Quotes About Violence

or which might one day flare violently enough to boil oceans and incinerate an entire hemisphere.

the sound of an AR-15 can't be mistaken for anything else.

not spawned by the lower classes but by the highest, by privileged young men and women made ignorant by the most expensive universities and schooled in violence by the culture of death that produced them.

upon all the doors of my defenses, chasing out my expectations of civilization and letting in the fear of anarchy and barbaric violence.

He believed in only five things—violence, sex, money, snakes, and intuition—and he believed in them profoundly, passionately.

He dared not ask for details of the cruelties that she had visited upon their daughter. For the first time, Brian realized that, if he were privy to all the facts, he might be driven to kill this woman.

Soon, both of the Dawson children would be slaughtered, reduced to nothing more than bloody mounds of dead meat.

Not long ago, ninety percent of homicides were committed by people who knew their victims. Now as many as thirty percent involved people who didn't know each other. Once a crime of intimacy, homicide was becoming as random as death by lightning.

Although traditional weapons killed far more people in the Great War, poison gas gave a new nightmare edge to the fighting.

Tanks were normal. Bombs were normal. Why couldn't eating be normal?

Grownups killing each other

When we were arguing on my twenty-fourth birthday, she left the kitchen, came back with a pistol, and fired it at me five times from right across the table. But she missed. It wasn't my life she was after. It was more. She wanted to eat my heart and be lost in the desert with what she'd done, she wanted to fall on her knees and give birth from it, she wanted to hurt me as only a child can be hurt by its mother.

War is ninety percent myth anyway, isn't it? In order to prosecute our own wars we raise them to the level of human sacrifice, don't we, and we constantly invoke our God. It's got to be about something bigger than dying, or we'd all turn deserter.

Love and violence-not to conquer one with the other but to live with both, that's what I've learned. Each pulling me a different way. If I relax my struggles they don't tear me in two, but lift me up.

Who said it? – probably Confucius – "I can't beat a sculpture from a stone with a sledgehammer; I can't free the soul of man by violence." Peace was here, peace was now. Peace promised in any other time or place was a lie.

The first time I didn't say anything, because she shot me in the mouth.

Bugs Bunny with a double-barreled twelve-gauge shoots you in the head with a miracle.

The movie's not over till everybody's dead.

In fact he was no longer persuaded that blood and revolution made useful tools for altering the concepts in a person's mind. Who said it?—probably Confucius—" I can't beat a sculpture from a stone with a sledgehammer; I can't free the soul of a man by violence." Peace was here, peace was now. Peace promised in any other time or place was a lie.

Your husband will beat you with an extension cord and the bus will pull away leaving you standing there in tears, but you were my mother.

Skip stared at the ranks of the players. Men who raced from the benches to collide with one another in joyful bloodshed. Who let themselves be hammered and rounded into cops and warriors and lived in a world completely inaccessible to women and children.

people wandering the streets with their heads shot off by money.

How much violence, Marshal, do you think a man can carry before it breaks him?

I think if a man beats you and fucks half the women he sees and no one will help you, axing him isn't the least understandable thing you can do.