Quotes About Violence

De los demás maraqueados durante el convivio, nada. Nadita. Humo, fantasmas. Unas decenas más a las listas de los desaparecidos anónimos. Ni una mención a la masacre en el ejido La Providencia. Morirse en Narcolandia representaba un one way ticket a la Dimensión Desconocida.

WHAT WAS ZELDA doing in the seconds before her front door was kicked in? Before the wood securing the dead bolt disintegrated into daggers and left the chain lock dangling like a mugger-torn necklace? She thinks she was cooking.

But I think it is a hopeful story. Is not some underwater paradise preferable to a life of poverty and incest and violence?

He. Nobody spoke his name. Vidal. It sounded like a stone thrown through a window

That was the use of knives for women: to cut food for the men who killed with their knives… who killed those women's husbands, their sons, and their daughters.

What sort of ideas, I wondered, might help to give meaning to life when one is in the midst of fundamentalist persons of all kinds who believe that they have a monopoly on truth and some are even willing to kill to prove that?

Guns tell the truth. Guns never say, "I'm only kidding." War is ugly because the truth can be ugly and war is very sincere.

The article I actually write is a masterpiece. It takes talent to convince people that war is a beautiful experience. Come one, come all to exotic Viet Nam, the jewel of Southeast Asia, meet interesting, stimulating people of an ancient culture...and kill them. Be the first kid on your block to get a confirmed kill.

The machine guns are exchanging a steady fire now, like old friends having a conversation. Thumps and thuds puncture the rhythm of the bullets. The snipers zero in on us. Each shot becomes a word spoken by death. Death is talking to us. Death wants to tell us a funny secret. We may not like death but death likes us. Victor Charlie is hard but he never lies. Guns tell the truth. Guns never say, "I'm only kidding." War is ugly because the truth can be ugly and war is very sincere.

You don't know what order with freedom means! You only know what revolt against oppression is! You don't know that the rod, discipline, violence, the state and government can only be sustained because of you and because of your lack of socially creative powers that develop order within liberty!

Aber die ungeheure Gefahr ist, daß Schlendrian und Nachahmung sich auch der Revolutionäre bemächtigen und sie zu Philistern des Radikalismus, des tönenden worts und der Gewaltgebärde machen; daß sie nicht wissen und nicht wissen wollen: die Umwandlung der Gesellschaft kann nur in Liebe, in Arbeit, in Stille kommen.

Nichts, nichts in der Welt hat so unwiderstehliche Gewalt der Eroberung wie das Gute.

The violence of the feelings of crowds is also increased, especially in heterogeneous crowds, by the absence of all sense of responsibility.

The story of terrorism is written by the state and it is therefore highly instructive… compared with terrorism, everything else must be acceptable, or in any case more rational and democratic.

And surely, surely, if we are not simply animals that live to fight, there must be a reason for bloodshed.

If you so much as start to bow or anything like that, Dave, I'll beat you up. I swear I will.

You'd never killed anyone. Then you had.

I want to kill someone," Tai said. A pause to consider this. "I am familiar with the desire. It is sometimes effective. Not invariably.

He ran like a mad thing into the night And the words in his mouth were stinking. By the time he had hurt his first white man He was no longer thinking. By the time he had hurt his fourth white man Rudolph Reed was dead. His neighbors gathered and kicked his corpse.

Luego de la represión del movimiento estudiantil de 1968, un sentimiento de agravio levantó sombras de ilegitimidad y amagos de violencia sobre la solidez, de apariencia monolítica, del régimen. La crisis económica de 1982, que significó la quiebra de las finanzas públicas, erosionó seriamente el acuerdo de la sociedad con los gobiernos priistas y, por tanto, con la legitimidad de su pacto sucesorio.

En los siguientes meses, la feria de ejecuciones de la guerra entre La Familia Mexicana y Los Zetas sacude al estado. Este es el litigio de sangre que decide la intervención del presidente Felipe Calderón en Michoacán, en los primeros días del año de 2007, el primer paso de lo que será un proceso sostenido de operativos militares y policiacos en gran escala para contener al crimen organizado durante el gobierno de Calderón (2006-2012) y hasta ahora.

La intervención militar en Michoacán tiene el efecto buscado de contener la espiral de homicidios pero el efecto no buscado de golpear más a Los Zetas que a la Familia Michoacana, dejando a esta quedarse con el campo y garantizar, con su propio ejercicio de captura del territorio, cierta estabilización de la violencia, incluso cierto clima de tranquilidad pública, pero en el contexto subterráneo de un más amplio dominio criminal.

Es el momento culminante de lo que se ha llamado la pax narca: cuando los criminales son más eficaces y confiables que la autoridad en materia de seguridad pública.

Se es mexicano, entre otras cosas, porque se comparte la veneración de esas violencias y esos martirologios.