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Quotes About Violence

The suburbs dream of violence. Asleep in their drowsy villas, sheltered by benevolent shopping malls, they wait patiently for the nightmares that will wake them into a more passionate world.
~ J. G. Ballard
Perhaps violence, like pornography, is some kind of an evolutionary standby system, a last-resort device for throwing a wild joker into the game?
~ J. G. Ballard
The Eye Linc was watching shot upward twenty feet in a convulsive jerk, hung there for an instant, then started a wobbling decent. There were two holes in it. It skimmed the heads of the men, coming for Linc's group. Tears streamed out of the corners of it, dripping to the ground like a trail of rain. And as it neared Linc, blood started to come, seeping from the holes, mixed with fluid.
~ Unknown
Killing is not so easy as the innocent believe.
~ J. K. Rowling
Dropped him like a hammered steer in a Chicago slaughterhouse. Boz
~ Unknown
I think some people deserve to get their asses kicked
~ Unknown
Among other things, Hill cited a recent survey by the Department of Defense showing that sexual harassment and assault in the military rose by 38 percent from 2016 to 2018, and CDC reports that one in three women and one in four men will experience sexual violence during their lifetimes. According to the EEOC, claims of sexual harassment increased by more than 12 percent from 2017 to 2018.
~ Dahlia Lithwick
If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun.
~ Dalai Lama
How often are drugs brought across the border from Mexico? Getting drugs from Mexico into the United States is big business, and Mexican cartels spare little expense or violence to accomplish their mission. One estimate puts the annual value of drugs trafficked into the United States from Mexico at $39 billion.
~ Unknown
each generation of adults has a choice to pass on traditions of violence and fear—or refuse to do so.
~ Unknown
EXTERMINATE!!!!!!!!!!!!
~ Unknown
You plan the wars you masters of men plan the wars and point the way and we will point the gun.
~ Dalton Trumbo
Hickory dickory dock my daddy's nuts from shell shock. Humpty dumpty thought he was wise till gas came along and burned out his eyes. A dillar a dollar a ten o clock scholar blow off his legs and then watch him holler. Rockaby baby in the tree top don't stop a bomb or you'll probably flop. Now I lay me down to sleep my bombproof cellars good and deep but if I'm killed before I wake remember god its for your sake amen.
~ Dalton Trumbo
The second time I try to kill a man I'm fourteen. Killing a man seems a very grown-up thing to do - like writing in Biro.
~ Damian Barr
Jail is preschool. Prison is for those earning a Ph.D. in brutality.
~ Unknown
They are being driven by a psychopathic Indian apparently bent on killing them all, overtaking on blind rises, racing some other bus to settle an old score, hurtling into corners without slowing down.
~ Damon Galgut
He finally staggers up to the last resting place of the late Slats Slavin and falls there with the blood pumping from the hole that Johnny Brannigan drills in his chest and as I notice his lips moving I hasten to his side figuring that he may be about to utter the name of the horse Slats gives him for me.
~ Damon Runyon
If nothing else, Malus Darkblade, you can be counted on to react to adversity with as much violence as physically possible"- Tzarkan
~ Dan Abnett
I'm not going to fight them, you fool. I'm going to kill them. - Malus Darkblade.
~ Dan Abnett
Never argue with a gun-cutter, [...]
~ Dan Abnett
To say that the two assassins were dead was as much of an understatement as saying that a supernova is the end of a star's life. It conveyed nothing of the catastrophic violence involved.
~ Dan Abnett
My psi-wave threw them all backwards violently, like the pressure blast of a hurricane. Windows shattered. They tumbled over, robes shredding, flying like dolls or desperately trying to grip onto the floor. Wystan lit a lho-stick. 'What I like about you,' he said, 'is that you don't muck around.' 'Thank you.
~ Dan Abnett
It starts raining main battle tanks.
~ Dan Abnett
A weapon doesn't question who it kills, or why. That isn't the point of weapons.
~ Dan Abnett