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Quotes About Violence

To imitate the hatred and violence of tyrants and murderers is the best way to take their place.
~ Pope Francis
Power is just so much part of the human being because power is survival. But I wonder if that is the best way to survive, by killing someone else.
~ Laura Huxley
No, the best way to stop a vehicle is to shoot the driver. And that you can do with a number of weapons.
~ Chris Kyle
War is at its best barbarism.
~ William Tecumseh Sherman
There are some people who think you have to hate them in order to shoot them. I don't think you do. It's just business.
~ James Mattis
Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what is most truly is is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps.
~ Willie Mays
There is so much blood on this chicken-killer's hands, a little more on his business suit won't hurt.
~ Unknown
It's like a cotillion, this partners business, except with killing." "So, exactly like a cotillion," said Simon.
~ Cassandra Clare
Terrorism is actually a very expensive business.
~ Loretta Napoleoni
There just seems to be too much violence everywhere, even the news can't help break now and then on TV
~ Unknown
I don't see white police officers slamming the heads of little white boys into police cars.
~ Maxine Waters
Guns do not make you a killer. I think killing makes you a killer. You can kill someone with a baseball bat or a car, but no one is trying to ban you from driving to the ball game.
~ Andy Rooney
I killed a squirrel once with a car. Twice with a tennis racket.
~ Anthony Jeselnik
If one sets a car on fire, that is a criminal offence. If one sets hundreds of cars on fire, that is political action.
~ Unknown
If I never saw another fistfight or car chase or Doberman attack, I wouldn't have any feeling of loss. And that goes for Rottweilers, too.
~ Pauline Kael
Message to all rioters: put down your brick, put away the spray paint, and leave the cop cars alone; you're acting like soccer fans! It's embarrassing.
~ Unknown
If you grow up in the suburbs, you hear of people dying of old age, car wrecks, cancer. In the city, it's always people dying of violence or stray bullets.
~ Suge Knight
I am so sick of reading about another car bomb, another suicide bomber, another 10, 20, 30, 70, 100 people dead in a day, both Americans and Iraqis.
~ Rosanne Cash
The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
~ Ezra Pound
We stand a chance of getting a president who has probably killed more people before he gets into office than any president in the history of the United States.
~ Susan Sarandon
You [Jews] did slay Christ, you did lift violent hands against the Master, you did spill his precious blood. This is why you have no chance for atonement, excuse, or defense.
~ Saint John Chrysostom
If I were in the President's place, I would not get a chance to resign. I would be lying in a pool of my own blood hearing Mrs. Armey, standing over me, saying, 'How do I reload this damn thing?'
~ Dick Armey
When we hold on to our opinions with aggression, no matter how valid our cause, we are simply adding more aggression to the planet, and violence and pain increase.
~ Pema Chodron
I need to know when,' he said, 'In this case when is more important than how. Do you have a time-table?' For although images of this murder now surrounded him, and the parts of the body had become emblems of pursuit, violence and flight, they were as broken and indistinct as the sounds of a quarrel in a locked room.
~ Peter Ackroyd