Quotes About Violence

Thus we see a succession of partisan actions continuing without intermission for nearly twenty years, each injury repeated with interest, each oscillation more violent, each risk more grave, until at last it seemed that the sabre itself must be invoked to cool the blood and the passions that were rife.

Democracy is not based on violence or terrorism, but on reason, on fair play, on freedom, on respecting the rights of other people.

Democracy is not based on violence or terrorism, but on reason, on fair play, on freedom, on respecting the rights of other people. Democracy is no harlot to be picked up in the street by a man with a tommy gun. I trust the people, the mass of the people, in almost any country, but I like to make sure that it is the people and not a gang of bandits who think that by violence they can overturn constituted authority

The story of the human race is War.

But after all when you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite. ***

Dojela sem tudi, da je ljubezen do ?loveštva zelo nevarno ?ustvo, ker najpogosteje vodi v nasilno osre?evanje ljudi.

Masum olmama arzular?nda masumdular. Kollar?nda bir kad?n varken masumdular. Kavga ve dövüÅŸte masumdular. Ezberden ÅŸiirler okurken masumdular. Masumca davran?rlarken masumdular. Hatta kan dökerlerken, iÅŸkence yaparlarken, tecavüz ederlerken ya da söverlerken bile, bir mübarek masumiyetin tehdidindeydiler – ve bunlar?n hepsi, masumluÄŸun içine düÅŸmemek içindi.

Nie, Kancie! Twoja Krytyka, cho?by najbardziej Å›cisÅ'a i najgÅ'Ä™bsza, w siódmych potach pisana, nie wystarczy. SiekierÄ™ zÅ'ap! ZÅ'ap, mówiÄ™, siekierÄ™, wpadnij z siekierÄ… i ciach, na prawo i lewo, dzieci i kobiety, mÅ'odzie? i robotników, i w ogóle wszystkich, tak, wszystkich i wszystkich!... TÄ™pienie gÅ'upoty nie mo?e odbywa? siÄ™ tylko na papierze!

Die Straße stinkt nach Blut. Hier haben sie die Wahrheit massakriert.

We laughed over it, and Hemingway punched me in the mouth.

We are adrift alone in the cosmos wreaking monstrous violence on one another out of frustration and pain.

Two men were mugging an elderly lady. My God, thought Weinstein, time was when one person could handle that job.

Don't give them enough time to arrange a solid defense. We've got to appear against them like an uncontrollable nightmare of spears and battle-axes and flashing swords!

and in general, every ordinance made without the consent of those who are to obey it, is a violence rather than a law. And is

So violence is not to be expected of those who exercise reason; such conduct belongs to those who have strength without judgement.

Die Mauer in meinem Gedächtnis besteht weiter aus den bewaffneten Männern, die bereit waren, nach einer Anweisung auf Menschen zu schießen. Auf unserem wasserblauen Planeten werden immer wieder neue Mauern gebaut. Wo eine Mauer steht, ist das Leben auf beiden Seiten bedroht.

It is simple and brutal: a person can get used to anything, even to killing.

I went about the job in a direct way. I took the hatchet in both my hands and vigorously beat the fish on the head with the hammerhead (I still didn't have the stomach to use the sharp edge). The dorado did the most extraordinary thing as it died: it began to flash all kinds of colours in rapid succession. Blue, green, red, gold, and violet flickered and shimmered neon-like on its surface as it struggled. I felt I was beating a rainbow to death.

Once you've been struck by violence, you acquire companions that never leave you entirely: Suspicion, Fear, Anxiety, Despair, Joylessness.

Despite attending a nominally Christian school, I had not yet been inside a church—and I wasn't about to dare the deed now. I knew very little about the religion. It had a reputation for few gods and great violence. But good schools.

Tigers, indeed all animals, do not favour violence as a means of settling scores. When animals fight, it is with the intent to kill and with the understanding that they may be killed. A clash is costly. And so animals have a full system of cautionary signals designed to avoid a showdown, and they are quick to back down when they feel they can. Rarely will a tiger attack a fellow predator without warning .... It will appraise the situation. If it decides there is no threat, it will turn away....

I knew very little about the religion. [Christianity] It had a reputation for few gods and great violence. But good schools.

Violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism and tribalism and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women and coercive toward children: organized religion ought to have a great deal on its conscience.

No one grows up and wants to be a cop killer. It was against everything Ive ever was. As a young police explorer I found my calling in life. But, As a young police officer I found that the violent suspects on the street are not the only people you have to watch.