Quotes About Violence

I was a very violent kid. I think movies and writing and art have been a way of channeling this. But I have will to defend people - it can be all sorts of people.

When the guns roar, the arts die.

Unarmed hand-to-hand fighting does not change through the ages; only the name changes, and it has only one rule: do it first, do it fast, do it dirtiest.

I'm going to teach you the art of swordsmanship-or in other words, how to totally kill someone with a sharp, pointy thing.

The Author is subtly unflinching in its satirical attack on certain practices in the creation of art and the mediation of violence.

Tyranny has no need of arts or sciences, for its policy, which is very shallow and without any refinement, only consists in shedding blood.

You'll see more violence in any television crime series than you will in my films Art is there to have a stimulating effect, if it earns its name. You have to be honest, that's the only thing.

Sure, the killer was my son, but I didn't teach him to pull the trigger of the gun. It's the killer on this TV screen, you can't blame me, it's the images he sees.

What one person might see as violent, someone else may see as beautiful. Maybe even art.

You beefed cause you heard that I was cursing in my raps, 86, still you wanna run and get the straps.

Just as one must learn the art of killing in the training for violence, so one must learn the art of dying in the training for nonviolence.

I want to learn martial arts," he said docilely, "so when I want to kill someone, I can do something about it.

Art should be appreciated with passion and violence, not with a tepid, depreciating elegance that fears the censoriousness of a common room.

thou art the best o' the cut-throats

I would like to say to those who think of my pictures as serene, whether in friendship or mere observation, that I have imprisoned the most utter violence in every inch of their surface.

LEFTISTS EAT THEIR CHILDREN: The poets, artists, and radicals are murdered first once the "revolution" actually comes about.

He showed videotape of himself committing acts of self-violence and informing news crews that he had been assaulted by a marauding mob of irate art historians.

Art isn't something you marry it's something you rape.

Terrorism is based on two major pillars: One is injustice, and the other is a certainty of attitude, the notion that their version of the story is the correct one.

Rape in any form is never okay, no matter who the rapist is.

murdered. Michael had left a trail of bodies

The insane conspiracy theories that motivate people who commit antisemitic violence reflect a fear of real freedom: a fondness for tyrants, an aversion to ideas unlike their own, and most of all, a casting-off of responsibility for complicated problems. None of this is a coincidence.

But dominance doesn't just originate from brute force or threats of violence. Any relation of unequal power, whether enforced by threats or by other social means, such as customs, will create a form of dominance, because it amounts to being

El propio Mao respondió así a las quejas por el alcance de aquella violencia: «Ese hombre, Hitler, era todavía más atroz. Cuanto más atroz, mejor, ¿no crees? Cuanta más gente matas, más revolucionario eres».