Quotes About Violence

O puede que no tengas juicio y se te cuelgue directamente -sonrió enseñando todos los dientes-. Así es como tratamos aquí a los extranjeros que vienen a prender fuego a nuestras casas.- (...) -Por lo visto solo tratáis así a los que vienen del continente-replicó, furioso y decepcionado-, porque a los vikingos, en lugar de colgarlos, les entregáis todo vuestro dinero. Sin embargo, contra un pobre juglar si que podéis, ¿verdad?-

Children from violent households made great lie detectors because their ability to read people and situations wasn't just a hobby—it was a survival skill. The

The turret was shot with holes, and the floor was jingling with flakes of metal and turret motor.

A knife plunged into the center of summer. Air and terror, which become teeth together.

How many times is a woman allowed to defend herself? In Polly's experience, not even once.

Ghost Story (1981) The Getaway (1972) The Godfather (1972)

En este país nuestro ha sido tanta la guerra, tanta, soportada por demasiado tiempo, que los vivos ya estamos acostumbrados y los muertos olvidados y no hay quien registre el catálogo. La violencia pesa y pasa, así sin más, pasa y arrasa, y la muerte se ha ido volviendo vida cotidiana.

Este crimen se impone como un espejo, y el monstruo que allí se refleja tiene la cara del país entero.

You're only hurting yourself. Besides, the citizens like blood, don't they? They smell it.

Rape is not a mistake! He did it on purpose, over and over again because he wanted to, because he off on it-

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.

What had Dr. Latham done to deserve a beating?

inhabitants burst forth upon them, and slue them every man with clubbes

mass execution appeared to be in the making, but the expedition could not continue without

even in the sight of their fellows, not one escaping. Their furie not thus satisfied, they cut the slayne men in peeces

Gaspar de Quesada, the leader and murderer of San Antonio's

then with one powerful blow, he severed Quesada's head from his neck.

More troubling, the Indians practiced cannibalism and human sacrifice in the course of their battles

bury their own, but the enemy dead they cut up and eat. Those whom they capture they take home as slaves

Columbus physically attacked Fonseca's accountant, kicking and assaulting him as a proxy for Fonseca himself.

It is to be supposed that the other giants killed him because he had come to us.

At its extreme, the Trust Survival Style develops when a person grows up in an atmosphere of abuse and horror. Children who witness or experience abuse are helpless and powerless. The horror they witness may involve family violence, such as observing father beating up mother, or witnessing violence in the community, as in ghetto situations.

As the two young men prowled through the black neighborhood, they were not looking for any black man in particular. Their victim could be young, old, fat, skinny, weak, strong. They didn't care. They weren't afraid. They had a gun. All that mattered was that he was the right color.

The Klansmen and their frenzied followers ran through the silent, deserted streets, carrying clubs and chains. Favorite weapons were "head-knockers," hollowed-out baseball bats that had been filled with molten lead and then sealed back up so they looked like normal athletic equipment.