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Quotes About Violence

A civil war is anything but civil.
~ Unknown
Any Terrorist living in the US will either leave or the people of the United States will eliminate you.
~ Unknown
Once I had a dog that died of lead poisoning . . . I shot him in the head.
~ Unknown
The Jamaican violence had given humanitarians powerful evidence that the institution was costing Britain far more than it was giving back, and the humanitarians could now make extended pragmatic arguments as well as moral ones.
~ Unknown
Guns aren't evil people are evil. Once we get rid of evil we can get rid of guns.
~ Unknown
There were many bloody period in human history, many of them occurring right here in North America.
~ Tomson Highway
Love is never any better than the lover. Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe. There is no gift for the beloved. The lover alone possesses his gift of love. The loved one is shorn, neutralized, frozen in the glare of the lover's inward eye.
~ Toni Morrison
There is no moral difference between a Stealth bomber and a suicide bomber. They both kill innocent people for political reasons.
~ Tony Benn
There is no moral difference between a Stealth bomber and a suicide bomber. They both kill innocent people for political reasons.
~ Tony Benn
classic single 'Down In The Tube Station at Midnight
~ Unknown
I'll moider de bum.
~ Unknown
and their families are hungry. They don't have guns. Wouldn't hurt
~ Tony Hillerman
He saw what the origin mythology said of them as a metaphor. Some choose to violate the Way of the People, choosing incest, murder, and material riches over the order and harmony of the Navajo Way. Call them what you like, Chee knew they existed. He knew they were dangerous
~ Tony Hillerman
Taking the car out of the rental parking lot, almost getting fender-bendered by the guy in the BMW speaking capitalist Cro-Magnon into his cell phone; wondering whether the time has come to get a gun; already starting to look forward to my lethal injection—
~ Tony Hoagland
the crucifixion of Jesus, while violent, must be the key to ending violence.
~ Unknown
If we can fight the tendency to let it become so familiar that we don't notice it, we can be challenged every week to remember that God doesn't want our bloody victories and that sacrifice doesn't really overcome our rivalries. At least for Christians, that crucifix should be the emblem of the end of violence.
~ Unknown
The only thing worse than too much government is too little: in failed states, people suffer at least as much violence and injustice as under authoritarian rule, and in addition their trains do not run on time.
~ Tony Judt
Bilbo takes a mallet to a crab, smashing it!
~ Tony Kushner
You have a good heart and you think the good thing is to be guilty and kind but it's not always kind to be gentle and soft, there's a genuine violence softness and kindness visit on people. Sometimes self-interested is the most generous thing you can be.
~ Tony Kushner
Most people who want to cut a throat start on the outside, They hack and saw and chop.' She mimed hacking and sawing and chopping. 'That's all right if you want to hurt their feelings,' she said. 'That's alright if you want to put a crimp in their day. But not if you want to be certain of killing them.
~ Tony Parsons
The violence betwen women is unbelievable. Women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding.
~ Tori Amos
The violence between women is unbelievable...women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding.
~ Tori Amos
Vil du afværge volden, må du elske dig selv så højt, at du ikke vil finde dig i den. (slutningen af ove Ditlevsens digt "Elsk dig selv")
~ Tove Ditlevsen
W-what was that?" Rather than responding, he lifted a brow, schooling his features into a calmness that hid the violent need still coursing through his body. "I-I mean I know what it was," she went on in a breathless voice that made shivers run down his spine. "But why? Why did you k-kiss me?" She looked utterly and completely bewildered. "Because, my sweet," he drawled in a smooth tone, "you looked as if you needed to be.
~ Unknown