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Quotes About Violence

Mortals did not need gods to order them to kill eachother. They were quite capable of finding reasons to do so themselves.
~ Trudi Canavan
I didn't want to harm the man. I thought he was a very nice gentleman. Soft-spoken. I thought so right up to the moment I cut his throat.
~ Truman Capote
I WON'T get upset!" Cliff shouted. "I want! to SEE! MOMMY KILL GRANDMA!
~ Tui T. Sutherland
We'll find the dragon who set that bomb, and then I will tear off his wings and hang him from the eastern peak of Jade Mountain.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Hey, I'm mad, too," Tsunami said. "But —" "LET'S GO BACK AND KILL HIM AGAIN.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Bite her! Bite all her claws off!
~ Tui T. Sutherland
The SkyWing was holding the severed head of Queen Glory of the RainWings.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
BLEH!" Bumblebee announced suddenly. She threw the tuber at Swordtail's head, bonking him on the snout. "NOMOBLEH! GIMMEEGO! EEEEEMEGO!" "Hey, ouch, you violent little larva," Swordtail yelped.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Frankly, I think they should rename the place Unnecessary Violent Overreaction.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
WON'T get upset!" Cliff shouted. "I want! to SEE! MOMMY KILL GRANDMA!
~ Tui T. Sutherland
So what's the best way to punish a SeaWing?" Vermilion swooped over the crowd, trying to look as if he was perfectly comfortable in the air instead of on the sands where he usually did his announcing. "Chop off his head!" "Stuff grass in his gills!" "Drown him!
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Blue IceWing blood everywhere.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
You shouldn't have come back, Mother," she said. Tourmaline glanced up at the waiting crowd and shouted, "For the SkyWings!" And then, with a ferocious crack, she snapped Queen Scarlet's neck.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
It turned out, though, that there was one thing Burn loved more than mutilating animals, and that was war.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
That's true, because I would have ripped off your tail and beaten you with it first," Winter said. "Nice," Qibli said from the shore. "Not the face this time. Very creative.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Slow, despicable humans. Perhaps I will rip off their toes.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
The same crime element that white people are scared of black people are scared of. While they waiting for legislation to pass, we next door to the killer.
~ Tupac Shakur
America is the biggest gang in the world.
~ Tupac Shakur
If men were to consider what they were at - if if they were to look around them, and reflect upon the cost of life in a universe where prisons, brothels, madhouses, and regiments of men armed and trained to kill other men are so very common - why, I doubt we should see many of these poor mewling little larval victims, so often a present misery to their parents and a future menace to their kind.
~ Patrick O'Brian
Good heavens,' cried Mr White. 'To fire great iron balls at people you have never even spoken to – barbarity is come again.
~ Patrick O'Brian
and in the din Stephen cried, 'I insist upon a boat – I protest… Jack took him by the elbow and propelled him with affectionate violence into the cabin. 'My dear sir,' he said, 'I am afraid you must not insist, or protest: it is mutiny, you know, and you would be obliged to be hanged.
~ Patrick O'Brian
while the officers in command of the regiments that must be moved are tolerably venal men, and we have ample funds at hand. Yet at the same time certain forms must still be observed: there must be persuasion, a gentle violence, before they can decently fall.
~ Patrick O'Brian
From page 90. This book was produced prior to the elementary school shootings in Sandy Hook, Connecticut, which pushed hi-cap magazine prices much higher.
~ Unknown
his behavior there was a perfect balance between gentleness and violence that gave her particular delight.
~ Paul Bowles