Quotes About Violence

France, like other countries, is facing a terror threat that is unprecedented in its nature and magnitude, ... Terrorists are targeting France to divide us.

Working conditions for me have always been those of the monastic life: solitude and frugality. Except for frugality, they are contrary to my nature, so much so that work is a violence I do to myself.

I just love to fight. I like to hurt people. I haven't lost that. I didn't lose it when I first got a bit of wealth and I haven't lost it now. The nature of my business is to hurt people.

A man who lives with nature is used to violence and is companionable with death. There is more violence in an English hedgerow than in the meanest streets of a great city.

So, those who hate, those who are violent in nature, live in a world of hate and fear and violence inside themselves, inside their minds, inside their awareness.

If you can kill animals, the same attitude can kill human beings. The mentality is the same which exploits nature and which creates wars.

I also think that there's something about the graphic, political nature of such attacks, mixed with the fact that it all seems completely random to the victims.

Violence is the result of hatred & greed conquering the heart of lesser souls.

Man will destroy what man fears!

..the most identifying trait of humanity is our ability to be inhumane to one another.

If a man couldn't control his beast, it could turn so violent that nothing could restrain it once enraged.

A man wreaks harm because he forgets to love peace. He kills because of self-blinded fear, that imagines no other protection.

Here were we wretched creatures of men making for each other's throats, and outraging the good earth which God had made so fair a habitation.

The sea stood up before him, foaming, torn by lightning bolts, opening terrifying mouths that gobbled up the dense, hard black rains unleashed by the sky like hate.

When a child hits a child, we call it aggression. When a child hits an adult, we call it hostility. When an adult hits an adult, we call it assault. When an adult hits a child, we call it discipline.

I have no patience with people who go around blowing up innocent people.

Where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence.

Leo Tolstoy ... defines patriotism as the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers.

Patriotism is the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers.

[W]e're taught that if one person kills another person, that is murder; but if a government kills a hundred thousand persons, that is patriotism.

In general, those who resort to mass murder on a collective scale always put forward the justification that they acted on behalf of the nation.

Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.

We live in a world where we have to hide to make love, while violence is practiced in broad daylight.

They have the guns and therefore we are for peace and for reformation through the ballot. When we have the guns then it will be through the bullet.