Quotes About Violence

What is our vision on this earth - war to the end of all generations and life by the sword?

Throughout the relationship Spike has ignored Buffy's denials, even though it was fairly clean that Buffy's "no" didn't mean no and ambivalent scenes such as this paved the way for the "real" violence of the attempted rape...there are strong links between love, sex, and violence, and Spike uses romantic heterosexual love as a "defense" of sexualized violence.

You must think I'm some kind of nut, but it's just . . . I don't know, it's just that I can't take what's happening in the world. I can't take all these people getting shot. I can't take this war. I just thought we were supposed to be better than that. I really did believe we were on the dawn of a new age.

The !Kung are strongly set against violence, and accord it no honor. To have to fight is to have failed to find a solution by wiser means... "Fighting is dangerous—someone might get killed".

Take away the violence and who will hear the men of peace?

words on paper are not the same as blood on hands.

Guns, she was reminded then, were not for girls. They were for boys. They were invented by boys. They were invented by boys who had never gotten over their disappointment that accompanying their own orgasm there wasn't a big boom sound.

The only way Tyrone had of communicating was to hit someone.

swinging in a big circle around him, knocking all sorts of people down as the one he had by the hair screamed

confiscated, were subjected to torture, and were even killed.

If it were proved to me that in making war, my ideal had a chance of being realized, I would still say "no" to war. For one does not create a human society on mounds of corpses.

Of course civilizations are aggressive, Holmes says, but when they take up arms in order to impose their conception of civility on others, they sacrifice their moral advantage. Organized violence, at bottom, is just another form of oppression.

Lewis - "Why did you hit Brian over the head with the cricket bat?" Bev - "Because I love him, there was no other way to get his attention.

Let's go get the slug gun and shoot some cats

One day I knew the war would be over, but I wondered how long the remains of war would last in me and in them even after the bombs had stopped falling and the guns were silent. What I feared most was that my generation would teach the hatred and resentment I was learning at the hands of the Japanese to our own children and the cycle of disaffection and violence would never stop.

Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them.

Acts of violence always come from people who were violated themselves.

There are generally three parties to child abuse: the abused, the abuser and the bystander.

When senior officers start shooting each other, it's time to leave," said Gamache. "I'm sure it's somewhere in the regulations.

A brave man in a brave country. It was easy to be brave, when the country was also brave. But what happened if it wasn't? If it was corrupt, and grotesque, and greedy, and violent?

conscience is not necessarily a good thing. How many gays are beaten, how many abortion clinics bombed, how many blacks lynched, how many Jews murdered, by people just following their conscience?

A murder was never about brawn, it began and ended in the brain and the brain could justify anything.

They kill. To feel safe. It almost never worked.

The madness of crowds was a terrible thing to see. The madness of police with clubs and guns was even worse.