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Quotes About Violence

Hack away... the old man raised the axe and split the head of John Glannon to the thrapple.
~ Cormac McCarthy
He had been shot through the head with a .32 caliber pistol and he was twenty-one years old forever.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Did I kill a lot of people? I been asked that question a few times. But never before by a man. I told this one girl I was seeing that yes I had killed a bunch of gooks but that I hadnt eaten any of them.
~ Cormac McCarthy
White Was he killed? Black I hope so. We buried him.
~ Cormac McCarthy
The roar of the pistol in his face chopped it off and the size of the silence that followed was enormous.
~ Cormac McCarthy
He'd of took you boy. Like a bride to the altar.
~ Cormac McCarthy
This is the nature of war, whose stake is at once the game and the authority and the justification. Seen so, war is the truest form of divination.
~ Cormac McCarthy
How these things end. In confusion and curses and blood.
~ Cormac McCarthy
You think that nuclear war is inevitable. I agree with Plato that only the dead have seen an end to war. And people dont fight with rocks when they have guns. Etcetera and so on.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Gleda, bled i prljav. Ne ume ni da ?ita ni da piše, a u njemu ve? klija naklonost ka bezumnom nasilju. Sva se istorija vidi na tom licu: dete, otac ?ovekov
~ Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy
~ War is god.
To be bad is good not simply because it subverts the language of the dominant white culture but also because it imposes a unique kind of order for young black men on their own distinctive chaos and solicits an attention that makes others pull back with some trepidation. This young black male style is a form of self-identification and resistance in a hostile culture; it also is an instance of machismo identity ready for violent encounters.
~ Cornel West
Since the end of the postwar economic boom, certain strategies have been intensified to stimulate consumption, especially strategies aimed at American youth that project sexual activity as instant fulfillment and violence as the locus of machismo identity. This market activity has contributed greatly to the disorientation and confusion of American youth, and those with less education and fewer opportunities bear the brunt of this cultural chaos.
~ Cornel West
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.
~ Cornelia Funke
Bloody brutes!
~ Cornelia Funke
Gandhi admitted to beating his wife. He was a great man, but not a saint." He swallowed. "No one mentions that Gandhi had all that violence inside him. I think it makes him better, because it means that his way wasn't just some natural instinct he was born with. It was something he battled for, in his own mind, every day.
~ Cory Doctorow
Someday, people are going to realize that. Someday, enough white folks, enough rich white folks are going to realize that living in a lawless city where hooligans like you can administer beatings and then get your victims locked up for the crime of complaining about it is no good for them. "But long before then, everyone else is going to wake up to that fact. Brown people. White people. Chinese people and Puerto Ricans and everyone
~ Cory Doctorow
Ain't nothing wrong with shootin' folks, long as the right ones get shot
~ Craig Johnson
Interesting office management skills, kind of a 'violence is not the answer so I'm going to beat the shit out of you philosophy.
~ Craig Johnson
MAKE RED YOUR CLAWS WITH HUMAN BLOOD…OBLITERATE THE HUMAN FILTH…" "Ooh, that's a nice song," said the Hogfly, ever polite.
~ Cressida Cowell
Blood just draws more blood.
~ Cressida Cowell
The Witch had been aiming straight for her head, intending to tear it off. (Dear little creatures, these Witches, aren't they?)
~ Cressida Cowell
Gun Control: A measure to ensure that guns always point in one direction.
~ CrimethInc.
American soul is stoic isolate and a killer
~ D H Lawrence