Quotes About Violence

The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.

The real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.

The unfortunate accident—for I like to think it was no more—that you had not yet been able to acquire the "Oxford temper" in intellectual matters, never, I mean, been one who could play gracefully with ideas but had arrived at violence of opinion merely.

Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever.  If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square. 

We were at the home base of the holy man who encouraged presidents to drop bombs on poor Cockroaches in far-off villages in Vietnam

I am prepared for any crime, my sister, / To burn the palace, and into the flaming ruin / Hurl Tereus, the author of all evils. / I would cut out his tongue, his eyes, cut off / The parts which brought you shame...

I keep hearing this fucking thing that guns don't kill people, but people kill people. If that's the case, why do we give people guns when they go to war? Why not just send the people?

You can never take the violence back.

Christ on a cracker. You raped Achilles!

I mean, if you're asking a fellow to come out of a room so that you can dismember him with a carving knife, it's absurd to tack a 'sir' on to every sentence. The two things don't go together.

He had reached that condition of mind which the old Vikings used to call Berserk and which among modern Malays is termed running amok.

I see no percentage in your being alive. I wish you were a corpse, preferably a mangled one. I should like to dance on your remains.

The thing that poisons life for gunmen and sometimes makes them wonder moodily if it is worth-while going on is this tendency of the outside public to butt in at inconvenient moments. Whenever you settle some business dispute with a commercial competitor by means of your sub-machine gun, it always turns out that there was some officious witness passing at the time, and there you are, with a new problem confronting you.

jezail-bullets.

I killed him with my niblick, said Celia. I nodded. If the thing was to be done at all, it was unquestionably a niblick shot.

Preguntaréis por qué su poesía no nos habla del sueño, de las hojas, de los grandes volcanes de su país natal? Venid a ver la sangre por las calles, venid a ver la sangre por las calles, venid a ver la sangre por las calles!

Contra los indios todas las armas se usaron con generosidad: el disparo de carabina, el incendio de sus chozas, y luego, en forma más paternal, se empleó la ley y el alcohol.

Pounding that kid, I really wanted to put a bullet between the eyes of every endangered panda that wouldn't screw to save its species and every whale or dolphin that gave up and ran itself aground.

Men who hurt Women are my favorite men to kill. Touch her and I'll send you straight to hell - with a smile on my face!

You broke the Man Code, dude. 'No man shall knowingly and with malice aforethought kick another man in the nuts.' Okay, so I kicked him in the nuts. The little fucker was fleeing the scene of a crime where he'd pointed a weapon at my buddies. [from short story Beer Run at the end of Skin Deep]

Even bullets are nothing compared to the ax murderers in people's eyes.

The triumph of violence ends in a festival of mourning." "I

To prevent the spread of evil, sometimes righteous war is even necessary. You cannot preach nonviolence and cooperation to a wild tiger, for he will destroy you even before you can expound your philosophy. Some human perpetrators of evil are similarly unresponsive to reason.

Violence is what happens when we don't know what else to do with our suffering.