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Quotes About Violence

Men fed upon carnage, and drinking strong drinks, have all an impoisoned and acrid blood which drives them mad in a hundred different ways.
~ Voltaire
Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
~ Aldous Huxley
But Peter had seen too much, knew too well that men-kind didn't need an excuse to be cruel and murder one another.
~ Brom
The epidemic is truly black-on-black crime. The greatest danger to the lives of young black men are young black men.
~ C.L. Bryant
Man invents the most inhuman armaments to assault others so like himself that uniforms are needed to distinguish between friend and foe.
~ Thor Heyerdahl
The god of war is impartial: he hands out death to the man who hands out death.
~ Homer
The rabbis paled. I'd managed to terrify holy men. Maybe I could beat up a nun for an encore.
~ Ilona Andrews
For himself, then. For his idea of the world, a world in which men do not use shovels to beat corpses into a more convenient shape for processing.
~ J. M. Coetzee
I never killed a man I didn't have to.
~ John Wayne
I never killed a man who didn't need it.
~ Clay Allison
Women initiate most domestic violence, yet out of a thousand cases of domestic violence, maybe one is involving a man. And this has made a victim of culture out of women.
~ Dov Charney
Men are beasts! Nothing more! We fight! We kill! We devour our prey! Beasts do not stand behind beasts, little prince... They use each other so long as it suits their own selfish purpose!
~ Gangrel
History is replete with instances of men, who, by dying with courage and compassion on their lips converted the hearts of their violent opponents.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Every man is a potential rapist.
~ Nandita Das
You don't govern men who don't have religion, you shoot them.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
As long as there will be a man, there will be wars.
~ Albert Einstein
Peaceful and kind one monk is more valuable than violent and rude ten thousand men!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Why do there have to be men like that, men who enjoy another man's dying?
~ Michael Shaara
Men are not killed because they get mad at each other. They're killed because one of them has a gun in any dispute.
~ Jeannette Rankin
You know, I've never killed a man before. I mean I droped bombs on the enemy from the above, but never face to face. [thinking pause] I don't see what the big deal is - I really don't.
~ John Travolta
The Centers for Disease Control says that men's violence against women is at epidemic proportions.
~ Tony Porter
I, for one, am tired of seeing movies about men damaging each other.
~ Vera Farmiga
Football is a violent game. We are violent men.
~ Will Shields
Some people did not like this ceremonious style. But after all when you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.
~ Winston Churchill