon Munnery
Ambition fortifies the will of man to become ruler over other men: it operates with deception, cajolery, and violence, it is the action of impurity upon impurity.
~ T. S. Eliot
I've never met a man I didn't mutilate.
~ Vivian Stanshall
Cry "havoc!" and let loose the dogs of war, That this foul deed shall smell above the earth With carrion men, groaning for burial.
~ William Shakespeare
I honestly never understood how violence against women became a women's issue. 95 percent of the violence men are doing to women.
~ Eve Ensler
I have never made a threat. I've never made a threat, never expressed a threat, never - I've never - I would never threaten violence ever, because I am a man of peace, dedicated to peace.
~ Feisal Abdul Rauf
If one man kills a hundred men, and another man masters himself, the second man is the much greater warrior.
~ Gautama Buddha
It's a major part of world history that men are trying to kill each other. It's just one slaughter after the other. We talk about it, but no one's really listening.
~ Fred Ward
Wild Bill was anything but a quarrelsome man yet I have personal knowledge of at least half a dozen men whom he had at various times killed.
~ Buffalo Bill
Men and women, they were beautiful and wild, all a little violent under their pleasant ways and only a little tamed.
~ Margaret Mitchell
I can't see how an unarmed man rejecting a drug deal ended up dead.
~ Al Sharpton
Can any reasonable man be well disposed toward a government which makes war and carnage the only means of supporting itself?
~ Alexander Hamilton
I wouldn't be surprised to see a lot of guns going off, you know, guns held by white men acting as vigilantes, cops who feel more free to open fire against African Americans.
~ Allan Nairn
To kill a man will be considered as disgusting [in the twentieth century] as we in this day consider it disgusting to eat one.
~ Andrew Carnegie
The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence.
~ Ayn Rand
On reaching the place where the Indians had surprised us, we found the bodies of the three men whom they had killed and scalped, and literally cut into pieces.
~ Buffalo Bill
You don't know who you messing with man, I slap people for fun. That's what I do man! You wanna play rough, huh, I kill for fun!
~ Chris Tucker
An armed man will kill an unarmed man with monotonous regularity.
~ Clint Smith
Why do men carry guns and build prison camps, when the nurturing earth is made for freedom?
~ Cynthia Ozick
The violence in the world comes about because we human beings are forever creating barriers between men who are like us and men who are not like us.
~ Edmund Leach
So natural to man is the practice of violence that our indulgence allows the slightest provocation, the most disputable right, as a sufficient ground of national hostility.
~ Edward Gibbon
I do not think I had ever seen a nastier-looking man. Under the black hat, when I had first seen them, the eyes had been those of an unsuccessful rapist.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Unless men are active allies, we'll never end violence against women and girls.
~ Eve Ensler