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Quotes About Violence

big proclamations about honor are really just excuses invented to let people kill each other with a clear conscience.
~ Orhan Pamuk
Nightclub wars were the worst kind of trouble: back in the day, when rival establishments and their gangs declared war on each other, they would kidnap each other's singers and belly dancers and hold them hostage, shooting them in the kneecaps eventually
~ Orhan Pamuk
San o junaštvu je utjeha za nesretne. Osim toga, na što se svodi junaštvo naših ljudi? Na ubijanje: ubijaju ili jedni druge, ili sami sebe!
~ Orhan Pamuk
Herkesin bildiÄŸi gibi ÅŸeref meselesi gibi laflar asl?nda insanlar?n birbirlerini gönül rahatl???yla öldürmeleri için icat edilmiÅŸ bahanelerdir.
~ Orhan Pamuk
Durante la presidencia de Fujimori las masacres indiscriminadas de campesinos cesaron casi por completo.
~ Orin Starn
If you lay a hand on me I'll ram your testicles so far up inside your abdomen it'll take a heart surgeon to get them out.
~ Orson Scott Card
A duel is just two murders who agree to take turns trying to kill each other.
~ Orson Scott Card
He kissed her and killed her then dumped her body in the river.
~ Orson Scott Card
Government is all show when it isn't murder in the dark ... or soldiers in the open.
~ Orson Scott Card
I think Bonzo died. I dreamed about it last night. I remembered the way he looked after I jammed his face with my head. I think I must have pushed his nose back into his brain. The blood was coming out of his eyes. I think he was dead right then.
~ Orson Scott Card
The power to kill is the only power that matters. -Enders game.
~ Orson Scott Card
Human beings didn't evolve brains in order to lie around on lakes. Killing's the first thing we learned.
~ Orson Scott Card
The power to cause pain is the only power that matters, the power to kill and desroy, because if you can't kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and no one will ever save you.
~ Orson Scott Card
We do have a right to defend ourselves as best we can, and the only way we found that works is killing the buggers before they kill us.
~ Orson Scott Card
Going to say it anyway, said Graff. Poor fool of a boy. Pacifism only works with an enemy that can't bear to do murder against the innocent. How many times are you lucky enough to get an enemy like that?
~ Orson Scott Card
Pacifism only works with an enemy that can't bear to do murder against the innocent.
~ Orson Scott Card
Pacifism only works with an enemy that can't bear to do murder against the innocent. How many times are you lucky enough to get an enemy like that?
~ Orson Scott Card
Don't you ever feel like lashing out at somebody? I mean, don't you ever lose your temper?' 'Ela, after you've inadvertently killed a couple of people with your bare hands, either you learn to control your temper or you lose your humanity.' 'You've done that?' 'Yes,' he said.
~ Orson Scott Card
You don't represent all humankind. You're about to fight a war with other humans. So how can you say that our wars are evil and your wars are good?' Surely Pizarro, for all his shortcomings, had an easier time of it with Atahualpa
~ Orson Scott Card
In our wars with the west," said Lankowski, "we learned to bury everything that we did not want blown up. Individually-targeted bombs were first tested on Arabs, did you know that? The archives are full of pictures of exploding Arabs.
~ Orson Scott Card
Ender conocía las reglas nunca dichas de la guerra entre hombres, aunque sólo tuviera seis años. Estaba prohibido golpear al oponente caído indefenso en el suelo; sólo un animal lo haría. Precisamente por eso se acercó al cuerpo inerme de Stilson y le dio otra parada en las costillas, con saña.
~ Orson Scott Card
Violence was what the military existed for. Controlled violence directed against appropriate targets.
~ Orson Scott Card
If you lay a hand on me I'll ram your testicles so far up inside your abdomen it'll take a heart surgeon to get them out.
~ Orson Scott Card
Our great civilizations are nothing more than social machines to create the ideal female setting, where a woman can count on stability; our legal and moral codes that try to abolish violence and promote permanence of ownership and enforce contracts—those represent the primary female strategy, the taming of the male.
~ Orson Scott Card