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Quotes About Violence

No wonder men got impervious to superficial pain, I thought. It came from this habit of hammering each other incessantly.
~ Diana Gabaldon
My wife once said that if men had to worry about who was going to clean up the mess, there'd be a lot less violence in the world.
~ Donna Ball
Saddam Hussein was a horrible man, and I am pleased he is no longer running Iraq. But the war was wrong.
~ Ed Balls
But sometimes living in denial was the only way to keep a man from going on a killing spree.
~ Eric Jerome Dickey
I know the most terrible thing that can happen to a woman. That is the gang-up. Men put you to sleep with their drops and one man after another goes in and takes you.
~ Ethel Waters
... the man in the violent situation reveals those qualities least dispensable in his personality, those qualities which are all he will have to take into eternity with him.
~ Flannery O'Connor
Nicolai, the Dark Seducer as his people called him, had been in bed, but not alone. He was never alone. He was a man known for the violence of his temper as well as the deliciousness of his touch
~ Gena Showalter
Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.
~ George Bernard Shaw
I have touched more men that I can count. Some with my lips, more with my axe.
~ George R. R. Martin
We will not permit the triumph of violence in the affairs of men; free people will set the course of history.
~ George W. Bush
You can hardly open a newspaper without seeing that a woman has been killed by a man for clearly gender-related reasons.
~ Gloria Steinem
Man is the poet who kills, Woman the angel who eats.
~ Greg Bear
Fortune blinds men when she does not wish them to withstand the violence of her onslaughts.
~ Livy
How do you combat a man with a firearm? You don't combat him with a golf club, baseball bat or a knife. You combat him with another firearm.
~ Luke Scott
Cow-slaughter and man-slaughter are in my opinion two sides of the same coin.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Himsa does not need to be taught, Man as animal is violent, but as spirit is nonviolent.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
He who trusts has never yet lost in the world. A suspicious man is lost to himself and the eworld.... Suspicion is of the brood of violence. Non-violence cannot but trust.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Perfect young men don't get murdered, they don't even get born.
~ Margaret Millar
You can kill a man with those words. No gun. No bullets. Just words and a girl.
~ Markus Zusak
I'm not in for killing another man, defending my holy land, as if there's a god who would understand.
~ Matthew Sweet
If a man is not peaceful and non-violent, whichever religion he belongs to, he is not a man! Violence degrades man to a low-degree creature!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
What is better than a peaceful man? What is worse than an aggressive man?
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
But who would rush at a benighted man, and give him two black eyes for being blind?
~ Merle Shain
After they had accustomed themselves at Rome to the spectacles of the slaughter of animals, they proceeded to those of the slaughter of men, to the gladiators.
~ Michel de Montaigne