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Quotes About Violence

But, when tales of the cosmos are told, this period of ours may always be recalled as that in which men first came to realise what a violent universe we inhabit.
~ Nigel Calder
And otherwise normal men become monsters, too.
~ Patrick Ness
A monster, I think, remembering what Ben told me once. War makes Monsters of Men.
~ Patrick Ness
For a moment Jack felt the strongest inclination to snatch up his little gilt chair and beat the white-faced man down with it.
~ Patrick O'Brian
Nearly every black man faces an unacceptable level of violence in this society. I'm not different. Money can shield you; it can protect you. But it doesn't make you white.
~ Puff Daddy
War, to sane men at the present day, begins to look like an epidemic insanity, breaking out here and there like the cholera or influenza, infecting men's brains instead of their bowels.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
When the plot flags, bring in a man with a gun.
~ Raymond Chandler
There's just some kind of men you have to shoot before you can say hidy to 'em. Even then, they ain't worth the bullet it takes to shoot 'em.
~ Harper Lee
Young black men are considered dangerous, expendable, threatening and part of a culture of criminality.
~ Henry Giroux
If it's a man's world, as they say, then men, your world is a poorly run carnage fest.
~ Henry Rollins
Students of history are horror-struck at the massacres of old; but in the shambles, men are being murdered to-day.
~ Herman Melville
Soldier or sailor, the fighting man is but a fiend; and the staff and body-guard of the Devil musters many a baton.
~ Herman Melville
I have no interest at all in food and drink, but only in slaughter and blood and the agonized groans of mangled men
~ Homer
The idiot had shot their own dog. That's what happened when the destructive potential of a man's weapons exceeded his intelligence.
~ Ilona Andrews
A man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
The man who first abused his fellows with swear-words instead of bashing their brains out with a club should be counted among those who laid the foundations of civilization.
~ John Denham
Men killing other men really is an extraordinary phenomenon. Why does it happen? And how long has it gone on? And have the motives changed?
~ John Keegan
Dutch in my ear, Olde E in my palm, I Freddy Krueger your face, Michael Myers your moms. You botherin mine? That's when I'm sparkin the nine.
~ Sean Price
It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge.
~ Phyllis Diller
You big crybaby," I whispered into his ear. "Now you know why your mom warned you not to hit girls. Sometimes they hit back.
~ Kirsten Miller
My mom shot and killed her last husband. Yeah, my dad used to say "Hey, dodged that bullet. Ha ha."
~ Christopher Titus
Adron! Don't you hurt him. (Kiara) I'm not going to hurt him, Mom. I'm going to kill him. (Young Adron)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling money and it's issuance.
~ James Madison
The catholic church has a lot more money than any Colombian cartel and they leave a lot more bodies in their wake.
~ Doug Stanhope