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Quotes About Violence

My dad was a tyrant. He used to physically beat the crap out of us.
~ Dennis Wilson
I once punched a bloke in the face for saying 'Hawk the Slayer' was rubbish, when what I should have said 'Dad, you're wrong.'
~ Bill Bailey
The U.S. prostitutes are fighting with everybody, shooting at everybody. It's like dating a gangbanger.
~ Mike Tyson
One day we're going to watch people fight to the death, like Roman times. Instead of being in a coliseum, we're going to watch it on TV.
~ Lenny Kravitz
To lose a son under those circumstances - a violent death like my son went through, it just puts a burden on your heart.
~ Brian Jones
While woman sheds the Blood of Life each moon at menstruation, man can only shed the blood of death through warfare and killing.
~ Katha Pollitt
Death squads have been created and used by the CIA around the world - particularly the Third World - since the late 1940s, a fact ignored by the elite-owned media.
~ Unknown
If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?
~ Joan Baez
The most important civil liberty... is to stay alive and to be free from violence and death.
~ John Howard
We have rejected such spectacles as the Coliseum. How then, when we do not even look on killing lest we should contract guilt and pollution, can we put people to death?
~ Unknown
Would we be so enamored with dystopian fiction if we lived in a culture where violent death was a major concern? It wouldn't be escapism.
~ Maggie Stiefvater
Death is only a byproduct of terrorism.
~ Dan Brown, Angels & Demons
A community where everyone is a ruthless murderer, with handy access to death-dealing devices, is a very polite community.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Ants and savages put strangers to death.
~ Bertrand Russell
But there is a difference here: When Jewish children are murdered, Arabs celebrate the deed. The death of an Arab child is no cause for celebration in Israel.
~ Theodore Bikel
I'll hit you so hard you'll starve to death rolling!
~ Jim Cornette
I think beating someone to death with a ukulele would just sound funny.
~ Dane Cook
If a cricketer suddenly decided to go into a school and batter a lot of people to death with a cricket bat, are you going to ban cricket bats?
~ Prince Philip
Those who believe absurdities will commit atrocities.
~ Voltaire
So many people seem to prefer my silver-screenings of movie stars to the rest of my work. It must be the subject matter that attracts them, because my death and violence paintings are just as good.
~ Andy Warhol
I have a violence in me that is hot as death-blood.
~ Sylvia Plath
People say all lives matter. And that's true, but it's just black people that are getting shot in the back running or choked to death for having cigarettes or playing their music too loud.
~ Ras Baraka
Do not seek death, seek destruction.
~ Marilyn Manson
Put a gun to my head and paint the wall with my brains.
~ Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club