Quotes About Violence

Get real. They'll try to kill us no matter what. I can find out how to open the files from Mickey. You may be impressed with this genius shit but you should really find out what a mess his head is. The right drugs, he'll cut his own throat and forget why he's bleeding." That was an interesting choice of metaphor.

It's a polygamous culture, and Ouimet treated several men who had been anointed with boiling water by their jealous wives.

What do you have against violins?" I asked Andrea. "Not violins, Arlo! Violence!

Oooh! Look at the cute squirrel," all the girls yelled. "It's adorable!" "Kill it!" yelled all the boys.

he'll have me bloody head.

Ours isn't a perfect world. It's downtown--a gilded toilet where people defecate in the streets, where untreated crazies run amok, where Business Improvement District dispatchers get stabbed in the back, where residents gleefully attend midnight arson, where cars pin people to walls, where tourists disintegrate in water tanks, where old men get beaten to death outside their apartments.

It's odd how violence and humor so often go together, isn't it?

When you're down and feeling low, violent activity helps. Actual violence itself seems to help my attitude to no end.

And now that blood had been spilled, he understood it wouldn't end until one of them was on the ground.

Terrorism is not just about indiscriminate violence. As its name suggests, it is about instilling paranoia

The last thing she saw was the bottom of a spade coming straight for her head.

People die. That's natural. But if you throw someone in front of a bus, they're gonna die a little faster.

What does a car bomb say about poverty, or the execution of a rural mayor explain about disenfranchisement?... The war had become, it it wasn't from the beginning, an indecipherable text.

Let me make one thing absolutely clear: Anger isn't going to make this pandemic end any quicker. Acts of violence isn't going to stop people ending up in ICU, or be any help to the nurses treating them. Literally only one thing will - getting vaccinated.

The Sahwa, however, paid tens of thousands of Sunni Arabs to kill each other, not Americans.

largest city, the federal military authorities stationed in Memphis sat on their hands. By the massacre's end, at least forty-eight African-American men, women, and children were dead and five black women raped; only two whites died. To Northerners reading the news from Tennessee, the riot made plain Johnson's complicity in the white South enforcing its own race-based mob rule.

You're the type of guy who always snaps at some point and becomes a mass murderer!

I guess you could say I've been in my share of violent movies.

Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.

deliberate bombing of urban populations as the principal way of fighting a war by a major industrial power can be said to have started on February 14, 1942, with a specific British directive

you and I disagree…is with regard to the bombing. You're so goddamned concerned about the civilians and I don't give a damn. I don't care.

Operations analysts turned to questions of what the mix should be of explosives and different sorts of incendiaries for the most efficient, cost-effective ways to burn German workers and their families alive.

At the time, many American air officers regarded what their allies the British were doing as mass murder.

had begun under Roosevelt, Stimson, and Leahy when, as their subordinate General LeMay put it, "we scorched and boiled and baked179 to death more people in Tokyo on that night of March 9–10 than went up in vapor at Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined