Quotes About Violence

It is impossible," I concluded, "to find any satisfaction in the thought of 25,000 slaughtered Germans, left to mutilation and decay; the destruction of men as though beasts, whether they be English, French, German or anything else, seems a crime to the whole march of civilization.

I, for one, am tired of seeing movies about men damaging each other.

My teen angst has a body count.

Until we have the courage to recognize cruelty for what it is-whether its victim is human or animal-we cannot expect things to be much better in this world. We cannot have peace among men whose hearts delight in killing any living creature. By every act that glorifies or even tolerates such moronic delight in killing we set back the progress of humanity. -Rachel Carson (1907-1964)

The sea seems bound to the deep abyss, crucified, staring at the high heavens, about to escape, violent, bellowing, nailed to its black bed.

Terrorism and greed were the watchwords of my time. The world had learned to be cynical.

Two riders led Williams to the body. "There lay Bandoola," Williams would write. He stared in disbelief at the rotting corpse, not quite ready to comprehend that his hero was gone. Bandoola's right tusk had been hacked off, and the left remained plowed into the earth where his head had fallen. A single bullet fired directly into his skull had killed him.

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

You think your muscles hurt? Try a blade in the belly.

Big Stupid leapt up. Little Duane had a gun. Big Stupid punched Little Duane so hard his whole family tree died back to the Middle Ages.

After I murder everyone in this room, I plan to eat them cannibal style and use their bones to build a scale model of a Viking longboat.

This is how Mortimer Tate ended up killing the first three human beings he'd laid eyes on in nearly a decade.

Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.

A day will come when a cannon will be exhibited in museums, just as instruments of torture are now, and the people will be astonished that such a thing could have been.

Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?

Within two years of Lenin's edict more than thirty bishops and 1,200 priests had been killed and thousands more jailed.

But darling Sasha, why resort to terrorism, murder? How awful.' He replied, 'What can one do, Mother, when there are no other means available?

The way grief is really about future absence. The way the future closes its offices when a mother dies. What's left: a hole in the ground the size of violence.

Lovers find secret places inside this violent world where they make transactions with beauty.

We are in the midst of a violent backlash againist feminism that uses images of female beauty as political weapons against women's advancement.

If war has its chivalry and its pageantry, it has also its hideousness and its demoniac woe. Bullets respect not beauty. They tear out the eye, and shatter the jaw, and rend the cheek.

Budo is simply the study of the best ways to kill.

I think war is based in greed and there are huge karmic retributions that will follow. I think war is never the answer to solving any problems. The best way to solve problems is to not have enemies.

I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.