Quotes About Violence

A male scorpion is stabbed to death after mating. In chess, the powerful queen often does the same to the king without giving him the satisfaction of a lover.

Terrorist activity is continually recurring in various parts of the world, sowing death and destruction and plunging many of our brothers and sisters into grief and despair

There's something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.

If society gives up the right to impose the death penalty, then self-help will appear again and personal vendettas will be around the corner.

Too strong a media emphasis on death and violence can lead to despair.

In the garden I will die. In the rosebush they will kill me.

Most people don't like to talk about violent historical death.

When he said to give him the sword, I don't think he meant for you to stick it in his guts.

What we want is to make sure that people don't go through what I'm going through ... and we have to understand that even since Luke's death, children have been killed.

It's a thing of violence, to whom death would be a merciful release.

How mad it is to summon grim death by means of war!

Terror is glamour - not only, but also. I am firmly convinced that there's something like a fascination with death among suicide bombers.

If you think about it, Washington's overwhelming power in the world is founded on death, the awesome arsenal for killing people.

He went in, lean and deadly, and ended the creature with a lightning-fast spike of his blade. It shrieked, likely altering the rest. The death call carried like a mournful song.

What a repugnant spectacle our country has become! Falsehood, cruelty, and madness everywhere, and brute force in the wings waiting to finish us off.

Tu?i già không ph?i là má»™t tr?n chi?n; tu?i già là má»™t cuá»™c th?m sát

é straziante la violenza, quando scoppia in una casa: come vedere i vestiti su un albero dopo un'esplosione. puoi essere pronto a vedere la morte, ma non i vestiti sull'albero. E tutto per il fatto che mio padre non riusciva a capire che la natura di Alvin non era mai stata riformabile, nonostante i predicozzi e le minacce che l'affetto gli ispirava: tutto perché lo aveva preso in casa per salvarlo da ciò che semplicemente era nella sua natura diventare.

We are inconsistent, said Mother Teresa, to care about violence, and to care about hungry children in places like India and Africa, and yet not care about the millions who are killed by the deliberate choice of their own mothers.

War does not answer war, war does not finish war. The only ending is peace.

This is a generation of men accustomed to warfare, inured to danger and familiar with cruelty.

I understand now why they break into convents, force women against their will, defy sanctuary to finish the killing chase. They arouse in themselves a wild vicious hunger more like animals than men. I did not know that war was like this. I feel I have been a fool not to know, since I was raised in a kingdom at war and am the daughter of a man captured in battle, the widow of a knight, the wife of a merciless soldier. But I know now.

why the United States, the wealthiest nation in the world, has emerged as a pressure cooker for producing destitute addicts embroiled in everyday violence. Our challenge is to portray the full details of the agony and the ecstasy of surviving on the street as a heroin injector without beatifying or making a spectacle of the individuals involved

The valence of violence around gender and generational authority becomes especially charged when avenues for asserting hierarchy and achievement are limited by poverty, chronic drug and alcohol use, and social marginalization—all of which shape lumpen reality at the everyday level in the United States in the early twenty-first century.

Al... You ever kill anybody? In the United States? Because I know you mean it and everything, but I know these guys better than I know you. They're soldiers, that's all. No questions, no time to ask, no talk. Cops are worse, and less predictable. When you pull a gun, you've gotta be ready to kill somebody, and I'm telling you it's better to run.