Quotes About Violence

Lies are the first step to the violent protection of them

Historical definition of a country's borders... "...here's where my murder geography ends and your murder geography begins, at least until I get more murderers to expand my murder-fest.

There's always someone's father, someone's mother, someone's wife, someone's son. This is the problem with killing and eating people. One of the problems.

This poem has been called obscure. I refuse to believe that it is obscurer than pity, violence, or suffering. But being a poem, not a lifetime, it is more compressed.

In English, we were still on the Introduction to Poetry Unit, and I'm not lying, if I ever meet Percy Bysshe Shelley walking down the streets of Marysville, I'm going to punch him right in the face.

I don't like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as it were.

Women who have been disappeared by violence are howling. The voices of disappeared women are echoing. I sing with these voices.

My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

The decisive means for politics is violence.

A government is an institution that holds a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence.

The only real politics I knew was that if a guy liked Hitler, I'd beat the stuffing out of him and that would be it.

The Koran is an inspiration for intolerance, murder and terror.

Today it is infinitely easier to kill one million people than to control one million people.

Capitalism tries for a delicate balance: It attempts to work things out so that everyone gets just enough stuff to keep them from getting violent and trying to take other people's stuff.

Black people are victims of an enormous amount of violence. None of those things can take place without the complicity of the people who run the schools and the city.

Cryptography shifts the balance of power from those with a monopoly on violence to those who comprehend mathematics and security design.

Politics has slain its thousands, but religion has slain its tens of thousands.

If U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, we cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction is returned.

I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious.

We are seeing entertainment become politics and we're seeing people acting out in ways that are extremely violent and destabilizing. No rules apply. We're in an era of no rules now, it seems.

War is the enemy of all mankind.

But transitions from the politics of violence to democratic compromise are always messy.

All politics is a struggle for power; the ultimate kind of power is violence.

I want to cut his nuts off.